Many people in this world have misspelled my name, which is Steven Read.
Now all those misspelings are dealt with by having upgraded to a pattern based name.
Ste(v|ph)en? Re[aei]d is now the 3.0 version of my name.
I really shouldn't try to do clever things like this, but I do anyways.
The 2.0 version was "Steve OR Steven Read", which I suppose just wasn't good enough.
Friends told me "Steve OR Steven" was a good, catchy artist name.
I had already upgraded my name though, to Ste(v|ph)en? Re[aei]d, which is verbally incommunicable.
I think if I keep doing things like this with my name, it will hurt my art career.
But someday I'll definitely need to upgrade my name to a 4.0 version.
Or maybe at least a 3.1 version.
The 1.0 version was "Steven Read", a name God gave me when I was born.
Nothing against God or Jesus, but already there are 100,000+ people with that name.
So the new name is much simpler now, because any spelling variation is correct.
This should increase the search engine optimization of my name and site.
But it actually does the opposite.
That is because Google is too dumb to understand regular expression syntax.
But today you found me and my site so I'm not too worried about Google right now.
Well, that is a lie, I am Google's bitch.
Here Google, suck these:
Steven Read
Steve Read
Stephen Read
Stephe Read
Steven Reed
Steve Reed
Stephen Reed
Stephe Reed
Steven Reid
Steve Reid
Stephen Reid
Stephe Reid
Oh shit, there is a bug in the regular expression syntax in my name.
'Stephe' is an illegal operation.
I do not want to be called by that name.
My 3.0 name could be alot better, I am very sorry.