I've been sitting here for a couple hours not really getting anything added to the book, trying to decide whether to bother mentioning this. On the one hand, it's good and important news; on the other, it has the potential to lead to things annoying me.

Things annoy me anyway.

Something I've been somewhat needlessly bothered by since leaving one of the servers I used to have all the websites on has been the technical limitations, however loose, on serverspace and bandwidth. It's not something I really talk about much but, for the last...almost three years since the Grempire moved to this server in January 2006, I've had about five terabytes of space and bandwidth open for use. That sounding like a lot, it's kinda not. I never actually hit the limits; but it wasn't impossible. Especially since the Grempire technically contains various subusers like swyndle.com and whatever. Even if I never added anything else to the server, and people stopped coming to gremlin.net entirely, there remained that chance that swyndle.com, as an example, could get large and popular enough to exceed my limits and cost me per gigabyte about what minutes cost on a mobilephone after you've used up the minutes you'd had. And, like Verizon, which I also have, there's nothing rollover about it.

None of which matters anymore. I happened to look at the right thing at the right time and notice a tragically temporary option [DreamHost.com being now eleven years old, this was available to the first 1,111 users, new and old, to see it and grab it] to upscale terabytes to yottabytes. Which in fact is just the largest number of bytes we have a term for, to my knowledge. Actually, if I somehow got yottabytes of stuff onto the server, apart from seriously expanding the number of bytes on the entire internet, it would still be a fraction of a nothingth of the total. The deal is that I've got an inifinte supply now of storage, bandwidth, WebMail, and so on. Apart from a monthly fee for the server itself, currently prepaid through 2013 [take that, Mayans] and annual fees for each domain's renewal [less prepaid, amounting at this point to four figures per year], I'm done wondering whether I or anyone else who can affect me will ever hit the magic number and start costing me more money per month per gig.

Here's where this could become annoying. Since, as mentioned, I've been known to hand out subuser accounts, mostly for people I know, which takes time and effort and more often than not overexplanation of how things like FTP work, the information that it now only takes time and effort, but not money, could be misunderstood to suggest that everyone on the planet could ask me for a place to stash a website. Which thinking about it they could do now; some have already begun. What counts though is that I'm really not interested in setting up accounts for several million people. And that's just for free. Actually charging people for a fraction of a nothingth of this space, while an interesting idea, would really just mean that I'd have to keep track of who was 'forgetting' to pay me every month, then deciding whether to waste yet more time and effort locking people out for nonpayment. And I've got better things to do. Probably.

So, in that regard, I'm hoping that little or nothing changes. Meaning that I'm hoping that millions of you who never even post anything to the messageboard won't suddenly bother me with whiny EMails asking for free websites. If you really think I'm likely to give you one, I suppose you can ask; if nothing else, it'll be funny if you're wrong.

In other regards, this actually works out amazingly coincidentally. Because something else I just got is the ability to add Flip Minos to Wasted. Which I really haven't done yet. Seriously: I just got it. Yesterday. And I'm busy. Damnit. But: that kinda necessarily means that I'll probably hafta grab one of these little things with the Wasted logo on it, which'll secondarily mean that I'll have something other than my phone to film things with which fits in my pocket—that the phone does that is meaningless, since running the thing as a phone and a wordprocessor is already causing the battery significant pain. That the Mino is $179.99 for an hour of recording time at 640*480 is kinda cool. Particularly the part where it kinda does the same thing for the same time at about the same size as the 720*480 MiniDV camcorder I bought just about exactly ten years ago for three thousand bucks. Also, the MiniDV is kinda fuxored; and playing with FireWire is far more of a bitch than switchblading a USB prong out to connect an iPod of a camcorder to a computer and dump the hour of footage while recharging the thing. All of which is entirely my own thinking; if you really want someone to talk you into buying the thing, click the link back in the precambrian where this paragraph began and see what the people paying for flashy, dumbeddown adverts want you to think. Then keep an eye on flip.wastedinc.com for the same thing with cool stuff on it which I get paid for.

Oh yeah. The point of all that. I figure that, if I grab one of these things, never again looking at the videomode of my phone, knowing me as I do, I'll probably end up adding...let's see...168 hours in a week, times roughly fifty-two weeks in a year: oodles of fuckitbytes of footage to the site, something like my own version of YouTube.com with less bullshit rules and far less illiterate morons commenting on things...I hope...to the darkest trailerparks of hell.

All of which similarly converges once we talk about subusers having space on the server, having things like Flips, uploading footage which can't hurt my storage or bandwidth [it could hurt my serverside rules against childporn and warez and stuff; but that's always a factor], and generally adding all sorts of neat if totally unimportant shit to the internet. So, something I'm thinking about, which I have yet to bounce off Legal, is working out a Grab a Flip from Wasted: Get Serverspace to Show off Its Results thing. Which could be really cool, or which could fail like something not known for working very well. Depending what the lawyers say about it all, it might at least be harmless to try. Call it Web2.1, or something.

More later....

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