You never know what's going to come back around to bite you.  Back in the day I registered Phil McCracken on the asp.net forums, so I could have myself a Laff and be somewhat anonymous.  But now, I'm faced with the somewhat embarassing fess-up of linking back to my blog from the forums.   If I start a new account I'll lose all of my history (posts appear on the site a lot faster if you have more than 100 methinks).  Kinda funny to see all the Microsoft MVP's in there with their real names and then a comment by Phil McCracken.    I wonder if anyone thinks that's really my name.  I signed all my posts with Phil etc.  I guess while I'm there I will continue to do so.  Shhh.  It will be our little secret.