What is a "StankDawg?" anyway?  Where did you come up with that?

First of all, I know that it is a strange sounding name!  Most people just call me "Stank", "Diggy", or, on occasion, "Stinky".  you can feel free to use any of the above.

First of all, no, I do not stink!  Well, I am sure that I have my days.  If you catch me after a little streetball or something I might be a little bit ripe, but I digress.  I didn't actually choose the name because I stink or anything like that.  Actually, I hadgoen many many other hacking handles throughout high school.  I did some things that I am not proud of at this stage of my life and wanted to distance myself from those old handles.  When I came back, I did not want to be associated to my old handles so I needed something new.

I wish I could tell you a better story, but basically I just came up with a silly unique name of off the top of my head and I just went with StankDawg mostly because it sounded funny.  And "Stank" may sound like "stink" but actually the term means "nasty" as in, I am not someone that you want to mess with.  The handle fits because I am like that stray dog that you see in the alley.  I am mostly harmless, just trying to survive, but if you mess with me or corner me, I have no problem biting a hole in you.

The Digital Dawgpound came shortly thereafter. I was on the high school computer programming team and we went to the sweet 16 computer programming competition.  We did very well (1st place in the region) and while celebrating our victory while riding home, I jokingly refered to my fellow teamates as the "dawgpound".  Later, during college, when I rejoined the hacking scene, I recruited some of my friends and officially formed "The Digital DawgPound" as a local hacking group of friends.  We have always refered to it as "the DDP" for brevity.

Upon graduation from college (the first time) many of us went our seperate ways and I continued hacking and writing articles for 2600 and I took the DDP online.  I recruited some great people from the friends that I met online and we began collaborating on the many projects that you see today.  The roster may change, but all of us are good friends and most of us talk on a regular basis to this day.