So googling my name now turns up this page. That’s after my facebook profile, but before any noteworthy items about myself (namely involvement in various furniture fairs).
I’m ambivalent about it, but it’s amazing how careful you have to be if you want to avoid being traced on the internet. I now have 4 email addresses, and I always planned to keep the hotmail one as a ’shitbucket’ email which I could use to sign up for random sites that may host or provide access to content of questionable legality. The idea was to therefore not use that email to sign up to sites which require both an email and my real name, or sites that require more than one email or what have you. Essentially it shouldn’t be traceable back to me. That plan went out the window a few years ago in a moment or ten of stupidity, but I doubt anything I’ve done so far is going to come back and haunt me. Of course, from now on I’m going to be much more careful 
These days it is a bit easier though, with sites like http://bugmenot.com where you can specify a throwaway email anonymously and check it for 24hrs afterwards.
