Thanks Mum, Thanks Dad, Thanks Google

In Which: Our Hero Tires Of Repeated Error ID:0x800CC0fuckingE, Attempts To Set Up A New Email Account, And Quickly Tires Of His Confusingly Overused Name.

Given that my tiscali email is constructed of pure eShite, I have decided to take a step into the twentyfirst century and get myself an email address that actually enables me to send emails from an email program rather than the tiscali website, which is constructed from pure eWhiteNoise and adverts exclusive holidays in car insurance call centres and £10 a minute celebrity news updates. I am told that Googlemail is the best around, so I popped onto their website, and indeed, it has to have been about the easiest set-up procedure on the web. Except for the age old problem of what email address to create. Given my almost unbroken record for being three years behind everyone else, pretty much any permutation of my name has already been taken. For example, on trying benjamin.thompson, google suggested to me:

thompson.benjaminthompson.benj
or
benjamin.bthompson.thompson04

Presumably this means there are already three other 'benjamin.bthompson.thompson's out there. Anyway, having decided against using all my names (benjaminandrewhugothompson@googlemail is brutally long, and trust me, this gets very tedious very quickly - I should know, I have been battling with the terrible decision that lead me to create i_dont_like_jamie_theakston@hotmail.com for years) and several abbreviations of my middle names Bah! Thompson! or Benjaminah Thompson being both stupid sounding and ridiculous.

So I went with my old 'clever' avoidance of including chains of numbers and half names - ben.mcthompson. Not stupid or inappropriate at all, I think you'll agree.

So please, help me celebrate and send me an email, you can henceforth catch me at ben.mcthompson@googlemail.com