Soliciting Fame

Google’s Lat Long Blog has posted an update and a video about users from the US, Australia, and New Zealand, being able to now edit Google maps on the fly like a Wiki. It looks awesome.

Unfortunately, being the poor ignored Canadian that I am, Google has chosen to overlook their largest trading partner and not include us. I’m not impressed.

Here’s the videos released:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taujbud9DKA

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNT-JRyWykM

The server that I previously used for hosting my blog, personal email, and several other sites is sort of a mess. The owner, a friend of mine, no longer has root access to the server and can’t correct the server time. Also I want to start using my email as IMAP instead of  POP3 so I can have a persistent copy anywhere.

So I decided to sign up for Dreamhost. It was easy enough and I got a great deal ($50 off with the coupon code ‘kingofcouponcodes’). Now, while I was doing all this, my internet connection with Shaw was having area problems and everything was extremely slow! It only served to compound my frustration when I realized that it takes several hours to transfer DNS settings to a new domain. And  once I did, Dreamhost’s IMAP serving is complete crap. I suppose trying to copy 2379 emails to their servers didn’t help the situation.

So with my email not going anywhere and everything in limbo I decided to sleep on it and see what happens in the morning.

This morning nothing is better. Dreamhost is inexplicably slow when loading my inbox (both in Thunderbird and webmail). Now I’m waiting for my personal email to point to Google’s servers and I’ll be using their Gmail service for my email. Google hasn’t failed me yet and from what I’ve read they already have everything in place for mobile email access.

Stupid Shaw. Stupid Dreamhost