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Is “bloggeryness” a word?

If it’s not, then I’m making it one.

Yesterday, I went to the main page and started scrolling down, looking at aaaaaaaall the months that I’ve written blog entries. I got to the bottom of the list and realized that the first month I wrote anything online was February, 2003. It’s now May of 2013.

The reason it’s not “my blog’s 10th anniversary” is that I’ve had to do some site-hopping. My first page was shawnbakken.com, but one day, the web service jacked up their fees, my registration lapsed and some other person or group jumped in and snatched it from me. I had to relocate. I opted to use Blogspot for a while and called it “(almost) shawnbakken.com,” but it just didn’t feel right. It never felt like it was “mine.”

I was eventually encouraged to use a new web service and found out that shawnbakken.net was available. Well, that seemed like a damn fine option. I filled out the necessary forms, paid a much lower price and got this site up and running in April of 2007. However, there was still one big problem: I’d neglected to save a lot of stuff from the old site onto my hard drive.

By copying and pasting entries from someone’s web feed and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, I only lost a few things from mid-2005, back when Beauty and the Geek was on the air and I was at my most prolific. Dammit… I also lost hundreds of comments from people, but those weren’t nearly as important (no offense to anyone who left comments back then).

Thus, this site by itself has been around for about six years, but back in February—just a couple months ago—I hit my 10th anniversary of bloggeryness. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. And if you haven’t, I hope it hasn’t made you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat too often.

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I should update the links on the site

I should, but I don’t. I’m sure it’s especially bad back in the Beauty and the Geek years—you could click on a link in a blog entry and it would take you to the WB’s (or the CW’s) website so you could read more about the show. Nowadays… I have no idea where those links go. They might go nowhere, they might lead to a random site that’s written entirely in Mandarin Chinese. The same potential goes for just about everything on here—after a bunch of years, I have no idea what the destination of any given link might be. Thus, if you click on one and it doesn’t direct you to wherever it’s supposed to go, my apologies. I doubt I’ll do anything about it, but my apologies nonetheless.

(Note of interest: I just searched for my old blog address, www.shawnbakken.com, and it’s been abandoned. Nothing there. The thought of repurchasing the site and using it again floated through my head for approximately two seconds—trying to move everything from here to there would be way too much of a hassle. Considering how long it took me to post about 14 months worth of entries in here that I neglected to put in the first time… yeah. But it was a nice two-second-long thought.)

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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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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.

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No going-away party?!

Sorry about disappearing for a few days. There were some behind-the-scenes issues: the guy who’s officially behind the creation of this blog was trying to switch to a new server, then the service provider decided it would try to charge $150 a month to use it… it was messy. Said guy gave me the scoop earlier this afternoon and it appears that the issues have been resolved! Yay, guy! (For the nosy ones out there who want to know who “guy” is, he’s the lord and master of cloudscout.com.)

So hopefully there won’t be any more problems in shawnbakken.com-Land. Or at least no more problems than usual. (And yes, I know that Season 3 of Beauty & the Geek started yesterday—I’ll try to write something soon.)