Latest Thoughts

• A new hosting site, Mosso, seems to want to brag about having affordable rates for a scalable website. They're really for mid-sized sites that have grown out of shared hosting plans and need something more robust. Yeah, but the trouble is they don't even use Apache. They use IIS7. Ha, yeah, like that's scalable and secure. No wonder they're still too pricey for me to even think of them.
  
• I thought I was the first to come out with the news about W2K8S having a free 240 day trial license from Microsoft. But now I'm seeing that others are repeating what I'm saying.
• Saw a neat logo on this site. It's interesting what a little light effect, some font uniqueness (using all uppercase or all lowercase), and good color choices can do for your site with relative ease.
• The newer browsers -- FF3, Opera, and Safari -- now have a new feature where if you use non-styled HTML form controls, they will automatically style them with fairly visually appealing 3D glass-like effects with curved borders on some of the controls as well as a highlight color during a mouseover. Microsoft, however, has not gotten the memo on this. Let's hope they do because it would be great to not have to worry about styling these components ever again.