Why shawnbakken.net?

I know, I know—I didn’t want to abandon the original blog, either. shawnbakken.com always gave me warm and fuzzy feelings in various places on my body and lemme tell ya, I’m all about the warmth and fuzziness. So why didn’t I get it up and running again?

Because it’s not mine.

Matt Sparby got it up and running and was paying for the domain name for… since the site got started back in the beginning of ’03. It was awesome, I kept using the blog for many, many years and he kept paying the registration fee for many, many years. Some of you may remember back when we were having issues with the web provider—they wanted to start charging an obscene amount of money the next month, so we opted not to pay anything. Take that, you greedy motherfuckers! Pptpbtppbtpbtp!!! Victory is mine!

But it really wasn’t. We needed to find a new web provider, which wasn’t going to be a problem—I got a lot of offers to host the site (assuming I didn’t take up too many gigs of hard drive space or have too many thousands of visitors per day… yeah, not so much). I mentioned it to Matt very briefly a week or two after our websites disappeared and he said we’d figure something out. That was the last I’ve heard from him. (As much as I loved my blog, I’m a tad more concerned about what might have happened to him.)

But remember what I said about him paying the fees? Yeah. I can’t get shawnbakken.com up and running again because, technically, I’m just borrowing it. If you look up the ownership information somewhere, you’ll see Matt Sparby’s name, address and the fact that the site legally belongs to him until the beginning of 2008. Until that date rolls around… it’s out o’ commission.

Thusly and therefore, here’s what we got: shawnbakken.net . It’s not the original, but hopefully, it’ll leave a better taste in your mouth than when Coke brought out “New Coke.” (Coca-Cola Classic exists for a very good reason…) So sit back, read to your heart’s content, but be sure to visit the bathroom once in a while: I’m not all about the warmth and fuzziness that comes from wetting your pants.