Mar 13 2008
Response To Johnvey.com
I just noticed an incoming link to my site coming from a blog post over at johnvey.com. In the post the author discusses how he came upon moniker of “Purveyor of Fine Words”. The post appears to have come about after a discussion with a mystical C.M.
One of the points he makes in his post is regarding the prevalent use of self-deprecating monikers that blog authors use and cites my use of Randomised Nonsense:
Well, I chose the tagline ‘purveyor of fine words’ as a response to the typical self-deprecating blog name that is so common these days — ones that mix and match words like ‘rambling’, ‘thoughts’, ‘random’, ‘drivel’, ‘brain farts’. I subscribe to one blog that is titled, “Continuing Intermittent Incoherency“, which sounds like the author picked up some kind of Mad-Lib for blog names for inspiration. “Randomised nonsense? and “The Solipsistic Sayings of a Random Infidel? also seem to have been derived from the same template.
This has got me thinking about whether I should change my blogs moniker. I started using Randomised Nonsense back in 2000/1. At the time I was really posting about anything and everything and really was random and mostly nonsense to readers other than myself.
However, in recent times I have tried to make my postings more logical and with a purpose, although they do still cover a wide range of topics such as local events, photography, programming and bell ringing. I feel that a change of moniker is called for and, having read the article on Johnvey.com I can see that I will have to think about this carefully. It needs to be something positive and inspirational, something to capture the self improvement that I am aiming to achieve.
My “Random musings from a .NET developer in Guernsey” is getting old and doesn’t even show on the site any more just in the RSS feed.
It’s hard to sum up a blog in one sentence especially if you want it to stay personal.
[)amien
I guess the next logical moniker for yours would be “Random musings of a developer from Guernsey”
I’m still working on mine. I think I might co-ordinate it with a change of theme… maybe even a custom made one!