blog title change
metaUp until today, I've been using the title 'Blogbear' for this blog. The eagle-eyed reader, whichever one of you that is, will possibly have spotted that I've changed the title to 'Wobbly Bear' now. The other one will just check... oh yes, so he has!
Although I liked Blogbear – and I spent some time attempting to justify it by thinking through why I had chosen it after I had started a blog using it (https://wobblybear.scribbles.page/post/first-past-the-post) – I came round to thinking that having the word blog in the title of a blog was quite unnecessary duplication. If you're reading a blog, do you need to see blog in the blog title to be aware that it is a blog?
I've now removed the word Blog, retained the word Bear as a separate word, and used the adjective Wobbly to make Wobbly Bear.
Bear obviously refers to myself. I am Bear.
Wobbly may not be so obvious, but it is a nod to my general appearance because I have MS – Multiple Sclerosis to use the full name, but MS is a lot easier to type.
This can be invisible sometimes – it's the relapsing-remitting type rather than progressive at present – but it can also show itself to the outer world in a range of symptoms, the most obviously visible of which is the wobbliness.
I use a walking stick to walk with, even when the wobbliness is not currently affecting me enough to have to use it. It's a handy outward signal that I am disabled, even if it's not strictly necessary at the time and you can't actually see it right then.
Also, I am lots of other sorts of wobbly.
Sticking to decisions once I've made them – for example about blog titles – being one.
At some stage this blog will have the custom address of wobblybear.uk. I'm not convinced that I've done this correctly this time though. I have used Namecheap for custom domains before, and I know exactly where on their user interface to add the necessary CNAME change.
However this time I used Truehost to purchase the domain name, wooed by their straightforward pricing that avoided the 'couple of quid introductory price with a stupid renewal price jump the next year'. Unfortunately this meant that I was staggering around the new-to-me user account interface looking for somewhere to insert my little morsel of copied text, and really not having a scooby what was going on.
Confidence shattered by the orange error messages imploring me to contact 'support', the online help was actually no help either. It wouldn't load. Possibly the AI chat system was off hacking something more exciting instead.
Should have stuck to what I know.
It'll get sorted out, I'm sure. Most things do in the end. Especially the things that can be traced back to going wrong because I didn't have a scooby.
Anyway, this is long enough now. I'm wobbling off.
NB: I don't know if the slang 'scooby' works for all of you using English for a second language, but it's sort of rhyming slang where I am.
Scooby doo = clue
"Don't have a scooby" = "Don't have a clue"
