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Finding a use for thatsmith.net

By Chad • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Site News

In 2006, not long after I registered thatsmith.com, I grabbed thatsmith.net as well because it was free and I couldn’t think of a reason not to. Now, more than two years later, I still haven’t found a real use for the domain and it drives me nuts because it’s just sitting there. This [...]



New domains for .me

By Chad • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Site News

If you followed my twitter updates yesterday, you would know I too was one of the victims of the GoDaddy .me failure.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with what happened, a while back GoDaddy reached an agreement with Montenegro (country) which allowed them to sell Montenegro’s domain ending to anyone. .ME’s went on [...]



Brief Site Outage

By Chad • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Site News

Our websites took a short break over the weekend while I made some structural changes to make them easier to maintain.
Previously we ran each of our blogs on its own database and its own installation of Wordpress (the world’s greatest open source blogging system) which was working just fine, but took a ton of time [...]



Newest Members of That Smith family

By Chad • Dec 19th, 2007 • Category: Daily Life, Site News

Laura and I are pleased to announce the newest members of That Smith family.
Members as in plural, and I’m not talking about the baby.