Blog Names Annoy Me

The first thing anyone notices about this Blog is how entirely unoriginal and boring the web address is.

I can't afford a domain name, and I can't afford web hosting (which, quite frankly, would be a waste for the content of this blog), so I had to use the standard Blogger (Blogspot) layout for the address. This is where I hit a snag.

The problem with there being literally millions of blogs on the Internet is that, statistically, no matter how original you are with your blog name, somebody would have come up with it before.

This makes it hell on the domain.

Lets take this very website. Blogger has at least two blogs using a phrase based on "I, Gamer". The first one is nothing more than an incredibly out of date collection of flash video games with no real description or musings other than a name and a link - all posted on the same day, and last updated in 2005, I must point out.

The second one is empty. I am not even kidding. Just a profile to the side. Just a waste of a blog URL created using an account designed solely for advertising some other worthless blog on the same account that has links to some episodes of Family Guy. Incidentally, the blog doesn't actually show up on his list, meaning he is using the old URL exploit anyway.

Those are just two I picked out using a variation on "I, Gamer" on this particular slice of the blogosphere, and I guarantee there are others else where on other sites. This is what drives me a little insane, as none of these blogs have any notable content. I personally think that blogger should delete blogs that have not had any entries in years.

However they don't, so I to have to use a different URL.

Well, as I mentioned previously, the statistics were against me, so I just settled on my real name. Why not? Half the purpose of this blog is so I have an outlet. Why not be that personal?

As a side note, I finally got my times sorted with this page. I Will be trying to update at least three times a week. It shouldn't tell me its Sunday when I post it on Monday!

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...and thus I join the blogging masses.

It took me a while to get to this.

I am sat here, in my bedroom, looking out the window at the sunlight. Its a nice day, good for walking, but as usual I am indoors doing absolutely nothing on my computer.

I was out there, cutting the hedge down. The local kids were giving me grief again, but they soon run when you chase after them with an electric hedge trimmer. I cut down, tidied up and relaxed. So now I am here, in my bedroom, drinking coke and listening to Beethoven, while writing this blog.

I'm also, at the same time, logged into an MMORPG by the name of EVE Online, a long running and constantly updating game within which I have played for many years with little break.

You see, I am a videogamer. I have within five feet of me enough hardware and software from so many "generations" of consoles that I have literally travelled back in time to before my birth in the search for a good gameplay experience. But this is not why I post this.

I have a love for writing that I never really expressed in the same way as my love for Music or the visual media of Film and Videogames. Sure, I have tried to write a book a couple of times but I could never really articulate myself over such a long period. As such, I turn to Journalism.

I am not as well educated as people first assume when they meet me or read my words. The education I do have is geared more towards the practical side of Film production rather than the theoretical side, and I have very little to no qualifications in the English language or writing as an art form.

Nor am I as old as people first assume when they meet me or read my words, for while you may assume I am in my late twenties or even my early thirties (as some have suggested), I am only twenty years old, and not that long by it either.

As it stands, I am unemployed, and as such the sands of time are giving me a break. I have enough to spare that if I could motivate myself I could write an entire novel in a week. However, I look at such a  project and while I have had a story idea in my mind since I was nine years old, I could not and will not for a while be able to manage such an undertaking.

So, here I am, becoming one of literally millions and millions of people who are charting, have charted, or will start to chart their life to the rest of the millions and millions of people who have nothing better to do than to read them.

However, I want to. I want to get more of my work out there so people will look at me as a serious writer. I want to get my views and experiences out there so people will see me as more than just some empty shell in today's society.

I want to be allowed to be myself, and thus I join the blogging masses.

- Jon Shire

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