What’s bad about GM? The cars
Toyota recently projected that it would surpass General Motors in 2007 as the world’s top-selling automaker. GM lost $10.6 billion in 2005 - about what Toyota earned in profits. From quirky steering to oddly placed controls GM shows it is a company run by bean counters and ad men. Until they ditch that mentality they will continue to lose money.
Washington man kills sister for making fun of him
A Bremerton man confessed to killing his sister with an ax because they had argued and she made fun of him, police said. Police arrested William Windsor Wednesday at an apartment where they found the body of 38-year-old Kimberly Shine with an ax in her head.
Free Webhosting the wave of the future
How true. What brought this about you may ask? Well you see I was cruising the press release circuits when I cam across this release:
Free Web Hosting Set to Explode in Popularity
www.pr9.netLarge numbers of new Internet users in third-world countries are increasing the use of free Web hosting services. From 2005 to 2010, an estimated 700 million additional people will logon to the Internet for the first time, and many of them will be hosting Websites at free Web hosting services.
http://www.freewaywebhost.com/
Its at the end of the article, theres one line that stands out to me:
Popular social networking sites are not adequately meeting the needs of new Internet users, and free hosting offers another option for personal expression.
This got me to thinking. I rarely use MySpace. Its slow and has a ton of spam on it. MSN’s blogging system is slow and has limited templates. The same can said for Google’s page builder as well. They great for talking to communities of like minded individuals; but, if I want make a statement I’m not generally going to use their services.
I don’t want to be limited by their systems styles and abilities. I want a lot more freedom then a fancy CMS can provide with a few templates can provide. If I need an application like WGTE’s Build Your Own Website I’ll buy in to it. But anything else I want full control and flexibility.