Last month, Plantronics held a contest called TeleWho?, "to coin a new, more accurate and relevant term for professionals who work beyond the office."

The winner: Cloudworker, sent in by Venkatesh Rao of Ribbonfarm.com.

Even though it sounds like Lobot's job on Bespin (he worked for Lando... c'mon, that's not that obscure a reference...), I can get behind the name far more than I could support a couple of the honorable mentions. Some of the runner-ups included names such as "Porta-Pro," which only conjures images of hosing out portable toilets, and "Robe Warrior," which sounds like what you call the creepy guy on the block who never gets out of his PJs, even to fetch his snail mail.

So, here's Gearlog, doing our part to spread the word and re-moniker people like me a "cloudworker." But it won't mean squat; nothing will change the term telecommuter (or even teleworker). After all, there's still people out there referring to PDAs as "Palm Pilots."