How did you come up with the name "mxcl"?

[Polairr]

As the title says, how did you come up with mxcl?

[mxcl]

I was doing a Chemistry degree at the time, (2001), and needed a good online alias and I wanted to be consistent for ever, everywhere, and obviously the shorter the better.

It occurred to me that I could riff off the Chemistry theme, and thus came up with:

Maximum Chloride

MxCl, which is how I used to capitalize it too.

With hindsight mxhl would have made more sense, but it doesn't read as well, so I'm ok with it.