This is Ed's Lame Home Page(tm), now hosted by Pair Networks on Ed's Lame Domain. The only interesting thing here is my weddings photo page, which oddly enough does not include any from my own.
My proper home page is at MacConnect, but my current resume is available here.
The name came from when my brother James and I were feeling country-hickish. During such fits, I'd usually call him "Jimbob." In response, he'd either call me "Edbob" or "Edwick," the latter being a regional variation on "Cheswick." I think. He claims not to remember.
Anyway, my freshman year at Yale University, our usernames on the VMS mainframe were determined by the first three letters of your last name, first three letters of your first name, and middle initial. For me, this yielded "LIUEDWC." Edwick.
By the end of sophomore year, I had decided on a course of Computer Science and needed to get a permanent UNIX account as a major. The convention was to use your last name, but there was already another major using "liu." Instead of doing something boring like "liue," I asked the guy handling accounts if I could have "edwick." He sort of shrugged, but I got the account. Since then, whenever I've had a choice, I've always used "edwick" as my account name.
Aren't you glad you asked?
Edward C. Liu
edwick@macconnect.com