If you’re ever inclined to start your own website, whether it’s a blog, or a forum, or an ecommerce site, you should definitely exercise caution when selecting your domain name.
Take the website ” Pen Island”, for example. They sell promotional items that are customizable for giveaways and such. The name of their website, penisland.net, might not be the best representation of their business with respect to the type of clientele that they are looking to attract.
And just as a word of warning, I’d advise against visiting the same domain with a ‘.com’ extension – unless you’re into that sort of thing.
I am up there with your average accountant when it comes to the ability to solve problems mechanically. I’ve always had the resource of skilled technicians who were usually willing to work for beer, so it’s been rare for me to ever have to get my hands dirty myself and I tend to avoid doing so at all costs.
The motor fired up as expected. Satisfied, I began to mow. Then five seconds later, it goes cough, cough, bog down like it’s in really heavy wet grass, cough some more, stall.
‘A few bolts here, a few more there… this doesn’t look too difficult’, I thought to myself. I momentarily thought about taking it the lawn mower repair shop that is located about 1/2 mile from the house. No, I can handle this.
What I’ve come to realize is that we’re instilled a belief from a very young age that if you do your best, that will be good enough and people will accept you as such. The real world does not work this way.
How does a movie that three out of four moviegoers think is a failure manage to gross 100 million fucking dollars?
