The end of an era

Way back in the early 00's -- back before "turists," environmental concerns, and the Stanley Cup going going to sub-tropical locales; before bar trivia, gmail, and 10-year high school reunions; before Facebook, iPods, and clicheed lists meant to invoke pathos -- I registered a domain. For free. Along with a bunch of my friends, we managed to register the most obscure and surreal thoughts that passed our minds.

This was before 'old' Blogger, MySpace, and Livejournal, remember.

Half the fun of going in to work was to see what other people were going to post. By "post," I mean "edit the HTML in Notepad at work," since none of us were advanced enough to design a mechanism that allowed us to easily update our domains without getting into the nuts-and-bolts of opening and closing tags.

Now, six years later, my original domain name is about to be released from my control.

Lokiseven.com, and all the notoreity around it, will revert to the nethers from which it came. To be fair, it has only really acted as a mirror to this blog, but it did allow me the opportunity to explain that my e-mail address was madbomber@lokiseven.com -- much to the chagrin of anyone old enough to remember the individual who planted small pipe bombs on PEI in the late '90s.

I can only hope that whoever gains control of it understands the significance of it. Or, like the squatter who registered my other original domain, have no idea whatsoever.

(And yes, for the record, this site is not going away. I just take a long time to post things now.)