Archive for February, 2007

Let me start by saying that if you have a personal website (or even company/business) that you have kept for years and decide you no longer want to keep it up…I would advise you to try and keep the Domain name for whatever paltry sum a year you have to pay.

Take my case for instance: A company that grabs up dropped Domain names has been using my old website address of tyronebcookin.com (please don’t click it, or go to it…they won’t give me any of the money they have earned off of my free traffic I created and left for them) and use it for more advertisements and sales. Yes, it may be my fault for dropping it but little did I know anyone would ever want that Domain name for their selves! Even out of all the Billions of people on the earth!

Think about it. You have created, wrote, linked all kinds of things to your website over the years and these things are still out there in Archives, Forums, etcetera…you get the picture now? All these links are still out there creating traffic for ‘them’ not you. And if you try to get it back you may get a nice email back like I did, ‘for an administration fee of $900 you can have it back’. When I replied by saying it was not worth it to me because it was just a ‘personal’ website they still encouraged me to give an offer!

Now, as life has brought about all new joys to me in the past year alone, I am ready to branch out again with another website for friends and family that will take them all away from the ads, clicks, and links that bog them down and discourage them from being Internet savvy(because I have been using a lot of ‘free’ stuff that is good in a sense, but then again makes everyone else ‘pay’ the price to keep in touch/up-to-date with me).

I am going to start with a new Domain name (which is good and moves along with the rest of my life) but if I had at least kept the old domain name I could put all my archived material there for access, kept my traffic for old & new friends and family alike, and/or push them to my new sight(and even use a redirect off of that old Domain name). Because most hosting companies will keep multiple Domains for you on your hosting plan at no additional charge.

You may say, ‘why not just use a different dot suffix like .net, .org, .info?’. Why? Because it doesn’t link me to any old connections that are out there and it confuses your old group of visitors. They get frustrated. No it is better that you move along with something equally as simple and easy to remember.

For example: I am married now (after my last website) so most people would know that we are Tyrone and Stephanie…so it made sense for my new website (which is not online yet but hopefully by 2/26/07) to be TyroneandStephanie.com. Because everyone will remember that is us, and most people usually want to stick a ‘.com’ on everything anyways. Now, after that, I can split the website into our own individual tastes and pages.

Please, even if it is just your personal website or past business (ecommerce) site…pay those few dollars every year to keep that Domain name so others will not profit off of you or cause difficulty for all the friends and family that have to suffer thru finding out on their own you no longer reside at that address (while being bombarded with sales/ads and confusion). And if you get a new address up and running, use the old to redirect to the new!

In West Africa…no airconditioning in the kitchen/galley. Mercy Ships, M/V Anastasis (ship)- Cotonou, Benin & Monrovia Liberia

Are you jealous?

Now you don’t have to use this brand, actually you probably have a comparable generic brand at your favorite grocery store…but these are the type canned biscuits I am using, jumbo flaky. But regular will do as well.

After opening the biscuits just smoosh one flat and fill it with a chunk of chocolate, some kind of jam, marshmallows w/graham crackers and chocolate, junks of your favorite candy bar, etc. I think you get the picture, then fold over filling and use a fork the crimp the ends down making the pregnant folded over biscuit look like a small empanada.

Bake at 350F till it looks golden brown and I am pretty sure the ‘filling’ will be good and melted/heated. YUM! Let it cool down a little…or follow the package instructions for the biscuits.

Yeah baby! MMmm, but lets think about savory for awhile…how about a few peperoni’s, mozzarella cheese, lil’ oregano…now that would be delicious too!

This concludes your cheap canned biscuit dessert. Until next time…think about donuts.