The trouble with the Internet is that its too big. Finding incriminating information about people can be a bit of a hassle; most of us are limited to only Googling someone's name, but that takes patience. And patience means slow.

A handy new website has come into being to help us all. It is called cvgadget.com (as many of you know, CV is Latin or some such, and it basically means 'resume' in England.) This website is pretty straight-forwardly arranged: you just put in someone's name at the top of the page, and the CVgadget searches 13 different sources for hits, including most of the big social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, and Myspace. 

Something tells me that this tool was intended to be used by curious employers, checking out the purported backgrounds of possible new employees. Which, of course, is a bad idea -- nothing will surely sully the image of your prospective new employee more than say, a session with CVgadget that turned up a handful of pictures of Mr. Hire-Me doing keg-stands on a moving vehicle, or perhaps something slightly less incriminating, such as old blog posts he or she made, revealing their enthusiastic support of the Flat Earth Society.

The website isn't perfect, of course. Googling my own name turned up my usual impostors that I'm familiar with, such as the Reverend Kevin Spiess who was involved in stain-glass window controversy, and the Kevin Spiess French director guy who likes to fire shotguns, and seems much cooler than myself.

Throw your own name in CVgadget and see what it comes up with -- and good luck with erasing any regrettable stuff it turns up! It can be tricky sometimes (so I've heard.)