Name Game

Before Mermaid Girl was born I used to hit the Social Security baby name site like a slot machine almost every night, hoping that by some magic trick our chosen name would have dropped from the top 5 in the interim. I tracked names obsessively, both on the site and in our hip little corner of the Northwest, becoming something of a baby-name maven.

Which is all by way of saying that if NameVoyager had been around five years ago, I would have been a total goner. (Hah! Yeah, like I'm not a total goner even now.) Takes a while to load, requires Java, but if you're a name junkie it's so worth it. It's a name tracker! It's an interactive toy! It's a thing of beauty! It's going to keep me up too late again tonight, as I procrastinate on my book reviews!

Thanks to to Blogging Baby for featuring the NameVoyager and for having the good taste to hire Jay of the Zero Boss, thus inadvertantly pointing me towards it and giving me even more online stuff to compulsively check.

Now I have to go read the companion baby name blog. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in...