<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49201,00.html">Here's a interesting news story</a> on how people called Dickon, Dick, or even Dickens can come a cropper at the hands of parental-protection filters on computers.
Americans who have a go at me for having a vaguely silly name have a bit of a nerve, given that even their own politicians have names like <a href="http://shop.store.yahoo.com/politicsus/dicswetforgo.html">Dick Swett</a> and <a href="http://www.otter4idaho.com/page.cfm?id=689">Butch Otter</a>.
Musing further on the subject of my own name, I decide to do <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Dickon&btnG=Google+Search&meta=">a Google search on "Dickon"</a>. I've searched for my full name many times (I think the term is an 'ego-search'), but never for just "Dickon" per se.
This diary comes an impressive third, even beating a webpage on 'The Secret Garden', from which my parents found the name. The top two results belong to the pages of a Cambridge man who does something complicated with computers. <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dr10009/">Dr Dickon Reed</a>. Here he is:
<img src="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dr10009/dr.jpg"></img>
Well done, Dr Reed. You are officially the biggest Dickon on the Web.
I'm #1 on the <a href="http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Dickon&sa=N&tab=wi&meta=">Google Image search</a>, mind. Second is a bald man with glasses. Third is a bridge.
