After five years of using canada.com for my email I decided it's time to let it die... something happened to it yesterday and my account went SPLAT so I had to restart it and my POP access is gone again... I could pay the 29.00 for Premium mail service for the year or 9.95 for a year of Mailplus, but when I click on the links, it takes me to the "Enter your credit card info" page, rather than something that tells me what I'm paying for... hmm... Explanations are good before buying something, not after.
The final curtain fell when I realized 75% of the junk mail coming to my account is to the "****@canada.com" spam lists. The **** being a list of other users of canada.com that have the same first letter as I do in my email address. I get a few messages daily to ***@canada.com with about 20 or 30 other saps who share my same first letter. Lucky us.
So fuck it, I like the address, I'll keep the webmail account open in case some long lost friend ever emails me out of the blue, but it's on to bigger and better things.
And my creative side said, "Take this opportunity you yutz. Get webspace for your own!" Thus I did. It's ordered and on the way, and will come wrapped up all in a neat little package. My own space, domain, email address (not shared by a zillion other yutzes) and space to be artsy fartsy. Huzzah.
I started already by making my logo that has been sitting in a pile of my writings and meanderings for nearly two years. It took me an hour and 3 Photoshop filters. It felt nice to design something, especially since it's the focal point of my new space and it's meaning is the focal point of my life.
Movin' on up!
to the web side,
I finally got a piece of the pie (a la net)
