Stinky food guy is back

We had another lunch hour make up class today, and stinky food guy brought in another stinky sandwich. I guess he's not reading my blog.

In other news, I have the website blues. Although you can't tell it by the basic brown template of my blog, I actually run two websites, for my state and local mothers of twins group. We've been getting free web hosting for years now, but the company that has been providing it was sold, so now both groups have to cough up the cash to pay. They are both small sites, so hosting will cost less than $50/ year. I got my local club to agree without a problem. The state club, however, says they can't approve any spending with out a vote at the state convention, which is months away. The website will be gone by then, if they don't do something. I don't think the people making the decisions are tech savvy enough to get it. The state site is getting about 500 hits a month right now because everyone is downloading all of their forms for the convention. If that's suddenly gone its gonna be awfully hard to communicate with everyone in the state.

In addition to this mess, I inadvertently let my pointer domain expire on my local site (the .com version of the .org that is the actual site). Someone snatched it up, and have put up a site which bears our club name in three different places, but is just an ad-generating link machine. I've drafted a cease and desist based on common law trademark infringement, but its basically a hollow threat. From what I understand, and ICANN dispute starts at $1200. I can't file for an injunction, given that I am not licensed and don't want to do anything to keep myself from getting licensed. Our club has an annual budget of about $2500 and can't afford the ICANN dispute or the court costs and a real attorney. I guess worst case, we can sit on our rights for a year and half until I pass the bar and that can be my first pro bono case. At least we have put him on notice.