From Soup to Domain: The Flysoup.com Tale

It has been over 22 years since I registered flysoup.com and thought it would be a good time to share the origin story of the site’s name. So, why share this story now, over two decades later? Well, I recently decided to change web hosting providers, and in the process of reinstalling WordPress and importing my old content, I reread all my previous posts. While this blog now represents a snapshot in time for me, I keep it in place for nostalgic reasons. This trip down memory lane inspired me to finally tell the tale of how flysoup.com came to be.

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My love/hate relationship with Sprint.

Sprint and I have an understanding. I leave them alone and they leave me alone. As long as I don’t rock the boat, my service is good. There are no billing issues and I take my phone for granted.

Occasionally however I do something silly. A new plan is advertised that looks appealing… so appealing in fact that I decide to switch from a plan that has served me well to this brand new plan. That’s the moment that things go wrong. I rocked the boat. I should have known better but the new service looked so shiny and new that I couldn’t resist.

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