We’ve written about naming conventions before, as they afford real conveniences when keeping track of things like papers or syllabuses or . . . well, anything, really!

For example, rather than have a series of devices with the default manufacturer-supplied name (SEAGATE 1, 2, 3x; X’s iPod), you might name your devices after . . . characters on The Wire. You get the advantage of unique names for all your devices, added personalization, and a little hit of joy when you see them in an application window. The key, as Tom Scheinfeldt notes in the tweet linked below, is having a long enough source of names.

This came up on Twitter this morning, as some friends were discussing my GeekDad post about Dickens’s birthday Google Doodle (complete with a full-throated endorsement of the South Park adaptation of Great Expectations). It turns out that a fellow GeekDad writer, Michael Harrison, …

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