Archive for July, 2008

It’s ah Me! McMario!

Who knew that the young, male gamer could be such a problem group for advertisers? I always thought that appealing to such a crowd would be easy: convince them that they might make contact with a real, live girl, or give them the idea that their disabling social ineptitude might be cured. Ahh I kid, […]

The Whir Gets Down With Curtis

The Whir has contacted some of the speakers presenting at the HostingCon 2008 conference taking place this week in Chicago and who should they have contacted but our favorite SVP of SuperbHosting.net himself, Curtis R. Curtis! This year, Curtis is moderating a session, titled “Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry”, in which a panel […]

HostingCon 2008!

HostingCon 2008 is a full three days (from July 28th to the 30th) of all the hosting industry excitement you can handle. This year boasts a schedule that is absolutely stuffed to the gills with presentations, workshops and conference sessions all culminating with a stunning Fireworks display over Chicago’s historic Navy Pier.
HostingCon is a trade […]

Random Geeky/Funny Thing of the Day

Has anybody ever actually seen/heard a computer in which, a melodic female voice repeats, ‘Access Denied’ as frantic heroes attempt to break into some datacenter or download some crucial information to clear the name of Will Smith or Sandra Bullock or some other overrated action star (yeah Will Smith - I called him overrated, wanna fight about […]

Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo 2008

From August 18th to the 22nd, prepare to put your Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing party pants on because the 10th annual Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo is coming to town.
Well, maybe not your town in particular, but a town nonetheless. Taking place in San Jose California, SES 2008 promises to be “the […]

Random Geeky Thing of the Day

Clearly, if you are visiting a web hosting blog, you are more than a little bit geeky. As a matter of fact, based on this information alone, I would gauge that your geekiness level stands at, at least a solid six, varying only slightly depending on either, the weather and/or the quality of the latest […]

Photoshop Tutorials to Scare the Pants Offa Ya!

Top 3 Goriest Horror Movies:
3. The Fly – David Cronenberg’s 1986 Sci-Fi masterpiece is without a doubt, one of the most revolting things I have ever seen in my life. Although this movie isn’t gory in the traditional sense (i.e. blood, guts, bones etc.), watching Jeff Goldblum transform from an eccentric scientist to a man-fly […]

Thank You, Dedicated Server Directory, for Proving our Bombdiggity-ness.

Hey guess what? We are the bomb. We are so the bomb that I am bringing ‘the bomb’ back into linguistic circulation. That’s right! According to the lovely visitors and voters at Dedicated Server Directory, we have been selected as the #1 Unix Server Provider for July 2008. Each month, frequenters of Dedicated Server Directory […]