Extra, extra, Read all about it! BaddMinton moves away from Friendster!

Well, Friendster, it's been real. You've been good to me, and I'll still keep my profile and photo albums here, but I cannot deal with all these extra ads. If I have ads on my blog, I want to be getting paid for them, and I'm not, and there are so many now it looks like poo.

I'm working on downloading wordpress and running my blog myself, but I don't have time to do it right now, and I literally cannot write another single entry on Friendster knowing how ugly it will look with the ads. So for now I'm going to blog on wordpress's hosted blogging platform. You'll still find all my archives and categories there. The only thing not there will be the photo albums.

The good news is, the only thing you'll have to remember is my blog will now (still) be located at www.baddminton.com. I'm not sure what this will mean for things like RSS feeds — probably nothing good — because the actual domain name is baddminton.wordpress.com, and i'm just having my domain name forwarded there until I have time to do it myself. I fear the moving around may be confusing, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm throwing caution to the wind!

So, Friendster Blogs, I guess this is goodbye! And Hello, WordPress! Please come visit me there, guys! www.baddminton.com. Be there or be square. Or something.

You may have noticed that the name of this blog, BadMinton, acquired an extra ‘d’ and is now BaddMinton. There is a reason for that, and a good one at that!  I tried to buy the domain name badminton.com, but as you may have guessed, it was already taken by a badminton company.  Hence, the two d’s, which I kind of like, because it seems to connotate more "badassminton" than "naughtyminton." So, you may now access this blog by typing baddminton.com into your
browser.  For some reason, if you type www. you won’t get to it, so
please just skip the w’s while I figure out  how to fix that.

The look of my blog may be changing soon as well, because I’m trying to find a different blogging platform I like.  I’ve already imported this blog to WordPress, but haven’t decided yet if it’s got all the features I’m looking for.  You can take a look and let me know what you think.  Right now it’s at www.baddminton.wordpress.com. 

The main difference for you is that in the future, instead of accessing my blog through Friendster, you’ll reach it through baddminton.com.  So maybe you should go ahead and bookmark that and get used to visiting it several times a day.

I feel it’s time to update you on some things that have been stewing around in this here little room on top of my shoulders that I affectionately refer to as a "brain."

Whilst writing this blog of mine, which is short for "weblog" to those of you not in the know, I have embraced the slight nerdiness factor that I believe comes along with blogging terretory.  (For evidence of said factor, please refer to Appendix A). Therefore, in my head and to myself, I have been shortening all sorts of words, as is appropriate I think because of the "weblog" becoming "blog" phenomenon, and because I am a nerd.

Thus, my blog topics are "blopics."  That’s my favorite one, and I saved the best for first. 

Blog pictures are "blictures," or you can also refer to them as "blotos" if that’s how you roll.  Let’s see… blog links are "blinks," which I think is cute.  I’ve been thinking of creating a category of shout-outs, wherein I give shout outs to certain people I like.  This section, of course, will be called "blout-outs." 

What else, what else?  OH!  Maybe blog categories should be called "blategories."  But probably not.  I may be starting to push the blog envelope a little too much — or the… wait for it… and here it comes… blenvelope. (This one works especially well if you typically pronounce ‘envelope’ with a short ‘o’ sound, like ‘envoy’). 

Well, now you peeps are hopefully up to speed a little.  Please refer any questions to the Blequently Asked Questions section, or BL.A.Q.

Appendix A: It is my belief that people who blog (blog peeps, or "bleeps") are usually a little nerdy, often in a cute way.  Some examples: Rachel, Eric, Wan and Nathan.  I hope you four don’t mind me calling you nerds, but the upside is, I’m also calling you cute!  Let’s look on the bright side.

So, a couple weeks ago I took a class at UCLA called "Web Design 101." I want to learn how to build my own kickass website with my own domain name so I can put my blog there. In class, we each created a simple site for learning purposes. Here’s mine: www.giraffeclub.netfirms.com. Pretty hi-tech, huh?  Oh, there are some surprise hidden links in there if you mouse over a couple of the cat food kernels.  Classy.

So anyway, I bought some web design software with my student discount (even though I only took one one-day class — sweet) and am sitting here trying to figure it out, and for the life of me, I cannot even remember the first thing we did to get started. I hope you like reading my blog on Friendster, because I have a feeling this is going to take a long time.