I have a bit of a hard time justifying to myself the fact that this site is more or less 6 years old by now, that hard part isn’t accepting its existence, it’s accepting that I haven’t been hunted down and shot yet.

Initially the site was just an experiment into my long time friends/overseers Gorman and iMike’s new website “Modblog” to see what it could offer, and with my astonishingly strange memory (think photographic but with very cheap film constructed from disposable Band-Aids) I can even recall the very day I sat in computer class signing up for the account and putting the first lame joke in what would become a rather smelly footnote of internet history.

Although I can’t exactly remember what that joke was about I’m sure it involved faeces of some sort and you can be assured that it caused all sorts of prepubescent giggles in its wake.

I wasn’t alone though, several of my friends/potentialgangmembers (at my school everyone was a potential gang member) spotted me signing up and found the prospects of writing about poo publically far too good to pass up leading them to sign up accounts and set up site’s or “blogs” (oh how I think that word is overused and cringe every time I’m forced to utter it) of their own.

As time went by modblog grew and so did my peni- I m-mean so did I. My friend’s blogs generally wasted into lyrics from their favourite rappers, car pictures and the occasional entry about me doing something stupid in person (as I recall I once ran away from 2 particularly violent friends afterschool by climbing up a 3 foot tall tree – a plan that, in retrospect, wasn’t very well thought through) while mine firmly rotted into a fine bastion of retarded humour the internet would learn to fear!

Of course I too was initially guilty of writing about my general life (as I am nowadays because frightfully that’s what seems to get the most response out of you munchkins) but after being inspired by an odd thought involving a rapping piece of advertising broccoli I managed to spew out what would be the very first ramble! This process slowly evolved and I started drawing a few basic images to go with the stories hoping that they would distract from the……unique…….quality of my writing.

After a while into it I actually hit my peak (About the time I met Taro and Rob Pongi – In fact I’d “blame” them for my success at that point) and had a point where a single day didn’t go by without getting over 2000 visitors (in comparison 2 visitors a day now is HUZZAH! material) per day. Then things slowly grinded to a halt and in an odd attempt to revive the site aaaand improve my drawing skills I started the Slacker Syndicate comic series with my friend-at-the-time Odie.

Not long into the series though me and Odie had a bit of a conflict of interest and I was abandoned into the abyssal reaches of SOLO-COMICing! It wasn’t really so bad considering I wrote almost every single comic up to that point myself but the loneliness of it was a little…..sobering.

Just as I was gaining steam my host and home on the internets (modblog for those of you just tuning in) found itself a victim of its own success.  The site was sold to Filefront which didn’t sound so bad when we all heard it meant no ads and lots of funding, unfortunately they were about as good at keeping promises as mayonnaise is at fuelling space shuttles.

Within a few months of purchase the image server went down and 79,999 users were left with a rather butchered looking site. I escaped the fury however by getting another friend of mine (st;l;st – but do I really have to keep name dropping in this entry?!?) to host all my images on a small server of his thereby ensuring a lovely few months of random people asking me “WHY DO YOUR IMAGES WOREK?!?! WHY?!?!?!?”.

Most of the time you’d figure the image server would be brought back pretty fast but in this case my use of the word “months” was more of an understatement than anything. Time and time again filefront promised to replace the faulty hardware only to change their minds at the last moment and make Gorman (who took the role of PR at that point) look like a lying naughty poo to the rather distraught user base in the process.

Eventually the site where I had met a great deal of important people in my life faded away into complete non-existence and by 2006 I was up and running at the address you find yourselves at right now thanks to an ex-modblogger (Elessarrr) with the strangest of desires to see my content live on.

P.S.

I don’t know why I wrote this entry, I never know why I write any entry for that matter. Call me a sentimental bitch, but only if you slap me around a little first.

P.P.S.

In the ever expanding strangenessesss of the universe I somehow found myself lucky enough to pass my Network+ exam. Now I begin the final (but longest) series of exams to get my MCITP:SA AND EA.

P.P.P.S.

One of my brothers (the one who hates me less) gave me explicit instructions NOT to announce that he’s pregnant on this site.

So I won’t.