Zorn-opolis or Been Caught Stealing

A little while ago, I had a gig writing for a satirical news monthly published in Nelson, BC called The Other View. My column was tech/geek in flavour and I adopted the pen name "Tristan Zorn" which was my attempt at concocting a heroic, pseudo-spacy name fit for a starship commander in the United Federation of Planets. In other words: I made it up. I later discovered that Tristan Zorn was the name of a real person in Jakarta, Indonesia, and a musician, among other things, who played with such hardcore bands as Forgive, August Star and Saw Loser.

I mention all this now because it seems that Tristan is upset with my "stealing" his name and not even having the decency to do something cool with it. I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to Mr. Zorn and reassure him that I will not be using his name in the future. Here's hoping that he will continue to do cool things with it, or at least cooler things than I was.

In related news, I may post some of my best articles from The Other View on here, with the names changed to protect the coolness.