The Death of Sirsha.com
At some point around 2000/2001 I finally bought my personal domain name sirshannon.com and started playing around on it. I was already working as a web developer but was mostly working locally and on other people’s domains. Sirshannon.com has been through many incarnations but I realized early on that I would need a “business” domain in order to have a site that I could direct potential clients or employers to because I had no plans on making sure sirshannon.com was “work safe”.
I eventually came up with sirsha.com as my “business” domain. I basically separated my online identity into 2 personalities: a work-safe, technology-oriented side (”Sirsha”) and the NSFW “personal” side (”sirshannon”). There was a blog on each site, among various other things that would come and go as interest and time varied. This separation worked for me because, theoretically, I could drop f-bombs all day on sirshannon.com but still have sirsha.com to show off my geek credentials to anyone who might need my professional services. It was a bit of a pain sometimes because things like music software sat firmly between both business and personal. I had to stick to the plan, however, because I was working as a freelance developer and consultant and there is no way I would direct a potential client to sirshannon.com, which contained such gems as “The Hooker With The Heart of Gold” (spoiler alert: I killed her and sold the heart for crack). Sirsha and sirsha.com were vehicles that allowed me to meet many great developers, learn a lot, and share a little knowledge. If it was an experiment, then it succeeded completely.
And then, in late 2004, I took a full-time job. This drastically cut down on the amount of tech blogging I would do on sirsha.com because my free time was reduced and because I refuse to blog about code I write at work. So my interest and investment in sirsha.com because less and less. In addition to that, my job is in an adult-oriented industry so there is no reason to refrain from dropping f-bombs these days 
Perhaps in the future I’ll have to try to pretend this job didn’t happen but for now, there is almost no reason to “hide” behind sirsha.com.
And then, several months ago, my web server harddrive failed. I have old backups but not a current one, so setting everything up again would be a lot of work for incomplete results. So I decided to cancel that web server contract and outsource my hosting for the most part. One day I’ll either have all my domains set back up on hosted web app services or canceled completely. Wordpress and other platforms are so easy to set up, I don’t see much of a reason to write my own platforms anymore, or use one that is too much trouble for too little benefit (like sirsha.com’s last platform, Community Server). I’m never going to write the next great blogging platform or CMS so why not use the currect greatest ones? Maybe I’m just getting old, but I think I’m getting wiser 
One day I may have sirsha.com’s content available again, either on wordpress or some other platform, archived for the ages, but for now, sirsha.com will direct to this page. Consider it a tombstone. Or a plaque outside a cryogenic chamber.
For those of you that don’t mind non-tech posts and opinions, along with some f-bombs on occasion, please stick around. For those who do mind such things, thanks for reading sirsha.com in the past, I hope we learned a little from each other along the way.
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