Serendipita

Google turns ten and brings back their oldest available index, which is from 2001. If you search for my first name now, Andrea Electronics is the first hit. A search for my first name back in 2001 shows that back then a little weblog apparently was more popular than the electronics company. Ah, the good old times, back when most people didn’t even know what weblogs were…

This reminds me of some of the old-timers who have since disappeared… remember Behind the Curtain? Hi Alwin Hawkins, John van Dyk, Mike Donellan, Jeff Cheney, Netdyslexen et al! Any of you guys still around?

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Ahem. It seems that my site was down today because I didn’t renew the registration. My e-mail app considered the reminders from my registrar as spam and apparently transferred them to my junk folder automatically. Only after I realized just now that the domain expired yesterday did I find the last reminder still in the junk folder.

I just renewed the domain and have to praise my registrar, gandi.net, because serendipita.org showed up again less than five minutes after I paid the fee by credit card. Great service!

And I set up my e-mail app to not consider their messages as junk from now on.

André was kind enough to upgrade my weblog to the latest version of WordPress. Since my template looked too much like autumn anyway I decided to update that as well. Hope you like the new look! And let me know if something is wonky, looks weird or doesn’t work as it should.