automaticable

So, I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for quite some time, and it seems like a good opportunity now. I’m not committing to any specific topic or genre, but really anything that happens in my life. So then, perhaps a little background:

I’m a computer science major at the University of Illinois, and so I assume most of my posts will have a nerdy slant to them. But, I also enjoy music, travelling, cooking, and all sorts of other things that could make their way into here.

But what the heck is ‘automaticable’? Well, that leads me to my first mini-post. Coming up with a cool, catchy, and seemingly-nonsense name is the most important aspect of any product. I decided not to go the Web 2.0 route, so I scrapped names like “scottr” and such. Instead, I stole an idea I recently read on Google Blogoscoped to come up with random names. The idea is to use Gmail’s account name suggestions to come up with something clever. If you enter numbers for your name, like “123456″, it’ll combine two random words, and sometimes it’s interesting.

The idea from the previous blog was intended for account names, but also applicable for domain names or… blogs. And with that, a website was born.