My Mom and Dad got together to give me the first version of my nick name.

When I got to college, though, one of our friends took to calling everybody by their first and last names as if it was one long name (since we had more than enough Jims and Johns around to cause some confusion, and we were dazed and confused enough as it was.)

I don't know about the others, but in my case it stuck and I'm still called Jimdoria, so that's my primary nickname and my most persistent online identity. (I was jimdoria@aol for a long time until I left AO Hell behind. I kept paying for that stupid service for years just so I could keep the username.)

I have other nicknames I use for anonymous purposes, but they shall remain... um, anonymous. Ahh, the beauty of the Internet. Sadly, the jimdoria.com domain name belongs to some realtor in California. I keep hoping he'll let it lapse...

• Jimdoria  ~@>@