Short answer: Why not?

It all started awhile back when I was signing up for a (ubiquitous) web service. I needed a new user name. I was all ready to get started: I had spent some time picking out a name in my head, tossing about ideas, weighing my options. I even had a couple of variations on hand in case my name (which used all 16 characters allowed by the service) was taken. So it was finally time, I input all of my information including my name and...no dice. Not only was my 16 digit name taken, every variation of my name--even those that merely meant the same--were taken as well. Tired of trying, and unwilling to succumb to the will of a saturated web service, I searched for a solution: a name that would be readily available at whichever web service I went to. And what would be more readily available, I thought to myself, than a completely random string of 8 letters and numbers? So using a program I made that generates secure passwords, I came up with this doozie: Y3r0gHTX. It's a win-win situation: you get the modern wonder of being able to bookmark a page so you don't have to recall its name from your own memory, and I get a universally available user name.

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