I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

Because I wanted a better way of organizing my links collection, I joined Pinboard this year... and then I discovered Shaarli, a web application which allows one to organize and tag bookmarks on one's own web server. So I installed that on my site links page and haven't looked back; I love it.

But that left me with a Pinboard account I wasn't using, because all my general bookmarks were being organized with Shaarli on my own site.
So I decided to dedicate my Pinboard account to fanfic links instead, because that's how a lot of people use theirs. So go to http://pinboard.in/u:kerravonsen to see!

This collection of links is NOT the same as for my Net-Fic Reviews. They overlap, but they aren't exactly the same.
( explain the difference between my Net-Fic reviews and my Pinboard links collection )

So there you have it. I hope people find my Pinboard fanfic links collection useful.

I have gotten impatient with waiting for everything to be perfect with the changeover of my site www.katspace.org from a hybrid static-plus-PmWiki site over to everything being under ikiwiki, so I've changed it over now. I don't think anything major is missing, but if things are missing or strange, do let me know.
The new site should run a lot faster (slower to update, faster to display).

And the Updates mailing list is up and running again too, so if you want to be notified of updates to my site, do subscribe to it. All the old subscriber info got lost when my mailing lists got wiped last year, so any interested people will need to re-subscribe (yes, astrogirl2, this means you).

I've decided to remove the list-topics because the updates aren't all that often, and it's hard to remember what all the different topics are.

I have just been battling with my old hosting company. The one where katspace.net was hosted. Problem is, last year, someone the stole the katspace.net domain underneath me. I was certain I had renewed it, but apparently I hadn't. So someone else has my domain. I didn't do anything about it at the time, since katspace.org still works fine, and I have more control over it.
However I thought my old account might be good to use as a backup site. And I thought that all I'd have to do would be to buy a different domain and use that instead. So tonight I finally did that, logged into my hosting account, bought a new domain through their "buy a new domain" thing, and then couldn't find anything in the site to configure it, apart from a "point domain" thing, which would point my new domain to my old domain - the katspace.net domain which I no longer own.

So I raised a support request. I had hopeful expectations, since they had been really helpful with support in the past.

Unfortunately, I got a jobsworth, who basically said "we can't do that, we can't do this, we can't do the other". They can't change my domain. In order to do that, I have to cancel my account and register a new account. But the account type that I have is no longer available (and it is a good account, I pay a small amount each year for it, rather than paying monthly). And, no, they won't let me keep it. And "no, you can't point your new domain to an IP address, the registrar we work with won't let you do that".

So, I have a choice of losing my account, or losing my domain.

It's enough to make me start using foul language. Bastards!

ETA: I managed to extract my IP address there from them, and it occurred to me that I could use a sub-domain of katspace.org to point to that IP address, so I don't actually need a new domain name after all. I have set that in motion, so I will check tomorrow if http://too.katspace.org/ is live.

I have now set up a mailing list for announcing updates to my site, http://www.katspace.org/, and even better, I've done a script which will scrape the list archive to give the current month's updates announcements on the original "updates" page, which I used to have to create half by hand. I am pleased.

Anyone who's actually interested in updates to my site can now subscribe here. It's even got Topics, so one doesn't have to get all the update notices, not that there's that many.