I’ve been thinking about this for some time and I’m considering migrating off of gingerninja.net. WHY!?!? I hear you all cry. Well, Twitter started it, not me!
For some time now, I’ve been getting @gingerninja messages on Twitter for a Danish band called…wait for it….Ginger Ninja. Oooo, look. They have a SPACE. I don’t. By that I mean a space between Ginger and Ninja. Not a MySpace space. I have one of those. It’s over at http://www.myspace.com/gingerninjanet and that’s part of the problem: GingerNinja is too popular a nickname.
When I first started this blog and grabbed the domain name, I found that GingerNinja was already in fairly common usage. So where I couldn’t grab “GingerNinja” for something, I would grab “GingerNinjaNet” instead. Problem is that that has led to much confusion and a lot of muckaroundiness in some places. Then Game Centre happened.
I jailbroke my iPhone 3G in order to add some functionality I wanted – LockInfo calendar notifications on the home screen and biteSMS allowing me to reply or send texts within apps without quitting – which meant that I delayed upgrading to 4.1 or 4.3 until a JB version was available. This was a delay of a month or so and by the time I got on there, “GingerNinja” was gone. On a whim, I chose “GeekDad3″ (which I have as an alternative gmail account and a test blogger blog). It snowballed from there with the culmination of the purchase of geekdad3.com yesterday.
Maybe it’s a maturity thing as I’m not the same gamer guy I was when I registered the domain back in the ’90s. Maybe it’s a convergence thing as I have geekdad3 accounts on Apple Game Centre, gmail, blogger, twitter, wordpress.com and now tumblr (which handles mini-blogs status updates which are automagically sent to Facebook and Twitter). Could be the new me? Well, just in case, I now own geekdad3.com and I’ve even come up with a logo that I like:


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