I have to thank Chris Pirillo for the theme. Check out his Live Feed sometime.

Now for some light reading before bedtime.

Ken was a huge help in getting the business paperwork going. Any day now I’ll have my official Tax ID # attached to my business name “Jenny Berry Innovations LLC”

My whole family has been cheering me on, telling me this is what I was meant to do. I have the fear of failure, just a little, but a lot less than when I went into work everyday and tried to play the politics game. As the weeks went by I started feeling better and better finding myself less sick than usual. As a modivator to get out of the house I signed up at the YMCA to do water aerobics.

Everything feels better now that I don’t have to answer to a boss anymore. I’m self disciplined enough to pull this off, and like I said previously, it’s something I love to do. I’ve been blogging since 1995 at my personal blog and used it to dive into understanding Wordpress. I don’t know it all but I was born to be creative and in my own time as a hobby I would make themes for other people. I never thought one could get paid doing something fun that they enjoy. I’m quickly finding out that this is what I was meant to do.

Here’s to success!

I got an email from Jules, the Technical Director who was proactive and manually moved my site without waiting to hear back from me.

Hi Jenny,

As a new client of ours and having been with us for a couple of weeks now, I’m just e-mailing to check up on the service you’ve received so far. How has everything been? Do you have any comments, suggestions or other feedback for us that may help us improve the service for yourself and others in the future? Any and all comments are welcome so feel free to speak your mind!

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Best Wishes,
Jules Robinson – this* Technical Director

I emailed Jules back quite the book.

Hello Jules!

Let me start out as saying I have never been treated by any company as I have been treated by ThisWebHost. My jaw is still dropped to the ground thinking back through the few weeks of my new membership with you.

I give you, and This* a standing ovation :: stands up and claps ::

The extremely quick set up was completed 45 seconds after I hit the “sign up” button. I was extremely busy at work that day and I didn’t get back to you about moving my site, yet you were proactive and completed it for me before I had a chance to check my email (and I know full well that it’s NOT part of the hosting plan to manually move sites, it’s only part of the plan to move sites that had certain cPanel services). My site has been blazing fast, and you guys are AWESOME.

I’m a software engineer and I’ve been in the “business” for 10 years now and I have never seen IT folk so personable, friendly, and helpful. You work for an extremely wonderful company and I hope to find a company with as much integrity when I graduate from college.

I’m going to tell a little story that happened to me the same day I signed up with This*. I went to get my hair cut at this new Fantastic Sams close to my work. The gentleman that cut my hair was extremely kind and talkative and we sat there talking 30 minutes after he was done with my hair. It wasn’t but 2 days later I get a card in the mail from him to say thank you for the conversation and he hoped I had a good time with my family who was coming into town. It wasn’t one of those thank you notes that was pre-printed. He took the time and energy to thank ME, when he was the one that cut MY hair. The point I’m trying to make is, This* did exactly that. You go the extra mile and you truly care about the care of the customer. Consider me your permanent customer, and I’m in the process now of transferring my other two sites over.

Please feel free to forward this to your boss, their boss, and their boss. I want to thank everyone!

Jen

YES! They are really that amazing.

We’ll move your old data for you
That’s right. If you’re migrating from an existing host that utilise Cpanel/WHM, then we will move your data and files for you. Simply contact our support team and provide us with your existing account information with your old host, and we’ll do the rest. Once complete, we’ll let you know when to update the DNS or nameservers. Can’t get better than that, eh?

So I did. I put in a ticket and said, move my stuff! Please. My previous host (IX web hosting, horrible horrible company, stay away from them) didn’t even have cpanel set up correctly so I got a support email asking how I would like to proceed. That was around the time I was leaving work last night so instead of replying I packed up my stuff and headed home. By the time I got home (remember, I live 3.8 miles away from work) I had another email saying

“I just moved everything manually to your new remote server and everything seems to be working, I hope that was ok?”

Um, gee. Was that ok? ZOMG you people are awesome! And quick, dang my site loads fast and such. I’m very happy with my new business relationship.

I’ve been up all night looking at design and getting idea’s. I do this from time to time. Just cuz.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to. You won’t see much on my DukuWiki yet but give it time.

Of course, Microsoft and Google take the #1 and #2 spots (yay Google!).

This makes me smile for more reasons than one

It’s just exciting stuff, and to do it for a job almost feels like cheating in a way. I mean, who’s supposed to love going to work everyday?

When I ponder my dream of working at Google, this is how I see myself there.

Be careful if you plane to replace your iPhone battery yourself, because you just might bend or damage your case! I remember the first iPod I took apart. It was a 3rd generation iPod and I had to replace the battery in it, and ended up bending the case. It was one I got off eBay and the serial number was scratched out, so I’m sure it was stolen.

Anyway, case is sensitive, be careful!

Visual Tour of Google Android UI

Ohhhhh.