Sometime before classes ended, I had a discussion with a friend about nicknaming people we'd never met. "That girl with red hair?" she said. "Yeah, I call her Tori in my head." And so on. This all struck me as perfectly natural, because after all, I've got My Evil Twin, among others.
But today, I realized that I've actually also got nicknames for certain unknown repeat visitors to my sites based sometimes on their IP, sometimes on their browser, sometimes on their referrer... And that. Well, that just struck me as a lot more weird.
So how about it folks -- please tell me that I'm not the only webmaster who nicknames his anonymous visitors?