2 posts tagged “master of my own domain”

I am so easily distracted it's almost unreal.  Almost.  Whilst not blogging about technology and babbling on about services and providers, I'm living, breathing and eating tech.  Well, maybe not eating - not unless you include press releases. ;-) Sometimes I'll swallow those instead of regurgitate (see, I do think about my readers and what you have to wade through!)

Jaiku is one huge distraction but it is useful and fun.  It's easy to use too, you've gotta give it that.  Well, as long as you know what it is in the first place...

I can't explain it, but Wikipedia can (at time of going to post, it was accurate!)

Yesterday I took the Nokia 6220 on a day out.  We'll be parting ways soon so I thought it best that we spent some quality time together.  That's a post coming right up.

Oh and finally, in this post that really isn't a post, ah crap - I forgotten what I was going to type! (3 minutes later...) Oh yeah, my new site is um still as it was!  So, by all means go to: www.fresh-plastic.com if you want, but you'll just see my lame holding page!  The time it took for me to finalise on a name and then register and purchase it, I wouldn't hold out an hope of it having actual content for another year or two!

It's been a long time coming but I've just picked a proper domain name.  One could say I'm now the master of my own domain!  Sorry about that, I'm a huge fan of Seinfeld...  Anyhoo, I've plumped up $10 and finally settled on a name.  Yes I took on board all the advice I received.  And yes, I still went for just one domain name and no variations.  There's also a dash in it which could prove a problem, but the non-dash version was taken (and I reckon it's not essential).

If Carling did holding pages... Probably the best holding page in the world

Why did I go with 'Fresh Plastic' when I've grown tired of it?  Didn't I spend hours, days, weeks, months... trying to think up a more catchy, more relevant, more fun name?  Okay, this is what it boils down to...

On each of the big search engines above you can see (click to make bigger!) what results I got earlier when I typed fresh and plastic.  Add to that, I've been using it here for a while (however long I've had this VOX blog) as well as a bunch of other sites, such as Qik and YouTube (check me out with my one video!)

No variations or a personal domain for the time being.  My full name is taken anyway and I'm sure the .me can wait (if not it's no biggie).

Now all I need to do is figure out how I want to get my content on to my site.  Do I want to use Google Page Creator or continue with a blog-style layout using the likes of WordPress or Blogger (also from Google)?  Maybe there's something else out there that I haven't heard of that all the new kids are using!  Who knows?  All I know is there's a steep learning curve ahead of me and I'm useless at learning anything new and practical!

By the way, my brand spanking new domain name is:
http://www.fresh-plastic.com
not:
http://www.freshplastic.com

As you can see, I added a bit of dash!