Seasonal Plume

Phew, seasonalplume.net (the domain) is finally back! It propagated sometime last night while I was sleeping, but I’d been too swamped in the office to comment about it. You can still see this website via the indisguise.org address, but now my real domain is back in action. I’m happy. Those two days were absolutely nerve-wracking.

But naturally those two days isn’t a complete waste: it spurred me on to re-evaluate Seasonal Plume, specifically its contents and architecture, the way it’s served (and designed). Of my three blogs, I suppose Seasonal Plume is the most “hazy” — even with tacking on the “writing and literary blog” handle to it, one might say I’ve always been trying to feel the waters and find the best Seasonal Plume reincarnation. Let’s face it: friends will read my haphazard rambling at my journal, and users of my scripts will always take a peek now and then at my scripts archive; but writing? And someone who doesn’t have 39857394562 bestsellers already published?

Those two things have been in my mind a lot more frequently over the last two months. One might say that I just need to read the 872398435 articles on “how to blog effectively” and “5872985679 tips on blogging” or whatever else the Internet spews out of its (significant) mouth; and I actually have. But I guess, coming from a time when the blogging phenomenon was juuuuust starting, I’m a little old-fashioned in the sense that I need more than just a blog in my website. A blog is a blog is a blog, but what about the content? (*hides from other bloggers*)

That’s why I kept fluctuating between a “regular-style” blog (like the Blue Semi-colons theme and the Wet Sponge theme), and a “blog-style” blog (like this one right now). That’s why I never seem to know exactly what to write here (it’s already complicated by having two other blogs after all).

The forced downtime of my domain somehow triggered a few decisions within me, and now I have an actual direction. It will take a bit of time before these soopersekrit plans actually take place, as I’m still laying everything out (plus I don’t think I should change my blog’s design just yet). I’m rather content about the decisions/plans I’ve come up with, though, so yay for that.

Angela is a klutz and a half. Seasonalplume.net (the domain) was registered for me by a friend a long time ago (2003) and I have always forgotten to get it transferred over to the registrar I use. Thus, I was quite unaware that it was due to expire…so now the domain has expired. Even though my email address is listed in the WHOIS, I have no idea why the registrar didn’t even contact me regarding the coming expiration of my domain. Talk about annoying. I’m a bit panicky and a bit sheepish over this turn of events (what great timing!) and I’m trying to rectify it; hopefully my friend’s registrar has domain name holding and can get it back for me soon. (After which, I’m really marking it up in my calendar to get it transferred over!)

I don’t know what this means to Seasonal Plume’s finalist status over at The 2007 Philippine Blog Awards. I’ve commented to let them know about my domain problems, and there’s nothing to do but wait and see what happens… I hope this doesn’t spell a disqualification. :(