Born again Awesome!

For anyone who has been following this blog at all (not that I've really given you much to follow), you will notice that I made some changes. There were various reasons for the changes, but what it really boils down to is my level of commitment and seriousness. I wondered what would happen if I actually spent a bit more time and money on this little endeavor. Come to find out, I didn't need to spend much of either to make a huge strides in the professionalism of my site.

The first big change you may notice is the color, I moved from black to white. I have been noticing for a long time that the black minima layout on blogger is hugely popular, I mean everyone has it! It's a great layout, don't get me wrong, but if I was going to lay down a little skin, I wanted to look a bit different. So, I went with a white, slightly customized minima layout. Not bad. Someday I may try to get one designed or even, gasp, learn how to do it myself, but this works for now.

The second big change you will notice is the name. I moved away from "Get Swinked" (what the hell did that mean anyway?...actually "swink" is an archaic German verb, meaning 'to labor or toil' so in essence, it meant, 'get worked' weird.) Getting back on track, I decided to officially coin the term "Awesomeosophy." I'm definitely not the first to say it, but I'm the first to register the domain, score. I chose this name because A: I am awesome, B: I'm trying to get more awesome, and C: it gives my blog a theme to shoot for, the study and exploration of all things awesome. This will mean a lot of reviews on things that I find that I deem awesome, and rants and raves about things I find not-awesome.

The third big change I made is the registering of a real domain name so I could drop the noob sounding ".blogspot.com" from the end of my URL. I've been putting it off because I "didn't want to spend the money." Well, guess what...it costs a whole $10 to do. That's right, for $10 I get one year of registration, and my blog is already hosted on blogspot, oh, and I also get Google apps, so now I have email addresses with the domain... @awesomeosophy.com. Want one? I get a whole bunch of them, and I don't know that many people.