I’m using this space to turn rss2 feed entries into stuff I can copy and paste into a Word file. Ignore whatever you might read here—it’s really, really old.
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Thank God for web archives!
[Originally posted on shawnbakken.blogspot.com]
Brent, a gentleman who used to write comments on shawnbakken.com on occasion, alerted me to the “Internet Archive Wayback Machine” website, which has a whole bunch of ooooooold versions of the site. There are some large gaps between posts, some not-so-appealing designs, some really ugly-ass colors… trust me, this is a serious improvement. It’s still “(almost) shawnbakken.com,” but it’s still an improvement. So thanks to Brent for his help as well—hopefully, it’ll have all the old dates along with all the old posts. I don’t think it’ll be possible to preserve all the comments (which is a shame, considering some posts were made specifically for the purpose of leaving comments…), but that just means you’ll get to provide input all over again! If you said something dumb the first time around, this will be your chance to vindicate yourself and make up for past failures! Or at least it’ll take up less space at the bottom of all the posts…
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Thank God for web feeds!
[Originally posted on shawnbakken.blogspot.com]
A wonderful lass named Helly has had a web feed on shawnbakken.com since waaaaaay back in the good ol’ days of close to two years ago. Not quite waaaaaay back enough to preserve the entries from when I was on Beauty and the Geek, but hopefully, I’ve got a bunch of those still saved on my laptop’s hard drive.
If everything works out properly, we might have pretty much everything back where it started, though because of the different software on Blogger vs. WordPress, I’m not sure how all of the entries and the organization of the blog will work. Suffice it to say that this will be new and (hopefully) interesting for everyone involved and that you’ll all stick with me until we get things straightened out completely. And thanks again to Helly.
P.S.—You may remember my having mentioned Matt, the guy who ran the server for the original site. Well, he’s also technically the owner of the web address, so if he was killed in a tragic big-screen-TV-falling-on-his-head-in-his-home-movie-theater accident (and I’m sure we all know a couple people like that), it could be a while before shawnbakken.com gets back on the map again. Sorry for any inconvenience that his death may have caused all of you…
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Take what you can get
[Originally posted on shawnbakken.blogspot.com]
Okay, so I’m still trying to figure out how to regain the content of my old blog, get it reposted… just get shawnbakken.com running again. Since that doesn’t seem to be an option, this’ll have to do for now. I may have lost a whooooole bunch of people who used to check it out—it’s only been, what, five weeks since the site disappeared? And because I didn’t know the nature of the beast, I couldn’t warn them ahead of time where they should look in the future. Sucks to be me, huh?
But I’m rambling (which is pretty much what you can expect from me a lot of the time). Suffice it to say that until shawnbakken.com is online again, this is the best I can do to keep the legacy alive! … Or at least keep something on the web for public consumption, because Yahoo 360 and Myspace have a limited accessibility. (Actually, that was kinda nice for preventing my family from snooping on me. It’s kind of annoying to write “This is what happened” or use potty-mouth words like “shit” and “fuck”—not that I ever use those words—and then get grilled about it a couple hours later.)
So this is it, folks. This is what we’re all stuck with when you watch the show replaying on MTV and need to ask me why I didn’t know a second disease you can get from ticks. Thus, until further notice: Welcome to my home.
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Another milestone!
100,000 hits since I put the visitor counter onto the blog! I’m pretty sure I’ve only been responsible for, like, half of those, so I’ve had at least 50,000 hits from other people!
*happy dance*
I feel popular now…
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Does the end loom near?
I hope not, but the web provider I’ve been using is moving over the weekend and plans on jacking up its prices to $150 a month. If that’s the case, my friend (who’s running the server) will probably decide the fun we get out of our blogs isn’t very cost-effective. Can’t say that I blame him, so unless you all want to sell lots of boxes of Girl Scout cookies for us in the next couple weeks, shawnbakken.com may disappear by March 1st.
If it does, hey, we still had fun. Glad I could bring a little joy and happiness into all of your lives. … Most of your lives. … At least some of your lives. … One of you? … Glad I could get a couple laughs out of it for my own sake. Hope to keep talking to you real soon.
