I own my name
A number of folks and many news sites have linked to Michael Hanscom who got fired for blogging/posting a photo about Apple G5s at Microsoft.
Reading his site, I was impressed by his even-handedness and maturity in relation to the whole 'y'all's fired, nah git' episode. Reading through other posts on his blog I came across this post which points to an excellent article by Anil Dash, privacy through identity control. You may disagree with his conclusions, but I think Anil sums up the reality of life in the Internet Age, perfectly.
His article and Michael's comments were enough for me to finally do something that I've been wanting to do for ages, but until now never felt comfortable doing: I registered colinpretorius.com (and .org and .net just for luck).
I've blogged before that Google knows about at least four Colin Pretoriuses. I'm sure there are others on their way. If I didn't register colinpretorius.com, one of these blokes would have, and I'd spend the rest of my life kicking myself for missing this (truly) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Cool :-)
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