On Wednesday 24 September 2008 23:35:31 G. Matthew Rice wrote: > "Bryan J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - It's always hard to both predict direction and gage > > adoption of this stuff, in general, anyway. Matt Rice > > wasn't the "Swami" the last time I checked, but then > > neither is Chris Berman. (sorry, American football > > season here in the US ;) > > Are you talking about me or this Matt Rice: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Rice > > > Between him and that Matthew Rice product line in the UK: > > http://matthewrice.co.uk/ > > I've had to become "G. Matthew Rice" to get more than one listing on the > first page of Google results. Yes, the name switch was completely for > vanity purposes. :-D > > Honestly, it was done just to stop a lot of confusion people seem to have > over others that use a middle name as their common name. > > Heh, I just did a quick check and there's a Bryan Smith that plays > football. Time for you to pull out an initial, too. ;)
I'm very happy to just leave MY name exactly as it is. Google finds three Alan McKinnons with a decent number of hits - me and two very well respected Comp Sci professors. If people want to assume that either of those professors is me, I'm quite happy to let them stay confused... <nonchalant whistle...> -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
