On Starting "What’s for Dinner?"

I’ve been thinking about blogging for a while, but it wasn’t really until a couple of days ago that I finally joined the ranks of millions of bloggers. Why now? Well, I’m enrolled in a social media certificate program at the University of Washington and I was tasked with doing a PPT presentation on blogging. Part of the presentation needed to include a ‘how-to-use-a-blogging-tool’ demonstration. So, I decided to walk my class through how easy it is to start a blog. The hard part is to blog about anything that’s even remotely interesting for people to read. After all a blog is all about me, Me, ME!

Since I’m always thinking about eating (if I’m not actually eating), I thought food would be a great topic. Next, I had to come up with a name for the blog. I thought What’s for Dinner? would be a good start. While it was no problem selecting that name for my blog, it was of course unlikely that nobody else among the 400+ million English language blogs hadn’t already chosen that domain name.

But I tried it anyway with a couple of back up names in mind:

• What’s for dinner?  –  not available
• I Wonder What’s for Dinner?  –  ditto, not available
• Hmm, I Wonder What’s for Dinner?  –  Bingo, available

And, that’s the URL for the blog:

http://hmm-iwonderwhatsfordinner.blogspot.com