I’ve been using Surpass Hosting since around August 2004. I’ve gone through shared accounts, reseller accounts, and multiple dedicated servers. I’ve been through a lot with this company but overall it’s been an awesome experience.

I started with a simple shared account to host a personal website, but quickly moved into a reseller account so that I could host as many websites as I wanted. I have to say that Surpass Hosting is really what brought me to the internet. I’d been using it like every other person, but once I started making websites everything just exploded.

Most of the websites that I’ve hosted are personal sites: blogs, crazy ideas that I had but never really made them happen, random websites that only I would get. I’ve done a few business sites for other people, and even ran a dedicated server for my work, where we hosted our city’s website and local chamber of commerce.

With Surpass, the support has usually been great. I’ve had a couple of oddities, but every problem I’ve ever had (which were usually created by me) has been solved to my satisfaction in a timely manner. The prices are great for the support and service you receive. Their servers are not oversold like a bunch of other hosts that I’ve used. They place a reasonable amount of clients on their super fast servers, and move people off if the server gets overloaded.

My favorite thing about Surpass Hosting is the community. Surmunity is the awesomest thing that was ever invented. Many of the staff are active in the community, and you can go there for help with any sort of problem. Anything from spam email to tacos, Surmunity is there for you. I’ve been sent an Xbox 360 and sent to Orlando to check out the data center because Surmunity is filled with a bunch of great people.

Of course there are always things in any company that can be improved. One thing I would like to see improved is support tickets. Sometimes all of the people responding to tickets don’t read the entire ticket, causing a delay when they ask for something that was already provided. How the tickets are ordered and run is weird as well (limitation of the software). It would be nice to see a custom written help desk, tailored to exactly what they need. If they integrated their new service status that would be great as well in helping users find out if a server is down, or maybe if their IP was just blocked.

So overall: Surpass rocks, and I expect to continue seeing awesome things out of them. I know they will continue to work on any problems there might be and always try to make the service better. This review is entirely mine, and you’ll see no affiliate codes or anything similar that you might find elsewhere and for other hosts. This was written because I’ve had a great experience.

I’ve heard good things about Short Stop Hamburgers in Colorado Springs, CO from many people for a while now so I decided to check it out today. Unfortunately they failed at delivering good service and good food.

I’m a weird, obsessive compulsive person so I order my cheeseburgers plain. It’s something I’ve done forever and I believe that a good burger shouldn’t need any of that extra junk on top of it to make it taste better.

Apparently in Short Stop land plain means you get ketchup, mustard, and possibly even mayonnaise on your burger. I had already driven away by the time I discovered this, assuming they were smart enough to know what plain means. I decided to just go with it and scraped it off.

After getting past the awful mustard taste the burger didn’t really satisfy. It wasn’t exceptional, it wasn’t very tasty. It was just a regular old frozen meat patty. McDonalds makes better burgers than this.

On to the fries. While they were nice and greasy (just they way I like em), they didn’t taste like much of anything. They could have used a little more salt and they even seemed as if they were frozen.

So Short Stop Hamburgers failed at delivering what I ordered, and at delivering a tasty burger. Maybe next time I’ll just stop at Big Kahuna Burger

I watched Balls of Fury yesterday after going about 27 hours without any sleep (just for fun). I actually thought it was pretty funny. No I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of sleep that I was laughing, or because it’s my type of comedy. I laughed quite a bit even before Christopher Walken showed up. And I absolutely loved the Christopher Walken character (well, I love any character Christopher Walken does).

So I would probably give the movie maybe a 6.5/10. I thought it was pretty funny. It wasn’t the greatest, but I did laugh a lot more than I would for some of those crappy TV shows like Tim and Eric or Saul of the Mole Men. I wish I could give those shows a negative rating.

I’m going to watch Superbad here in a little bit as well. People keep telling me it sucked, but I generally don’t trust other people’s opinions on comedy movies, because most people just don’t get a good comedy when they see one.

I was sent the Ninja Burger: Honorable Employee Handbook today and I love it! I used the Ninja Burger logo for the Cooking With Ninjas video, and they were kind enough to send me the book as well as a bunch of ninja stickers.

The Ninja Burger handbook is about 90 pages and filled with awesomeness! Tons of great pictures / illustrations and full of humor on every page. If you’ve got ten bucks, pick it up on Amazon. It would make a great gift for anybody this Christmas / Hanukkah / Kwanzaa / Flying Spaghetti Monster Day.