Name my blog!
At last I have taken the mighty leap into the late ’90s, and added my own tiny rectangle to the blogofractal.
If you add the man who came up with the term "weblog" to the man who shortened the word to "blog" and divide by two, then you get something that looks quite like me.
So, clearly, my own idle words of timeless wisdom, and of course the insightful commentary of my faithful readers, will similarly revolutionise the weblog, uh, paradigm.
I’ll still be doing Dan’s Data, of course; the reviews and endless bloomin’ letters columns will continue. This blog’s for… everything else.
First order of business: This blog needs a name (and a tagline).
I’ve never been very good at names. I came up with "Dan’s Data", in 1998, because Blue’s News seemed to have been doing quite well. That’s about as far as my own naming talent goes.
So I invite you all, friends, strangers and spambots, to make your name (and/or tagline) suggestions in the comments.
[UPDATE: My brillant Spaminator config just terminated the first few comments, probably because they contained the letter "i" or something. I’ve set it back to defaults. E-mail me if your valid comments keep being flagged as spam, especially if you have a deep and intimate understanding of Wordpress and can put me on the fast track to Getting It Right. I hate overactive comment spam blockers (hello, Joe!), and I’m determined to make sure that jive don’t happen here. Well, not often, anyway.]
