I just did a Google search on “Brian Coltrane” and found that this name was more popular than I thought. Lucky for me, I got first in line on the domain years ago.

There’s Brian Coltrane, the banker/insurance guy in Georgia. There’s Brian Coltrane, the real estate dude in Minnesota. And there’s Brian Coltrane, the web developer in Texas.

I’m not related to any of those Brian Coltranes, so don’t blame them for this blog.

Years ago, one of my good friends and cousins grabbed this domain for me and set up the blog. It was like giving a kid a ream of blank paper and box of crayons – I was free to go nuts and doodle all I wanted. I’d also grabbed all the AIM id’s, email addresses, My Space pages and stuff that I wanted wtihout challenge from other Brian Coltranes. Now it’s come back the other way, because there’s other Brian Coltranes on Facebook and LinkedIn who beat me to the punch there.

With all the respectable Brian Coltranes in the world, I feel some guilt that my blog comes up first when you do a google search by the name. Not a lot of guilt, but some. I suppose it would ease my guilt if I sold this domain to another Brian Coltrane who could turn it into a professional site and promote themselves well. For the right money, I’d probably let it go.

As it is now, this domain belongs to a hack writer who uses it for free-form rambling. This blog does everything “wrong” ya know. I don’t post on it enough. I don’t have a specific topic or a target audience. I don’t have a huge purpose or vision with it. It’s simply been like an open diary, or a personal scrapbook. I take it out and put something in here once in awhile. Sometimes I merely visit and flip through the old pages, looking at where I’ve been, wondering if there’s a clue within as to where I’m going.

And this time, I’m thinking about my fellow Brian Coltranes. I wish them all well. I wonder if any of them has ever found something useful here, or if they will, perhaps, in the future. Something for me to keep in mind on my upcoming posts.