The (Re)Birth of a Blog
My domain name and my hosting package was due for renewal a few days ago and being a bit skint I decided to just let it die a dignified death. I know I have not been very active in the posting deptartment but that has all changed now.
You see, I was in a bar in Mombassa the other day and who should stumble in but My Pal Ron. It has been a few years since I saw him last. Ron was one of the best. Years of whiskey and being on the run clearly has taken it’s toll on him. We spoke of old times and shared a bottle. We joked about the running gun battles in Belfast and the riots we incited in Cyprus. We laughed about all African nations we helped destablize. Eventually our talk moved to the internet and I mentioned that I was letting my blog go because I couldn’t afford the domain and hosting costs. It was at this point that the old RonI knew started to peek through.
He had an idea.
We left the bar and went to a small discreet internet cafe. There he hacked logged into my hosting account and was able to back up all my files as well as doing a database dump. Since my blog was hosted in Bulgaria Ron thought it best if it remained in Europeland. Less oversight than some other places. We considered putting it on some NATO servers in Germany and maybe a financial company in London but finally decided on a small server farm in Dublin. In this way there is less of a chance of being found out. We were able to rewrite the logs so as to cover our tracks.
Now came the hard part. We had to figure out how to get my domain name away from the Bulgarians and register it under a false name in a quiet and out of the way place. Ireland! Nobody would ever think to look for me there. After considering a small company in the Basque region of Spain we found the perfect patsy. It is a small software development company co-owned by Sharon Ní Bheoláin and Willie O’Dea. We paid for it with a credit card that Ron stole picked up from a Canadian couple he met in Oslo.
So Rantings Diversified shall continue into the future and I’ll pay more attention to posting.
You’ll see.
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Bloody hell!! So Ron is still around? I thought I had killed him?
So he saved your site from a fate worse than death? He was of some use to society after all.
I expect to see a lot more activity here from now on……….
I hear Ron’s been very busy acting as the Easter Bunny’s stunt double lately… I’m glad to hear he’s back to his old tricks again. That flamethrower debacle had me worried.
Woot! My bud is back! Kudos to Ron.
Grandad, Apparently you got him good. He spent almost 6 months in hospital. You’ll see I’m back to blogging.
K8, Ron thinks he’s getting too old for the Easter Bunny Stunt Double gig. Oh and as to the Flamethrower thing, he didn’t want to talk about his time in China.
JD, WooHoo!