| Tuesday, February 5, 2008 |
| Home Sweet Home. |
I was scraping my brains out a while ago just because of a simple URL. Oh wait, it's just not a URL, it is one's URL--my URL. Darn it. I've used janinajanina and then jakiki, dot blogspot dot com, but was not happy.
You see, I don't really like making up a long pseudo name or any fashionably elegant name just for blogsites. I'm happy with one word names like my other blog, betamax, for quick recognition and placement. Like when I ask a friend to visit my site or to link me, the conversation would just simply go like "hey ____, link mo naman ako sa blog mo. mine is betamax dot i dot ph. then comment mo nalang sakin yung site mo ha." and the friend would reply, "betamax... dot i... dot ph...? betamax as in... betamax...? VHS...?" "oo, ganon lang, tapos dot i dot ph. pa-link ha? thanks!" And the topic will die a natural death in no more than 10 seconds. No need to scribble it down on paper, or typing and saving it in phone... and especially, no need to spell each letter out, because the word is pretty normal (as of last year. dunno how soon the latest technological inventions would turn betamax into an obsolete word.) I hate letter by letter reiteration. "B as in boy. E. T as in tamad. A. M as in mangkukulam..."
So, for this blogspot, I just decided to use my name. Unfortunately, the name that my parents printed out on my birth and baptismal certificates is just JANINA plus, of course, my surname. And in world of blogging, that short and that common simply means "uh-oh, taken. just think of another name... and goodluck!"
I know that I shouldn't be ranting about it, because blogspot is one of the biggest blog servers (umm, is that how they are called, blogservers?) and they've been one for ages now, hence, I should expect a simple janina dot blah blah will no longer be available. Mind you, I anticipated it. But what's pushing my blood to spurt out of its veins and skin right now is because I've found out the numerous "taken" addresses that I wanted to register are actually not being used by its respective owners. And though abandoned for i don't know how long, these sites have not been deleted and are just left out there, eating up spaces in the www, and depriving me of my own name!
Just take a look at these addresses that I wanted.
Janina
Ja
Jajung
Nina
Aninaj
Betamax
Ja-nina
Ja-ni-na
J-a-n-i-n-a
J-a
J-a-j-a
All are serving no useful purpose. Most don't even have content! *sigh*
Anyway, after weeks of literally having no permanent address, I think I would be staying here in this one, TheJanina.blogspot.com. I am the Janina of all Janinas in blogspot. Hahaha! Love it!Labels: blogs |
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Name: Janina
Home: Quezon City, Philippines
About Me: has XX chromosomes, struggles through quarter life crisis, and has preposterous superpowers of transforming oxygen to carbon dioxide.
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