Sunday, January 24

Last entry  

I use Blogger, and I use FTP publishing. Blogger will stop FTP publishing March 26, 2010. My choices are to either rejigger this blog to a custom domain (It would have been blog.bytehead.org, not happening since Google doesn't support PHP), move to Blog*Spot (Ain't happenin') or setup a different blogging platform elsewhere.

I will be backing up this blog (both ways, as the entire HTML and as an XML file), moving my hosting, and choosing another platform, most likely Wordpress, since that seems to be pretty common. I will most likely move the blog to blog.bytehead.org in any case. And I'll put up something in the header when I'm done and have it working (why I'm planning on backing up the HTML, I'll probably keep www.bytehead.org/blog/ as an archive, and go on with the new platform at blog.bytehead.org. I have a Wordpress account at bytehead.wordpress.org, but naturally I want my own URL.

The linkblog will be moved as well. I *was* working on a way to get all my Delicious items into Blogger. Now I need to figure out how to do it in Wordpress. Good thing I didn't get that finished, it'd be worthless now.

Shout outs go to David as my old hostmaster and putting up with the hacks that have gone against my site, my wife for supporting me, and Blogger for putting up with me so long.

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Monday, January 11

Palm Coast Travel sues a customer — and me  

Palm Coast Travel sues a customer — and me

Here we go again.

Last March, I reported that the Florida regulators had warned three travel agencies that sold insurance policies offered by bankrupt Prime Travel Protection Services of Arvada, Colo., that its activities may have run afoul of state insurance statues.

I quoted Nina Banister, a spokeswoman for Florida’s Department of Financial Services, as saying the state had ordered the agencies to "stop transacting business" and that "they’re on notice that further activity is pending [by the state]."

Soon after that, Florida issued a press release stating, “As a result of ongoing investigations into complaints about the sale of unauthorized travel insurance in Florida, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has notified three travel agencies that she intends to order them to stop selling insurance.”

The legal notice to one of the agencies, Palm Coast Travel, alleges that the company “directly or indirectly acted as agent for or otherwise represented or aided one or more unauthorized insurers…” The matter is still pending.

Now Palm Coast Travel has sued one of its customers, Peter Lay, and me, alleging among other things that I defamed the company when I reported the story. Here's the full text of the complaint (PDF).

Among Palm Coast's allegations against me are the following:

Elliott included among his reporting recent regulatory investigations of customer complaints regarding Prime Travel Protection and Jerry Watson. Elliott's reporting included publication of false information regarding Palm Coast, which has and will continue to damage Palm Coast's business unless it is properly remedied.

Among the statements Elliott published were falsehoods that stated that Palm Coast had been ordered to cease doing business by the State of Florida. No such order exists, and therefore that report was false.

Further, Elliott, when purporting to "clarify" his deliberately false statement regarding the State of Florida's investigation of travel insurance, did not fully remedy the false impression he fostered regarding Palm Coast's role.

Elliott's falsehoods were directed at, among other aspects of Palm Coast's business, its reputation in the trade or industry of travel. Moreover, Elliott did not properly correct, clarify, or retract his falsehoods, despite proper notice.

That’s certainly an interesting perspective on what happened. Perhaps Palm Coast Travel’s next step will be to sue the State of Florida for issuing the press release?

Reposting here for maximum Streisand effect.

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Friday, January 1

Happy New Year!  

Here's to a better one!

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Thursday, December 24

Official NORAD Santa Tracker  

Official NORAD Santa Tracker

It's almost that time!

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Wednesday, October 28

My personality defect...  

HelloQuizzy.com: Robot:

Your result for The Personality Defect Test ...
Robot

You are 86% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 14% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.

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Wednesday, October 14

Thank you David  

Somehow, my blog (actually it's Awstats) got overtaken for a pop-up destination (in Russian no less...). Thanks to Dave, my hostmaster, it's back to normal.

(awaiting the crush of INTPs to hit too...

Ha!)

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