Funny thing. apparently there's an Ian Shields who coaches football. I 
haven't checked if he ever coached Bryan Smith. :-)

Ian Shields Ph.D.
Linux  Technologist, ISV & Developer Relations
IBM Corp
Research Triangle Park, NC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/24/2008 05:35:31 PM:

> What's in a name? [was Re: [lpi-examdev] Re: LPIC objective update 
overview]
> 
> G. Matthew Rice 
> 
> "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. ;)
> 
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