nonick.org

The other day I told a friend about the wonderful video posted earlier. He asked me to tell him the name of this blog again, because it has such a long name. Then he suggested I make it something simple, like blog.nonick.org.

Back in 1992 I moved to Illinois. You can buy vanity license plates for $14, so long as they have a number at the end. The maximum number of letters in such a license plate is seven. My last name has eight characters, so that didn't work. Instead, I chose to use NONICK.

Later, when Internet domain names became popular, I grabbed nonick.org. For a long time my web presence at http://www.nonick.org has been quite minimalist, if not faintly hostile.

A few years later, my wife and I got high-speed Internet service at home. The ISP provided free e-mail accounts, so we signed up. But then the inevitable corporate changes occurred. Over a period of about six months we were forced to change our e-mail addresses three times. Since we had to change our e-mail addresses anyway, LovelyWife and I changed started using nonick.org domain. We've been paying about $100/year for e-mail and minimal web hosting from pair.com, but it's been well worth the cost. It was sure nice to have a constant e-mail address during the move from Illinois out here to Eastern Washington.

That's the story of nonick.org. Thanks again to my friend for suggesting I rename this blog to blog.nonick.org; hopefully it will be easier to remember and tell people about!