I was going to use a pen name of Vitellus, but that was already taken in Blogspotdom, so I chose Abagond – completely made up by me five minutes ago. I just looked it up with Google – not a single reference!
I want to be able to write freely about anything and anyone and to do this, I must change around the names. Only public persons, like the queen or Beyonce, will be called by their real names. So if I start talking about Phil Oleander and you happen to know a Phil Oleander, know this: I never knew him.
They say there are 10 million blogs. So anyone who happens on this blog is unlikely to know me or anyone I talk about. And a search on their real names or mine would never dredge up this blog.
There! That was not so bad.
Postscript (2014): Abagond probably comes from ABAG and Trebizond. ABAG is the Association of Bay Area Governments, which frequently appeared in a computer program I was working on. Trebizond probably comes from whatever I was reading at the time, probably Ibn Battuta.
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For your first blog…your right that was not so bad..
your furaha!:)
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great start! now five years later….
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This is a terrific blog! Glad to read you have not converted this to a Facebook page, like so many others. Thanks for making the WWW a rich place. I added you to my database: http://aalbc.it/abagond
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