This short piece is published on my bearblog, 14th November 2025.

This Bearblog was first called zm. It was nonsense except it was the abbreviation of my real name. I started thinking if there is any better name to use.

Then I stumbled into something interesting. The error window popped up in my head: The memory could not be written. It’s a classic Windows error and we, the people in China, often see a wrong translation of this error in the past 20 maybe 30 years since Windows 95.

The interesting thing is that there is no way to translate 该内存不能为written back into english. And the meaning of this error can be interpreted into two ways. One is as it officially means “a program was trying to save data to a specific location in the computer’s memory but was blocked”, the other one is “we can not write down something we remember”. It was very fun when I found this out. I bet there are people found it fun too.

So I changed my blog name to The memory could not be written. I hope it means: no matter how hard we try to write our memories down, they can never be the same as we remember in the first place.

Even more fun, I asked Grok to access this site. It replies:

However, when I tried to access it, I ran into an error (“The memory could not be written”) and couldn’t retrieve meaningful content— it might be down, under maintenance, or facing a temporary glitch on the hosting side.

Then I suddenly laughed out loud. I didn’t see that coming.

As it turns out, it was indeed a good name. It can prevent DDoS attacks launched by AI crawlers by doing nothing at all. It just exists there. I feel like I could keep this name forever until I stop writing or die someday.

I still recall this name from time to time. I remembered I started a little project “write 100 pieces in english in 100 days” and I stopped at number 57. I didn’t feel sorry but feel as if relieved.