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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

my nickname is a catchy little six letter word for that girl at the keyboard first given to me by my mother on the day i was a born. clearly she had foresight.

i've been using the internet since 1992, but it wasn't in earnest until 1995, i've been publishing anywhere anyone would let me as long as i can remember. this includes print, web, television, radio, street corners, kinkos, and bathroom walls. i have no intention of stopping.