The tool Lilia and I presented at BlogTalk 2.0 does not have a name. The first tool I ever wrote back in 1984 had a name I regretted ever since (fortunately this does not prevent people downloading it at a rate of about 10,000 times / month to the present day). For the interested, the name is the same as the numberplate of the car being chased in the first Steven Spielberg movie. Try finding the answer using Google :-).
Since then I'm more careful in selecting names for tools. Some examples: Shelley, Void, KADS22 (one of my favourites), AIDAS, KMsim, VizBiz, Gorilla and tOKo. The tool presented at BlogTalk 2.0 is based on tOKo.
I succeeded in getting some BlogTalkers in helping me out on finding a good name for the tool. My initial suggestion was Vienna. Obvious, simple, vanilla. Lilia complained, this was a "female name" (in Russian everything ending on "a" is female). She suggested Geisha and Geisha clogs as the logo. A perfect example of female logic :-). Fortunately, Phil Wolff sparked some enthusiasm to those involved by suggesting Shrink through the following line of reasoning (Vienna -> Freud -> the as yet unnamed tool -> Shrink). Sounds about right! (And it does have a female component for those viewing Freud's theories from the male point of view, just to keep Lilia happy).
While travelling back home, I thought of a simplification: Sigmund.
Anjo, it wasn't me who suggested Geisha; I think it was Rick (http://www.codewitch.org)... I just thought about shoes :)
Posted by: Lilia | July 11, 2004 at 09:13 PM