Archive for the 'Geekery' Category


Someone Has Stolen Our Name!

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Hi guys!

Thanks for bearing with us while the site has been offline. Our previous domain registrar didn’t inform me when our domain was about to expire so… well… it expired. Our choice at that point was either to pay them $40 to bring it back to life before it was removed from all records (it costs me $3 per YEAR to have it), or wait 35 days for it to be removed. We chose to wait.

Today was the day when hannen.info was removed. As soon as I got a chance, I eagerly went to re-register it… only to find that it had been snapped up 15 minutes earlier by someone who is trying to auction it off. GAH!

So now we’re on hannenfamily.info, and you all know why.

Death of a Friend (Not a Person)

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Last night, it was determined by the post-mortem investigatory team (me) that this Tuesday, as we sat through a horrible storm at the about-to-be-cancelled Def Leppard/Styx/Foreigner concert, a friend of mine was experiencing injury so grievous it would lead to their death two days later. That friend was my Linksys WRT54G version 2.

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