Today we visited an exhibition where anyone could enjoy watching tropical butterflies flying around. Usually museums exhibit dead butterflies – beautiful, for sure, but isn’t it a pity that they had to die to please us? This one was different.

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That would be my new name for McHost. You can ask why. You can ask why I still bother blogging about them at all, considering I’ve moved away from them. I’ll answer both questions, starting with the second one. Yes, I have moved away from McHost without paying them for the next period of service (the current one is ending on 30th April), but my friend is less lucky. Besides, though all clients of McHost have their websites offline at the moment (yes, again!), their own website is up and running, including their admin panel, through which their clients, in theory, can order more services and pay them money. And their notifications work also – so I’m still enjoying their spam telling me to pay this wonderful (not!) company more money. That’s more than I’d agree to put up with. Kiss my ash, McHost!
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And Vitaly Petrov scored his first points – wahey! Lewis Hamilton won Silver, and only Michael Schumacher – of all my favourites – keeps breaking my heart. But I won’t give up hope.
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Yes, I have moved all my websites, and McHost has lost a client. I believe I’m not the only one.
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I’ve just lost two of my web projects – Foreign Reader Says and Saratov Unknown. The reason: McHost – my host – has a business-related conflict with the organisation that provides a datacentre to them (Oversun Mercury). They have given different explanations of the situation – as different as day and night, but as one of the victims of their fight I hardly care who of them speaks the truth and who lies. Let them decide in court. But why couldn’t they warn the clients in advance?
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Everyone who has ever moved from table-controlled webpage design to purely CSS-driven layouts knows what a pain it is to make the side columns go to the bottom of the page and still have the same background. With tables it was so easy, but now this apparently obvious task requires non-obvious solutions. People have used graphics and JavaScript to achieve desired effects (because IE6, unfortunately, doesn’t support display:table-cell), but Matthew James Taylor has suggested a very clever solution that allows us to do it without using anything but pure CSS.
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After that rainy qualification everyone expected a rainy race, since it rains every day in Malaysia – but it was unexpectedly dry, and a bit too predictable to be exciting. Rainy GPs are usually more interesting than dry ones, while rainly qualifications are just crazy – just like this last one was, pushing some of the top drivers to the back of the grid. But they proved they could fight…
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