As I had mentioned in a previous post, I have been busy trying to figure out my business name. I had been reading all the "expert" advice on the web. One interesting piece is found at IGOR (Formerly 100 Monkeys, who are in the business of coming up with names).
(and some other interesting articles in their Press Section)
'Igor' talks about looking to your competition and see what they are calling themselves. Come up with ideas. Push the envelope. etc. (I am paraphrasing).
I said "Hey, I've got a million ideas - sadly none of them are good enough for my business name" *pause* "what about calling myself 1,000,000 ideas?" *pause* "Nah, it really doesn't say anything about what I do..." *sigh* "neat name though... one million... that's a really big number... how can anyone really grasp how big a number it is... i'm sure someone has come up with a representation... it'd be easy... just make an image with 1,000,000 dots... it wouldn't be that big... it wouldn't be hard to do... I could do that in like 3 minutes... I wonder what it does look like..."
And so I made the image.
Alex points out that the image is broken. I'm pretty sure it works. I can see it fine on my 1600x1200 resolution screen. The problem is that 2x2px black dots with only 2px of white space around them ends up looking like a big gray screen. Squinting really hard or using the magnifying glass accessibility tool in windows might help to see the bigger picture.
As for why I did it at 2:00am? Its what I do at night - work. Sleeping is for wimps... but if I do have to sleep its between the hours of 5-11... and anyone awake during those ungodly hours is nutty. I suppose its either that i'm wired for life on the west coast - or that the world is simply a quieter place in the wee hours of the morning and I can actually get work done without distraction.
Now - if I'm ever going to have to start keeping normal business hours I might go insane - but if it means getting paid - I'm up for it.
andre
Posted by andre at August 12, 2004 08:48 PM