I changed my live­jour­nal user­name today. King­Prad was my user­name on the inter­net since I joined it. It had no real mean­ing, but was the name of a char­ac­ter from one of my favorite books, The Ragged Astro­nauts. It was short and use­ful. But over the last two years I have slowly tran­si­tioned to Uncom­monGuy. I reg­is­tered that domain though haven't put much on it. I mainly wanted to own it. I like own­ing a unique domain name that I can put to good use even­tu­ally. Also that's been my nick­name on other ser­vices since then.

No real change here as the old URL of kingprad.livejournal.com will auto-redirect to the new one. The new URL is http://uncommonguy.livejournal.com . If any­one sub­scribes via RSS feed you might want to update it.

Over­all the change was pain­less but cost $15. On LJ I reg­is­tered the uncom­monguy name a year ago but hadn't done the leg­work of trans­fer­ring entries man­u­ally. While read­ing LJ emails today I found out about their name change ser­vice and went ahead and did it. $15 to do it per­fectly in 2 sec­onds is bet­ter than hours spent doing a ques­tion­able job. I didn't want to lose entries, friends, and other set­tings. Not that my old friends still write in their journals…but even so didn't want to lose them or make a big deal of ask­ing them to update. It should be trans­par­ent in every way.