I Wish I Was A Daybook

I never really liked the word Blog.  The word is small and glubbly and sounds like a Rotorua mud-pool.


However, it did not occur to me when I was naming my blogsite and doing the technical things needed to make the web address of pegasuscreations.blogspot.com be blog.pegasuscreations.co.nz so it would be more cohesive with my website address, that there was an alternative and that I should have used it.  Everyone wrote blogs.  I was writing a blog and that was just the way it was.


So this morning I was reading an entry from one of my favourite authors and I realised that his blogsite was called journal.  I remembered my own distaste of the word blog and decided that I was going to be a blog no longer.  There were several options I could use.  Journal seemed a little formal and diary had connotations of teenage angst.  I entered diary into an on-line thesaurus and out of the options presented to me, chose daybook.  It was light, friendly, airy and meant just what I needed it to mean.


Which brings me back to the technical stuff.  Some time ago, the cPanel interface which I use to manage my webpage was upgraded by my providers.  In the upgrade, it actually seems that they took away my ability to reroute subdomains to another server.  In a nutshell, I cannot fully rename my blog to daybook.  Sure, I can change all the names and create a web address called daybook.pegasuscreations.co.nz but when you get there the address will always be www.blog.pegasuscreations.co.nz


Does it matter?  Maybe not, people don't generally notice that sort of thing but I would know and I know that it matters to me.