Nerdi.ca » WWW http://www.nerdi.ca Ramblings of a computer nerd wannabe. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:01:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Wrong Name http://www.nerdi.ca/2009/02/06/the-wrong-name/ http://www.nerdi.ca/2009/02/06/the-wrong-name/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:10:08 +0000 travis http://www.nerdi.ca/?p=8 So I was browsing reddit this morning, and happened upon a post about pipl.com. Upon searching my own name, I was impressed with the information the search engine came up with. I think every mailing list post I’ve ever made was found.

But I found something very unexpected. An article about someone with the EXACT same name as me who is a real dirt-bag! He was sentenced to 2 years in prison for shaking a baby! I don’t plan on having to search for a job anytime soon, but it worries me that someone could do a search on my name and this article might show up associating me with such a terrible crime!

What also tends to bother me is that the newspaper did not use the middle name of the person. Any advice out there interweb?

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