Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Rename Me

Right, loyal readers (if there are any of you left. My livejournal has been the most boring thing in the universe for the last couple of months), I have an important announcement to make.

Unbelievable as it may have seemed a while ago, I've been trying to gradually get rid of the name "wongchungbang" for the last couple of years. It may have been a clever name when I discovered the Internet, but nowadays it just sounds like the noise a sack of cutlery makes when it falls down the stairs. At least, I think so - others aren't so sure, as I still keep getting IMs asking me what part of China I come from. New accounts anywhere are now normally being registered under the name "Wong" (or even plain old "DavidKN"), which does remove a bit of the Googlability of my name, but that's a sacrifice I'm prepared to make.

As I've been mooching off Livejournal's free service for the last three years now, I think it's an ideal opportunity to spend a bit of money on a Rename card, or whatever other RPG-item name it's called, therefore keeping my archive of posts and automatically refactoring all links/friends/etc. I'm proposing to change my LJ name to "davidknewton", or, at a stretch, "davidxnewton".

Any thoughts?

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