1. I, too, always get the crazy display of your blog (I use IE on a PC). Icons do not stick to posts or comments, but instead appear in a lonely vertical line at the bottom of the page (*far* below the rest of the content and all of the images & backgrounds, accessible only by the window's outer scroll bar).
2. Not a UK-er, but I knew my share of Timothys there, back in the day. I guess the name has acquired the extremely uncool patina in the last couple decades?
3. I don't think Thomas-- though it's a fine name-- substitutes well for what it'd be replacing. It scans all strong and trochaic (presuming you don't intend to shorten it to "Tom"); not particularly retro or outsider-ish. I'd look for another dactyl, like Jeremy (also a "wet" name across the pond??? when did this happen?), Anthony, Jonathan, Adrian, Nicholas, Joshua, Gregory, Gabriel, Christopher, etc. (those aren't all equally good, to my mind, but you get what I mean).
4. P.S. I named my third son (a.k.a. "the mid-life surprise") Harry-- not after Potter, whose adventures I've famously not read, but after my dad. (With two sons already, Hubby and I ran out of Biblical names we liked equally, and my suggestion that we use cricketers' names didn't bowl him over...) I was a bit nervous about Harry, because I natually associated the name with old men, but now I love it. Interestingly, I had thought that the Potter phenomenon might give the boy some company in the schools (he was born the day the first movie was released), but the name does not seem to have made a comeback.
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Date: 2009-05-12 01:52 pm (UTC)2. Not a UK-er, but I knew my share of Timothys there, back in the day. I guess the name has acquired the extremely uncool patina in the last couple decades?
3. I don't think Thomas-- though it's a fine name-- substitutes well for what it'd be replacing. It scans all strong and trochaic (presuming you don't intend to shorten it to "Tom"); not particularly retro or outsider-ish. I'd look for another dactyl, like Jeremy (also a "wet" name across the pond??? when did this happen?), Anthony, Jonathan, Adrian, Nicholas, Joshua, Gregory, Gabriel, Christopher, etc. (those aren't all equally good, to my mind, but you get what I mean).
4. P.S. I named my third son (a.k.a. "the mid-life surprise") Harry-- not after Potter, whose adventures I've famously not read, but after my dad. (With two sons already, Hubby and I ran out of Biblical names we liked equally, and my suggestion that we use cricketers' names didn't bowl him over...) I was a bit nervous about Harry, because I natually associated the name with old men, but now I love it. Interestingly, I had thought that the Potter phenomenon might give the boy some company in the schools (he was born the day the first movie was released), but the name does not seem to have made a comeback.