Looking through the stats … what’s that URL there? It’s a long one, but it leads you to a blogger blog named “blah,blah,blog” and his May 20, 5:25 pm post says “Someone stole my site name.” Uh, no. I didn’t steal your site name. You can check with my friends that were there when I named the site way back in May, 2000 – this isn’t exactly a new site. Registered the URL on September 5, 2000. Rob has a few posts in June, 2000 and no archives until October, 2000. Seems I didn’t steal your name, Rob. But thanks for checking.
I should note that, ironically, Robyn first found my site because she thought of the name too and wanted to see if it was available last summer! It wasn’t, I was here, we met … and the blog world was never quite the same! Mwuhahaha!
17 replies on “Uh, No. Don’t Think So…”
Okay, that’s funny!
Slaps the big “L” to my forehead in honor of his faux pas. 😉 Must be something about Rob’s wanting that name though… *g*
I was there. I can attest to the date. 🙂
Weird. Very weird.
How about “My name was taken?”
To say someone took it would be to imply that he actually owned it at one point.
Weird.
tee hee hee that’s funny!
hey, at least it’s not say, a porn search engine that “stole” his name… grrrr
watch, from you linking him, he’s probably tripled his readership today, and he’s wondering why (i’m saying this before i go over there for a look myself)
aw, nuts… why didn’t you mention that he doesn’t even have comments? that woulda saved me a trip…
Oops, sorry Mikey. No comments. No e-mail address on his site either – so I hope he just comes back here and sees this post. That’s all I can do…
I thought about registering your url, as I was considering starting a blog (It was still available then). I proscrastinated (for a couple of years) and you got there before I finally got around to it. It fits you better than it would have fit me, anyway.
I also considered using crankslut.com and bloodypiss.com (among others). I think that I made a better choice.
This could make an interesting post: “What urls (or blog names) did you consider before settling on the one you have?”
I considered ermintrude.com (an old nickname) for all of about two minutes, but then realised that it was quite likely I’d be infringing copyright on the Magic Roundabout name. 🙂
And, like uh, he just discovered this? I did a doubletake when I saw the date. If he has had that name for so long, why didn’t he say something earlier???
he probably just recently thought of it… and i’m sure he thinks it’s such an original idea, that it must have been “stolen” by dear Christine. i’m still waiting to see if he comes over here (via his referral log)…
hey, he plugged you back… and there’s a picture of him up, if you wanna check him out… not that you would, but you can.
hmmmm…. unintended consequences.
My blog is a very small family blog and most of the posters are kids, my neices and nephews. I really do not want any traffic to it.
I didn’t check when your blog started, and didn’t really mean “stole”, I should have said “someone else thought of the same name even before me!”
Please no one else link to this blog… thanks! I will check this place out though… i like your blog.
All, my blog was supposed to be marked Private but inadvertently is was set to Public. Ooops.
Rob, I understand. I would have written to you directly if there was an e-mail address on your site – but since there isn’t (and there aren’t comments) I decided a post here was about my only option. A few days before I realized I could decipher your e-mail from your URL that is…
The Private/Public only effects whether or not you’re listed on the Blogger sidebar as a recently updated blog. I found your site from all the hits I was getting from it – probably your family & friends following the link. The only way to prevent someone from following the referrer link back is to password protect your directory if your host allows it.
interesting site