where to begin?

My name is Linoge, or at least that is the screenname I go by, for the most part, online. You can occasionally find me listed under some other made-up name, but that is generally an irregularity, and probably due to the fact that “Linoge”, and most of the permutations I would want, was already taken. Such is life.
Regardless, I used to be the owner of a different domain, as hosted through a company called SpliceHost. I am not linking to either at the moment simply because I do not wish to raise the GoogleRank (little though a link from this page might matter) for both of those webpages. I say “used to” for a particularly good reason. I was hosted on SpliceHost’s servers for three years, and in this past year, one of their servers took a major hit, was down for quite some time, and lost all of its data. My webpage was hosted upon that server, and, in recompense, SpliceHost gave me upgraded service, and a year’s hosting free. Being the damned fool I am, I took them up on it.
A few days later, when I attempted to access my weblog (contained within the previous domain), a strange webpage came up – something I definitely did not put there – a camping webpage. For those of you unaware, companies around the world frequently buy up unused domains, and simply “camp” on them, keeping them until someone wants them, and then selling the domain name to the highest bidder. I guess it is a lucrative business, from the number of corporations/people out there doing it. Regardless, my domain was occupied by one of these corporations’ pages, something I had not put there myself, and definitely had not authorized to be put there.
Needless to say, my curiosity was piqued. I started poking around, and it turns out that the registration for the previous domain had expired a few days beforehand, and this corporation had moved in immediately afterwards, registering it themselves for another year. And they wanted some obscene amount of money for it. After poking around some more, I realized there was no way to recover the domain, and wrote SpliceHost an appropriately scathing support ticket, explaining my intense displeasure, and telling them I would be searching for some other corporation for my hosting solutions in the future. Their response? A nice little “We are forwarding your concerns to an appropriate party.” Yeah, that is useful.
So not only did SpliceHost lose all of my data (and there really was a lot) the first time around, but they lost all of the subsequent data, as well as the domain name, the second time around. Gogogadget stupidity.
So here I sit with a new domain, provided by DreamHost. Like it?
And that’s all there is.