two-pot screamer dot com

This blog is semi-anonymous. My friends know about it, and I send non-work email from my address here but, if you search for my full name on the Internet, this site won’t come up.

What does come up (not surprisingly) is the website of a guy with an identical name. It’s not a very common name, so getting a number 1 Google placing for that search term is as simple as registering a www.yourname.com domain name.

The freaky part of this is that this guys is so similar to me that he could be my (evil?) twin…providing we had parents with a twisted sense of humour when it came to baby names.

Let’s have a look at the similarities…

• We both have the same name. I’ve already covered this, but it’s here to bulk up my list a little.
• We both live in the same country. He lives in New South Wales, I live in Victoria.
• We are both the same age. Well, approximately. We were both definitely at uni at the same time.
• We are both geeks. We both have websites and both studied a tecnology-related degree.
• We are/were both involved in radio. When I first found this guy, he had a show on student radio (just like me). Now he does a show on community radio, and the closest I get is my RRR subscription.
• We have a similar sense of humour. I base this purely on the fact that we both read out “strange but true” news stories on our respective radio shows…mine were possibly slightly more sordid… “In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil”
• We even look a little similar….in that fresh-faced, anglo-saxon, geeky sort of way. I can’t find a recent photo, but here’s one of him in high school (I’m feeling a little “stalker-ish” right now) and, if you put his photo up against one of mine from the same period and kind of squint, we look identical!

I try to keep my work life and my personal life separate. The people I work with don’t need to read about my interest in boobies, so work-related stuff goes on my professional website, that is written under my full name.

…Which brings me to the reason I am a little annoyed. My professional website covers a niche area of techology that I specialise in. Amongst limited circles, I am known for expertise in this area. Professional reputation is important, and (sorry if this sounds all “marketing grad”) my name is like a brand that I want people to associate with this area of technology. Therefore it is kind of annoying that anyone who searches for my name on the internet sees Stuart Lastname - Enthusiastic Masturbator…or whatever.

*sigh* Okay, it sounds kind of petty (especially in light of my previous slag on business students) . Maybe I’m the evil twin…

Update: His site has fallen off the front page of Google as it is now “under construction” and contains no content.

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