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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