to the blag. the move has gone through and let’s cross our fingers and home that this works. after two years, it seems that my old hosting comany sorta crapped out. i think i also out grew the old hosting plan, so i got a big bad plan at dream host. i totally like them so far. thanks mike for the tip. (where’s the neon?)

so now that the blog is alive and healty, expect new cool postings, like the big king dork contest. that will be announced/revealed later this week, but it has to do with the chi-mos, so start thinking.

other than that, check out kendrak.com proper and see something awesome that hellen drew way back.

today is the 20th anniversary of chernobyl. it’s also my friend neil’s 25th birthday. (he’s a bit cross with me now because i thought it was monday.) i should have remembered that his birthday was the same day as the chernobyl disaster because his family is deeply involved with belarus aid, a british organisation that provides humanitarian aid to belarus for over a decade. neil’s going there this summer to help repair hospitals and orphanages. i think that’s really fantastic.

this may be the last sign of life on this site for a few days… maybe a week? last night dickens and i started backing up everything on this site and will start moving it over to the new place. unfortunately the current hosting company doesn’t offer all the awesome features to make this a simple thing, but we’ll work through it.

see here? my five copies of king dork finally arrived here today. i don’t actually need five copies. (i alone am the reason it’s #246 on amazon for book, #8 for teens.) the one i have at home will suffice. so what to do with the rest? one goes to my parents, one goes to my 13 year old cousin because it’s never too soon to learn about the who, sweet, and ac/dc, and as for the other three? i’m at a loss. i’ll probably loan one to my coworker who still can’t believe i know somebody who has a real honest to god published book. i showed him the books when i opened the box and he said, “wow. that looks like they come from a real publisher.” “yeah,” i said, “from a random house imprint.” he then said, “i guess that’s as real as it gets.” he’s not a fan of sweet and thinks “fox on the run” is overplayed (by people other than me.)

as for all the other books… there will most likely be a contest on the blog when i fix it, so stay tuned.

and on news of the blog front, i finally got my new space at dream host. it’s now just a matter of backing up and transfering. i may or may not get a new blogging program. mt has been fine so far. word press looked good when i thought sixapart abanadoned free mt, but well… who knows.

holla if you’d like a book.

allright. i think i’m going to make the big swithc-a-roo. i’ll probably go to dream host with their “crazy domain insane” level of hosting. i was leaning towards jaguar pc for the lazy reason that they’ll transfer everything over for me. that’s a pretty lame reason though. so yeah, i’ll probably sign up today to get started as soon as possible. if anybody has a dreamhost account and wants half of the outrageously generous referall fee, i’ll take the other half in neon lights for my super awesome neon computer.

last night, the wonderman known as “dickens” found my customer number for go daddy so i could try to retrieve my password. i needed to be able to login there to have my domain point to my new hosting provider (when i find one…). the problem was, to reset the password, i needed to login to dork.com which deleted my account since i didn’t re-up the $15 for two years. something of a pickle, yeah?

then i started searching through an old archive of all my olf emails from dork.com which was pretty much a daunting 75MB of crap. that didn’t turn up squat, but dickens, being the genius he is, wondered if i used another email account. so he looking in my berkeley mail, and i apparently forwarded all that info there. so i got the number!

then i tried to retrieve the password. i got the password hint- “water auf deutsch” and not a single combination of wasser with @, 5, and 3 added in the obvious places worked. that’s when dickens suggest i call the godaddy tech support, which some how escaped me until then. “steve” was great help. he changed my contact email so i could change my password in less than 5 minutes. this time i wrote everything down, and hopefully i won’t forget it. back ups and all that stuff. i also renewed my registration of kendrak.com for another 4 years- good through january 2011!

so once i finally settle on a new hosting provider (who offers ssh), i’ll transfer and this blog will be alive again. god. all this techinical whinging is dead dull and sorta geeky.

off to calday. boooo. check out my guinea pig’s but:

there was a picture of a garen gnome here since my blog was broken, but i didn’t actually host it myself. the person who was hosting asked me to take it down, once an only once, through a comment, and so i did. i never want people to think that i’m anti-gnome or anything, cos i love them.

i guess kevin seconds finally found my post about the tiff between him and heckasac a month later. i guess everything flared up for a moment, but whatever. aren’t referral logs great? i’ve nothing really to add, so i won’t.

as for better things, i was suprised that jason, the zenformation professional, recommended my free advice. thanks! for a second i thought i’d been rumbled by the man, but thankfully i haven’t been asked to stop… yet. isn’t it a great time to have a busted blog?

you’ve probably noticed thatmy site’s been buggy. there’s some sql issues and well, the comments are sorta broken which broke the whole blog. untill it’s sorted, there will be no comments. i’m also planning to move to a new host with more space, so keep the peepers peeped.