I have been having some major server issues for the last couple months.  I finally got my site moved to a temp server.  Actually this temp location is my home connection.  So this is obviously not an ideal setup.

Because this is hosted on my home connection there will probably still be some future downtime.  Also, this will probably cause my site to load a little slow.  I hope to have this site back on my main (fast/dedicated) server within the next month.

I have uploaded a couple new pictures of me and bailee (our newest dog).  Please feel free to check them out by clicking the “Pictures” button at the top of the page.

Today Jeremyj.com is officially replacing jeremyjefferson.com as my site’s URL.

Jeremyjefferson.com however will remain fully functional and will redirect to jeremyj.com.  In fact, you will notice many links (especially for the page design) still refer to jeremyjefferson.com.

I don’t believe this should cause any issues, however please leave me a comment if you notice any part of my site acting weird, or not working at all because of this change.

I have successfully obtained the domain jeremyj.com. 

Yep, that’s right. I am very excited as I’ve been trying/wanting to get this domain for three years now. Basically when I first bought a domain for my personal site (this site here) I wanted something to do with my name and be short. Jeremy.com was already taken obviously, so I tried jeremyj.com. Unfortunatly this was also taken. Eventually I just ended up with jeremyjefferson.com.

Jeremyjefferson.com is a fine domain for me (I think everyone should try to get their full name in a dot-com), but it is way to long for people to type out or even remember.

Ever since that day I have wanted jeremyj.com and wanted it bad. I hope the old owner of this domain reads this some day, but I sent 3-5 emails to the former owner from 2006-2007 trying to get a hold of the guy who owned it. Basically I said I was interested in purchasing the domain from him and asked his price. I was going to accept anything $200 or less on the spot. Sad thing is, after 2007 the guy didn’t even use the domain and had no site on it. He never responded to any of the emails, so I gave up.

Well, last year during September (2007) I was all excited. Jeremyj.com was about to expire! Unfortunately the dude renewed it and the domain stayed alive until September of this year (2008). I didn’t stop watching the domain however….

Well, September 2008 rolled around again and the domain was ready to expire if he didn’t renew. This time he did not renew. The domain eventually went to auction which I did not bid in (lack of funds at the time). Fortunately no one placed a bid on it.

Now, almost 80 days after the domain expired I successfully obtained it with a Godaddy backorder for $18.99 ($17.01 after coupons). I will be posting an entry here later on my experience with Godaddy backorders. Luckily for Godaddy this will be a very good review.

So now I have this to decide: Should I leave jeremyjefferson.com as the domain for this site, having jeremyj.com forward to it? Should I have jeremyj.com take over as the domain for this site and have jeremyjefferson.com forward to it. Or should I allow both of them to work without forwards?

Personally I’m probably going to go with keeping jeremyjefferson.com as the main or have jeremyj.com become the main and forward the other one to it.

If anyone has suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

I am proud to announce that I have a new free hit counter service on my JWJKP site.  Please feel free to check it out.  You are required to have an account with me however to use this site.  Registration is fast, easy, and best of all, free.

My goal is to offer some of the most advanced free hit counter available on the web.  This includes the ability to highly customize your hit counter and view detailed stats about your hits.  These stats include detailed logs with graphs.

This is still a work in progress but it is fully functional right now.

The best part is, these counters can be used on sites such as eBay.com.

Click here to check it out.