I’ve changed my mind: I’ve transferred the name of “V’ger” to my new 128MB Thumbdrive, which is more appropriate for a pocket hard disk going out and bringing data back to the creator. My iBook now has a more eponymous designation: “iPau.”

That’s all. I’m getting off this cutesy techie nomenclature fetish before it gets too far out of hand.

(The Thumbdrive is an excellent little tool: you need only plug it into a USB port to have it pop up on your desktop as a new drive. And it’s no bigger than my pinky finger.)