Apologies to Daniel Koster

There are many topics that I don’t share on this blog or have been afraid to post because the Internet never forgets.  Thanks to sites like webarchive.org and the caches that search engines make publicly available, I can delete a post but I can never take it back.

And search engines are a funny thing.  I can write “I am not a homicidal maniac”, and from now on people can research homicidal maniacs and they are going to find my site.  So just by talking about something, I’m creating an association and giving people a first impression of me that may have nothing to do with who I am or what I am like.

And this is why I apologize to any that share my name.  The one who makes knives seems to be pretty popular as he is still the number 1 Google hit and I assume that all those people that are specifically searching my name are looking for him.  And from now on, Google is going to be summarizing us as a knife maker, graphic designer, doctor, homicidal maniac, and porn addict.  Sorry.

~ by Daniel Koster on September 5, 2008.