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19th July 2007 - Link Blog

Personal names around the world. I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable about firstname/lastname fields in forms. Now I know why.

Posted 19th July 2007 at 12:54 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 19th July 2007.

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