What's in a name? Several verses of the Bible, it seems

Yesterday, after writing the first scintillating post of this, I decided to have a look at the old Youtube. Oh, a word of warning - thanks to a friend of mine using it often, I've also picked up using the phrase "Bit of the old ". The problem being I use it for everything, without realising. So, here's a bit of the old apology for that.

However, to get to the point of this article (if, like anything I write, it even has one) I noticed something interesting on the main page of Youtube.




Yes, that one at the bottom does seem to be very (and irrationally, to be honest) happy to be featured. But look at the one in the middle.



See it yet? If you don't, don't be unhappy. Let me tell you - this person has named their child Isaiah, and the other child has been granted the handle Abdoulaye. Abdoulaye is an Arabic name, I think, and Isaiah is from the Old Testament. That's a funny combination, and while I'd like to believe that it's a symbol of the unity between Jews and Arabs, maybe two who have married against the wills of their parents (there's a musical in that, methinks) There's also a big chance that it's just someone picking some names that sound 'cool'.

Parents, please, don't saddle your kids with silly names. William, Thomas, Texas Ranger - these are all normal, commonly used names that don't have people who hear them double up in paroxysms of sympathetic laughter. Tarquin, Fifi, and yes, Isaiah... not so standard. The upside to all this is that kids on a playground won't be able to rhyme anything with Abdoulaye, I suppose. But that's a small mercy.

And no, the description doesn't say "It is so hard to film Isaiah when he is really pissed." Drunken drumming toddlers is too extreme even for Youtube.

P.S. If the owners of these drum-demon tots do turn out to have named these children for legitimate cultural reasons, I apologise.

In addition, today's Quote of the Day is:

Amanda: WE COULD USE DHCP FOR WINS RESOLUTION IN OUR ROUTING TABLES OR A STANDARD IPX PACKET TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL WHEN CREATING REVERSE PTR TABLES FOR DYNAMIC CLASS A IP ADDRESSES AND MAKE SURE OUR DNS KERNEL HAS THE CORRECT START OF AUTHORITY RECORD FOR OUR SUBNET MASK WHEN PREPARING PTR RECORDS FOR LOOPBACK MULTICASTING.
Intra: exactly amanda

From Bash.org, an IRC quote database.