Pages Tagged “Naming”
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- What the heck is a Hyperborea? When I bought a personal domain name back in 2000, I wanted a name from fantastical geography. Atlantis was waaaay taken.
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- Blog Moved to KVibber.com
Moving on from Hyperborea, the name I picked based on a 1970s adventure movie back in 2000. Plus I can clean up some of the technical complexity caused by running this blog in a subfolder.
- Tropical Depression
According to NOAA, a tropical depression is “not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator 😉”
- Naming the Flu
Swine flu? H1N1? Mexican flu? Does the name even matter?
- Cataloging Worlds
What’s the best way to catalog a fictional multiverse? Clear definitions, or fluid? Names or numbers? How do you choose the numbers?
- What comes after X?
A few years ago, it seemed like everyone was using X in their software versions. Mac OS X. Windows XP with DirectX and ActiveX*. Flash MX, ColdFusion MX, and anything else by Macromedia MX. Macromedia managed to confuse things by releasing two rounds of MX versions, such as Flash MX, Flash MX 2004 (essentially versions 6 and 7). It’s fallen a bit out of […]
- Lots of Wind
You know, somehow I wasn’t convinced we’d actually run out of hurricane names this year, even though it looked possible. But the National Hurricane Center has just named tropical storm depression Alpha, marking the first time more than 21 tropical storms have been recorded in the Atlantic in one year.
- Who needs version numbers, anyway?
Just a day after Firefox decided to jump from 1.1 to 1.5 (triggering far more discussion than the numbering change really deserved), Microsoft has announced the official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista. Okaaay. Yeah, I can see the connection: a vista is something you see through a window. But at that point, why not just […]