Welcome to Dan Vado
Welcome to my blog.
Yes, I know, more original words have not been written. If the numbers are to be believed then something to this effect is written and published on theInternet somewhere between 175,000 - to a billion- kajillion times per day. That is a lot of blogs, from a lot of people, all with presumably something to say and some kind of need to share it. Many people have more than one blog. I myself have at least three (if you count this one) and maybe more. It's not that I love to blog that much, but I like to experiment with different kinds of techonology and as a result I have tried several different blog tools to create several different blogs. I have a Livejournal blog, a blog on something called Bubbler, a blog created with something called Tangelo, a Myspace and maybe a couple of more spread out across the digital frontier.
So why start another one, you ask, when I so rarely post to the blogs I already have? Well it all started with an email from Network Solutions telling me that danvado.com was available. Years ago during a bit of ego-surfing I discovered that someone owned the domain danvado.com. There wasn't anything on it other than your standard This Domain For Sale tag and some google ads that were parked there. Out of curiosity I contacted the owner of the domain to see what he was asking for it and I was stunned when he told me his price was $5,000. I figured he was joking or high or both and did not even bother to counter-offer. At one time I must have filled out one of those "Inform me when this domain is available forms" because a couple of weeks back I got the email from Network Solutions.
Being the cheap jerk that I am I went right to Register.com and registered the domain. But that was just the beginning. Now that I was the master of my own domain what was I supposed to do with it? I could have just left it there, or maybe syndicated one of the other blogs to it, or maybe even just dropped a picture of myself eating a cheeseburger on it. None of that seemed like the right thing to do with my own domain. It is, after all, my domain.
So I decided to make the blog at danvado.com a blog about Dan Vado. Yeah, clever huh, nobody's EVER done THAT before, a blog about yourself, man I'm original.
All self-depreciation aside, there really isn't much new under the blog sun and I don't think I am the guy who is going to re-invent the form. But leaving danvado.com twisting in the wind filled with a COMING SOON or UNDER CONSTRUCTION page would be like saying that I don't value myself enough to park something here. So what I will be doing is filling up this blog with the stuff that are important or interesting to me on a personal basis. My Livejournal blog (Shut up and Listen) is going to be reserved for comments on the comic book industry. Living Well, Beyond My Means is sort of a mantra for me. I feel like I live well and my wife and I manage to do it without spending a lot of money. I have fun, or I try to, and there are things I have thought I might like to share with people. I will do at least one online demonstration on the wonders of Beer Can Chicken, and I will put out a couple of my own cocktail recipes. There will be at least one essay on why hockey is the greatest sport on the planet and I will on multiple occasions bemoan the state of my boyhood love; baseball.
In short what you are going to find here is me, and if you know me and don't dig what I'm about then you won't find anything here worth reading. On the other hand if you stick with this you might find this blog filled with things which will get you talking. Or, if I remain true-to-form, in two months you won't find anything at all.
Welcome to my blog.
Yes, I know, more original words have not been written. If the numbers are to be believed then something to this effect is written and published on theInternet somewhere between 175,000 - to a billion- kajillion times per day. That is a lot of blogs, from a lot of people, all with presumably something to say and some kind of need to share it. Many people have more than one blog. I myself have at least three (if you count this one) and maybe more. It's not that I love to blog that much, but I like to experiment with different kinds of techonology and as a result I have tried several different blog tools to create several different blogs. I have a Livejournal blog, a blog on something called Bubbler, a blog created with something called Tangelo, a Myspace and maybe a couple of more spread out across the digital frontier.
So why start another one, you ask, when I so rarely post to the blogs I already have? Well it all started with an email from Network Solutions telling me that danvado.com was available. Years ago during a bit of ego-surfing I discovered that someone owned the domain danvado.com. There wasn't anything on it other than your standard This Domain For Sale tag and some google ads that were parked there. Out of curiosity I contacted the owner of the domain to see what he was asking for it and I was stunned when he told me his price was $5,000. I figured he was joking or high or both and did not even bother to counter-offer. At one time I must have filled out one of those "Inform me when this domain is available forms" because a couple of weeks back I got the email from Network Solutions.
Being the cheap jerk that I am I went right to Register.com and registered the domain. But that was just the beginning. Now that I was the master of my own domain what was I supposed to do with it? I could have just left it there, or maybe syndicated one of the other blogs to it, or maybe even just dropped a picture of myself eating a cheeseburger on it. None of that seemed like the right thing to do with my own domain. It is, after all, my domain.
So I decided to make the blog at danvado.com a blog about Dan Vado. Yeah, clever huh, nobody's EVER done THAT before, a blog about yourself, man I'm original.
All self-depreciation aside, there really isn't much new under the blog sun and I don't think I am the guy who is going to re-invent the form. But leaving danvado.com twisting in the wind filled with a COMING SOON or UNDER CONSTRUCTION page would be like saying that I don't value myself enough to park something here. So what I will be doing is filling up this blog with the stuff that are important or interesting to me on a personal basis. My Livejournal blog (Shut up and Listen) is going to be reserved for comments on the comic book industry. Living Well, Beyond My Means is sort of a mantra for me. I feel like I live well and my wife and I manage to do it without spending a lot of money. I have fun, or I try to, and there are things I have thought I might like to share with people. I will do at least one online demonstration on the wonders of Beer Can Chicken, and I will put out a couple of my own cocktail recipes. There will be at least one essay on why hockey is the greatest sport on the planet and I will on multiple occasions bemoan the state of my boyhood love; baseball.
In short what you are going to find here is me, and if you know me and don't dig what I'm about then you won't find anything here worth reading. On the other hand if you stick with this you might find this blog filled with things which will get you talking. Or, if I remain true-to-form, in two months you won't find anything at all.
Welcome to my blog.
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