Bad idea: waiting until the last minute to do some domain-related stuff for a friend, thinking it will take about five minutes and then realizing that the system by which his registrar makes these changes is disturbingly convoluted and that nothing is working…
Sometimes I long to be one of those people with good old-fashioned, simple, AOL-type problems, like wondering why I can’t switch between my “manhole4u” and “2q2bstr8” screen names, or why I never seem to score anything from any of those “win the lottery” email messages I keep answering…