What Is Eklektos?

Eklektos is the name of this blog. Why Eklektos? I have always had an odd assortment of interests from Bonsai to Xbox. With an eclectic array of things to cover the name isn't all that unique. I just love the way it rolls off the tongue!...

This site was started in 1999 but went down after about a year until early 2005. See the first davidcatalano.com here.

For those that are interested here is the official definition from the Oxford English Dictionary:

eclectic
/iklektik/

? adjective deriving ideas or style from a broad and varied range of sources.

? noun an eclectic person.

? DERIVATIVES eclectically adverb eclecticism noun.

? ORIGIN Greek eklektikos, from eklegein ?pick out?.

[Greek eklektikos, selective, from eklektos, selected, from eklegein, to select : ek-, out; see ecto? + legein, to gather.]

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