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New name for the same thing...

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I've changed the name of my blog. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Tonight I noticed that my name is nowhere at the top of my blog. Apparently, the new skin I am using no longer displays the description of my blog (used to be "Rob Mensching's blog") with the title (used to be "when setup isn't just xcopy"). Putting vanity aside, that new development bothered me because:

1) I like this new MSDN-like skin better than the old one I was using

2) I agree with many of the more prevalent bloggers I read (like Robert Scoble and Paul Kedrosky most recently) argue that you should have your name on your blog.

In any case, I finally made the leap tonight and just changed the title of my blog to "Rob Mensching on Software Installation and Open Source at Microsoft". That's accurate, descriptive, and not completely boring (I hope). It certainly isn't as cute as "when setup isn't just xcopy"... but I'm not sure how many people got that inside joke anyway.

So, on with the new name for my blog. Hopefully, this change won't do any damage to your RSS reader of choice.

Honestly, the real shake up would be if I finally find a blogging server that feels smoother than Community Server (like when Scoble moved to wordpress.com). I'm still not sure how much I really like the current software behind https://blogs.msdn.com. But that's enough for today...

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  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    I think the new title is too long.  It messes up my Google Personalized home page because it wraps three times and takes over the page.  One could argue that Google should design the UI to limit the length of long RSS feeds, but still, its kinda verbose.  How about something short like "Rob Mensching Uninstalled" or something similarly "cute"/short?
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    Derek, fair enough.  I'll keep thinking about the name.  I will note that http://live.com does a nice job with the long blog title.  It shows "Rob Mensching on Software Installation and Open" and if you hover over the title, a tooltip provides the complete title.

    But something that short doesn't quite work... but maybe "Rob Mensching Openly Uninstalled". <grin/>
  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2006
    Openly uninstalled is funnier.

    On the other side about the software. It's kind of clunky. There also seems to be alot of little glitches. Like somethimes when you use the search and click on the blog tiltle sometimes it works sometimes wierd stuff happens. get directed to a diffrent blog, or the wrong post. Also viewing other people profile never seems to work just redirects you to the main page.