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Recently, I was trying to consolidate all our domains in one handy (and I use that term lightly) portal at GoDaddy for the company account, to make it easy to purchase, renew, register new domains for SEO/Marketing and world domination purposes. One thing we also needed was an SSL ceritificate, so I purchased the most expensive one they had, the Premium SSL with EV. The EV being a (relatively) useless green bar accross the address bar in the user’s browser to give extra customer comfort in the strength of your encryption and show them you spent more money on it, and sometimes it costs substantially more.

What I didn’t realise when purchasing this certificate was that to activate it you need to reside within the United States, and in their defence it states that clearly on the front page as you go to purchase the item.  Upon not being able to activate the certificate, one of my colleagues sent the support team at GoDaddy a message asking how this situation was going to be resolved, and how we could go about activating the certificate.

What followed was rather funny:

Thank you for contacting online support. Unfortunately, our Premium SSL Certificates can only be issued to business based within the United States of Japan. If your business is located within another ocuntry, you will not be able to use the certificate. You will need to cancel the certificates and reply to this message so that we may refund the purchase.

During a party for my wife’s birthday a couple of months ago we had a visitor, an incredibly curious cat crept in the house, and made himself at home on the couch, bed, wherever he pleased. Since then he’s been making almost nightly visits, and just sleeps and lounges round.

Apollo

Talk around the neighborhood is the cat, known as Apollo, is a bit of a creature of the night if you know what I mean, visiting many households, kind of like an Egyptian prince and his haram, except we are just one of many wives in an otherwise sordid affair.

Meeting

Anyway, I thought I’d introduce him to Prince Mahiki, it only seemed fair, Apollo got on well with the prince for several seconds…

Prince Mahiki

That was a great weekend, I got all the things i wanted to get done, finished, and started on a project or two that’s been in the back of my mind for months and I was lacking the motivation to kick start.

On a side note, this blog received almost no visits for the last four days, way under (percentage wise) the monthly average.. As the writer of this publication once pondered “if I build it, they will come…”, they came to an extent, but not quite like I wanted them to.