Oh no. Now Dotster has booth babes. 

Must be copying GoDaddy. Can anybody recommend a good cheap registrar that doesn't proactively drive away women customers? I'm in the market to transfer today. This just infuriates me. It makes me angry at the companies who use 1950s cheesecake ploys -- and it makes me sad and discouraged to think that they probably do it because it works. Somebody help me understand this; I don't fathom the male geek mind. You see skin on the home page, and you think "Wow! I'll buy my domains here"? I'd think the tactic would insult your intelligence, like the 3-story inflated dinosaurs that retail places put outside to attract attention. It's so discouraging when you consider it as part of the gender divide on the net, it makes me want to cry.

Destroying friendships -- story of my freakin' life 

Actually Terry's still a friend. Shoot, I've known him online for more than 10 years. He just twitters too often.

Speaking of too-frequent contact, I'm ready to unsub from all ZDnet email newsletters. I keep paring down the subscriptions, and the volume of mail continues to annoy me. This is what will drive adoption of RSS in the workplace.

Online office apps have a ways to go 

I keep trying them out, and still find I need MS Office.

Don't get me wrong. I do think it's the future and I'm not giving up. It's just not there yet. Check out EditGrid.

Pros:

- It has graphs, which Google Docs and Spreadsheets needs to add right away

- Nice looking interface for the app

- Publish-to-your-page features including widgets -- haven't tried this yet, but it sounds neat

Cons:

- Kind of a junky-looking home page (looks like the shell was designed by a pro, then it fell apart when the maintainers took over)

- Like Google SS, you can't paste in an HTML table and preserve the rows

Does that seem like a quibble, the HTML table thing? Maybe so, but we're not talking about hobby apps here, where you can choose to live without certain features. When it comes to tools that help me do my job it's necessarily all about me and I won't be satisfied until more of the tasks I can do in Excel become available in the online apps.