I’m jittery with anticipation. I don’t know why. Silly things happening all around me tend to do that.

Unrelatedly, I was out wandering at lunch and some guy hands me a button — you know the pin-on kind — that reads “Get Naked July 22″ in stark black letters on a white background. That’s always strange. Apparently it’s advertising for some new play that’s coming to town, but I’m not entirely sure…

Nakedness aside (and we all know posting anything to do with “NAKED” in this blog tends to attract hoards of Googlers looking for porn) I have been plotting a mental-lapse into the online business world. For those of you who know, I have been trying and toeing, trying to culminate my creative and technical skill base into some waiting opportunity. Now that I have culminated enough to the point of launch, I figure it’s now or never and — quite honestly — I have just been waiting for that “golden” opportunity to smack me in the face. Enter brainwave while I’m riding the bus to work, and a few minutes later scanning the net-registrars for the slim hope that every single domain name relating to the (now upcoming) 2010 winter olympics in (yes, for sure now) Vancouver was not already taken, I discovered that one was actually available. In my eyes — and what the heck do I know really — it was a good one (aforementioned) and could potentially represent a moderate investment. Did you know that it literally costs eight or nine bucks (US$) to register a domain name? Did you know that it literally costs just a few bucks a month to host that domain name somewhere and have your very own website?

Everyone has been laughing or shirking the fact that I’ve gone and done this: “Is it reeeeeally worth that much?” they ask.

I reply that at the moment: “No.” It’s worth about $8 a year.

Properly developed — however — and then subsequently, properly marketted (and this is made all that much easier by the tie-in to an international sporting event taking place in approximately seven years) it can be a gold-mine.

Thus, my current status is to simply till the soil of my new internet place (like a real eastate investor knowing that he holds the deed to a vacant lot on “the next big thing”), and — over the next few weeks — determine what I’m going to build there, how I’m going to maintain it, and who is going to help me. More to follow, I’m sure, but for now anyone interested in a ground floor investment of time, skill, or (hem hem) cash is more than welcome to contact me for further discussions.