@kdfrawg

Who Am I, Anyway?
As my ADN profile says, "I'm a writer and photographer from Williams Township, PA, where I live in considerable bliss, and not a little astonishment, with @PritchardDesign and Arnie the Cat. Me? More about me? - 100 Things About Me INTJ"

I used to be a developer. Then I was a DBA. Then I was a project manager. Then I was a program manager. Then I got tired of being a manager and built a bunch of data warehouses. Then I got multiple sclerosis and cancer and decided if I was ever going to write a book, this was the time. So far, two.

KDFrawg? Really? Why?
First, how I became KDFrawg:

Once upon a time, in a land far away (or maybe just in the 70s at Stanford Research in Palo Alto) I got involved in things internet-like. I had an SRI email address, a DARPA email address, and a penchant for doing things that most people did not do. Later, in the very late 70s, or perhaps in 1980, I fell into a group of people that were just starting CompuServe's new information service, which included something called the CB Simulator, which was in fact the first internet multi-channel chat room.

Having been convinced to join, I found myself to be the 43rd member of this chat room-like affair. Logging in for the first time, using a 300-baud modem and a Radio Shack TRS-80 with some comm software I wrote myself, I found myself in the lobby and did a directory. There were half a dozen people there, hanging out at $8.50 an hour. A bit more than half of them had handles that were at least slightly pornographic. I was being asked to select a handle. Instead, I broke the connection and pondered that.

Though hardly naive, I had always found that most things went better (including things pornographic) when you started out non-threatening and only becoming scary when necessary. So I searched my mind to a non-threatening name. The handle Kermit came to me, so I used it. That quickly evolved iteratively into Kermit the Frog, then Kermit the Frawg, then finally KDFrawg.

Thusly I have been KDFrawg on the internet for 34 years, and on the Web since the day it started. It has been a name that has served me well, and has further allowed me to become the sole member of the Frawgish race. Many, if not most, of my friends call me Kermit.