I could've known...
Exactly one year ago I had this glitch in the continuity of the domainname of this site…
So guess what happened today? This domain expired… and is renewed back again… But stoopid me, I had to find out the hard way… that is, waking up, putting my IM on and getting a message like “what happened to your domain!!!???!!!” “uh?”
Ah well, somehow it all seems to be part of this site… This stuff happens on privately owned and run servers/sites/domains etc. I guess…
But I’m already done with the charm of it all, now let’s get these glitches out of the system! ;-)
and talking about some charming downtime… I won’t get better than a couple of years ago, when this site was running on a little SGI in a spare bedroom of a friends house… when at one night, somebody (I don’t have to tell you this was a girl, right?) slept in that spare bedroom and she was looking for a wall-socket so she could charge her cellphone…guess which plug she pulled… *^_^*
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“guess which plug she pulled” ...imagine that haha
yup, the message ’ what happened to your domain?! ’ was mine :D
Ooh! You got Nijn0rized!!!
“i don’t have to tell you this was a girl”??
well, i WAS going to put you on my rss reader and now i won’t.
i suppose it’s not much of a threat to you, to have one less geek girl read your posts, but come on – if anyone wants girls to geek freely you have to STOP with these remarks already!
so okay, i’m a geek so i won’t pull any plugs like that. but when you assume that anyone doing anything stupid must be similar to me – that doesn’t make me an equal member of the geek world.
think about it.
wow, hey, it was a joke, alright?
next to that, this is what truly happened and it was a girl, not a geek-girl. Imho geek-girls are equal in the geek world. And when you geek properly you will get all the respect from the guys. So there.
I wrote another reply to your email, but I think there’s one part that should appear here as well:
What do you (Mark and others here) think about writing this line in a blog entry?
“I got mugged the other day. I don’t have to tell you it was by a black person, right?”
I’m not saying jokes are evil. Some jokes are good. Some chauvinist jokes are excellent, in fact. Not all of them are good though – this one wasn’t. Plus, it helps conserve a stereotype we don’t like (just a bit, okay, but still).
>“I got mugged the other day. I don’t have to tell you it was by a black person, right?”
Well, imho you’re majorly overreacting here… You pull racism and crime into the conversation while all what happened was a girl who, totally clueless, pulled a plug in a spare bedroom which happened to bring my server and this site down.
In another way, when someone would say about me “the guy couldn’t dance, do I have to tell you he was white?”, I’m not offended at all.
I really can’t understand why you are offended by this whole thing, it’s not about you and I think your plan to defend all girls online is maybe a little on the big side, don’t you think? Next to that, the girl who pulled that plug most obviously wasn’t a geek-girl and you are, so what’s your connection there and why do you feel so offended about it?