Where's MNSpeak?

Posted at 9:04 AM on April 22, 2008 by Bob Collins (8 Comments)

Fans of the social networking/discussion/gossip site for Minnesota may be suffering pangs of withdrawal today. The site apparently didn't auto renew its domain name registration so it is, basically, down. I'm sure there's a smarmy comment to be made here, except I'm pretty sure MPR made the same mistake a few months ago.

Update 11:47 a.m. - Back online.

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Comments (8)

Our daughter is 27 years old and is a frugal person. Started her own business in high school to save money for college and has decided to restart it this year to help pay for her wedding. I think she got her frugal ways from her parents who got them from their parents who transferred their knowledge and financial fears produced by their experiences of the great depression. Our family motto is a good day is a good deal.

Posted by George Riedl | April 22, 2008 10:22 AM

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I am the parent of 2 gen-Yers and am 55 y/o. Our parents used to complain that we did not know the value of money because we did not live through the great depression. Our parents retired on fixed benefits pensions and healthcare was not very expensive and covered by union insurance. Gen-Y has to deal with paying for their own healthcare and retirement, and are at least more aware of the need to save because of this.

Posted by Ann | April 22, 2008 10:26 AM

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Bob, I think your commenters are on the wrong thread! At any rate, MNSpeak is back. They paid the bill. You may have to access through http://fimoculous.com/mnspeak for the next hour or so.

Posted by Jason DeRusha | April 22, 2008 10:49 AM

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Somehow, some way, ethanol is to blame for this outrage....

Posted by Bob Moffitt | April 22, 2008 11:57 AM

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I hear it takes twice as much bandwidth to make ethanol as regular gasoline.

Posted by Bob Collins | April 22, 2008 12:42 PM

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I hear it takes twice as much bandwidth to make ethanol as regular gasoline.

Heh!

Posted by Erica M | April 22, 2008 2:31 PM

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Haters! And on Earth Day, too...

Corn Guy! Rescue me!

Posted by Bob Moffitt | April 22, 2008 2:57 PM

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Heh. I always wondered whatever became of Waffleman.

BTW, Bob, my neighbor -- a big shot in the state government ethanol program -- showed up the other day in some spiffy new hybrid ethanol SUV. It was pretty nice one you ignore all the ethanol stickers.

Posted by Bob Collins | April 22, 2008 4:04 PM

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