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07.01.2005 – Friday 7 January – Joneses & Unusual Contractions

Day

• I was woken by Jean, calling to give a message to Julie, which I dutifully delivered. I then had a quiet morning, relaxing and rejuvenating from my distastefully early waking, before Shan and Kylie dropped over to drop off a CD with service pack two for XP on it, and we went out to Home Rule for a swim, where I ended up spending the evening.

Night

• There’s a form of contraction where the first two letters of a word are kept, and all the ones in the middle replaced with a number representing how many letters were replaced – the shortened form of “internationalisation” (except normally with a zed, zee, I mean), “i18n”, is the most famous of these. I was discussing the web and web standards, someone said w3c, I said n7n... it all began as an embarrassingly geeky joke, but it occurred to me that n7n.org is an easy to say, easy to remember, very short, and even symmetrical, domain name – and a suitably geeky contraction of nedmartin.org – so I went and checked its availability. n7n.com and n7n.net were both already registered, and I could sense a veritable horde of desirous internet users swarming to steal away my domain before I could get it, so I registered it – in my defence, it was very late at night. I haven’t yet thought of a reason, but I’m now the proud owner of n7n.org – complete with catchy slogan “I am not a geek, I am an artiste”. I was impressed with the speed of registration too – the domain was setup and resolving to my server within ten minutes of me purchasing it.

Comment by Mum – Saturday 29 January 2005, 8:19 PM

  Holy mackeral, he is an artiste? n7n.org Son reduced to initials and number. Goodo. I think. I am still struggling with the intricacies of using phone. Dial...er...um...and press..er ...um. Okay until one has to speak. Okay, international know now that n7n.org hath a mother who is phone shy and still thinketh that this or that button on compewteur is either "the ejector seat" or "The Bombe". Ooer. Look askance at the groaning thing and press this and that with a rod, with eyes Wide Shut. You think I exaggerate? Heh, heh. Asketh n7n.org.