Blogging: Not For the Weak

Blogging: Not For the Weak

Written by David M. Muench

So last night I decided to start a "blog," which sounds like some abhorrent, gooey creature from a really awful B-Movie directed by Ed Wood. The only thing that I can surmise from "blog" is that it's an amalgamation of "web log." Am I even close on that one?

I put in my Blog name, and the description - which I have since forgotten what it was since I entered a different one six different times - and selected my sub-domain: ShinyHappyHead. Well damn the luck if that name was apparently already taken. I go through the process again, choosing "ShinySpeak," and bang, another one taken. I'm starting to wonder if I am one of a group of triplets separated at birth until I decided to choose "ShinySpeakUnplugged," and again it's taken. After venting my frustration at my CPU tower I got wax sardonic and entered the sub-domain name "ashdsafdjfad" or something like that; just an errant blast of keyboard strokes, and that name was accepted.

It was then I realized that the latter name which looked like a town in Iraq was different from the others, in that it was all lower-case.

It took six freakin' times to enter a sub-domain when all I had to do was enter it in lower-case letters. Now I don't recall if the directions said anything about "use only lower-case letters," just the "don't use a space, dash, underscore, etc."

Given my luck with trying to create a Blog thingy, I may or may not be able to post this message. It's very possible that when I hit "Post," my computer will implode and will be levitated out of my window.

Okay, I might help that process.