what's in a name?

Well, I finally did it. I am finally going to make a blog post. After almost a decade of being a web developer, and years of procrastination (and actually starting blogs and writings for blogs that I fussed with indefinitely and never made public), I will finally press the "publish" button. I promise.

I won't even preview. I'm just going to publish.

really.

Part of the problem with the web is coming up with a name. Naming something on the web is kind of like naming a pet. With the added caveat that your name has to be unique.

Sorry 'Fido''s already taken. Try again.

So, all of the obvious names get filled up fast, and the clever ones a bit faster and your left with having to come up with something really, really clever or something like "nickkolbaswebdevelopmentblog" that just screams "I wasn't clever enough to come up with a good name for my blog".

So anyway, here I am debugging massive amounts of javascript and I decide on a name.

I don't know, maybe there's a connection.

OK, here's what nullcheck means to me:

1. It sounds like 'soundcheck'
2. Its one of those things that you have to do, and everybody is guilty of 'forgetting' to do at least once in a while.
3. It could be a metaphor (you decide), which appeals to my philosophical tendencies.

Alright, I am going to post this. Stay tuned for:

1. possibly some interesting and useful information on javascript, ajax, mashups and other things I am occupying myself with
2. insight into my life as a web developer
   
3. probably a lot of bulleted lists

OK. I lied, I did preview first. Hitting publish now...