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Good(or perhaps bad) thing my name is fairly common if you googled it you would more likely find Andy Hunt of Prag Prog than me. There is also a few PHDs that
by stonemetal 17y ago
Good(or perhaps bad) thing my name is fairly common if you googled it you would more likely find Andy Hunt of Prag Prog than me. There is also a few PHDs that match my first last name exactly. There is a Gary Paulsen book that is one character off my name. Googling my nickname turns up an unaffiliated construction company, a printing company and oddly enough my profile on HN which is devoid of detail, so the only internet leads you will find on me are ones I choose to reveal.
So if you google my name and find Andy Hunt's blog or if you find the not me Dr. (PHD in Mathematics) Hunt, do I get a call back? Google is a powerful tool but to randomly believe there is only one person X out there is kind of shortsighted.
- Periodic 17y agoIf you Google my name you get a variety of people with my name. For example, I know there's at least one other person with my name on Facebook who also lives in the same geographic region. As more people get online it becomes harder to differentiate them.
- timwiseman 17y agoI wonder if over time this will drive parents to deliberately choose more unique names and drive people to start using their middle initial more frequently.
- Periodic 17y agoOr we could all start naming our children with GUIDs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID
- stonemetal 17y agoBut to be serious my blog mentions neither my name or my nickname. If you find it, it won't be because you are looking for me. I don't write for self promotion, I am just not that fond of that guy. I write to write. I write to share. I write to improve my writing skills. I write because it gives me a point of focus. Fame and fortune isn't what I seek from my writing.