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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:15 pm
by Mikam73
carlsson wrote:Bacon wrote:Nothing beats a Sunday breakfast with bacon, fried eggs, toast and black, hot coffee.
Except for a breakfast with spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam?
Dont fry other Vic20 users...
You evil swedish..
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:09 pm
by Bacon
carlsson wrote:Bacon wrote:Nothing beats a Sunday breakfast with bacon, fried eggs, toast and black, hot coffee.
Except for a breakfast with spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam?
That's the only exception of course. Spam beats everything. Especially if it's served with more spam. And some spam on the side. <singing>Spam, spam, spam, wonderful spam!</singing>
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:19 pm
by ravenxau
Raven from the Edgar Allen Poe poem / Boris Karloff movie + X roman numeral for 10 (no idea why?) + au (as in .au for australia).
Kind of odd, but it just evolved that way
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:34 pm
by SuperPsycho
I don't really know why I chose my username. All I know is it's a lot less bland and unrememberable than using my innitials "MSC" like I used to do.
Actually I found this place running a search on my username on google....(which by the way I am Google's #1 SuperPsycho.. searching my username brings up my own website as the first result)
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:27 am
by s_brune
Mine's a combination of my first initial and my last name.
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:32 pm
by Boray
SuperPsycho wrote:searching my username brings up my own website as the first result)
Searching for Boray on Google, my homepage is just the second (and third....)
/Anders
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:49 pm
by Jeff-20
How do you get your page listed high on google? have any of you submitted to their directory?
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:08 pm
by SuperPsycho
Jeff-20 wrote:How do you get your page listed high on google? have any of you submitted to their directory?
I think it has to do with how many links google finds refering to it as far as how high it goes... but yes, I did submit my site's link to google. I'm sure though that if you search for things that are on my site other than my username, it doesn't show so high.
username
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:43 am
by ravenxau
Googled my user name and my site was the third listed - although the other hits were in relation to posts on other forum's. It mad me smile to see my site listed on google.
http://ravenxau.tripod.com
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:45 pm
by Boray
I haven't posted mine....
Try to search for "vic20 software". My page is first! But if you write "vic-20 software" instead, then it's in place 26 instead... I think it seems the title of your page is of great importance... Just "Denial::" is maybe not a hit. Try to get "vic" in there...
/Anders
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 7:26 pm
by SuperPsycho
Boray wrote:I haven't posted mine....
Try to search for "vic20 software". My page is first! But if you write "vic-20 software" instead, then it's in place 26 instead... I think it seems the title of your page is of great importance... Just "Denial::" is maybe not a hit. Try to get "vic" in there...
/Anders
Also, you can use Meta Tags to add search words that won't show up on the page.... That and you can make a Meta Tag that will show up under your site's entry in the search engine as a description. You can see an example of this in the source for the entry page of my site.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Welcome</title>
<meta name="description"
content="Welcome to SuperPsycho's Place. The website of someone obsessed with retro-gaming, and vintage computers, as well as Sonic the Hedgehog. Check out my TI-85 calculator doodles!">
<meta name="keywords"
content="ti85, ti-85, apple, iigs, //c, atari, trade, videogame, videogames, video, games, game, computer, commodore64, retrogaming, retro-gaming, Sonic the Hedgehog">
</head>
<body>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="
http://homepage.mac.com/superpsycho/index2.html"><img
src="
http://homepage.mac.com/superpsycho/.Pi ... elcome.jpg"
title="" alt="Welcome. Click here to continue."
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 208px; height: 96px;"></a><br>
<br>
<br>
</small></small></small></a><small><small><small><img
src=".Pictures/out_linking/superpsycho.gif" alt="SP's banner"
style="border: 0px solid ;"></small></small></small><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 9:06 pm
by CurtisP
Warning, topic diversion!!!
Anyway, Curtis is my given name. The P was added by my doctor's husband, he just started calling me Curtis P one day.
Then in the spirit of Bud "Grandmaster B" Bundy, I decided to go by the name "Rappin' Curtis P - Cause the Chicks dig it"
Now I just stick whatever adjective is handy on the front.
The reason I use my name and not a handle, is because my early contributions to the Commodore world were all made under my real name.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 2:04 am
by carlsson
In the world of LISP programmers, p stands for predicate, i.e. a conditional which basically yields true or false like oddp or stringp. A funny example is a predicate to test for Elvis; elvisp. In the same fashion, you could test for Curtis with curtisp..
My handle, used in some productions, is Zapac. It would derive from a cool sound (zap!) and my initials. I've never been an active part of the scene though, only by-scene. I prefer to keep username and handle separate, although some people may consider it to be the same thing. On my web hotel, I had to choose login name and as my preferred username was already occupied, I chose my handle (but that is only of private interest).
Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:03 am
by Tonks
Tonks has been my nick name for over 20 years, since i was in primary school. My surname is Tonkin, so it is simply and abreviation of that.
Tonks has remained my "handle" in many things, including ebay, email address, other forums and what I am still called to this day by the majority of my friends.
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:47 am
by KilrPilr
I think (hope) most can guess where my user name comes from but for those who never read many early vic-20 magazines or played the game, my user name comes from the Vic-20 Game KillerPiller. Its not my favourite game or anything, I thought the name sounded cool and I like the picture of the KillerPiller which is my avatar. I adapted it to KilrPilr to fit the 8 character restriction on irc .
Leo
