zimog huh? sounds exotic...but what is it

Have nothing interesting to write besides saying work as usual and looking forward to friends coming back from India with sweets (hopefully!) that I can gorge on. So I though I might address this question been asked by my friends a couple of times in the past and today after I shared my blog with some other friends and got the same question all over again so here it is.

Why Zimog? and not something else.

It all started with the movie Matrix (I can almost her you saying cliche cliche!) when Morpheus says the famous words

It is the mental projection of your digital self

something inside me stirred and thought of creating an identity for myself a virtual one, somethig that I use on the Internet. So all along I was looking for something cool to call myself Neo would be a stupid mistake as there would be dozens...nay thousands of them on the internet because of the movie. I was hooked on to Quake 3 Arena at that point in time and one of the characters in the game was called Xaero and I always found it interesting how would you pronounce it, since our culture does not have (generally) names with X and Z we find them kind of unique and hence interesting, at least I do. So I took pity on the alphabet Z which was pretty lonely in my telephone book with no entries listed against it and decided hey why not use that and then after some iterations I landed up with ZImog and have stuck with it since then. So there you have it :-)

Serious self indulgement ahead
comments I have received for my nick

what is it like an alien species?

am I supposed to bow...

sounds like a very exotic name what does it mean

my personal favorite

sounds like a derivative of smog!

I know I am geek but I am a sensitive geek :)