Hey,
Just wanted to let you all know that the changes to my blog are now complete. Sylvia and I decided that since she had barely been posting, and she wanted a separate blog for her trip to Greece, it was time to part our ways.
I also realized that www.lifeofthemindequalsdeathofthesoul.com was not the ideal home for my blog. In fact, I didn't even come up with this title. Jessica stole it from Rohan. Therefore I have moved my blog to a new, more appropriate home: http://blog.galbutnotgirl.com/ All of the old links will continue to work through November of 2010, when my old domain expires. I will likely let it expire, although I may choose to renew it later.
One might ask why I chose "blog" instead of "www" as my subdomain. I realized that I really need to look to the future. I began my blog on a whim one night with Sylvia and Jessica. I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences: Jessica felt we were censoring her by telling her she can't write that all UChicago students are alcoholics, while Sylvia and I disagreed. Our blog was located at http://lifeofthemindequalsdeathofthesoul.blogspot.com/ at the time.
Ultimately I realized we needed a better home for our blog: one without "blogspot" in the url. Thus, http://www.lifeofthemindequalsdeathofthesoul.com/ was born. This was both a triumph and a mistake: while it was great to have a new, stronger home for out blog, this name, and the "our" aspect of the blog was quickly losing meaning. This blog had really become "my" blog, I was just still insisting that it was our blog.
This week, Sylvia and I really decided that we should finally part ways. I now had my own blog. The problem was, the blog's name really didn't make any sense: it was long, it wasn't mine, and I didn't really feel any connection to it. I really needed to change it. So I decided to fall back to my classic URL (which Jess actually created): GalbutnotGirl. This brings us to my new domain: http://galbutnotgirl.com/.
This still leaves one question though: why did I choose the subdomain "blog" rather than continue with "www" as I had in the past? I realized I really need to look towards the future: I had already made major changes to my blog twice in the past year, and I really didn't want to do it again. While currently I only have a blog (hosted for free by blogger), it's fairly conceivable, and probable in fact, that I will want an actual website in the future. By hosting my blog at http://blog.galbutnotgirl.com/, I solve this problem.
Until I have a need for an actual wesbite, http://www.galbutnotgirl.com/ will forward you to http://blog.galbutnotgirl.com/. Visiting http://galbutnotgirl.com/ will also forward you to the same site at the moment.
I also want to change the title of my blog. "Gal but not Girl" just sounds like a kind of stupid title. As a URL though, it's pretty good. For the time being, I'm keeping my old title: "Life of the Mind = Death of the Soul." However, if you have any awesome suggestions for a new title, please post it in the comments or facebook me or whatever.
Hope you like my new blog,
Gal
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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