Moving Shop

Dmacatack.com has moved shop to DreamHost due to their insane St. Patrick’s Day hosting plan. I now have 120GB and of bandwidth and 2.4 GB of storage for the lifetime of my account for $7.95 a month. You can’t beat that with a stick. I recommend anyone to make the move and you can see a good review of their service here. You may have already noticed that I am no longer haunted with the dreaded one “t” mistake which means that I can now be reached at www.dmacattack.com with two t’s.

Bofe, Drew, and I have all made the switch. If you plan on making the switch to DreamHost then I would greatly appreciate the referral.

You will need my webID and it is dmacattack or click on the advertisement in my sidebar. Advertisements are against my nature, but this deal is worth it for now!!

The Joy of CSS

As you probably already know. This site is done entirely with CSS. I only have one image on the entire site which is the two little shadows on each side. Needless to say, this site is very bandwidth friendly.

I am looking forward to the new version of IE. I’m not looking forward to using it (Firefox all the way baby!), but I am looking forward to them making it more CSS friendly. Hopefully they will incorporate some of the CSS entries such as min-width and max-width that are only compatible with Firefox/Netscape. This will make my life and CSS efforts more enjoyable. If Microsoft doesn’t give in, there will definitely be a rebellion in the web devlopment world and it could get messy.

On a lighter note, I just added some new CSS hovers to my sidebar!! Check it out. Me like!

9 More Minutes In Dreamland

As the end of the 04/05 school years begins to come to close, things are getting quite hectic in my world. I have purchased and moved into an awesome new house, which has taken up the majority of my time. Lately, I have been putting in some long hours and waking up early every morning. Every time the alarm goes off I let out a groaning sound that would suffice for a great imitation of a wookie. Immediately after I groan, I hit the dreaded snooze button for 9 more minutes in Dreamland.

Have you ever wondered why on God’s green Earth they decided to make it 9 minutes? Not 10, Not 15, but 9 strangely odd minutes???? My curiosity had to be satisfied today with some early morning research. It turns out that the first snooze alarm was implemented on a gear powered clock. In order to insert a gear into the clock work and have the teeth of the gear mesh perfectly, they had a choice of 9 plus minutes or 10 plus minutes. 10 minutes exactly was not an option do to the gear configuration. Apparently, they couldn’t justify sending someone back to sleep for over 10 minutes due to the fact that it was enough time to go back into the rem sleep cycle. Based on this study, they went with the 9 plus minutes, which eventually became 9 minutes exactly (and a true snooze time). And once digital clocks came along there was no need to break away from the standard norm. So here we are in the age of technology with a 9 minute snooze button.

I hit the snooze button 1 time everyday. According to USA Today, more than 33% of American adults hit the snooze button every morning and average of three times. I’m curious to know my readers alarm clock ritual. Leave a comment!! How many times do you hit the snooze?