A long time ago I created my first former blog at The Mount Olympus, and it’s been a great time since then. However, I haven’t updated it properly, due to personal reasons where my studies and my sometimes chaotic life were involved, and I felt it wasn’t my identity anymore.
Be advised that I’m not that kind of person who likes writing about his life in public (aka in a blog), but I think it is a good tool to communicate some things, both professional and personal, and that’s how I’ve been using the previous blog. But, as I said, I felt it wasn’t me anymore, and so I have decided to try out this new approach, starting with the domain :)
Many people buy a domain with their given and family names, and start their site either professionally or personally, but I don’t like that (nor I want to hide my given name which I’m very proud of, and very thankful to my parents for it, even though these days it’s not difficult to legally change your name), I think we should be rather original without losing our true essence.
The name that I chose for the domain, and my new “home”, is the writing of the phonetic transcription (using the English alphabet, not those strange characters you can see in many dictionaries) of my given name in English, William. That is, wil-ee-am.
I’m sure there are some mistakes, and linguistic experts would say that I have no idea of what I’m talking about, probably they’re (partially, I checked few sites and it seems it’s a correct manner to write it down) right. But I once looked up how my name was properly pronounced in English and came up with this.
I have been using this as a nickname in some places, and I’m slowly migrating things to it, as the old one that I’ve used almost my whole life (since I discovered what the Internet looked like) was a rather a weird combination, also based on my name and its meaning.
Why a .me domain? Because even though it’s the official LTD for Montenegro, it’s also a word (a pronoun) that means “I”, both in English… and Spanish :) I tried the .am domain, ee.am, but it’s taken :( though it’s not being used for any “real” purpose. It it ever becomes available (and it’s not too expensive), I might buy it, but for now I’m very happy with wileeam.me.
I have moved the old entries here because I don’t want to lose them. But I don’t know what I will do with the old domain :) as I still like it… time will tell, for now, I’m just redirecting to this domain :)
I’ll use both English and Spanish here, like I used to do at The Mount Olympus. but the blog itself (the interface that you’re seeing now) will be in Spanish (excluding the pages) as it’s a language I’m very proud of, and some of my “personal” entries might be in English (like this one for instance) though most of them will be in Spanish :) so English will be mostly used for my projects and those “international” things, and not eveything will be under the blog’s subdomain.
I hope you like this place. Same me, different approach to both suit myself and my inner wil.ee.am better :) Or maybe just some new make up for this renovation?
/Guillermo