google yourself

[sorrowmonkey]

I read an article on Yahoo! News today about employers searching for employees on Google to look for bad juju (bragging about drugs on MySpace and such). So, for giggles, I did a search for "Nathan Rawling".

The first page is two book reviews I wrote for Amazon.com, and archives from a number of software development mailing lists I posted to about 5 years ago. The second page includes my various PGP keys on public keyservers, a software change log (bug fixes) where a bug that I reported was fixed in an open source package, and a letter to the Michigan Daily (U of M newspaper in 1996). Aside from a few other tidbits, most of the references after that are to other Nathan Rawling(s) of the world.

Interesting.

Comments

[yasmeanie.livejournal.com]

We don't need another Nathan Rawling we've got you and what a lucky bunch of people we are. YAY US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

Well, from the looks of it, he's a far better soccer player. ;-)

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

see all yours are employer friendly. The whiole 'waxing the goat' incident never made it to press. I think cause the camera fell into the keg with the bikini models.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

squee Ilove your icon!!!!!!

[temair.livejournal.com]

Mostly work related stuff (current and old), a bunch of geneology hits (since my name goes back to the 1400's it's not so surprising - obviously none of them are me), a couple comments on people's pics pages from HS, a membership book from SFPE that I'd forgotten about and a writing project I did way back when.

Think I'll e-mail Chewie and see if he wants to try writing again :)

[peregrine58.livejournal.com]

I tend to every couple of months google the following

Name
Email Address
Various userids for various forums i'm on

I really want to know what others can see.