[General] CSharpener's Weblog Name Change
"John Tobler's Techno-Log"
I am apparently a repeat victim of "alias theft."
Even though I am firmly convinced that I was the first to use "CSharpener" for anything, and a Google Search for 'CSharpener' currently lists my weblog at the very top, it appears that some company that doesn't know how to use Google, or any other search engine, for that matter, has decided to co-opt this alias that I have been using since the very early days of C# and .NET. I should sue them, I suppose. =)) The questionable company in question produces C-Sharpener for VB, a VisualStudio add-in that converts VB.NET to C#. The product may be just fine but I do resent them stealing my little personal identifier.
My old alias, "GrepNinja," which was given to me by a very good friend *many* years ago, was also pilfered. My previous technical weblog, GrepNinjaLog, has been on the NET for years and a Google Search for 'grepninja' still pulls me up first. In spite of this, someone who shall remain nameless apparently had no moral or ethical problems whatsoever with appropriating my well-established alter-identity as his own when he put Grepninja.com out there for public consumption.
Personally, I would never even consider consciously doing this to someone else.
Perhaps this is a sign to me that the technogeek aliases that were once popular are no longer useful.
So, from now on this weblog will simply bear my name.
Incidentally, although I am a musician (multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter), I am *not* the rock music journalist and author who wrote these books.