Joe Auricchio

My alternate nick on IRC is ‘utf8′. I use that pretty much whenever I sign on from anything except my Linux server’s irssi. Since the main account jauricchio is already on, I can’t use that of course. So I use utf8. I like it, because it just looks like an inscrutable acronym. Plus it’s short and nicely pronounceable.

When I signed up for Xbox Live last week, I couldn’t recover my old gamertag. So I chose a new one: utf8.

Now I want to link my Live account to an email address (really, to a Passport account), but I’d rather not have it reveal my name, as most of my existing addresses do.

utf8 is too short for a GMail account name.

So how do these sound?

• 8bitclean@whatever
• omgutfbbq@whatever or omg.utf.bbq@whatever
• omgutf8bbq@whatever or omg.utf8.bbq@whatever
• Completely open to suggestions!

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