A few years ago, I picked up IRONROAD.COM (after bidding more than US$300). I decided to use it for my flagship project, because it’s a transliteration of RAILROAD in Chinese; and we all know that our grandfathers actually travelled from China and helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway here back in the 19th century. So to me, “iron road” carries not only that connotation of a reliable network but also part of my heritage (so to speak).

Anyway, fast forward to less than 12 months later, the only Swedish entity I know (other than IKEA) came forward (albeit anonymously at first) and made an irresistible offer (of US$3,000, or an ROI of some 900%) to buy out this domain name, apparently for their mobile technology company (originally hosted at IRONROAD.SE). And this is how I sold my grandfather.

Finally decided on using SandaCom by Tobias Sandelius. No, it’s not my original design, but I just love how it embraces a corporate look via a blogging app like WordPress.

Hongcouver.com is pending launch in November 2010. Yes, it will be a work in progress, with both its content and form (a.k.a. design) undergoing some fine-tuning down the road. Hopefully, it will not be too annoying. :)