Years ago, my friend Steve told me a story that I've repeated often (as I do most of my stories): his in-laws had bought him and his wife Cindy a nice standing lamp for an Xmas present. To make room for the lamp, they rearranged the living room, and decided to put the entertainment center downstairs for the kids, which caused a piece of furniture to move from their son Tristan's room, which led to rearrangement there, which led to the discovery of mold in the carpet, and a leak the caused them a few thousand dollars to repair the wooden floor.
Thanks for the lamp, Mom!
I had one of those incidents recently. Originally, I got this Typepad blog (scottunder.typepad.com), and then I registered my own domain name (scottunder.com) with GoDaddy. Wanting to appear clever, I edited the DNS record so that www.scottunder.com pointed at scottunder.typepad.com.
The other day, my friend Fawn suggested that I should have a "professional website" separate from my blog, which I had been postponing. So, I got a Dreamhost account and, per their instructions, changed the DNS record so that Dreamhost handled my nameservers.
Still with me?
That immediately broke the blog, as it still thought it was supposed to be scottunder.com, and had all its pictures filed with that URL. I had to rebuild the template, and edit every post to link the pictures properly.
Let me know if it looks too much like McSweeney's.
