Allusion & Encryption

It hasn't escaped the perspicacious among you that there is a frequent use of coded messages in this blog. This is important; you might say, it is 'key'. You cannot always tweak the beard of the rich and powerful unless you make it not worth their while to crack the code. After all, what you say is what you say; what it means is open to interpretation.

In the past, principalities and powers, thrones and dominations, the hierarchy of the Silver City – all these and more – have reacted and overreacted to messages perceived as originating from this locus. At the same time, people like those named (or cryptonymously mentioned) in places like this have worried that I have conveniently (for me) or inconveniently (for others) a profusion of secret identities. This is very amusing. At last count, I was thought to have almost 40 different pseudonyms! And that was on the Internet alone...

So what I'm going to do in this post is to propose a kind of mini-Whois challenge. I've mentioned a few people by codenames in my blog. Does everyone know who they are? Here are the rules:

1. Draw up a list of codenames in this blog. This list must have at least five names on it.
2. Identify the people these codenames belong to, unequivocally and accurately. Mark them as such on the list.
3. The one with the highest percentage of correct answers wins. The number of correct answers will be used to break ties.

Ah, that's too easy, you say? Well, here's a challenge: email the list to my gmail account, the one beginning with 'a'. You know which one, don't you? You don't? Heh, that's why it's a challenge...

Winner gets bragging rights. And I have also decided that part of my library is up for grabs.