About/Contact
To be perfectly honest, I often fail miserably when it comes to a formal introduction of any kind, so excuse me if it looks like shit! Or if it’s out-of-date…
Me, Myself and I
In case you haven’t already figured it out by now, I’m TheChrisD. First name Chris, which can be gathered from the tag. Last name, you really shouldn’t give a fuck about. I give you the initial, that’s all you really need. The “The” is merely for emphasis, making me “The” ChrisD.
Living either in Dunboyne, in the culchie county of Meath, in the not-so-emerald isle of Ireland – or in on-campus accommodation at DCU, also in the not-as-green-as-you-think country. Numerous Wikipedia links FTMTW.
When it comes to listing interests/activities, I always find it hard to remember what exactly it is I do. Including, but not limited to: PC gaming, 360 gaming, DS gaming, web design, web surfing, forum posting, site administration and a lot of other tech-y stuff. Yes, I don’t get out very much, except when moving setup location.
The Site
After a bit of web digging, I eventually managed to conclude that I started to have my own personal website towards the end of 2005, on the old MSN Spaces (now Windows Live Spaces). However, back then I didn’t always have as much online time, so updates and posts were few and far between. I still kept at it though.
Towards the start of 2007, I was looking for other ways to have a website. By this time, I had bought some real hosting with Bravenet to host H2L. So, on the 12th of January 2007, my Wordpress blog came to be! At that time, I was posting more out of the “cool, I’ve got this new blog I just put on my hosting” enthusiasm, hence why some of the early posts are complete random crap.
Since then, my blog has changed web hosts four times, had some very dry periods (longest gap between posts: 27 days), and some very busy periods (5 posts in 6 days), had about 4 different themes installed, and at one point, been down for 9 days on the trot. The domain is also set to expire in 2011, mainly since I transferred the domain each time I switched hosts. ICANN FTL.
Baby Bear
Baby Bear is the name of a white teddy bear which was sold by Marks and Spencer some 8 years ago. Back then there were originally 5 of the basic bears. Since then the “family” has been reduced to 3 basic bears (Right Babe, Wrong Babe, Clean Babe) and a slightly more “better condition” basic bear found on eBay in 2008 (Cream Babe), but augmented with a larger bear with a bell inside (Mommy Bear), three small bears with a velcro strap that you can wrap round your wrist (Bobbys), two rattling bears with holes in their middles for grip (Polo Bears), and a teddy rabbit we got from some other place who is treated as the adopted sister (Baby Bunny).
It is unknown whether Marks and Spencer still make these teddy bears, but I haven’t seen them stocked since 2001, so presumably the family is irreplaceable. Unless they decide to make them again, which is highly unlikely. Or I find more on eBay.
Contact
In this day and age, there are LOADS of ways to contact almost anyone, and I’m no exception.
E-mail and Windows Live Messenger address are found very easily on my Facebook, since they’re meant to be for actual personal e-mails only and… well, that hasn’t exactly worked out since I get spam in there every day… Or you can get it by DM’ing me on Twitter provided I’m following you. Anything that gets sent to my personal e-mail that shouldn’t really be there gets ignored.
To contact me for site-related queries, which I’ll likely look at and just toss aside especially if it involves text link ads or the like; it’s site at this domain.
Other indirect modes of contacting me include:
There are other ways, I just can’t think of them right now…
Just make sure you let me know who you are before sending any add requests or friend invites! As my XBL bio says: I don’t do random FR’s!
