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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Monday, July 25, 2005

http://www.jamiecampbell.name

You can now reach my blog by browsing to http://www.jamiecampbell.name. I registered the domain yesterday using GoDaddy.com. For less than $20/yr. I was able to set up a private domain name which redirects to my blog on BlogSpot. Pretty cool stuff. If you're unfamiliar with the .name domain extension, it was one of the extensions added by ICANN in 2001, and is meant to be used by people hosting their own personal sites (such as this blog).

Given that the name was still available, it looks like I was the first Jamie Campbell to register it although there are clearly a lot of other Jamie Campbell's on the internet -- for instance http://www.jamiecampbell.net is already taken by a rock singer in California.

Thinking about the fact that there are so many other Jamie Campbells in the world reminded me of an old British TV show called Are You Dave Gorman? in which the host, Dave Gorman, set off around the world to meet other people who shared his name. I always thought that was a really cool idea, so in that spirit I'd like to invite all Jamie Campbells of the world to unite (or maybe just drop me a comment on my blog). Together we can't be stopped!

Here are some of the myriad of name-mates I happened across while Googling my name. Sadly, I don't show up in the results until page 5...ouch.

posted by Jamie at 11:42 PM