Long long story, but when I first logged onto the net I was casting around for a unique, and I suppose intriguing, name.
It is a combination of 2 names.
As 2001 was the first film that really blew me away at 14, age restrictions were no big deal in British Forces cinemas, I fell in love with Arthur C. Clarke's work and became intrigued by the concept of the HAL (Heuristic, algorithmic, logarithmic) onboard computer.
In addition to the above I was, much later, reading Russell's HoWP and came across the churchman Erasmus, considered to be one of the early great humanists of the church. (I liked this man immediately I hasten to add even as a clearly stated atheist, it is the human that awes, not the superhuman)
So, putting two and two together in some syzegistic guise (The fact I'm supposedly a rationalist/atheist cum humanist/cultural Christian) the proof of my mudpie was in the eating. Several impressed comments later and that sensation of growing into my virtual name, it stuck and I have no intention of ever changing it.
I dare say however a certain German university's students, when typing in Heurismus, will get a shock, or perhaps already have, because instead of coursework mentioning their pet computing project, they'll get mad old me!!!

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. - J.S. Mill