**Does a major happy dance**
Many moons ago, when I was in high school, I had the coolest email address on the planet. antieuclid at therantinggeek.com. I registered the domain name mostly because I wanted the email address, but once I had it I also starting experimenting with HTML. And with getting other people to do mySQL for me so I could set up forums. (Thanks, confuseacat .) I had a website there for probably about a year before I switched to LJ because it was so much easier than doing everything myself in HTML. My LJ tagline has remained "It turns out that LiveJournal is easier than a real webpage" ever since.
This week, as I was working on closing up shop at SakinaNeedles, I found myself thinking about getting back into non-LJ blogging, and actually doing something with wileysherer.com. But because I'm still not good enough with mySQL and php to update the old installation of wordpress clogging it up, I decided to see what else was out there. And to my simultaneous surprise and lack of surprise, no one else had scooped up therantinggeek.com in the four years or so since I let it lapse. So I decided to splurge on the $7 to register it myself.
With the advances in web software since I was in high school, LJ is no longer easier than a real web page. Wordpress has a lot of features that LJ doesn't, and is rather less associated with fanfiction porn in the broader blogosphere. So after this post, I'm taking this journal friends-only. I still really like LJ for keeping in touch with friends and the many useful comms, but I'm taking my non-personal writing over to TheRantingGeek. There's nothing there at the moment, but if you subscribe to the RSS feed you'll be able to see when it's up and running. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
This week, as I was working on closing up shop at SakinaNeedles, I found myself thinking about getting back into non-LJ blogging, and actually doing something with wileysherer.com. But because I'm still not good enough with mySQL and php to update the old installation of wordpress clogging it up, I decided to see what else was out there. And to my simultaneous surprise and lack of surprise, no one else had scooped up therantinggeek.com in the four years or so since I let it lapse. So I decided to splurge on the $7 to register it myself.
With the advances in web software since I was in high school, LJ is no longer easier than a real web page. Wordpress has a lot of features that LJ doesn't, and is rather less associated with fanfiction porn in the broader blogosphere. So after this post, I'm taking this journal friends-only. I still really like LJ for keeping in touch with friends and the many useful comms, but I'm taking my non-personal writing over to TheRantingGeek. There's nothing there at the moment, but if you subscribe to the RSS feed you'll be able to see when it's up and running. So long, and thanks for all the fish.