h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

- I was liking the Buy me a Drink feature. Strikes me as being the best way to ask for donations.

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I spoke too soon. A derivative of the original UCL site mentioned at post#18 is a sublink from the link there, and it's:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/

It's got the maps and a nod to the Mosaic (I'm Pastoral Symphony. Nobody's more rural than me, but a highly significant 42% of you are higher class - how is that?). Unfortunately the link to the Mosaic categories is broken, so we're denied the astonished fascination at how weird sociolgists are.

There's also a world one with maps. You have to enter an e-mail address to access it for some reason, though.

Mrs Zen did you see that fantastic detective serial on a few months ago? He was called Zen. It was set in Italy but everyone spoke English..but everything else was completely Italian..and every so often someone would quiz him about his name..

Beeb stuff at their best.

My name is unique and I google it periodically to check that none of the less than hinged people I deal with at work can track me down at home.

They can find my village (unavoidable) but not my address or phone number. So I went ballistic when the local parish council published 'village organisation' contact phone numbers on its website - without asking first. *Luckily* (from my point of view although not from the point of view of anybody trying to contact me) they had used my old phone number. But I still told them they had to remove it and get consent from contacts to have their information shared in that way - it had never been provided for that purpose.

Mol

How cool is that?

We watch so little tv, we've not retuned since the switch-over though. No idea if our tv can be made to work or is just a large cuboid ornament these days. So no, I missed it. What a shame.

I remember that thread, Pin. It turned out that my family name was the very lowest class imaginable, and very regionally localised.

A sort of Yorkshire version of the untouchables...

Other than me, when I google me I mainly get a University of Manchester Professor of Dentistry or something similar.

sprout

I've just Googled me. The first 24 hits are all me. Mainly here and Facebook and Twitter and Linkedin.

Apparently I belong to the cult of nighthoover. Lettuce spry.

On Facebook there are several people with my surname. One such chap decided to create a group consisting of us, so I have several friends with my surname, but not all are related in any way.

At one stage, when I googled my full name, I got hundreds of hits, all but one being actually me. Now there are at least three people in the world with my name.

As well as me, there's a Gaelic Footballer in Wexford, and a student of Physics in Dublin. There was also a "well-known guitarist on the Dublin pub scene", but he died suddenly.