I second that. Believe me we're in the same boat when it comes to the 'tags'; its almost like the rest of the world lost their right to breathe when you graduate from a 'tagged' college.
Coming back to the lack of 'cred' you just pointed out, this actually is my only HN id.
I'll be honest with you, I created that email id minutes before this post, just to conceal my heavily used gmail id. There are people from the place I work at who visit HN. I'm not ready to quit my job yet but eventually I will.
As much as I'd like to display my HN cred, at the moment I just can't but I'm looking forward to work on that front.
Say, something tells me you're based out of India?