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May 07, 2005
Allright Peeps I am Back! - Updated (Below the Fold)
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Two weeks in the freakin' Wilderness, but Daddy's home! Hot Damn! First off, thanks for everyone who stayed on me about not letting ISOU die. Your thoughts and encouragement are appreciated.

But more than ANYONE, I have to thank Rogue. I have got to be one of the luckiest people in the world to have you as a friend. Most people who know our history together would be even more shocked that we are so close, but I love ya, and I always will. You are the kind of generous, kind and loving person that we all should strive to be like.

This has been a humbling experience for me, having my Blog knocked off the air by a very unscrupulous and cowardly person, who obviously did not pay our hosting bill, and who to this day, has not had the balls or the decency to even answer my phone calls. Whatever.... Karma is a Mutha, and I suspect that he will get hit with a MASSIVE Karma bomb in due time. In the interim, my lawyer will track him down.

I am happy as hell to be back, and look forward to rebuilding the blog.

One Love Everyone, and drop a guy some linky love, we need it.

Okay, a couple of people who were not in on the email about what happened to ISOU have asked so let me fill you in...

The Following email was recieved from the asswhipe who was responsible for hosting my site. He finaly responded after my site was down for 24 hours. I gave him every chance to talk to me about it, even after he sent me this email:

----Original Message----- From: Josue Salazar [mailto: josue.salazar@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 6:52 PM To: David Scott Anderson Subject: Re: Very Concerned

Hi David.

I am extremely sorry about this.

I am going to be honest with you, it's the least i can do.

We pay a datacenter monthly for the server.
I have been offline most of the time for the past weeks due to family
problems. And while i understand how this is none of your business and
is not acceptable, i just want to let you know what happened.
I was in the hospital from last sunday until yesterday night, i stayed
in Turrialba for the night, and without internet or my cellphone which
is not working at the moment.
Yesterday night, the Datacenter took the server down, and formatted
it. To this point, i don't understand why they did such a thing. But
it's what they did.
The backup drive was also formatted.

In other words, there is no data we can restore. We will be getting a
new couple of servers in another datacenter in the next few days, but
it will be a blank start.

This is completely devastating, unprofessional, unlucky, and i
understand my reputation is now pretty much gone. I'm sorry about
that.

What i recommend you do right now, is you go and get a hosting account
at another provider, (www.dreamhost.com is higly recommended), update
your nameservers, and upload a backup of your site, if you have one,
if not, as bad as it sounds, put some kind of notice to your visitors.
Then send me the bills and i will pay them for you, besides refunding
the money you paid me.

I really wish i could be of more help, but this situation has pretty
much killed my business, and i'm left without options as to what to
do.

About Pension Santa Elena, Ran sent me $300 on friday. I had asked him
for less, but i did ask him since my laptop had died and i needed some
money to repair it. He was cool and sent me half of the final price. I
told him i would show him a first version of the website on sunday.
The very sunday i was hospitalized.
I completely understand how you may want to cancel the contract i made
with them. I only ask for a couple of weeks to get the $300 to
transfer it back to them.
If on the other hand, for some reason, you still want me to finish it,
i will gladly do it, and probably not charge another dollar for it.
It's your call, since you're the one who hired me.

I am sincerely sorry. And i appreciate your trust, and i know after
this, you will probably won't want anything to do with me.

I will be back online in a couple of hours.

Again, this pretty much killed my business, and i will be seeking
legal action against Managed.com (the datacenter) in the following
weeks.

Now the thing that pains me is that the coward has refused to answer my phone calls and is basically hiding behind his girlfriend or whatever and not coming to the phone. He has not responded to any additional emails and has basically stolen my hosting fee, and a $300 deposit for web site development from a client of mine.

Now he thinks I will forget this. I WILL NOT. I have Grupo Utopia's attorney working on the issue, and may soon get police involved as well.

(DELETED ON ROGUES ADVICE)

Posted by David A at May 7, 2005 11:58 PM
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Comments

welcome back david!!!! love the new graphic

Posted by: ang at May 6, 2005 02:12 PM

You are very welcome. :)

Posted by: Rogue at May 6, 2005 02:55 PM

Yeah it rocks dont it? Hehe... Rogue has got a tough decision to make becuase she has two great graphic designs to chose from for the masthead. Hehe... And she is in charge of those things, I would not have it any other way!

Posted by: David at May 6, 2005 03:15 PM

Glad your back.

Posted by: Scott B at May 6, 2005 03:21 PM

skeet skeet
=)
now get chappelle to come back :P

Posted by: shabooty at May 6, 2005 03:39 PM

Well, I am actually going with the other logo you sent me. You said you liked it better.

Posted by: Rogue at May 6, 2005 04:26 PM

David, yes, we are all glad you're back. That whole episode probably really knocked the wind out of you...I have read and re-read that e-mail...just astonishing. And scary.

Posted by: Frank at May 6, 2005 05:58 PM

What an inconvienient way to get rid of all that backlog.

Thats why I save all my stuff to the internet so when it crashes it'll be lost forever.

Posted by: IXLNXS at May 6, 2005 06:59 PM

Did that come off harsh? You know I didn't mean it harsh. I was just t easing and pointing out how vunerable many of us are to this kind of thing. Dammit I didn't mean to be harsh.

Glad you are still around.

Posted by: IXLNXS at May 6, 2005 07:01 PM

Hell no Dave, I know your sense of humor. Thanks for the welcome back Bro. And for being there for me.

Posted by: David at May 6, 2005 08:27 PM

Man- that's one way to burn out the flame you put on me a while back.

Glad you got a new crib to jump up and down in!

Someday I'll use these keys ya gave me.

Posted by: Marty at May 6, 2005 09:12 PM

You better and soon Mr. GQ Man! (Wink). I dont think I mentioned it, but I love the new pic you put up on your Blog. You got that dignified GQ look down pat.

Posted by: David at May 6, 2005 09:59 PM

David, while I understand that you are upset ... I would delete that last line.

Posted by: Rogue at May 7, 2005 04:33 PM

Okay, I took your advice. But that might have been what would get his attention.

Posted by: David at May 7, 2005 04:40 PM

It's so good to see you back on the air. Can we look foward to some more sexy entries soon?

Posted by: EdWonk at May 7, 2005 04:47 PM

I still have your Project Apollonia stuff. I saw the DNS change but couldn't get to you to ask what was up.

Posted by: P6 at May 7, 2005 05:59 PM

Good to see you bro.

I've been busy fighting the big "D" battle, that's why you haven't seen or heard much from me.

Posted by: Ray G. at May 7, 2005 11:55 PM

glad to have you back...

and mad props to Rogue for helping you out and to Zen for the great illustration

Posted by: Ron Brynaert at May 8, 2005 01:08 AM

Holy tamole- YOU LOST YOUR ARCHIVES? That sucks! Wow, i didnt get the scope of it. I just thought you were away. Man o man Dave, asswipe is a tad gentle term.

awww, well sorry to hear this and so so glad you're back. poor dave. glad to see your spirits are up.

Posted by: Jane at May 8, 2005 03:41 AM

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