Activation Energy

If you've done chemistry, you should at the very least have heard of the term Activation Energy being mentioned in passing. If I may so blatantly misappropriate a scientific term, Activation Energy is simply the obstacle that must be entirely overcome before one may proceed with the rest of whatever-it-is-that-needs-to-be-activated.

In the matter of blogging - to which I am not new - the activation energy involved in setting up a blog often entails having to secure a satisfactory blog url; and as anyone attempting to hitch a free ride on board the blogspot train in recent times might have noticed, such is no pie.

If you consider how the maximum length is 37 characters for a blogspot url prefix and the 37 (26 letters case insensitive, 10 digits and a hyphen) different characters you have to craft it out of gives rise to over 1.08E58 different valid ".blogspot.com" URLs, it really shouldn't be as hard as it is at all.

Alright, fine. If you really must be an ass about it, it's actually closer to 1.02E58 since the hyphen isn't allowed at the start or at the end. But that's not my point. What is, is that even with 1-and-58-zeroes-behind-it addresses to go around, most - if not all - of the good or at least intelligible ones have already taken (not to mention a large part of the unintelligible ones too) and of those, most boast little more than single "testtestest lololol i luv bloging [sic]" post for content.

You think I'm just exaggerating, don't you? Here. See. For. Yourself.

PS : n and 8 o's.blogspot.com appears to be abandoned, as does n and 9 o's.blogspot.com and n and 10 o's.blogspot.com, if not actually for good reasons. I'm guessing any number of 'a's.blogspot.com will probably yield a result as well, but I've not had the time nor the motivation to try them all out.

It's all almost as silly as the dude who shows up at the post office and button mashes the ticket printer just to hear the voice go "Two-Five-Seven, Counter Thirteen...Two-Five-Eight, Counter Thirteen...Two-Fiv~". No wait, I forget - the inconvenience that guy causes dissipates the moment he's tossed out by security. The prefixes registered by some kiasu blogger wannabe stays there for life - and by that, I mean BlogSpot's life.

That's right, kids. You're not getting http://aku-suka-memblog.blogspot.com/ even if Mat Blogger gets hit by a car. In fact that, or any other fatal catastrophe on his part for that matter only serves to snuff out what little hope you have left in securing that address you so dearly hanker for.

So here I am trying everything I can possibly come up with that doesn't sound completely stupid and impossible to remember (I even laxed one or both of those rules on several attempts, to no avail) and then just as I was about to give up and settle for the uncustomizable plank of a blog application that is WordPress.com, mom goes "Oi! Who left the front door wide?! Own up before I feed you both to the dogs!" at which point my sister obediently discloses, "Brianlah!"

Blasted sibling of mine...

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Okay, so I made part of that up. You don't need to know which part, except that it really isn't that far from the truth. And I promise, I won't make anything else on this blog up. Unless I implicitly say so, or as implied by my right as a blogger to make stuff up in the name of entertainment. And trust me, alot of bloggers gorge themselves on that liberty.

I won't be posting as habitually as some bloggers do, but rest assured that when I do post, it'll be free from all that perfunctory nonsense chronically compulsive bloggers so often pad their blogrolls with. (No offence, chronically compulsive bloggers. =)

I value opinionated comments and even the occasional "Hi, How're you doing!", but please try to keep the chatter to the shoutbox in the sidebar which I will someday find time to put up, and the flaming and trolling to the flaming and trolling section of your own personal site because I don't think I'll ever want to start a flaming and trolling section here on mine.

Customary introduction cum disclaimer out of the way, I think I should get back to my life now. Things are just starting to get busy for me of late (quite a bum of a time to start a blog, I'll say), and I reckon not every 20 year old has time to squander on egocentric online diaries while work piles up in the inbox...

Oh, and by the way if you haven't already figured it out, the name's Brian and I'm friggin MALAYSIANLAH! HELL YEAH!

(that was a happy hell yeah.)