Letting Go...

Once upon a time I had a website. Actually a few websites. There was the old picture site on DotMac. And the new picture site on DotMac. There was the "Roamfi" site - a legacy from a startup that we ALMOST made happen... and there was my PPGWAVE site.

Of all of them, my PPG site was the oldest - it was never more than a parking spot on the web for one of my beloved aliases, named after the blue german synths used by Propaganda, Frankie, Alphaville, Depeche Mode, and others. I had no actual info on those synths (though there was a link to some info)... no, it was just my spot on the web with a picture and a few sub-pages of MP3 files of my music (most recently updated in 2003 I believe).

Sometime 2+ years ago, I lost all of the files pertaining to the maintenance of that site, and never got around to rebuilding it, so it was just not being updated. I know I could have re-loaded it, but it never seemed to be a priority. There were a few email boxes out on that site that I hadn't checked for several years either... so I can only imagine what amazing offers of replica watches and cialis await me in there.

Well, I've let the site expire finally. A visit to ppgwave.com will not net you a happy result. I decided that if anything, THIS is my true footprint on the web: People who know me will come here, and I'll let you know what is what. The only reason I bring it up is that I had linked to that site's picture for my picture, and for a few days it's been a "?" instead. So I reloaded a picture (not the exact same one, but from the same 5 minute session).

I had a similar thing happen when I sold off Klangworks.com over 5 years ago: It was an admission that I'm really not doing this jingle music thing full time, that my calling lies elsewhere... It's funny how the web is so temporary sometimes. I need to remember to take this blog's entries and cache them offline somewhere so that Bella and Isaac have some other record of my life should Google decide one day to completely pack up and disappear...!