As 2010 comes to a close, let us take a few moments to remember the highlights of our year and take note of how subtle changes (those we don't notice on a day-to-day basis) have made a dent in our lives. Did you set goals at the beginning of 2010? Are you where you want to be?
Start 2011 right. Take the first step. Contribute to a good cause.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
A New Beginning
Putting up a blog is as easy as a few key strokes and a few mouse clicks. That is, until one tries to come up with a catchy phrase for the URL.
So there I was, thinking of catchy words and phrases, checking for URL availability and two things dawned upon me.
ONE: I was on a quest to be different, but as original as I thought I was, someone was always a few steps (or leaps & bounds) ahead of me. Unwritten, mydiscoveryjourney, mylifejourney, morebetterdifferent, nomorenoless, inthegame, outofthegame, livinlarge, skinnypiggy, nooriginality, notoriginal and a long trail of other phrases went through (and failed) the availability test. With so many phrases failing the test, I thought something was wrong with the system so I tried visiting the URLs... and that let me to...
TWO: leaving a blog untended is just as easy as putting up a blog, most of those I went through had less than four entries the last post being made as long as eight years ago. So kudos to those who've set up a blog and kept it alive.
As I close this entry out, I have to wonder... how many of these 'single-entry' 'long-dead' blogs are out there, a waste of interesting URLs? And will this blog become just another statistic? Time, or more accurately, "what is my intention" will tell.
This is my fourth blog in as many years. Each of my last three blogs had served its purpose (my preferred theme) at the time; this time around, I wanted a platform to document my thoughts with filters at a minimum because a lot of self-sensorship happens, whether I'm conscious of it or not.
So there I was, thinking of catchy words and phrases, checking for URL availability and two things dawned upon me.
ONE: I was on a quest to be different, but as original as I thought I was, someone was always a few steps (or leaps & bounds) ahead of me. Unwritten, mydiscoveryjourney, mylifejourney, morebetterdifferent, nomorenoless, inthegame, outofthegame, livinlarge, skinnypiggy, nooriginality, notoriginal and a long trail of other phrases went through (and failed) the availability test. With so many phrases failing the test, I thought something was wrong with the system so I tried visiting the URLs... and that let me to...
TWO: leaving a blog untended is just as easy as putting up a blog, most of those I went through had less than four entries the last post being made as long as eight years ago. So kudos to those who've set up a blog and kept it alive.
As I close this entry out, I have to wonder... how many of these 'single-entry' 'long-dead' blogs are out there, a waste of interesting URLs? And will this blog become just another statistic? Time, or more accurately, "what is my intention" will tell.
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