Many years ago when I opened my Yahoo email account I wanted something short as a name that didn't have numbers, e.g. steve19976, so I ended up with steevc. steev was already taken and seems to be widely used these days. I've since used that namein lots of places so that now a Google on steevc returns just about all stuff relating to me on the first five pages. I admit I'm a sucker for registering on various services.

So you can easily find me at:

• BookCrossing - for those who like to give away their books. I've not used it lately.
• Reader2 - as mentioned recently.
• Multiply - my preferred social network site
• Del.icio.us - my link store
• Last.fm - logs my music listening
• Wikipedia - the updateable encyclopedia of everything
• Bloglines - still the best on-line news reader I've found. Google Reader just doesn't do it for me
• Slashdot - still a great geek news site, even though the comments can get out of control

There's a load of other uses on various forums. As well as Yahoo mail you can reach me on that name at Gmail and on the Jabber messaging network. One day I would like to run my own Jabber server so that I can use my normal email address as an identifier, but for now it's hosted by their server.

I can't guarantee that every steevc out there is me, but it looks like most of them are. Other people have more imaginative on-line names, but I'm happy with this one.