Hi everyone,
As the cuckoo chick that was recently - and surprisingly - welcomed into this warm nest, I will tell you some more about myself
this time, in a desperate effort to blend in
I first started "coding" in 1984 at the age of 14, on my Commodore 64 of course. It took me 10 more years to start making webpages. And even 10 more to start worrying about the sad number of people actually visiting my websites! I had to start learning about SEO and I had to do it fast.
You all probably know that I'm not one of the WMW crew. I went to SEOChat instead (*gasp*), learned how to rank my pages #1 there, and was asked to mod the place after that. That was my first mod job -- many more would follow after that. I think I've even been a mod over @ Threadwatch, but hey: haven't we all?
Anyway... I chose Wit as my forum nickname, which is part of my name and also means "white" in Dutch. For the record, contrary to what Earlgrey of Syndk8 fame has made people believe: I am NOT from the North Pole (and I am NOT available for Bar Mitsvahs either). Of course as a SC mod, that nickname pretty much matched my public hat colour. I'm not a SC mod anymore tho. I pretty much started their November 2005 dip, when I got mad with the admins and consequently got most mods and regulars to leave the place and join other forums instead.
Earlier, when the Earl asked me to fiddle with his new forum (back when I was still mr. nice guy @ SEOChat), I chose a nickname that meant the opposite in Dutch: Zwart, meaning "black". Nowadays, it doesn't really matter anymore which nickname I use. Nothing's a secret anymore, now is it? I've been using both nicknames here and there ever since, because I am in fact a chequered hat number. Now also using some other forum nicknames on the side...
That said, more recently I have turned into a "nightcap magnolia hat". My day job (not really web related) leaves me little time to juggle my websites. And still I mod/admin a gazillion forums, none of which are my own BTW, but I
have fitted some of them with nuke buttons that only take 0.2 seconds to wipe the twonks off, so that's good.
Mainly because of this lack of time, I have been to less than a handful of "unconferences". I've met maybe a dozen of you peeps, mainly around Manchester, and talked to maybe half a dozen of you for more than a couple of minutes. Only some of you, I got to know a little better still
Most of you tho, I recognise from forums, blogs and websites all over the web. So I'm very glad to still be part of this - from up close even.
Cheers and thanks for having me, Zwart.
P.S.: with my
first name I could well be a
Joker or even a
Gangster of Love, but I could also be a Hairdresser with questionable cred.
So that's mainly why I stuck to variants on my
last name instead.
