Saturday, May 31, 2008

Identity crisis

I did it again. I googled myself and then yahooed myself. At least I own my name on the net. Sat wondering how big that deal has become. An unusual name guarantees self named user ID's .
I am lucky to have an unusual surname that way. Lucky because my parents weren't born in this generation and named me so simply because it rhymed with an elder cousin brother's nomenclature.
No one is born with a name.Tomorrows parents have so much more to think about. Here is my take on the ground rules (in no particular order)
  1. The beginning letters should ensure school roll numbers fall safely in the middle.
  2. Shouldn't be common as that would mean an email ID like "ravi1962007superstar" ( it exists!!)
  3. Unique but not too much (preferably use a less common alphabet like Q in the beginning)
  4. Shouldn't be weird ( hard for a name beginning with Q!!!)
  5. Should be pronounceable in most accents ( heard a story of a girl named Kaamini being called "Kameeni" ('wicked woman' in Hindi) by her accentually challenged American boss)
  6. Shouldn't be long (think of the endless forms that she will have to fill in her life time)
  7. Shouldn't be short ( almost always will result in problem as in Point 2 above)
  8. Should be something that, when shortened would result in something that sounds cool ( examples are too tragic to be mentioned)
  9. Finally it should also mean something nice!!!
Here are a few nice links I found on myself though:

A French trend watching site thought that one of my ideas was...er...well it is in French and here it is
This site featured my website on their blog (one of their inaugural issues). This link is here




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