the.new.boom

ICANN, the organisation responsible for administering top level domain names and coming up with new top level domains (your .coms, .uks, .orgs etc) has pushed the web towards the next step in its evolution.

Since the dawn of the web, domain names have been restricted in that they always had to 'resolve' with a particular suffix. They always had to 'look' the same as everyone else's suffix, .com. Other top level domains (or TLDs for short, the name given to this last part of a domain name) became available; .gov, .edu, .mil and so on but you were still restricted to a selection of arcane abbreviations with which to finish off your domain.

This has just changed. ICANN has just announced that from May next year, you should be able to register pretty much anything you want.

How about www.pizzas.newcastle or www.pubs.scotland for starters? Besides this almost novelty value, expect a whole new web business model as registrars gear themselves up for reselling these domains to the likes of you and I.

I have to say it would be quite cool to have ozosbits.blog or biking.lakedistrict. Or even blog.ozosbits and lakedistrict.biking, for that matter.

Such an impact will these new domains have, I think that we are heading for a much needed rush, a boom in the web the like of which we haven't seen since the 90s when it first literally took the world by storm.

Of course, these new names won't come cheap. Having your very own version of a .com or .uk will cost you in the region of $100,000. So, by the time they are implemented that should be no more than the price of a tank of petrol...

I have some news you may find disturbing...

Ceiling cat doesn't exist!

It's true!

Srsly!

Ceiling cat is a myth they tell you at kitty school to get you to do work. It's not all bad news, though. To turn your back on ceiling cat is to also turn your back on basement cat.

This raises some problems.

How does a cat know right from wrong? What becomes of morality? Is there a purpose to existence?

I believe the answers to these questions are within the self.

Be the journey.

Reciprocation is a choice.

Be excellent to each other...

Then vs. Than

Consider:

"I am taller then you"
vs.
"I am taller than you"

Only one of these sentences is grammatically correct. In case anyone reads this page and decides that the top sentence is the correct one, I'll state it here:

THE TOP SENTENCE IS WRONG.
THE BOTTOM SENTENCE IS CORRECT.