Friday, May 25, 2007

Who am Nto?

Nto is a web identity easier to find than many names such as John or Mary or Smith or Johnson. A search on most combinations of common first names and common or not so common last names lead to a plethora of hits that correspond to identities other than the one sought.

Nto's particular problem is that his real name matches that of a common hotel chain that is franchised and has a separate website for each of its many many locations around the world. Nto has often been asked, as though he never heard it before, about how the hotel business is going. The best response is usually to feign a lack of knowledge of this chain; amazingly, people are often taken in by this ploy.

Nto Zubod is a name selected from several randomly generated names and has the characteristic that it almost looks real but not real enough that in May 2007 there are any hits on ntozubod for a Google search.

Nto is similar to a real Finnish first name Unto; Nto actually had a relative by that name. Zubod is similar to a more common last name Zubrod although he prefers to think of it as a reference to Waypoint ZUBOD 35° 39' 11N 109° 3' 41W located near what the Navajo nation consider the centre of the Earth, namely, Window Rock.

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