Hmmm... Today I did a Google search for "Stephen Yarbrough" and I found that there were a bunch of other people in this world named Stephen Yarbrough. But for some reason, it didn't find my website - " Stephen Yarbrough dot com " Then it occurred to me... Until I posted this blog entry, there was no mention of my name, Stephen Yarbrough, on this website, Stephen Yarbrough dot com.

So hopefully, by including my name ( Stephen Yarbrough ) on this blog entry, which will be posted on my website ( Stephen Yarbrough dot com), my website may actually show up in search engine results when someone types " Stephen Yarbrough " in the search window.

I bet one of these days, some guy named Stephen Yarbrough will read my website and think to him self, "damn it, I should have registered Stephen Yarbrough dot com... Now some dork, (named Stephen Yarbrough ) has tainted my name ( Stephen Yarbrough ) with pictures of puppies, and and drunk friends.... Grrrrr.... "

But what if one of my friends tries to find this site and they misspell my name (Stephen Yarbrough)? It's possible that they think that I have an extra "o" in my last name, like this - Stephen Yarborough. In fact, that was a common error that many of my friends and teachers made throughout my life. I don't know how many times I saw my name written as " Stephen Yarborough " when I lived in Athens, Texas... I think that people in Texas just liked to add an extra syllable so that they could drawl it out more.... (Yarbrough is only 2 syllables- "Yar-Bro" whereas Yarborough can be drawn out with a thick Texas slang as "Yaaar-Boooor-ooow"). Also, some people may misspell my name as Steven Yarbrough, or Steven Yarborough, or even Steve Yarbrough or Steve Yarborough. But for some reason the name "Steve" never sat well with me... Perhaps it's linked to the gay gene... I've always hear that gay people prefer the non-abbreviated name, (Michael vs. Mike, David vs. Dave, Stephen vs. Steve, Anthony vs. Tony, etc.). While it doesn't hold true for my circle of friends (and believe me, my friends are gayer than the average gays), I certainly know more gay guys than straight that go by their full first name...

Alrigthy, I now want to apologize for anyone who wasted their time reading this blog entry. As you might have figured, it was a shameless attempt to get my name "Stephen Yarbrough" to show up in search engine results... I'll let you know if it works! ;)

Best regards,
Stephen Yarbrough  ¶ Monday, May 03, 2004