I have an unusual first name — good luck finding Burrill in baby name books — so I’m quite accustomed to having my name spelled a number of different ways.  Just recently I was looking at the search strings used to find the Burrill Strong Photography site; while most got it right, there was an amusing variety of different spellings, including:

• Burril
• Burill
• Burrell
• Burall
• Brurill (which, I concede, may simply be a typo, but it’s still fun)
• Burral

Obviously, I prefer the correct spelling of my name.  But if you’re going to get it wrong, I like the Burall variant; it sounds like a product related to drills.

While I’m on the topic of search strings, I’ll bow to one of the lazier gimmicks of blogging by highlighting some of the best strings that have led visitors to the Connective Lens this month:

• michigan 1932 potatoes
• what time period was photography
• president lincoln’s commitment to excellence
• channel 5 movie on monday 11th may 2009

The winners of the vague search award:

• fence
• years
• barn
• update
• after
• april
• musicians

And finally, my favorite:

• i have also been wrong