We recently got Ethan a new bunk bed. It’s something he had wanted for a long time and so that was one of his birthday presents this year. We decided to sell his old bed on craigslist. I listed the bed and got several responses quickly. I eventually sold it a couple of days later.
Where things get really cool is that we had an extra box springs set that we needed to get rid of. It sat in the guest room for a couple of weeks and I was just going to throw them out. On a whim I decided to list it on craigslist ‘free’ section. I listed them about 12:30 one afternoon. Within a few minutes I had received an email with someone who was interested and they picked it up before 1:00. So, it took less than 30 minutes to unload this to someone who finds it useful instead of going into a landfill.
Craigslist is just cool
The History of kahlerfamily.com (Part 2)
This is the second part of the story of this website. To read the first part click here.
As I recovered from the shock of seeing some strange family on my website, I set out to see what had happened. I had let my domain registration slip. Since I wasn’t checking email on my old account very often, and spam was such an issue, I simply missed it.
Someone had picked it up, and set it up as an ad site. The thought behind sites like this is that site visitors will click on the links on the site, generating revenue for the site owner. You typically see this on domains that are close in spelling to another ‘legitimate’ domain. Some ad sites also try to get ranked high in google for a specific term or set of terms, then have links to sites that actually sell items. I understand the thoughts behind this, but couldn’t understand why someone would use kahlerfamily.com for this. It’s not like it was associated with anything commercial. Read More
The history of kahlerfamily.com (Part 1)
Somewhere around nine years ago, I bought my first domain, kahlerfamily.com. I was so excited. I built a website using Microsoft Front Page and a colleague of mine host it for me. He hosted a few sites as a side business, but wouldn’t take any money from me. I’d buy him lunch once in a while, and we called it even. I put up pictures of my daughter for my family to see, and I think I did a pretty good job.
That lasted all of about a month. I realized that maintaining a website was real work (something that many business people still don’t understand.) It quickly grew stale, and years later we still had old pictures. Front Page was just too much effort, and I didn’t have the time. Read More
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