NEMO christmas party 2006

Today, unlike last year, there was no snow and a great turn-out! The party was also at a new and better venue this year, the Kings Inn in Putnam, CT – lots more space which was perfect, given that people prefer to mingle and chat rather than sit and eat …

Apart from meeting friends, the highlight of the NEMO christmas party is the yankee swap – and this year we reverted to my preferred rules, where you EITHER pick a gift OR steal (seems fairer than opening a gift and then swapping if you don’t like it!); I ended up stealing this cute Mini / clock, which David originally opened but which he lost to Hrach prior to me …

Great day! Thanks, NEMO 🙂

 

Web Hosting: credit where credit is due

I know this might be tempting fate, but …

After my extreme upset with Site5 a while ago, I’m pleased to say that since that awful period of unreliability & excessive downtime, my hosting with Site5 has been trouble free.

I notice that Site5 have removed a few features – they apparently no longer offer guaranteed uptime, and a host status page they used to have for each host machine is no longer accessible.
There are some new features offered instead which might interest some people – their latest special offer on hosting is impressive ($5/month for 55GB storage! Pre-paid for two years though)

So, Site5: Well Done! But please keep the service as good as it is now, and not like it was for a while!