What's in a name ?

Using a simple internet wide user account name is not easy. If you are lucky enough to register a simple name on one site such as twitter, there is no guarantee that the same account name will be available on other services such as slideshare. There must be 1000s of Tim Bells in the internet and I am unlikely to be the first one to register.

The solution is to choose an account name that no one else would want. The common structure of account names of a name followed by a number to make it unique. This means that timbell02, timbell03, etc. are also likely to have been taken early on too. So, if you choose a name that is unlikely and a number which is reasonably large, the combination has a good chance of being unique.

Thus, noggin143 was born.

The term noggin has multiple definitions according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noggin. The origin of my selection comes from Noggin the Nog. Noggin was a young viking of a children's cartoon series which was frequently repeated during the 70s.

143 comes from my school days where each child was allocated a number on arrival which remained with them. 

The combination has proved successful, I have never had a user account request refused to date.