I just want to access my domain dammit!

I own a .name domain. In fact, I preregistered it in late 2000 when they were announced to ensure that I would get my name with .name. The domain was duely issued mid January 2001 for two years. This privilage cost me a whopping £70. However, that was back in a time when I was much more wreckless with my money than I am today.

There wasn't much choice as far as which domain registrant I could go with to register my .name domain and so ended up with NetNames. Unfortunately, they have a less than user friendly domain management site and when I found it nigh on impossible to simply change my registered email address from one address to another, rather than contact support, I just gave up. Why I did this I'm not too sure considering what I paid for the domain but never the less, I forgot about it.

However, I have recently remembered about the domain and decided to give it a new lease of life and actually use it for what I intended it for - a non furry website to showcase my web skillz and probably pop a CV up on there and stuff. Also the email address looks pretty fancy and would be much appreciated considering the lack of a decent, permanent, non-furry email address which isn't Hotmail. To accomplish this, I would need to get hold of the login details for my account.

( And so the quest began... )

New DVDs

Got a pair of DVDs in the mail today. I've not bought any in quite some time now as other members of the house buy films I like, so I don't have to.

The first of which is the new Chemical Brothers Singles 93-03 DVD. There wasn't much point in my buying the album of the same name as I own all the albums with the singles on already. On the disc is a collection of all (I think) of their singles, including the new single The Golden Path. There's also a selection of singles taken from their various live events as well as interviews and further info about the singles. Quite a nice package if I do say so myself. One feature which prooved partularily interesting was director Michel Gondry drawing out the plan for the video, Star Guitar. Has to be seen to be understood really.

However, the second DVD was less than impressive. It was the new Stitch! The Movie, the straight to video followup to the excellent Lilo and Stitch. Now, I loved the original but also knew about how second rate their straight to video sequals are. However, I purchased it anyway, mostly out of curiousity but was rather diappointed with the outcome. To say the highlight of the DVD was the new trailer to Finding Nemo gives you some idea of what I thought of the disc.

Right, the film was poorly drawn and animated, the story was rather weak and poorly executed, the jokes used weren't funny and they missed out on many a perfect oppertunity for a laugh (I never laughed once during watching the film), it had a poor soundtrack compared with the original and they copied scenes of animation throughout the film. Generally, it reeked of being a blatant cashin while being made with the budget of 3p. I was very disappointed to say the least considering what they could have done with it. A real shame, one DVD that I'll be eBaying promptly.

( Spoiler )