What's in a name?

[stephbg]

I sometimes wonder if I should change the name of my blog to something a little more dignified, witty or clever. And then I wonder if I'm being unacceptibly pretentious. At that point I realise that no-one but myself is paying attention. But then I look at the counter and think, well, *someone's* paying attention. Then I remind myself to come back to reality.

But in the end I have to ask: Does anyone give a damn what the thing is called? And do you care about yours?

ETA: I refer not to my username, but the blog name "Propping up a dodgy memory: it's for me to keep track of myself"

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Well, I frequently refer to you verbally as stephbg to distinguish you from Stefan or skwerlie-Steph or jeremy's-friend-Steph. But I would be intrigued as to what you would change it to - and after black_samvara and stickykitty's changes, I'm just about recovered from the mind-shock of reading past entries and seeing people's new tag show up where they originally put the old one.

As to my own, I've mixed feelings about it. I originally coined it for MUDding back when I read a lot of fat fantasy, so it's not particularly representative of who I am now. But it does uniquely identify me - the first page of google now tracks down most of the social networking sites I've tinkered with. I still release c64 stuff as "Christopher Jam," despite that handle's verbosity.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I refer to your blog title 'Christopher's Ramblings' rather than your username. I'm not inclined to come up with an alternative username for myself. I've never been a great one for nicknames, and the various terms of endearment used by family and Husband wouldn't make particularly suitable public usernames.

One of my sisters calls me Kidlet. My father used to call me Stephalococcus. Husband calls me Bunny. In primary school they called me Stick, or Brain. Later they called me Cube (because I was so square).

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Ah - oops. Re-reading your post, you were actually quite clear about that. Let's try this again.

No, I like the current title. It's already witty and dare I say it "hip," in a very Web 2.0 kind of way. You've done well.

(though I must admit, I think Stephalococcus is a great nickname!)