I am in the process of changing the title of my blog from "Crossing the Rubicon" to "Ryminate". I originally used "Crossing the Rubicon" because I love the meaning behind the phrase. From Wikipedia:
The Rubicon river is notable as Roman law forbade any general from crossing it with an army. The river was considered to mark the boundary between the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul to the north and Italy proper to the south; the law thus protected the republic from internal military threat. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, supposedly on January 10 of the Roman calendar, to make his way to Rome he broke that law and made armed conflict inevitable. According to Suetonius he uttered the famous phrase ālea iacta est ("the die is cast").[2]
Suetonius also described how Caesar was apparently still undecided as he approached the river, and the author gave credit for the actual moment of crossing to a supernatural apparition. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any people committing themselves irrevocably to a risky and revolutionary course of action – similar to the current phrase "passing the point of no return".
I love that. Nonetheless, I am going to file away my domain rubiconventures.com for later use and go with ryminate.com for the blog. "Ryminate" is derived from Ryan's ruminations. A bit corny I know, but I'm OK with corny. "Ruminate" is a great word that means "to chew over; reflect deeply on a subject." Also, a "ruminant" is "an animal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as cud, then eating (chewing) the cud, a process called ruminating." I think that's a great image of what I do mentally with the stuff I post. (I'm half kidding).
Over the next little while I'll be changing the header, changing the domain mapping, updating some links, etc. Hopefully I won't break anything.
(Oh and yes I did use the Web 2.0 logo generator for the current Ryminate logo :).
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