The site is back!
My site is back! After being absent for nearly a year, I finally got my site back up. Why was it gone you ask (or, even if you didn't)?
I switched from DSL to Cable, not considering that losing the free address provided by SBC might screw things up: specifically, when it stopped working my site stopped being renewed, and jasonskaare.com disappeared. This annoyed me, but I was busy, and didn't pay it much mind. I avoided paying enough mind to miss renewing my domain by a few days, and suddenly jasonskaare.com was the property of someone else.
No longer a half-hearted attempt to play around with design and throw up some photos, jasonskaare.com was now a list of links, taking you to anything that had "kaare" (apparently something Scandinavian?) or "Jason's" in the title.
I sent the new owner a sad note, pointing out that all of my friends and relatives knew this site, and pleading for my name back. I asked forgiveness and mercy for my stupidity, but didn't hear anything back. Surprisingly despondent (seriously! - it was amazing how sad it was to think you lost your name online forever), I gave up, and moved on.
A few months later, I randomly checked for the availability of jasonskaare.com, if only to see again how it was locked out for five years. Lo and behold, it was available, and inside of 15 minutes I had re-purchased it. I guess the new owner took pity - or at least apathy - on my name after all. And so, here is my site again! And - as always happens every few years - it has been updated with some new tricks and styling I have learned. Hopefully this version will last a few months before the coding behind it becomes hopelessly obsolete.
I switched from DSL to Cable, not considering that losing the free address provided by SBC might screw things up: specifically, when it stopped working my site stopped being renewed, and jasonskaare.com disappeared. This annoyed me, but I was busy, and didn't pay it much mind. I avoided paying enough mind to miss renewing my domain by a few days, and suddenly jasonskaare.com was the property of someone else.
No longer a half-hearted attempt to play around with design and throw up some photos, jasonskaare.com was now a list of links, taking you to anything that had "kaare" (apparently something Scandinavian?) or "Jason's" in the title.
I sent the new owner a sad note, pointing out that all of my friends and relatives knew this site, and pleading for my name back. I asked forgiveness and mercy for my stupidity, but didn't hear anything back. Surprisingly despondent (seriously! - it was amazing how sad it was to think you lost your name online forever), I gave up, and moved on.
A few months later, I randomly checked for the availability of jasonskaare.com, if only to see again how it was locked out for five years. Lo and behold, it was available, and inside of 15 minutes I had re-purchased it. I guess the new owner took pity - or at least apathy - on my name after all. And so, here is my site again! And - as always happens every few years - it has been updated with some new tricks and styling I have learned. Hopefully this version will last a few months before the coding behind it becomes hopelessly obsolete.
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