Why DS2?

I toyed around with DSS for almost the entire development phase of the project, but I just couldn't make it click. I'd mess around with DSS logos and practice saying it on camera (i.e This is Jade Macalla reporting for DSS...), but the graphics all had an unnatural symmetry and saying DSS makes you feel a little too snakey.

I knew from the start that DS2 would be used sometimes in referencing the site and the show, but by the end of putting everything together it was the only way we ever thought of the project. So we went with it.

As for the actual name of the project, Diverse Skill Set, credit for the words themselves, strung together in that particular order, goes directly to Mr. William Gibson; father of cyberpunk and now father of something entirely different (and I still am not quite sure what it is - I can only hope that he writes some more of it). The passage in question is from Spook Country (highly recommended), the chapter titled Special Forces, page 319 of the hardcover edition:

...I do. I do indeed. I've a very diverse and peculiar skill set, and ordinarily no place to use the half of it. Soon enough, I'll be too old for most of it. Truth to tell, I probably already am...

I'd tell you who says it and why, but that'd spoil all the fun.

So, here's to William Gibson. And here's to us, with a wish that we will all find plenty of places to use at least the half of it.