This blag needs a name. It needs a name so bad. What am I going to name my blag? Well, a related and more important question would be about what is the blog?
Well, I was thinking about just that. I don't want to do the whole "one post every six days" thing anymore. With this blog I want to post more irregularly. Why post once every six days when sometimes neat stuff happens all the time and other times neat stuff never happens? I would rather have a larger number of small posts that dwell on one and only one topic than have a smaller number of large posts that jump between topics like a kid with ADHD with an unlimited supply of pixie sticks. The reality of the situation, though, is I'll end up having a smaller number of smaller posts. We all know how lazy I am with stuff like blogs.
Also, I want to be more in-your-face again like I used to be with UC. Back when I was with UC I used to talk about politics and other stuff like that. When I moved to Oh Two I toned myself down a lot. I stopped giving my opinions on things that really matter and started only blogging about cool forms of entertainment and occationally new technologies. Basically with Oh Two I just talk about cool things instead of everything.
Obviously I want to avoid above all else is turning this site into a Live Journal wannabe "I'm so emo :(" blog online diary. While it is acceptable to mention things that happen to me in real life in passing, I do not want to make that even a semblance of the primary purpose of my site.
I was also thinking of making this into some kind of tech blog, in which I dedicate some time to finding out and using some new tech and then reporting on my findings. The problem with this is I'm nowhere near the edge of technology and I also don't have very much desire to be on that edge. I can still do things like blag about interesting programming languages and indeed programming paradigms as I see them. I do enjoy haxing a great deal and I find that, barring the whole OMGWTF programming contest discussion on Oh Two, I tend to not talk about it because so few people have any idea about what I'm talking.
And another thing I'd like to get from this new blog is readers. I'm aware that Tex and qedi and Ken will read my blog no matter how boring or stupid it gets, but having a readership in the ten-to-dozen range is a bit low. Obviously I can't have a very large readership since this is hosted on my home PC with my one-megabit-up connection. But getting a reader outside of the people I have met in real life isn't such a grand goal, is it?
So, with that in mind, the blog needs a name. "This is the title of this web page" would be pretty good if this were a meta blog (i.e. a blog about making web sites), but since I'm not really in that business it's just tacky at best.
I really don't know what to call it. I need help. I've had a lot of blogs in the past and historically I haven't had any trouble naming them. HLSE, HLias, The Next Evolution, Unconventional Conformity and Oh Two all seemed obvious when I named them. I've considered calling this one some variant of Unconventional Conformity, like More Unconventional Conformity or something, but that doesn't really sit with me well. I left UC behind two years ago and I don't really have any desire to come back to it (regardless of how awesome its name is).
The blog software that I've written itself has a theme all its own. If you look at the footnote and the result of a search that returns no posts, you'll see that I've already envisioned a rather abrasive style. I have no desire to change that kind of tone at any level in either the backend or the posts themselves. In that regard, "Some kind of blog" or similar title would fit it rather nicely.
Also notice this post itself. Let's be meta for a second and think about it. It's a huge (by my standards) post about one thing: a name. Everything in this post relates either directly or indirectly to one central concept. Those of you who know me know that this is nearly absurd coming from me. This is the style I want to use in the future. One post, one topic. I have yet to come up with even an example blog name that would convey this kind of style.
Well, the point is I'll be thinking about it and hopefully soon I will have it worked out. The sooner the better, too, since I don't want to continue dealing with Oh Two any longer.