Yes, it’s another video — but it’s great marketing. By harnessing the popularity of the original Tay Zonday “Chocolate Rain” video (which, of course, has gone viral, 11 million views at the time of writing) Dr. Pepper promote a new flavor, Cherry Chocolate through a sequel (which is like a remix of sorts as well.) Damn, that’s a good idea.
I apologize for the recent amount of video posts lately, but I couldn’t help but perpetuate (virally) this brilliant marketing video from the Singapore Media Development Authority. Kudos to the marketing team that thought of this.
Auxiom has been down down for… longer than I can remember.
So where have I been?
First of all, an explanation. StevenBao.com and Auxiom.com were taken down by the host Hosting Department for “sending spam.” Very strange, and uh, frankly, that sounds like a load of BS to me. A normal host, suspecting spam being sent from a server, would temporarily suspend the account. However, being the, uh, special host that they are, HD decided to delete all of my data (files, MySQL, mail, etc.) and notify me after the fact. Nice work.
In their ToS they have a clause that describes that they will have weekly backups available. Seeing that my backups were all pretty old, I asked for one — only to be presented with that with the deactivation of my account, backups were gone also.
Uhh…
I didn’t know what exactly to do, so I picked up a temporary host with a friend, and now I’m here, trying to recover whatever parts of my blog was picked up by the Wayback Machine or Feedburner. (edit: not Feedburner anymore.)
I’m also trying to find where my original theme is as well.