Without further ado, the top of my list would have to be thinking of business names. A business is going to be the brand and the face of your company, something the public will come to recognize. You certainly don’t want a bad name and everyone’s opinion differs in the type of name they want. With me personally, and this happens every time with just about every business I get involved in, I tend to spend a LOT of time thinking of a name that fits. It isn’t difficult in the sense of trying to figure out what to do, it isn’t stressful, and it isn’t exactly like any of the other aspects of business, but it is one that annoying to say the least.

I know you guys are out there and a ton of you read this blog because you tell me so, so I want to know what is the number 1 thing you hate most about conducting your own business. It could literally be anything, and there is obviously no right or wrong answer. I just had a discussion online with someone and I came up with an answer that isn’t bad at all, it’s just something I hate doing because it ends up being so time consuming.

I won’t disclose what it is right now but I’ll post my answer later after everyone else comments with theirs. If you normally read and don’t comment, now would be a good time to jump in and let me know.

Some people asked me about what .me stood for. As far as I know, it is an expression of oneself, aka “me”. That’s all it is. Just like how .com was meant for commercial use (and not it’s just use for everything being the most popular domain extension) and how .net was for network or networking.

Regardless of what it stood for, there was an opportunity to make money off this because rare domain names such as 3 character or 4 character domain names are really good for resell value in the eyes of a domaineer (someone who buys and sells domains for a living aka virtual real estate).

Of course everyone wanted cool domain names such as aweso.me, fuck.me, etc… but those were likely to be taken first. I told my friends about it and a few of them manage to secure some really good domain names. I won’t disclose what domains they scored because I am unsure whether or not they would want me to do so. I did look up several domain names I was interested in, but in the end, decided not to buy the domain names, even if they were available. While there is money to be made in these domain names, I suspect this will be a fad that will quickly die out.

I probably could have gotten the domain name, listed them in the online public auctions where the domains are not being sold off, but for whatever reason, decided against registering them at the last moment (that may turn out to be a fatal error on my part later). In any event, GoDaddy seems to be one of the few places that are offering .me domain registrations. The cost is $19.99/year and there is a minimum 2 year purchase required. Therefore you have to pay $39.98 per domain + $10 per domain for privacy if you choose it (which I recommend).

All in all, it’s still a worthwhile price if you can score some really good domain names. There were a few I would have been willing to buy but these were taken long before they hit the public yesterday. If you didn’t know about .me domains and their availability first thing yesterday, chances are you probably lost out on some really good domains but no matter, you can still try to register something now, as they are millions still available!

So with all that, I also managed to spend some time with my dad which was awesome. Both he and I were sort of sad the visit was for such a brief moment but I was down here mainly for business and had a lot of things that needed to get done outside of just hanging out and going out to places.

I also manage to take care of some things while I was down here so overall the trip has been really great. My friend and I are going to spend some time tomorrow hanging out with some of our clients that live down here playing some Frisbee Golf. I’ve only played it once before way back in College. For those who don’t know what Frisbee Golf is, it’s a 9-18 course just like a golf course but instead of golf balls and holes, you have a frisbee and something to catch is in. It’ll be pretty good. They all wanted to go catch The Dark Knight on Imax but unfortunately for everyone the tickets were sold out completely all the way till Monday.

For sure I’ll be catching that movie but I already have plans on doing so with my girlfriend back home in Seattle so we’ll see how things turn out. I sure hope that all of you guys are staying productive/active and keeping busy with whatever it is you’re doing as well and hopefully you guys are having a blast in life. I know I am

I only took a brief tour yesterday after arriving at the airport around town and my friend and I ate a seafood restaurant right off the bay area in front of Alcatraz. It was pretty good. We ordered a whole crab, some other dishes and deserts plus appetizer. I liked it except for one of the Salmon dish we ordered, it was super bland. I should take pictures next time! In any case, will be posting again as soon as I have some pictures!

A lot of people aren’t aware that I moved out at age 15. Actually, the correct statement would be, both my parents decided to move out of state when I was 15. They were still together at the time. Needless to say I didn’t want to follow along since all my friends and everything else in my life was still in Oregon at the time. So I stayed behind as they moved to Washington. Three years later, shortly after High School graduation, my parents went their separate ways and I went on to college. My mom now resides in northern washington near the border of Canada while my dad lives in Oakland. A lot has change in the past decade and I am sure things will continue to progress and change. I can honestly say it wasn’t easy moving out at such a young age and I only know of a few others who have done the same. I am sure many readers would be interested in knowing the full story and several who know me have already asked many questions pertaining to how, why, etc… I am sure I’ll get to it someday in the near future…

In the meantime, please look forward to my updates from San Fran!

According to the site it’s “a free package of helpful publications on saving, investing, protecting and getting the most for your money”. I want to note I haven’t seen this package but I have placed an order to check it out. You can order up to 3 kits and shipping appears to be free. Website says allow up to 4 weeks for delivery. Enjoy!

Pixar movies are famous for their short film clips before the movie and with the release of WALL-E, this came as no exception. I saw WALL-E opening weekend but could not find a Presto clip available. My gf than sent me the clip last night =]

So if you haven’t seen it, enjoy!

PS It would appear I’ve been on a Movie going mood because I’ve seem to have watched plenty of the movies that have came out since Iron Man including Hulk, Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E, Wanted, Hancock, The Love Guru, Indiana Jones, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, etc… I won’t be doing a review for all of them but I think majority of them were worth watching in my opinion to some degree if not a lot except for Love Guru and Indiana Jones. I wasn’t particularly fond of those movies and You Don’t Mess With The Zohan was a bit of a disappointment as well.