<a href="http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,49201,00.html">Here's a interesting news story<\/a> on how people called Dickon, Dick, or even Dickens can come a cropper at the hands of parental-protection filters on computers. <\/p>\n
Americans who have a go at me for having a vaguely silly name have a bit of a nerve, given that even their own politicians have names like <a href="http:\/\/shop.store.yahoo.com\/politicsus\/dicswetforgo.html">Dick Swett<\/a> and <a href="http:\/\/www.otter4idaho.com\/page.cfm?id=689">Butch Otter<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Musing further on the subject of my own name, I decide to do <a href="http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Dickon&btnG=Google+Search&meta=">a Google search on "Dickon"<\/a>. I've searched for my full name many times (I think the term is an 'ego-search'), but never for just "Dickon" per se.<\/p>\n
This diary comes an impressive third, even beating a webpage on 'The Secret Garden', from which my parents found the name. The top two results belong to the pages of a Cambridge man who does something complicated with computers. <a href="http:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/~dr10009\/">Dr Dickon Reed<\/a>. Here he is:
\n<img src="http:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/~dr10009\/dr.jpg"><\/img><\/p>\n
Well done, Dr Reed. You are officially the biggest Dickon on the Web. <\/p>\n
I'm #1 on the <a href="http:\/\/images.google.co.uk\/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Dickon&sa=N&tab=wi&meta=">Google Image search<\/a>, mind. Second is a bald man with glasses. Third is a bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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