I am fortunate in that my preferred name and my legal name are identical, and not the least bit exotic, so all the IT systems I've had to deal with over the yea

I am fortunate in that my preferred name and my legal name are identical, and not the least bit exotic, so all the IT systems I've had to deal with over the years haven't felt the need to mangle my name. I also have several pseudonyms I use for various purposes. I am an exceptionally private person, so I use a pseudonym for the poetry I write, and another one for the more serious stuff I write. I also have another one I created for some of the technical stuff I've written over the years, mostly because several of the companies I've worked for had this silly idea that any thought that popped into my head belonged to them.