Woman With a Cool Sword

I am typing this from my new PC (whee!) which has been christened "colbrand" (which means 'cool sword' -- very Teutonic). My original intention had been to do as I usually do, and that is, the replacement machine gets the name of the machine it's replacing (in this case, 'welkin') (Yes, I like archaisms, you got a problem with that? Blame my parents for feeding me LOTR at an impressionable age.) However, I found that it would be possible to canibalize certain parts from welkin without disabling it, so it could keep running, which was much more convenient for transferring files and referring to old configs (since I had to get the network running in order to fully install GenToo on colbrand, but that's another story...). So. Since welkin would still be alive, the new machine needed a new name.

So I did as I often do when searching for new names for fictional characters -- I hit "The Great Australian & New Zealand Book of Baby Names", which is a trade-paperback about an inch thick, with nice cross-references. I was looking for something sky or weather related (since I had a theme going with 'welkin' and 'zephyr') but 'colbrand' leapt out at me and kept on poking me even as I kept on looking. I'd even decided to call it "velox" which is Latin for swift, but I took a second look at it and it sounded too much like the name of a pill. So "colbrand" it is.
( more for the geeky among you )

Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel Extension

Because I have lost at least a week myself, in setting up my new computer (and not everything is working yet either, though the important stuff is) I have decided to give everyone an extension for the Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel. Ten days. The deadline is now May 19th.

So come on, write! You have 19 days.