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*le sigh* My very first domain that I ever owned, Sudsalicious.com, has been snatched up by evil domain gobblers. I had issues earlier this year trying to get Network Solutions to let go of the domain and let me renew it through a different registrar. Of course, they wouldn’t go for it, and I refused to pay $70 for two years. Then I blew it off thanks to the job hunt, starting work, etc. It’s so sad to see my little baby gone like that – I registered it back in 1999, so I had it for 4 years. There are a lot of people and places that think my e-mail address is still at that domain. Oh well, my own fault for refusing to give in to Verisign’s greedy ways.

Fortunately, I set up SudsaliciousBodyworks.com in December, when all of this started. At least there is some good in all of this!

Don’t have the time, patience or desire to write a book all your own? Maybe you could help Dan Gillmor write his?

Benhen, Loquacious Of Blog needs 2000 hits so that he will have 50,000 hits for his blog’s 1 year anniversary. Do the guy a favor and click the link, pimp the link and spread the love. (My Blogwhore tendencies never die…)

I suspect that only people that have visited Germany can appreciate this explanation of German Toilets as much as I do. I always wondered why the toilets were so strange there. And I’ve learned a new word – Sitzpinkel! [via Anil]

By the way – Blogs Save Lives. Really, it’s true. Read the story, you’ll understand.

I remember the first time I read Travels with Samantha. I was still fairly new to the Internet and all that it could offer. It had to be back in 1996 or 1997, and I fell in love with Philip Greenspun’s photography. It was part of my drive to put up a website, and part of my inspiration to want to share my photos online. When working on a website and really wanting to use one of his photographs, I wrote to him – I figured he would say no. Instead he generously said yes, and shared his talent with me. It has always stuck with me, and I still feel that is how the web should work. People should ask – and other people should say yes.

I still find myself sucked in to reading “Travels with Samantha” every time I come across it, and every time it takes my breath away, even 6 or 7 years later. Philip had dinner Saturday night with Dave Winer, and it was Dave’s post that lead me back to Philip’s site tonight. Philip shared his thoughts on blogs today. My thoughts? I would love to see a blog written by Philip, especially if there were photographs…

Who were your early inspirations? What got you online? What made you stay?