Certain so-called friends of mine, have been known, on occasion, to refer to me as Captain Faff.

For you non-British readers, the word 'faff', in verb form, means to waste time not getting something done, to procrastinate, to over-complicate matters, or spend time on stuff that isn't important. The noun form of faff, describes an activitiy that is unnecessarily difficult to complete.

Despite my reputation for procrastination, I have finally settled on a new name for this site, and a new domain name.

Actually, part of the delay was caused by my holding out for maxturner.com to become available. It expired on the 7th October, and seemingly hadn't been renewed by its owner, but a month later, it still wasn't available, so I gave up.

As you may recall, I consulted with you for opinions on what new domain name I should register. Thank you, all of you for your kind time and brain cells. An even bigger thanks to my elite team of advisors, who I used for more detailed opinions on the shortlist of possible names.

I nearly went with maxturner.net, or maxturner.org, but it all sounded a bit dull for a site such as this. The final nail in the coffins of those domain names was an astute observation by Jodi, which was echoed by another friend of mine later the same day, that I should have something a little more fun.

Just as I was about to hit the hay, late two nights ago, inspiration came to me. It wasn't from the list of suggestions you sent in. Sorry. I'd always hoped to use one of them. Instead, it just came to out of nowhere!

The new site, which will really be a continuation of this site only cuter, will be called:

In case you're wondering why I'm saying Maxwell, and not just Max, it's so that it has the same number of syllables as the movie from which it's a (hopefully) humourous derivation.

For the record, I like to be called Max. You can call me Maxwell if you must, but I prefer Max. Calling me Maxi, Maxie, Maxo or any derevation thereof, will just prove to me what unfunny and unoriginal dickwads some people can be.

I'm hoping that the graphical style will be similar, but not the same as, elements of that movie's poster and/or title.

I have a lot of work to do on it, as I'm going to be moving from the Blogger system to MoveableType. This, combined with designing a new look, and recovering all the old archives and moving them, may take a fair bit of time.

My hosting for the new site is all set up, and I've stuck a "Coming Soon" page in place at the new URL.

So, set your phasers to: dialmformax.com