Or: why are all the good blog names already taken?
Now, almost a month after my first post on this blog (OMG, where has all the time gone?!), finally the second post. The post which was supposed to be the introduction post. Whatever. :-D
Before I could actually post anything, I had to find a blog address. Which wasn't the easiest task, to be honest. I tried a lot of stuff, beginning with "life is a beach". I don't even think that's an established saying, but still the address was already taken by someone 10 years ago or so... That's the problem with addresses of blogs: somebody takes them, and then they are taken forever, even if this person only writes a handful of posts! And if it's a blogspot blog like this one, the domain endings of the countries don't even matter. I already found out about this when I was posting on my old blog: I could share the link to my blog as meinsemesterinmaynooth.de, meinsemesterinmaynooth.ie, meinsemesterinmaynooth.nl (blogger.com did that once, it wasn't my idea) or anything, it was all the same.
So I tried a few more blog addresses, for example these ones:
Before I could actually post anything, I had to find a blog address. Which wasn't the easiest task, to be honest. I tried a lot of stuff, beginning with "life is a beach". I don't even think that's an established saying, but still the address was already taken by someone 10 years ago or so... That's the problem with addresses of blogs: somebody takes them, and then they are taken forever, even if this person only writes a handful of posts! And if it's a blogspot blog like this one, the domain endings of the countries don't even matter. I already found out about this when I was posting on my old blog: I could share the link to my blog as meinsemesterinmaynooth.de, meinsemesterinmaynooth.ie, meinsemesterinmaynooth.nl (blogger.com did that once, it wasn't my idea) or anything, it was all the same.
So I tried a few more blog addresses, for example these ones:
- just another random blog
- blog address unavailable
- all the good names are already taken
And, of course, they were all already taken, even though I came up with a lot of creativity trying different spelling and phrasing variants. But then, my creativity eventually came to an end (quite limited, I know), I gave up and decided on a German address. Actually, it's just the last one of the names mentioned above translated into German. I could argue this was meant to be a statement of mine - the blog address as the single part of German language of a blog in English language, the name being a rhetoric device, a means of internationality and so on - but, ahem, no. It was just easier to take a German address, because there's such a shit load of blogs in English language (okay, there's also a shit load of German blogs, but that's not really comparable).
I could also tell a story about the name of the blog. I actually changed the name twice. But let's just say, the current name was a suggestion made by a friend of mine. And it fits, since it's quite universal - which means I can write about anything and everything on this blog! :-D
And for those of you who are still wondering what the "life is a beach"-stuff was about: I also got that from a friend. She said she just made it up, so you can basically interpret anything into it. My first association was something like:
life is a beach - you can never know what you will find there!
Let me illustrate this by using the perfect opportunity to post at least one of my ~500 pictures of my trip to Rome in March:
I could also tell a story about the name of the blog. I actually changed the name twice. But let's just say, the current name was a suggestion made by a friend of mine. And it fits, since it's quite universal - which means I can write about anything and everything on this blog! :-D
And for those of you who are still wondering what the "life is a beach"-stuff was about: I also got that from a friend. She said she just made it up, so you can basically interpret anything into it. My first association was something like:
life is a beach - you can never know what you will find there!
Let me illustrate this by using the perfect opportunity to post at least one of my ~500 pictures of my trip to Rome in March:
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