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I am the real WEBmikey
5.31.2006 11:08 PM \| Link	The story behind why this site is called WEBmikey (and why some of my friends and co-workers call me WEBmikey) is semi-interesting. Throughout my life I've gone by most variations of my name (such as Michael or Mike), but when I started working at Works (where I met some of my best pals), I also truly started my Childhood Mikey phase, so I started signing some emails as "Mikey". The more I did it, the more it stuck, and I liked it when people called me Mikey! About that time I got excited about starting a website (commonly called "vanity sites" back in 2000, before blogging was a household word!), so I did a domain search for something with Mikey in it, and one of the suggestions was "webmikey". It sounded kind of cool, and I thought it would be a nice online persona, so I went with it (adopting my unusual caps and lower-case because I wanted it to look HTML-ish). After I started the site and sent my friends an email, the next day I was hearing "Hey WEBmikey!" in the halls, and now I really like it! Strangely enough, now I want to be the only WEBmikey! I love Googling "webmikey" to find references to me and my site, but it bugs me that there are a few more webmikeys out there. I find three pretty often: someone registered at Overstock Auctions (but not selling anything), someone using Magnolia to tag their bookmarks, and someone who posts on the Philippine Macintosh Users Group boards. I think those last two might be the same person (at least they are a Mac user!). I kind of feel like signing up for every new web service I find just so I can "protect" my precious online name! I just signed up on MySpace today, just because it's becoming such a phenomenon and everyone in the world is on it, and thankfully I'm the first WEBmikey! Labels: life


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