As Yogi Berra said, “It’s like Deja Vu, all over again”.  The Jeep Liberty is one of the weirder driving experiences you will ever have… Set the wayback machine for 1970!

Here’s the deal.  I have about 350 miles to drive, and the vehicle of choice for this trip is a Jeep Liberty, pretty much right down to the color a match for the picture here.  4 wheel drive and all, not really important for this clear day and flat run down the highway, but a clear feature and right there.  It includes a low range, this is a Jeep and it will go off road with the best of them.

Anyway, I hop in bright and early in the morning, and head down the road.  within 3 minutes, my back is screaming in pain.  The seating position is horrid!  The only adjustments are seatback angle and forwards and backwards, and with much effort, I was able to find a position that didn’t feel like a torture rack.  Make not mistake, these are not the good seats.  It feels like 1970.

The seats aren’t the only reminder of this way back design layout.  The roof feels low.  The seat feels high.  The windshield seems small.  The doors are narrow.  The door glass is particularly narrow and short, a result of combining the low roof with the high beltline and the large metal wrap area on the doors.  These windows are pretty much a dead match for a 1980 or so cherokee.

Around the interior you will find Chrylser corporate bits all around, heating, radio, and pretty much every control is 100% corporate parts bin stuff.  Not that it is a bad thing but the interior as a result is pretty much generic Chryco stuff.  The cup holders are decent, but poorly placed at the back of the center console, where you have to take your eyes off the road and look down to pick up or drop off your beverage of choice.  The radio sounds okay, and everything else pretty much seems to be about right, in the functional sort of a way.

The really weird thing is the feeling I got of vertical.  Everything in this truck is up and down and narrow.  There is very much space in the front seats, but the distance to the windsheild feels a bit short (and it is, touching the glass while in a driving position isn’t much of a stretch, there is maybe only 3 inches from the edge of the dashboard to the glass).  Because you are sitting pretty straight up, you sort of tower over the interior, which adds to their weird feeling.

Rear seats have the same feeling, but legroom is generous as a result, because you tend to sit like a school chair, not sprawled out like some cars.  Comfort back there isn’t any better than the fronts, and the only inclining these seats do is to lay down to extend the cargo area.  That Cargo area is a little shorter than you might want, considering that it is a truck.  The rear overhang is quite short, which is a good thing.

The whole driving feel of this truck is vintage Cherokee Cheif as well.  Rear wheel drive combined with a compliant off road acceptable suspension means that there is a fair bit of movement.  In fact, there is enough play that you can wiggle the wheel back and forth slightly at highway speed and make the body of the truck dance without having the truck do anything but stay straight.   This is guaranteed to get your co-pilots and passengers slapping you in the head, as they will be sea sick within seconds.

Overall, unless you are really, really caught on the idea of major offroading, I would say that there are any other number of mini-utes on the market that would outdoor this truck, including the RAV4 and such…   It isn’t a horrible vehicle, but not one I would see myself buying as primary transport.

well, at least I think it is… damn, moving hosts is a royal pain in the ass when you got stuff.   It’s like it’s easy to move a 1 room apartment, hell to move a house.  I moved house.  It’s hell.

Anyway, things are settling down, the DNS (the way that the internet knows how to find in-the-raw.com here instead of there) is about settled, and pretty much everything seems clean.   There are still a few things getting cleaned up, but basically everything is right on track.  So much so that I have started to turn out some porn again.

First off, I updated Teenager-x with some hot pics from Goth Teen Liz Vicious (Click here)… she is truly fucking hot and unique.. a great thing!  I will have a whole bunch of free promotional sites for her coming soon, keep your eye on the site Goth Girlfriend for more when they are done.

I also fixed up and sorted out some “automation” issues with Porn Pig.  The site now updated reliably 4 times each day, getting you the hottest porn blog entires from all over the place.  It’s worth a bookmark, that is for sure.  Click here for Porn Pig!

In the non-porn world, Both Kizo Technology News and Latest Movies and Reviews are also updating much more regularly, thanks to a seriously improved server configuration that really flies through these tasks with little or no timeouts or failures.  They two are now updating 4 times daily. so you can always find fresh stuff there.

More updates and upgrades on the way, things are looking great, everything is working out fine… so stay tuned 🙂

One of the very painful parts about running a website is selecting a host for your site. For those of you who are not techie, that means selecting the company who provides the computer connected to the internet where your website actually lives. While I am based in Montreal, my webservers have been located in Atlanta, Ga. for the last 6 years. That is about to change, and that is a great and scary thing.

The scary part is that the underside of a website for the most part is a ton of fairly complex plumbing and combative code. If you ever saw the movie Brazil, you have seen what the internet looks like. Under the shiny and pretty exterior is the code of hundreds of different people running over equipment made by different people over wires owned by all sorts of people to computers that are all different in their own way.

Every server is different. Even if you build two identical boxes right side by side, and load the same exact software on them, the moment you flip the switch and start building a website, they are different and they will never again be the same.

So over the next couple of weeks, I will be (theoretically) pulling the tent poles out from under hundreds of websites and putting them back up in another place, hopefully entirely invisibly and hopefully without disturbing your enjoyment.   It is the electronic equivialant of the spinning plates routine at the circus, where you try to keep all the plates spinning and not having any of them fall.  The move isn’t far in theory (the sites are going to be served from what is known as the “NAP of the Americas”, a well connected and super strong facility in Florida.  This will improve the speed at which the sites can be seen in Europe, South America, and Asia as this is a major switching hub for all of those areas as they enter in the US.  Effectively, I have moved everything a couple of steps closer to you.

It will take a few days, that is for sure, and everything is slowly getting set up and things are looking good.  Hopefully things will move without a blink… here is to hoping!

Well, the last couple of weeks have been pretty weird here at porn headquarters. Summer is always a little weird in the online porn mongering world because summetime tends to drive people outdoors to enjoy the nice weather. People take vacations, spend time with their families, and generally do things that don’t include curling up in their den with the latest Tawnee Stone – Jordan Capri lesbian sex adventure. Overall visitors to porn sites drop, and more importantly for those of use who do this “commercially” people are less prone to purchase memberships and whatnot. Our industry calls it the “summer slump”, and I just call it a weird time of the year.

Unlike many people in the biz, I don’t take summer off. Rather, summer is a time when I look at all the stuff I have done in the previous while and see what the heck I want to be doing with it in the future. My company owns about 1000 internet domain names, so there is much to look at (if I spend 5 minutes on each domain, that would take 4 days if I didn’t take a break, and about 2 weeks on a regular 8 hour day. But 5 minutes really isn’t much time at all (this message might take 20 minutes for me to write) so you can imagine that there are some corners of the empire that just don’t get visited all that often.

Internet domain names aren’t really owned as much as leased on a yearly basis. In the case of my domain portfolio, about 50% of all the domains I own expire in august and september each year. As a result, this month in particular is a big time for me to be looking at all the things I own and make sure that they make sense to keep. I have probably pared down the list by about 50 or 60 domains this year, as things have gone out of style or I have lost interest in working on those things.

Other companies also step up and get busy this time of year, and I have had someone recently purchase a domain from me for a pretty good price ($x,xxx), which I think is a good deal for them as well as me. I wasn’t doing as much with it as I could have, I am sure they will develop it better that I did, and I still took home probably 10 -15 times yearly earnings that I was getting from it, so it is all good for everyone involved.

Anyway, so in the process of going through all that stuff I find really interesting sites that I had forgotten I had made. Such as my collection of Real Peachez galleries or Teen Topanga promo videos… plus some real junk I am honestly too shy to share with you, safe to say it has been added to the list of things to fix! It’s fun to do this sort of stuff.

Anyway, all this just to say if I happen to be a little slack on the posting here, it is because I am trying to get that 5 minutes for each domain, to make the porn better for your enjoyment! In the meantime, enjoy the summer 🙂