Friday, May 11, 2007

Cause of the because

I honestly had no intention of being 'different' or 'out of the box' when I named my blogspot url as 'will miss the bus'.

Llike 90% of other s/w enggs, I too have no work 60% of the times. I was going through some blog links that a few kind hearted friends had mailed me to help me pass my time. Most of them were from IIM students or passouts, others from a large variety of professionals. I enjoyed them so much that i decided to start a blog of my own. There was (and still is)...a little problem though. I didn't (and still don't) have anything to write.

By the time I decided that I would start a blog of my own, it was already time for luncheon and by the time i finally clicked the 'create blog' option it was already 4pm(post lunch nap is essential for my health!). I couldn't think of a proper heading for my blog, so I named it 'Whats in a name' (I think thats philosophical enough though). After much deliberation I finally decided to keep my name as the url , but apparently somebody else also has a blogspot by that name. I tried a lot of permutation and combination with the letters, until my name was looking like the names of one of those filmstars(or tvstars) with too many extra alphabets, but still kept on getting the message that some other person has also tried the same permutation and combination. I finally gave up the idea and for the next one hour (I am not exaggerating) tried out scores of creative, common place and arbid names (in that order). None of them were available. I have seldom felt so frustrated before, I mean what the heck, any stupid name I think of , someone else has already been stupid enough to think of before! Finally, it was time for the office bus to leave. As a last ditch effort I typed 'will miss the bus' and pressed continue. It worked. Apparently nobody had missed the bus before.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Neither did you. But you thought you would. Probably others thought they won't but maybe, just maybe they finally did.