Getting Personal

I’ve had this blog for a long time now and its focus originally was to be about new thoughts or ideas I was having. However over the years it hasn’t been used very much. There have been some years where I only had one or two entries. I’m tired of seeing this site sit here barely used. One of the reasons it has been so sparse is because most of my thoughts ended up being posted in my Livejournal instead, where I had a small captive audience for a number of years. Well, I pretty much stopped using my livejournal at the beginning of 2008 for various reasons and took a good six months off of blogging anything. Now I decided I want to get back into it, but rather then return to my livejournal, I want to focus on this site as my personal website. A place for me as a whole and not just my ideas, but all my thoughts and emotions.

That said, about six months to a year ago I took a vow not to get too personal on the internet anymore. Which translates to “don’t talk shit about anyone online anymore, journal or not, if someone else can read it, don’t write it”. But I went a little too far and scared myself away from writing about anything personal. So I decided I would start again, this time without getting too in depth about things and just talking about feelings in general. I started a new category on this website called “personal” and I’m going to fill it with entries about my feelings and life situations.

So here I am. Roxics.com reborn.

Welcome Back 2007

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this site. The year 2006 pretty much just flew by without me even really taking a look at this website, and 2005 was nearly the same.

Well I don’t plan to avoid this site in 2007. To be honest I’ve been posting a lot but I’ve just been doing it in my Livejournal where I have a captive audience of friends (readers). They read what I write (sometimes) because it’s on their “friends page” along with the entries from their other friends. To that end Livejournal has been a staple to my group of friends for over a half decade now. We all use it to keep up on each others daily/weekly lives. And now that we are spread all over the country it makes even more sense. That’s one of the things I really enjoy about Livejournal, the community aspect. People by nature are kind of greedy or at least require attention. Most people want other people to read their stuff when they write it. But the problem with blogs that exist on private websites is that you usually have to remember to visit that site, and unless it’s really compelling most people don’t. But with Livejournal everyones blogs are in the same place, all interconnected. So viewing your “friends page” will show you updated entries from all your friends without having to visit fifty different websites. Sure blogs can do similar things but you have to be more tech savy and pay for your own hosting.
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It’s Back

I got the Roxics.com domain name back. Somehow by some great act or kindness, company policy or just miracle of God. I don’t know. All I know is I sent and email askign waht it would cost me to get it back and got a replay saying it was back in my account. So I checked and sure enough it was. I renewed it right away.

It’s going to take a few days to get it set up again, but it will be back. Either just forwarded to here or as a new an extended alternate version of this site.

Gone are the old days

Unfortunately I lost the roxics.com web site address. I owned it for four years and all was fine and good. Then this past year I stopped using hotmail and switched to gmail as my primary email account. It’s been a good while since this switch and I’ve found I only check my hotmail now about once a month. However my Dotster (my old domain register) still had my old hotmail address and sent my reminder to renew email to there. I didn’t get it in time. The domain went public and someone else bought it. It’s unfortuante. Who would buy it that quick. It can only be a cold hearted cybersquatter who wants nothing more then to just put up some stupid search page and try to makes pennies off of it. It should be illegal to do that.

Now I had to register roxics.net in it’s place. I will register all my domains for 10 years now. Just to make sure.

People are telling me they like the .net better. I hope so, it’s what I’ve got.

It’s not like the domain name meant lot to other people. But it did to me. I invented the word roxics. It was the name of a character in a story I’ve been writing for half my life. I adopted that characters name as my online identity and call sign for the last 5-6 years. It’s a sentimental thing. My calling card. Now I don’t even own the .com to it anymore. It just irks me to no end somebody would come along and grab it up that quick just because.

Ok I’m done bitching. Please forget about the dot com address. Never visit it again. By visiting it you’re only enabling the company/person who grabbed it into thinking they did the right thing because people will visit it and they’ll make money off that. So forget about the dot com. The dot net it where it’s at now. Tell everyone abotu roxics.net.

Welcome to Roxics.com

Welcome to the new site. Here we’ll explore ideas and concepts through opinions, commentaries and however else we feel like doing it.