We should start a club of people whose names vex software.
I could talk your ear off with how many ways I've broken systems in Japan, but one of my Asian American friends takes the cake. Her name is not Kim Kim, but it could be. Apparently some systems check to make sure you don't enter your first name twice...
Fake: Yes. I can't tell you how many times I've booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system and the program tosses a ticket that says "fake" on it. Twice I've gone to the counter for a KLM flight through Northwest and have been rejected. They say, "You don't have a ticket." I give them a confirmation and after some investigation I learn my ticket has been cancelled because the system deleted it. For a while I couldn't join Facebook because of my last name. During the registration process I was asked for my real name and when I wrote "Fake" it rejected me. Finally a friend working for Facebook took care of me.
I could talk your ear off with how many ways I've broken systems in Japan, but one of my Asian American friends takes the cake. Her name is not Kim Kim, but it could be. Apparently some systems check to make sure you don't enter your first name twice...