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Greetings and salutations. In case you were wondering, Richard Cobbett is a writer and journalist and producer of many other things involving words. He likes cats, hates spiders, and plays a lot of games. This is his website...
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Mar
27

There But For The Grace of Visa

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Egovisiting is a fun thing to do. It’s not egosurfing — looking for yourself — but a far more passive process, where anything of interest gets flagged up automatically via something like Google Blog Search. Most of the time, it’s old results, or spam blogs, or a reprint of an article. Quite often, it’s a casual mention on a site or forum somewhere, usually for something big like that old Writing A Girls In Games Article article.

But sometimes, it’s an odd one. Like someone else’s Amazon Wish-List. Someone sharing my name, only over in Cornwall. Sounds interesting. What does this Richard want?

Amusingly, it’s all pretty geeky. Blade Runner. The complete X-Files. A book on the Golden Age of Comics. Books by Ursula LeGuin. I’ll forgive the Arsenal videos; nobody’s perfect. Not sure what the complete Bridget Jones’ Diary series is doing next to all this, but hey, never mind. And I’ve no idea who this Joan Baez guy is he seems pretty obsessed with. Still, all things considered, it could definitely be worse. Maybe there’s something to this nominative determinism after all and–

Wait. He wants to own Anne Rice’s “Queen of the Damned”?

I’m changing my name immediately.

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