Tuesday, March 29, 2005

LJ Name Change

I've long been puzzled by the habit some people have of referring to others on their blogs by live journal username rather than by real name. This strikes me as odd - no one ever calls me "Buserian", it's just a name that I use because you have to sign up as something online, and "Graham" is normally taken. The habit also has the slight problem of making blogs unreadable for those not "in the know". If you have coffee with Susan I'm far more likely to know who you mean and be interested than if you have coffee with sexycyberwitch37. (Of course, perhaps the faux-anonymity and exclusivity is the point. I dunno. And if you *are* sexycyberwitch37, great username, please say hi!)

Anyway, it turns out that "grahamrobinson" is available as a username on live journal. So I've signed it up, and will be switching over the mirror to that username as soon as I find the time. Anyone with content locked to friends that they might want me to read should add the new name to their friends list and any filters - I don't expect I'll be using the buserian account much from now on.

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