“Captain Literal”.NET

I’m moving my blog away from Windows Live Spaces to CaptainLiteral.NET, so if anybody has subscribed to my feed, then you’d best update it to point at http://feeds.feedburner.com/CaptainLiteral. I’ve also set-up a FeedBurner thing for my RSS, so people won’t be hit by changes in the future.

Why Captain Literal? The guys as work call me Captain Literal because lunchtime conversations’ can go something like this:
Dan: “You can’t reboot a computer on a plane, it’ll crash,” followed by a hand movement to indicate that a plane would fall from the sky.
Mark (aka Captain Literal): “That’s why life-critical systems such as planes have multiple fail-safe’s on them. The space shuttle for example has multiple computers and they all vote on what’s going to happen. You could reboot one of those with no problems and the shuttle wouldn’t spiral off into outer-space.”
So that’s it, I have been nick-named Captain Literal and now Mark really is CaptainLiteral.NET.

Before I go out on a rant and document why I’m moving away from Spaces, I first need to thank Ashleigh (http://www.nakedcleaner.com) for firstly, hosting CaptainLiteral.NET. Secondly, for forcing me to setup CaptainLiteral.NET. And thirdly, for spending time last night actually setting up CaptainLIteral.NET – thanks Ashleigh.

And now for the fun bit – why am I leaving Windows Live Spaces?

Live Spaces has some things that merely annoying – these are the things that one can live with. But it also has some things that are very annoying – things that, when realised, encourage you to drop Windows Live Spaces and go look for some other blog provisioning service or friend to host for you.

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