tarahmarie

I'm happy to answer questions about this. I'm Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack.

I'll bloody well decide whether I have capital letters in my name or not. That's sort of the point, here ;-)

FINALLY. Got site back up. It's anyone's guess how long it stays there, though.

"This isn’t just a female problem; people with apostrophes and commas in their names all have this problem." I understand that I focused on my problem. It's my blog, after all. However, I did marry a guy with a space and two capital letters in his name. My friend has a ", Jr." to contend with. Try that on for size. Two different punctuation marks, a space, and a capitalized letter. There's a reason I said this isn't just a female issue.

So you read the first sixteen or so words, I'm guessing.

I really appreciate you doing this. The lovely gentleman at Rackspace just broke the crap out of my site when he UNPLUGGED the server my VM was living on. I'm doing a site restore right now.

This is what I get for hosting at Rackspace.

Sorry about the site being down; give me a minute to bring it back up.

How about when you end up with a truncated last name? At this point I have to maintain a list with comments on what my last name actually ended up being in the system for each website. Especially when I have to enter my name in for password retrieval.

I simply think that Vinamrata is particularly courageous to put her name and voice to an experience that all too many people of any variety are unable or unwilling to disclose.