New Hosting, Being Really Poor, DVDs
I moved to Gatorhost, and I’m excited. I’m my own host because I bought a reseller account! Now all my projects can be under one roof!
I suppose I was kind of a late adopter on that one, but better late than never. Folks at Gatorhost seem to be very nice and helpful, especially the girl that sound like a smooth operator, except the guy who is there on nights and weekends who doesn’t seem to know anything. I highly recommend taking all your projects out of GoDaddy’s separate hosting accounts and conglomerating them under one account with Gatorhost or a similar host. I know, I know, leaving GoDaddy might be a bit problematic for a bulk of dudes since they’ll see less of Candice Michelle, but it’s worth it.
I recently hung out with a friends of mine who’s still in college. We were talking about this site, and came to the conclusion that I don’t keep it real in terms of providing concrete advice about surviving while being poor. I agreed, but there are only so many things you can do with a case of Ramen, a lemon, packing your own lunches, and not smoking slash playing lottery. So we decided he’s going to crank out a first-hand guest article about being really poor. Personally, I can’t wait. As a regular yuppie (out of college, with a wife and a job), I’m losing touch with being flat broke, so it’s going to be a breath of fresh air on this site. Oh yeah, and he drives a crappy truck, so it’s going to be even better. I’m itching to give away some of his sweet advice, but I’ll wait …
I would have never guessed that a $40 NEC DVD burner, a trial account with Blockbuster, a few labels, and a stack of DVD-Rs could result in my DVD collection exploding in new releases! I feel like a kid again – just like back in the day when my Dad and I bought a Panasonic VCR, borrowed another one from a friend, a copied Rambo and Death Wish II for our little videotheque. All I do is pop the DVDs into the burner, rip them, put them back into the envelopes, and jog a mile to the post office to drop them off. Benefits: 1) DVDs go out the same day, which accelerates exchange 2) I get to jog more. When back in the house, I reauthor the DVDs to cut out the bonus features, the menus, the annoying FBI warnings. The finished product is a near perfect copy of the original. If I feel like it, I’ll even snap a picture of the original DVD, adjust it in Photoshop, and print an almost identical DVD label.
That’s all for today.
Wes,
BB.com is not kicking. Any other place you can snag labels from?
Comment by How To Be Poor — March 12, 2006 @ 11:27 am
I have never tried the Blockbuster.com route (I am in Canada and don’t think that we can use it here) although I think it would be great. I have heard though that some of these online rental places are starting to put limits on how many movies you can rent. That would kill them I think.
Once these companies can get their acts together and start making movies available for download then we will be in the 21st century. Hollywood (as the record companies did with music) are trying to hold on to the past for as long as they can.
Comment by The Internet Cashflow Guy — March 12, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
At one time I had Blockbuster, Walmart, and Netflix on rotation. I had a spreadsheet of what’s coming in when … I wish I had a burner :)
Comment by How To Be Poor — March 12, 2006 @ 2:57 pm
Try cdvovers.cc Annoying popups but it works.
My wife and I split the duties: I rip & burn, she labels.
Comment by Wes — March 12, 2006 @ 5:57 pm
I’ve also been thinking about your introspective investigation and refelction upon your blog title and the developing and maturing content: change the name to maxblog.com
Comment by Wes — March 12, 2006 @ 5:59 pm
I am a Netflix subscriber and burner. I’ve wondered, and maybe you know: do these companies use any systems to track too much turnaround? My partner worries that if we get 3 DVDs in a day then mail them right back, eventually some fancy pants algorithm will catch us. Put my paranoia to rest.
Comment by Laurel — March 12, 2006 @ 6:32 pm
Wes, I’ll think about it. I like the idea.
Laurel, I think Netflix uses third-rate web developers. A while back, their backend database couldn’t catch me doing 5 two-week trials in a row because they used the credit card number as a unique identifier. They should’ve used address.
I don’t think it’s a matter of a fancy algorithm. It’s just a simple query grouped by number of movies rented per period sorted in descending order. Boom, your name is on the top.
However, though they have to honor the terms you agreed to, they can and will delay shipping the movies to you. During one of my free two-week trials, Blockbuster shipped only 4 movies even though everything in my queue was available and I returned the same day. As soon as I paid, bam! three movies went out the same day.
Comment by How To Be Poor — March 12, 2006 @ 7:05 pm
Did you once review a GUI automation/scripting program?
What was it called?
Comment by indrax — March 12, 2006 @ 9:22 pm
AutoIt.
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