I have a pretty lucky combination. There are not that many people called Gary Varga out there. Thanks Dad for the rare combination of English forename and Hungarian surname. Bit of a pity that it was due to various international issues (look up Hungary and 1956 if you are really interested but briefly my Dad fled alone as a 16 year old in order to avoid the political unrest - you'll get no historical analysis from me unless it is over a few drinks).

This has enabled me a clear brand/image online (these words were used in a previous editorial and proved contentious - I am not trying to open the same can of worms but words fail me this morning). I am the only Gary Varga in IT it appears. There is Gary S Varga who is a lawyer in California, USA. Gary Varga the farmer/agricultural engineer in New South Wales, Australia. There is also a Gary Varga who I believe is a packer at a chemical plant in New Jersey, USA. These are all from memory so there may be more locatable now and the details may be slightly wrong.

This means that anyone attempting to get in contact with Gary Varga are highly likely to get the right one. Having said that I did have to contact the lawyer recently as some very personal and financial emails were sent to my Hotmail account. I can only presume that either there was an assumption regarding his personal Hotmail address or a transposition error. Fortunately for him I was responsible and contacted all who had send him email to my email address to stop doing so and confirmed that I would destroy all emails and their associated attachments. I wonder if they were all so flippant about his email address because they thought his name unique?