Foreign Perspectives

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After a while any house seems to get gradually more and more cluttered up with bookcases and various other bits of furniture to hold the increasing amount of junk (otherwise known as really neat technology) that we collect these days.

However, there is another way and that’s to use purposed-designed furniture so rather than stack your speakers in what’s basically a cupboard and thereby negate the advantage of the money spent on them, you can get a speaker mount instead. It’s particularly noticeable on speakers as normal furniture will mess up the sounds coming from speakers and that applies equally to the fancy TVs that you get these days too.

Downside is that you’re going to end up with a lot more separate items in the house but you’ll find that you’ve a whole lot more clear floorspace.

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Much as we try to keep a broad focus in the areas of travel & finance here I’m sure that you find that it wanders quite a bit. Therefore what I’m planning on doing is to split it in two with ForeignPerspectives retaining all the travel postings and another blog picking up the financial ones that don’t also fall under the travel/expat headings.

Now, the question is: what to call the new blog? I’d have quite liked FinancialPerspectives.com but unfortunately some plonker has already registered that for one of the junk sites that you seem to get under every decent name these days. Anyway, I’ve been hunting around and still haven’t found anything that seems “just right”.

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It’s such a thankless task, isn’t it?

There seem to be thousands of hosting services out there and really not that much to distinguish between them when you start comparing what they offer. These days, you can pretty much take it as read that you’ll have more storage capacity and bandwidth than you’ll ever need on even the lowest rung of the plans.

However, webhosting top 10 lists can be a big help with this. Sadly, none of them are perfect but that’s not the fault of the review sites but rather down to the constantly changing offerings of the hosting companies themselves. For example, you get dot5hosting.com quoted as being “the WORST ever” and “excellent” which basically reflects a change to the worse that happened fairly recently. Slightly worryingly for me, hostgator don’t seem to figure in any of the recent top 10s despite topping them not so long ago.

What’s useful too is categories within the top 10s. Clearly if you’re wanting budget priced hosting what may be a top 10 for you will be entirely different than if you were shooting for top of the line service as your selection criteria.

Don’t forget that you’re not tied to your existing hosting service so don’t put up with bad service from them.

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