Jason McWhirter

The name

jaiou — five letters, four of them vowels, every vowel but E lined up behind the J. Picked because it's easy to say, easy to spell, and hard to misunderstand. The look-alike neighbours were priced at $100,000 and $300,000; this one cost a registration fee.

Pronunciations on record: Hi-yo (the owner's own, after a day of living with it — no J up front, and the O long as in dough: Hi-yo.com), JAY-ow (the original house standard), Jay-oh, Jay-u, Hi-o, Hi-ow, Hi-u, Jay-yOU, bAIt-hOUr, bAIt-dOUgh, and JAlepeño-tOUgh. Nobody can tell you you're wrong — nobody else knows either.

What it stands for

Jason's Artificially Intelligent Online Universe

The place itself — me in the middle, an AI holding the door.

Jobs And Invoices, Organized & Understood

Seventeen years of work in five words.

Just An Internet Opportunity Upload

Everything here went up the same way: one upload at a time.

Jason's Academic Institute Operator's University

Enrollment: one. Faculty: also one. The dashboards are the coursework.

Just Another Intensive Outpatient Union

Local chapter. Dues paid in full, and then some.