Holy Carp indeed

Born out of a series of failed attempts is what I would call this. At first, it was the initial surge in creativity to abandon the Friendster blog and to create a website, ethnicscrap.com it would be called, an extravaganza that would include a weekly webcomic, an outlet of my (mediocre) comedic talents, also serving as a blog, image and file repository, holy cow this would be awesome! (aaaand that lasted all of 2 and a half days)

Alas, good old Procrastination took over, and it threw a whole slew of reasons for me not to continue. "The cost of hostname registration and website hosting" it said. Hostname registration being 20 bucks for a year and the cheapest host I could find was $3/month, which wasn't too bad, but there was this whole deal of "moving" that I have to deal with in 3 months time (oops! I shouldn't have said that! Eh, fuck it, it's not like people don't know now eh?) and the offer was only available to North American residents.

So, I came up with the half-assed solution of setting up my own PC as a server and hosting the site from there (not really my PC per se, actually used a VM running Linux within Windows, now thats ghetto) and with the help of no-ip.com, the site ethnicscrap.servebeer.com was created. A lucky few were even able to view the inital test page. But then, I realized my PC would have to be turned on perpetually, and being the energy conscious and environment friendly person I am, (pause as birds chirping birds flutter onto my shoulders and a sun rises over a hill behind me) that just doesn't fly. As if on cue, every other reason I could think of suddenly materialized within my reach; Having to learn html, php, MySQL, Perl, etc, etc, design issues, time, plus the fact that my comic illustrator leaves the fucking country, it was time to go to an automated system.

And that is how this was born. The Friendster blog, useful in the way that it would alert my "friends" whenever it had updated, was pretty useless since hardly any of my "friends" log on anymore. Also, the fact that they now put ads and deleted half my posts, limited customization, etc, fuck that.

I'm pretty sure, like all of my other endeavors, this blog will die a slow but sure death, at the beginning brimming with enthusiasm and hope, slowly spiraling into a stagnant pool of creative writing decay.