I have always been miffed with the character-limits on usernames and passwords (for that matter recommendations too). But this time it really pushed me to think innovatively (I hope) to comeup with something…
My name: Raghunath Rao Thricovil
The fact that most places in the US only bother first and family names, it turns out to be : Raghunath Thricovil (Though I love the Rao surname). I needed to find a email id <= 8 characters for my UofM ID.
My first choice was my office id which I have really cherished for the last 4 yrs… rrao. But that incidentally was taken, and so was the id raghu. The other option was to go for rthricov but that would make me sound Russian 
. Another choice was raghunat but it seemed ike an insect or something you name an fighter plane. So after much thought and deliberation (and long hours googling if the name has any “other” connotations), i settled for:
raghunt
The name is fast growing on me… Sounds like a native red-indian guy in rags and a wolf-hide, leading a hunting party with a bow and arrow slung over his shoulder, a long spear in his hand and a Tomahawk hung on his hip; riding his white and brown mare Windspeed and egging his people on. Wow
