This Site & Online
Squirrelism dot net and the life before it
The domain was registered on 01st April 2006 and the site is hosted with Surpass Hosting. I’m aware that its name isn’t as spectacular as the good ol’ supersonicsquirrel.net was; but I still wanted the site to have sort of a smart name and since it’s so full of my ramblings and people used to call me squirrel, why not squirrelism? Later on, I found out that there is supposedly a religion called squirrelism? Either way, I did not have that in mind when I was creating this website.
Supersonicsquirrel.net was a rather popular personal site back in the days. I even used to host The Quilting Bee. Then, sometime in 2005, I just went a bit more quiet and there was a hiatus after hiatus after hiatus after…OK, I suppose you got it by now. The story behind that downfall and the long breaks is pretty much personal. Switch to Squirrelism.net resulted in many dead links, fall into obscurity and many people said it took them ages to find me again. And when they found me, I was probably rather boring: not willing to blog at all, not willing to re-make my famous online quizzes, not interested in any kind of pixeling and having removed all the games and interactive things from the site, as many people came up with almost the same stuff. As for my tutorials - the more I learned about web standards, proper coding and such, the more I hated them.
Second half of 2007 brought a bit of relief to my life but, at the same time, my work life got hectic and I didn’t have much time for this site once again. However, my friend Mira’s new personal site was a motivation for both of us to stop being slackers. The plan to blog at least twice a week was good and, right now, I’m reconsidering having some sort of visitors’ contents on the website.
Other sites on this domain
Silent Rain - my friend Marie’s personal site
Antwan The Swan - Mira’s long-term running shrine for Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chili Peppers fanlisting - owned by Mira and me, used to be official before a horrible screwup with my email which TFL.org had no mercy for. I actually don’t know why it’s here and not on my fanlistings domain.
My other pieces of work
Invisible Movement - an unofficial John Frusciante website. I refuse to call it a fansite, for reasons stated here. It’s not a manifactured piece of horrible code with epileptic design thrown together thanks to stuff stolen from god knows where, lyrics from search engines and agency pics, it’s a real website.
Flatout Blind - a little collection of fanlistings, that needs a major facelifting but I have not got around to doing it yet. However, all the fanlistings on it are fully operating.
On undefinied hiatus
Rhapsody In Green - a site dedicated to the memory of the pre-2002 German car/motorcycle racing track, Hockenheimring.
Me & web design
I started making websites back in 2000, which is pretty impressive considering that I did not have a computer at home. One of the contract worker’s at the museum my mother worked at said that web design would probably be appealing to me and I listened to his advice, so my very first website was born on 26th August that year. And yes, that was Daredevil Inside.
One year later, after I graduated from highschool and started the university, I thought that it would be nice to make a personal website. I opted for the name Dreams Are Hopeless Aspirations In Hopes Of Comin’ True, but that was way too long, so, I changed it to supersonic squirrel’s forest. During the following 10-12 months, I got introduced into the world of personal websites, cliques, fanlistings etc; and I noticed that it was not that hard to buy oneself a domain. So, supersonicsquirrel.net saw the light of the webday on 11th September 2002. It was first hosted with verat, then moved to a reseller account together with my other sites, to netrillium and then to surpass hosting.
From 2000 to 2004 I had a bunch of time-wasters. Consider this ordered list to be their graveyard. Ha.
- Deep Down Below
- a short-lived archive of Formula One clean fanfiction I wrote when I was 18-19. Then I saw that people write explicit stuff I’d always considered private and got scared…then I saw slash and femslash and wanted to barf…and that was the end of my descent into the useless world of fanfiction. - The Department
- a webpage review site called The Department, that I used to run with Shaz, Dona, Mira and Emii. We got tied of it fast. - Curiosity Killed The Cat Awards
- a little lame awards site I used to run for, like, 3-4 “seasons”. It had cute layouts, if nothing else. - Virus Of The Mind
- a little lame button rotation site. - Worth The Wait
- a combination of the above three that never really took off. - WYSIWYG
- a clique for people who were not Notepad-savvy. I closed it when I became a hand coder. - Pizza Addicts
- a clique for pizza lovers, abandoned when I adopted the fanlisting. - WebAnimal
- a webring for websites with animal names in their names. - Supersonic Topsites
- one of those top site lists. I screwed up the PHP script when making the second version if it and that’s how it died. - Futura
- my first, short-lived fanlistings collective, closed when I got Flatout Blind.
Almost all of these were dropped when I realised how subjective people are and how boring it is to rate people, tell them what to do, make little memes that waste too much of my time and such. That was the time I decided to focus on Invisible Movement, this website and my career as a web/graphic designer, webmaster, journalist and occasional copywriter. And it worked out, even though Squirrelism needs more work.
Unlike the others; Daredevil Inside, which was not a timewaster, was dropped because of continious disappointment on my site and lack of time at Jordi’s side. The Formula One - loving tomboy in me still lives, it’s just that today’s F1 doesn’t amuse her much.
