{"id":103,"date":"2008-07-10T01:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:09:53","slug":"patrickgillespie-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/patrickgillespie-website\/","title":{"rendered":"patrickgillespie.com &#8211; What Should I Do With It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people search for the phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=patrick+gillespie&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">&#8220;Patrick Gillespie&#8221;<\/a>, but those who do find that the first listing is a short little article about Patrick Gillespie failing to register as a sex offender. Once you read it you can see that it&#8217;s not about me, however, it kind of sucks to know that that&#8217;s what people see when they Google my name. A few girls I&#8217;ve dated have even brought it up, usually just to make a joke, but it does solidify my concern that people find information about me by Googling my name, and if someone is searching for me, I don&#8217;t want their first thought to be &#8220;Is this guy a sex offender?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today things took an interesting turn and I might be able to unseat that crappy website. I was notified by a fellow commenter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/treat-me-mean-i-need-the-reputation\">seomoz.org<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/patrickgillespie.com\/\">patrickgillespie.com<\/a> was available for purchase. This is the first time I&#8217;ve seen this domain available. In fact, it just went back on the market around 30 days ago. I think for the past 10 years or so some realtor has had it, or maybe someone just had it parked, but either way, it wasn&#8217;t very popular or memorable in its previous form. Part of me wonders if the owner let it expire by accident, but I guess that sucks for them. Though I did leave patrickgillespie.net and patrickgillespie.org available for other Patrick Gillespies to pick up.<\/p>\n<p>My main concern now is, what do I do with patrickgillespie.com? I could have it point here, but I kind of want to do something a little more creative, I&#8217;m just not sure what. Here are some ideas I was tossing around in my head:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Blog: This would be the easiest thing to do. However, I already have a livejournal I don&#8217;t update much, and I can&#8217;t say much about the work I do at work, so I&#8217;d feel like this angle might not be very fruitful.<\/li>\n<li>Topical Video Blog: Something where I could post videos to get across certain topics. I do a lot of online research, and sometimes I find some interesting videos on sites like youtube. A blog that assembled video information on various topics could be interesting.<\/li>\n<li>Resume Site: A boring option, and probably something that wouldn&#8217;t rank well, but a decent filler idea if I can&#8217;t decide on anything.<\/li>\n<li>A Weird Art Project: Something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokenarchive.org\/web\/untitled\/1.html\">this<\/a>, something that just makes people scratch their heads, however, they explore it further because it&#8217;s intriguing.<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Gillespie Information Center: Some kind of web app that aggregates information on people named Patrick Gillespie.<\/li>\n<li>Puzzle: Maybe have the page just be a puzzle of some sort. Like a riddle that the user has to solve and if they do they can get some kind of reward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That list basically makes up the ideas I was able to come up with today. Does anything jump out as a good idea? If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people search for the phrase &#8220;Patrick Gillespie&#8221;, but those who do find that the first listing is a short little article about Patrick Gillespie failing to register as a sex offender. Once you read it you can see that it&#8217;s not about me, however, it kind of sucks to know that that&#8217;s what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/patrickgillespie-website\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">patrickgillespie.com &#8211; What Should I Do With It?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}