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On the 18th of January, this site homepage will be host to the SOPA Blackout Protest.  First page view will encounter the truth of how the SOPA and PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act) will devastate the Internet as a whole.

The small time business owners, bloggers, and critics will be under the scrutiny of the corporate hounds, and be brought down by their hunters (lawyers), for anything they feel like.  With SOPA, you are guilty until proven innocent.

This doesn’t mention all the message boards, mailing lists, personal bloggers, eBay’ers, Craigslist, hobby artists, Android /iOS developers… the list keeps going.  If you get snooped out, you get brought down.  There will be no more Internet.

No matter how many other games I try, and no matter how long I play them (Fallout 3 series being the topmost timesink enjoyable one so far), I seem to go back to Warcraft.  Though I’m mostly waiting for an EVE Online skill to complete…in 5 days time.  So maybe I’m not that addicted.

And as a note, Qumana and Adobe Contribute aren’t WP-tag savvy.  And Contribute is horrible to configure for a personalized WP site.  But, for all it’s worth, Windows Live Writer is easy, and knows my tags.  Does that seem right to you?

If you, or someone you know, uses GoDaddy for their domain name, please make double-sure that your domain is set to auto-renew. I just had to re-instate mine, as it expired yesterday, and I got NO notification that my domain renewal was cut off.

Oh, and I will be attempting to join in on the PostADay2011. I may be 5 days behind, but I found out about it last night….about the same time actually.

For those who are using WordPress, or looking to use it, a brand new version has just been released!

So far, not a lot has changed on the front page.  But back on the dashboard side, there are several operational changes, while keeping the same style and functionality.  Take it for a spin if you get the chance!