What’s in a name? Back in 2002, I named my new blog Daddy Blog because it was going to be a blog of anecdotal stories about fatherhood. I googled around, and there wasn’t anything called Daddy Blog, although there was a new one called Blog Daddy which I didn’t see at the time.

So I went with it. Little did I know that blogging would get big. So big, that Daddy Blog now turns out to be a completely nondescript generic name.

Why is it called my dilemma now? Well, partly because I own the domain dlma.com. (Aside from sounding like “dilemma,” the letters are the initials of the members of my family.) I considered Daddy Dilemma, but Google said that that was an already quite popular phrase that usually described the conflict between work and family. That’s not exactly where I want to go with this blog.

Fine, that would be the Daddy Dilemma. This would be my dlma.

Over the years, the sites been through a few redesigns:

• First was the completely hand-tuned FogCreek CityDesk version.
• Second was a design based on the WordPress Wuhan template. There as a short-lived refinement where I cleaned up some of the style. Can you spot the differences? I agonized over them!
• The third design is based off Blogger’s Minima design.