When we decided in January to move from the single family news site to that plus three separate blogs on a new domain, everyone came up with cool name (WeatherGirl and Sub-Evil Boy) but me. I’ve never had a nickname that stuck, and when pressed didn’t come up with one.
After a few months of this, though, it’s clear that “I am … unhindered by talent” is a weak title for the blog, and Phi is a downright terrible name for me. You can’t google for the damn things (esp. “Phi”), and “I am …” conflates the name for our radio show and our domain name with my blog in ways that are at best confusing. (I’m conceding a lot of ground to the family here, but I love them, so we can share the cool name.)
Since my theme got all murphed up by the transition to WordPress 1.5, now would presumably be a good time to change the name, especially since I’m not exactly on a ton of blogrolls at the moment (3 that I can think of).
WeatherGirl and I have contemplated this for something approaching a minute and a half, and have come up with a handful of options for your consideration and discussion:
- Leave things alone.
- Maybe change the title to simply “Unhindered by talent” and hope the family doesn’t object.
- Lone Radical on the Prairie. A name a student came up with shortly after we moved here. It’s not really accurate, though, since there are lots of excellent wackos here in the wide open spaces (Pharyngula‘s just down the hall!).
- Free Radical on the Prairie. A variant on the previous option that has some cool layers that I like.
A quick check suggests that both the “radical” suggestions are quite google-friendly.
It’s also unclear what to do about the URL. Leave it alone and press on? Certainly http://UnhinderedByTalent/FreeRadicalOnThePrairie would be insanely long and annoying. Thinking about these kinds of things makes my head hurt, which suggests that I really don’t care all that much :-).
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