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[N. Thompson]

I've thought of a new nickname, took me three days :-) .
I had to play around with words for a long time to come up with it, 
first I was thinking of nate but that was taken everywhere, then I tried 
n4te, nat3, n4t3 and all sorts of other variations including n8. Finally 
I don't know how but I thought of picking a name based on my first 
computer which was a celeron and from that I came up with celerate. I 
checked its availability on freenode, blogger and gmail and as it turns 
out it was available so now I'm using "celerate".

I just finished registering it with FreeNode, putting a placeholder blog 
at celerate.blogspot.com and my new secondary e-mail account is 
celerate at gmail.com , I'm fairly please with the new nickname, its simple 
and apparently not taken up everywhere on the Internet... until now that 
is :-) .

Just a note to everyone who's been contacting me at either 
ntws01 at yahoo.com or n.t at myrealbox.com, the entire point of changing 
nicknames and getting the new gmail account was so I could get rid of my 
old yahoo/geocities/myrealbox/... accounts, my Sasktel account isn't 
changing though so n.thomp at sasktel.net will continue to be my main 
e-mail account.

Josiah Ritchie (WBC/CBS) wrote:

> I usually use flickerfly. I just let my mind wander one evening. I 
> then build other names (like my blog) from it. Nics often don't have 
> much meaning. I'd avoid imitation of items (like movie characters) as 
> that could get old. Also, try not to be inspired by others names. That 
> seems... non-creative.
>
> Wander until something catches your fancy or tickles your brain. Don't 
> try to force it. Make sure it is something that you feel comfortable 
> portraying you. It is people's first impression of you in many cases 
> online.
>
> JSR/



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