I collect anything Eloise I can get my hands on, DVDs of old TV shows I love, wine, really good books I just can’t let go, teddy bears, random geeky gadgets, and my latest collection - Domain Names.

I’ve owned one domain or another for well over 10 years now, but only recently did I start actually signing up for those “stalk this domain for me” programs to truly get the domains I wanted. And those programs work quite well - good enough that I didn’t even notice they’d gone and purchased my name for me last month…StephanieBergman net/org/com are all mine! *FINALLY, it’s my friggin name.*

I will probably do something real-ish with those, definitely more than just redirect to this blog (which most of my other domains do), and more than what I did at katchoo.com. But that one was really just for the fun factor of owning the domain.

I find all of this really funny at the moment, especially given the fact that I had a conversation with someone just yesterday where he was telling me all the domains he owns. He’d noticed I own one. I said no…I own a few more. Little did I know I’d just gotten a whopping three more. I’m stalking one more domain (it expires in August), and I think after that I’m done buying up names for random reasons.

It’s funny, though, buying domains can be just like buying songs on itunes. You see one, then think…but I should get com/net/org at least. And then you think of some other variant on the name - oooh, I should get that too. Next thing you know, you’ve bought over 10 domains, for no good reason. It’s just too easy, one click, and it’s yours.

I think I just spent enough years with my site on a directory on some random site (http://foobarwebsite.com/users/mee) somewhere that as soon as I could be a top level site - for whatever that site was going to be - I jumped on it. It’s just nice. Silly, considering that I’m not exactly buying up the domains for work, but still nice.

Am I the only one who goes a little nutsy with the domains?

From Tech Crunch:

Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe announced some of their plans around the MySpace Platform (rumored since last week) this evening at the Web 2.0 conference during a Q&A with John Battelle.

I’d say “things are going to get busy,” but hey, they already have been. And it’s all in good fun - this is a damn cool thing to be working on. I’m just glad the news is out.

Yay!

Technorati Tags:myspace

Does anyone remember a little cow *moo* that would sit on your Windows 3.1 desktop?

The cow would walk across the top of windows, hanging on and falling if you tried to move them; pee on your screen, be abducted by aliens, and more.

It was so cute, and probably one of the first widgets ever…certainly the first one I remember using.

I have so many fond memories associated with that stupid cow. It would always decide to pee when my boss was looking at my screen, or get stuck on a window just when I needed a laugh. It was new and cute and amazed everyone who looked at my computer.

I just tried to Google it and couldn’t find it, or anything similar for a “modern” OS. Nothing in Wikipedia either.

Anyone know what I’m talking about, or see anything similar?

I miss the days of the cow, when everything was fun and new. I want cute, goofy, runs in the background and makes me laugh. Yet doesn’t hurt my processor or get in the way of what I’m doing.

Sometimes the “killer app” is also the simplest. Like a stupid silly cow.

*moooooo*

Technorati Tags:moo cow, silly, fun