One less hosting company to choose from...

Anyone who has had to set a website up =as I have= knows that there's an (overwhelming) abundance of web hosting companies out there. Well luckily there's one less one to choose from: 247365webhost.com.

I shared the road recently with a car -- my apologies, not just a car, a Mercedes Benz -- that was being driven by a complete MANIAC!

Maybe I'm not understanding the motorist, but I don't see the necessity in gunning it up to 45 mph when there's a red light with a stopped car just 300 meters ahead! And I guess aggressively (or obnoxiously, take your pick) weaving between cars will shave enough time out of his busy life to justify INFURIATING the drivers with which he shares the road.

If I was able to give him the benefit of the doubt =which I often am=, I'd say he had an objective emergency to get to which was enough to cloud his judgement. But let's look at some facts...

• He's driving a Benz
• He has a vanity license plate WEBHOST
• He has a license place border and rear window sticker also drawing attention to himself and his business.
• The name of the website in question looks like it belongs on an infomercial.

So I'm sorry, I've run out of sympathy for self-aggrandizing schlocksters, and instead of giving you the benefit of the doubt, I'm just left with thinking that you were driving like a JERK!

Not only is an affront on its own, but the reckless driving shows that he's not ready for the Web 2.0. In James Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds, he addresses how, in the right conditions (wikipedia), a mass of people can make more impact than a single person/company ever could... and the acceptance of the Web 2.0 philosophy by companies every day. Surowiecki uses as an example highway traffic, and that the largest cause in slow-downs is people CHANGING LANES. He proposes that if highway entry and exit ways were regulated, "bumper-to-bumper" would become as extinct as the tailfin. So until there is some major innovations in driving technology, you can knock off egregiously changing lanes, pissing off the other drivers, actually making everyone else in the crowd late, and on the whole driving like a CHOAD!

But at least you did one provided one benefit: you trimmed down my list of potential hosting companies by one.

Note: I created the license plate logo on imagechef. Pretty cool. Perhaps in the future, I'll whip up some potential plates for myself...