When this blog was previously at Blogger, I wrote a post bemoaning the lack of available domain names.  Some of my original choices for domains were already taken; and worse, they weren't necessarily taken by anything good.  Notable among these were grayarea.blogspot.com, whose owner was probably arrested shortly after his one post, and of course shadeofgray.blogspot.com, the always entertaining diary of a 14 year old girl and her seventeen unfulfilled crushes at junior high (which was either written by a 14 year old girl or a failed soap opera writer). 

Moving off of Blogger had its advantages and disadvantages: for example, I no longer had to worry about the possibility of any of my friends posting on Blogger with an image of a giant swinging phallus.  Yes, I actually have a friend who has this as part of his profile on Blogger for some reason; no, I don't have any idea why - some questions, I find, are better left unanswered.  I also am able to post by category, so anyone who wants all posts where I make fun of Suresh can find them easily.

However, my available domain name selections weren't much better than Blogger.  No longer would I be being confused with a stalker in training or the next episode of Degrassi Jr. High!  No, now my domain could potentially be mistaken for either a web site that had 5 years worth of bisexual adult DVD reviews (likely a site that Suresh maintains) or a site devoted to "Sexual Harassment: Prevention, Training, Materials, and Services" (likely a site that Suresh caused).  I assume the site owners didn't mean to imply that they train people to sexually harass others, or provide sexual harassment to those who wish to pay their fees.  This reminds me of one company I used to work for who posted an ad for a computer class called "How to Beat Your Kids"...ah, if only they had mentioned somewhere that the class was about how to play computer games.  No wonder they eventually folded...=)

-J