Early this morning I remotely connected to my work machine. I opened up a test automation report webpage that I’d wrote and got this weird message:
This Site Is Under Construction and Coming Soon.
This Domain Is Registered with Network Solutions
I was pretty sure our internal HTTP/DB server wasn’t using a registered domain name 
and then remembered a small short cut I’d made. Several months ago I wanted to aggregate several RSS feeds from various build/test reports we have. Rather than download and install one or write my own, I did the absolute laziest thing possible…. I included directly from this site.
< ?php
define('MAGPIE_DIR', 'http://yunt.net/lib/rss/');
require_once(MAGPIE_DIR.'rss_fetch.inc');
?>
Any how, this was merely the symptom of the greater problem. I owed Network Solutions $$$ for domain name renewal. Yes, I’m sure since the late ’90s whem I looked into domain registration, many additional offerings have become available, but it was 5:00 am and it was far easier to click “pay now”, then explain to some project manager that his build headline page isn’t available because yunt.net wasn’t renewed in time…
I’m looking forward to coming back into the office this week. Working from home has its perks, but you lose the work/home separation. While at work do work, while at home do not work. On the other hand you’ve got clowns that stay in the office late and play LAN games. They must not have children.
