Yesterday, a couple of people asked in #openSUSE-GNOME about the origin of my nickname, Riggwelter.

Well, the name, of course, comes from the Black Sheep beer of the same name but there's more to my use of it than simply my openSUSE guise.

I think I first used it on LuBBs, possibly during one of the periods I was banned on my main account and had to "borrow" someone else's. That would have been around 1995 or 1996 I think. It may have been while I was not at uni and so was reduced to using other people's accounts. (See a nearly complete list of my LuBBs names)

Not long after that, I started using Asylum MUD and that's when the name stuck because, having registered with it, it couldn't be changed so for the last decade (more in fact) I've been known as Riggwelter or variations thereon.

Any questions?