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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.

Well, truth be told, the nickname came from my chosen hobby as a "professional" cartoonist. Way back in the early days of HTML and expensive domain registrations I decided I'd purchase the domain, www.kartooner.com, the 'K' a clever replacement for the 'C' and use it as a portfolio of sorts.

Eventually blogging fever caught the better of me and in late 2001 I transformed kartooner.com into a blog, utilizing at the time Movable Type (since then it's now powered by Wordpress). I figured by creating the site into a blog/portfolio I could easily maintain it and that it would give me an excuse to flex my writing skills, which range from quirky to informative and somewhere inbetween.

Bottomline: The truth behind the name kartooner is that while most people thought that I was trying to be different and I was, but mostly it just sounded cool at the time.