From Jimbojw.com

Hi, I'm Jim R. Wilson - and I want to be the one.

What is your name?

My handle is Jimbojw, which I've had since about AOL 3.0 (1995). I wanted to be "JimboJ" but that was already taken (go figure). I control jimbojw.com which I registered several years ago and recently started using for my blog.

I am not Jimbo Wales, nor his impersonator - despite incessant accusations to the contrary on the #mediawiki IRC channel.

Funny story about that. I was banned from Wikipedia approximately 20 seconds after my first edit: I created the page Livebearers and immediately redirected it to Live-bearing aquarium fish having noticed that several pages linked there. They thought I was an impersonator/vandal. I guess aquarium fish were a hot target those days.

After pleading my case to the admin that blocked me, it was decided that as a longstanding nickname, "Jimbojw" conformed to the Wikipedia Username conventions and I was unbanned. At the time of this writing, "Livebearers" still redirects to "Live-bearing aquarium fish" having never been altered or redacted.

In any case, I'm not him. Nor am I James R. Wilson the software architect or Jim Wilson the contemporary pianist. I also haven't authored any of these books - or any other books for that matter (yet).

I'm not Jim R. Wilson (Microsoft's MVP of the month of January '07), nor am I any of these Jim Wilsons, though I did submit my contact info for inclusion and was subsequently ignored.

It should go without saying that I'm not James Wilson (signer of the Declaration of Independence) or any other historical James Wilson or Jim Wilson. And I'm definitely not this guy.

What is your quest?

I'm just a lowly software developer - trying to take my own name.

I say that because searching for Jim R. Wilson leads you James R. Wilson - head of NCSU's department of Industrial Engineering - another guy that I'm not. In fact, I'm not even on the first page of results, which is especially sad considering Robert James Wilson made it and his page doesn't even exist!

Update: I am now on the first page of results. At the time of this writing, I'm #3! (20:24, 26 March 2008 (MST))

Oddly enough, searching for "Jim R. Wilson" (with quotes) does better - most links after the first one are at least tangentially about me or reflect something I've written or done.

But I want more. I want to be the "I Feel Lucky" of "Jim R. Wilson" (with and without quotes).

I guess I'll just have to keep writing MediaWiki Extensions, Greasemonkey Userscripts, and good old-fashioned technical articles; because we all know that true SEO comes from good content.

(Just kidding - please send me some link love. Thanks in advance).