I've finally got around to creating my profile! It's not something that I expect to use, bring me fame and fortune, or introduce me to beautiful women :) but it might remind people that I'm still around in the industry!


My reason for doing this is not the usual round of "self-promotion" blogging. Rather, IGDA provided a service I wanted, and while I was configuring it I thought I might as well take the time and produce a basic profile. "Which service had they provided?" you may well ask. Email forwarding! Yes - the addition of something so simple as a vanity email address (@member.igda.org) was enought to coax me out of my shell. My excuses are:

• I don't need another email address, but a forwarded account is useful


• It's good to get an easy to remember email. Having the IGDA suffix is good, and everyone in the industry knows it. Being able to use my real name (without fancy formatting, or being called steve_goodwin_with_a_V_57) is also good.


• It provides a nice abstraction so I can tell where people know be from, without resorting to igda@steev.myhomeip...


• I've already paid my membership so I might as well use it :)