There are now

three people blogging who use “mikel” in their name. There’s me, the always impressive Shmuel Mikel, and Micha (Mikel) Lewandowski from Poland, who keeps a weblog in his native Polish. My name, as I have written before, comes from the way my brother used to spell it when he’d leave me notes or whatever. I actually don’t spell my name that way in real life, I spell it the conventional way. But as my online life has pretty much merged with my real life, people seem to mix and match spellings now.