Would the real Dan Taylor please stand up?

One of the consequences of having not one, but two, common names (Daniel is reportedly the 9th most popular first name in England and Wales and Taylor the 4th most common surname) is that you become more difficult to correctly identify online. Whilst at times this feels like a godsend, at others its a bit frustrating/bewildering. I recently received a friend request from a colleague on Facebook with the accompanying message "Any time I search for anything on the internet - music, dried locusts, the Great Vowel Shift - your name pops up as the fifth search result. If I hadn't worked in the same office with you, I might have decided you were some giant internet hoax..."

So, for the record, I am not Dan Taylor the American shotputter, or Dan Taylor the surfboard manufacturer, or Dan Taylor the Canadian designer, or Dan Taylor the animation supervisor, or Dan Taylor the managing director of the Mobile Enterprise Alliance, or Dan Taylor the genetisit, or Dan Taylor the character from the House of the Dead III video game, or Lieutenant Dan Taylor, the wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet in Forest Gump, or Dan Taylor the Sports Director at Channel 30 Action News, or Dan Taylor the president of the Wealth Capital Group.

That is all.