For all his multimillion-dollar lottery winnings, Jack Whittaker can’t seem to do anything but lose.

The man who landed a $315 million jackpot on Christmas Day seven years ago has since lost his wife to divorce, his granddaughter to drugs and now his daughter, found dead in her West Virginia home on July 5, according to the Charleston Daily Mail.

Whittaker has also been arrested on charges of driving drunk, lost more than $500,000 in cash to thieves and settled with the parents of a teenage friend of his granddaughter’s who died at his house from a drug overdose.

A surprising number of other lottery winners share his pain.

Can be such a drain on time to think about, besides isn’t everyone on Facebook and Twitter these days? Just teasing.

So I’ve been increasingly quiet lately, just trying to focus inward and bs less. But I know nobody cares to read about me, so maybe just a bit of what’s going on.

Digitally Imported has started it’s redesign, finally. It’s actually way on it’s way now. Thanks to 99designs.com we found many great ideas and picked a winner. Now we’re refining design before we start on CSS and coding.

Launched 5 new electronic channels the other week, that was and is still quite exciting. Tune in if you’d like.

Started work on the JazzRadio.com project, it’s about time I put some domain names to use. Mark my words, give a year or so, this should be a big deal in the jazz radio world. The competition is about to begin.

And last but not least, we’re expecting PayToAsk to be completed this week in a form where we can begin real world testing. I promised for ages to fill you in, but this time really it’s getting close, finally!

And what are you folks up to these days? Share your projects or difficulties with stuff these days in the comments.

If you are in the Internet Radio space, you might have heard about the annual RAIN Las Vegas summit.

If not, you might want to take a look. It’s a more private gathering than any big conventions, and a great way to talk about what’s going on in Internet radio trends and meet the people from various companies.

It’s on Monday, April 20th. If you’re going, I’ll see you there. Do say hello if we haven’t met before!

Sirius founder Martine Rothblatt told Fortune Magazine that she believes satellite radio won’t be able to compete with in-car Internet radio. “There’s going to be ever more bandwidth available to distribute content totally via terrestrial cellular infrastructure. And that will leave fewer and fewer unique market attributes to satellite radio,” she said.

Amen, I was saying this for the last 6 years. The last 2 years people are actually starting to believe it.

Actually what I’ve been saying is that satellite’s only hope to survive is to build a very strong online brand and presence. That might mean they’d have to buy other net radio brands to boost their portfolio in addition to their own (well, it’s only 1 company now after the merger).

But it looks like Sirius just may end up becoming irrelevant on its own 5-8 years from now, without even staging a last minute attempt at being relevant. Even if they do, it won’t be Sirius anymore, nor will it be “satellite radio”.

Transition to a new data center – check

Closing the doors at SteadyHost.com – check

Booking a vacation week for next month – check

It’s been a a very demanding month, if not more. You see, today was the last day that my colocation and hosting business SteadyHost was up. Today we removed the final servers, and shut down the network.

No this wasn’t due to the economy at all. I am a very happy guy to finally close this chapter, it feels great. We got into this business a bit out of necessity. We streamed so much for Internet radio projects, it made sense to be in somewhat of a wholesale position.

Hey it was even fairly profitable, and we had customers who were with us for years. The problem was that it took a good chunk of my time, and the time of some others working on the team. I can safely say on average this took 1/3 of my time over last few years. It helped pay the bills, and if I were to do it exclusively I am sure it would be an even bigger success.

So yes, it’s being shut down despite having been a success and turning a decent profit.

Why now? When the data center lease expired, the space in NY was rented by Google instead. It was either moving it to a new data center, or shutting down. This isn’t my element, and it’s not too pleasing to work on it. At the same time I am getting quite good bandwidth rates through the contacts I’ve made over the years. So we chose to phase it out – and today was the last day.

You know what they say about one door closing and another opening. Ironically as SteadyHost is now done with, PayToAsk is getting very close to being ready for its first release. I really do hope to tell you more about it in upcoming posts. I’ll drink to that tonight!