This is the one with my blank slate.

Posted January 21st, 2009 by Mike Lawson

Changes are coming.

When GoDaddy raped me and stole my money a few weeks ago (CAUTION: NEVER USE GODADDY), and when all of my content was lost, I received this strange gift: a blank slate.

In the past I’ve lost focus of what I wanted to do with this website, and that is to simply tell stories.  I may occasionally post a kid using his middle finger or a random Photoshop project, but I’m going back to why I started WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com.

This is a storytelling blog.

I’m still upset that I lost all of my content.  Especially those 11 posts that were bringing in hundreds of Stumbleupon users and Google searchers each day.  Since the screw-up that is entirely GoDaddy’s fault, I have had trouble getting back into the groove.  How do you start writing the third act when you know you just lost your first two in a technical hiccup?

But I’m moving past that.

I have created a backup system of my database that is emailed to me every night in case GoDaddy screws something up again.  And I’m doing a little editing of the design here too.