Published on December 14, 2007
in Travel.
Recently been on a short trip to Germany, and I still miss the Gemütlichkeit of it all!
Germans really know how to turn cosiness into an art. Last year in Vienna it was Café Schwarzenberg I fell in love with. This year, in the more modest Kempen town, near Düsseldorf, it was Burg cafe (photo). A little gem of a place, with mouth watering cakes and friendly staff (it probably helped that we were speaking the language)
For those who cannot be bothered to read the wikipedia article, the odd german word I used stands for something more than cosiness (as in a not too large place, well-heated and nicely furnished) connoting the notion of belonging, social acceptance, cheerfulness, and the opportunity to spend quality time.
I have about 3 kilos to remind me of the quality time spent in Germany. But hey, it’s the Christmas season! Ho-ho-hooo!…
Published on December 14, 2007
in personal.
I found out a very interesting website today - www.entrepreneur.com
Its name (very apropriately and conveniently chosen) made me think about how good domain names are chosen.
I’ve had my share of domain name hunting, and I know that by now all english words in the dictionary are already out there with a .com tail!
Anyone who’s tried to register a domain recently knows what I’m talking about 
Then I found out about the concept of “domain hack“, and immediately thought of some very cool ones (cyb.org, profit.net, anic.org, inter.com, ze.ro) Obviously, all taken!!
I started playing a bit with perl scripts and word lists, trying to find a real good one, that was still free. Then I found something better:
www.domainsbot.com and www.morewords.com Using these two nifty little sites it bound to make your domain name search a lot easier, albeit probably not much less frustrating…:D
If by this point you haven’t started wondering what the deal with my domain name is, no worries - I’ll tell you anyway!
Torego is a six letter word, made up of 3 sillables, each sillable being a consonant-vowel pair. DUH!
It’s also easy to remember, easy to pronounce in most languages, sounds cool (to my ears at least - being modest again) and might I state this again: only six letters…
That’s it.
Oh, and apparently there is an extraordinary market for good domain names out there, with some selling in the ranges of 6 zeros and 9 digit numbers…
