To me personally heat is no problem – be it +40°C or whatever, I feel okay – just view it as an excuse to buy yet another top – the kind that leaves as much of one’s body uncovered as possible – or a hat. But that’s just me – the rest of my extended family and most of my colleagues go very grumpy about it. Mum cools herself using wet handkerchiefs; Janna refuses to go for a walk, and who could blame her? The forecast for the next week is over 40 every day, and nobody promises that it will ease up after that.
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How do I feel when I see pictures of birds soaked in oil? Pictures like the ones you can find here and here – and there are many more available online. The answer is simple – I feel furious. And helpless. And I feel like it’s me – not the bird – who has been subjected to this immense suffering. I feel dirty, humiliated and personally insulted. And guilty.
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We all know when the news programmes on TV and the articles on news websites become the most interesting and grab our attention: it’s when something terrible, if not catastrophic, is happening. We also know when they become dull and uninteresting: it’s when nothing extremely bad is happening, and relative stability sets in.
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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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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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It’s been four months since I launched my first blog, Foreign Reader Says, and the more I blogged about books, the more I felt that I wanted to blog about many other things too – in other words that I needed a general blog. So I was sketching designs, thinking about topics for my future blogging and waiting. Saitiria.com was registered at the same time with the two other domains, but I kept it for a business website – it seemed to be a good brand name. Once I even started building a website with this name, just as becoming officially an enterpreneur seemed a matter of days. But there was always a Plan B.
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