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[[Image:Selfie in 2008.JPG|thumb|350px|Ed Egan, a selfie. ('Selfie' is now in the Oxford English Dictionary, so there.)]]
There are just too many Ed Egans. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egan Egan] is an Irish surname, the Republic of Ireland is 86.8% Catholic[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland#Religion], and the Catholic Church has been opposed to any form of birth control[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_birth_control#Roman_Catholicism] since about 191AD (''The Instructor of Children 2:10:91:2''). Likewise, Edward (and hence Ed) is a common English (and Spanish, Portugese and Proto-Germanic) 'Christian' name[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward]. Edward is perhaps particularly common in conjunction with the surname Egan, because it alliterates and trips off the tongue nicely. '''Do the math(s)'''.
===Ed Egan: The Archbishop of New York===
[[Image:Egan-721957.jpg|thumb|350px|My rival - Ed Egan, The (now retired) Archbishop of New York (right), with 'W' (left)]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Egan As wikipedia puts it]: Edward Michael Egan (born April 2, 1932) is an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Bridgeport from 1988 to 2000, and as Archbishop of New York from 2000 to 2009. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
I'm going to have to become the definitive source on Edward Egan (the cardinal); there is just no other way that I'm going to dethrone his wikipedia entry in the short term (he is 79, so unless he achieves Sainthood, I'm probably good in the long-run - sorry if this is in poor humour , Your Grace.).
Useful links for Edward Egan (Cardinal) are:
===Ed Egan: The CEO of Egan Systems===
Somehow I missed the expiration of egan.com, which was previously owned by Ed Egan, CEO of Egan Systems. Unfortunately, one well-known side-effect of doing a Ph.D. is that you miss important events in your life (as the degree progresses (much like a disease), the ease with which this happens increases, and 'important' becomes a very relative term), and apparently this was one of them. I can't even find Egan Systems now... at least, not the Egan Systems run by Ed Egan, CEO At Large. Apparently I will now being watching the estate of James Arthur Egan (1939-2011), who [http://www.egan.com/jae/ passed away last July], and [http://www.egan.com/ Egan Visuals Inc.], who appear to be continuing in his absence.
===Eddie Egan: The NYPD copper turned actor===
In 1995 [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250670/ Eddie Egan, the former NYPD policeman turned actor], whose real life case was the basis of the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/ The French Connection], died in Florida, after a struggle with cancer. Even now, six years after his death, he holds the 10-13 slots on a Google search for Ed Egan, and the top five slots (and more) for Eddie Egan.
===Ed Egan: The web-savvy audiologist===
I don't know how EdEganHearing.com is in the top five for Ed Egan at Google. For a while, this wiley [http://www.asha.org/certification/ ASHA certified] Audiologist was beating me in the rankings despite my eponymous domain (and more than 100 times his content volume). If I ever go to [http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us/ Oshkosh, WI], I intend to get to the bottom of this mystery.
==Problem Sites==
I don't use [http://www.facebook.com/public/Ed-Egan Facebook ] or [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Ed/Egan LinkedIn]. These are firms that exist to sell the data that you give them, and I object strongly to virtual slavery . ==Friendly Sites== *I am listed on both moral [http://berkeley.academia.edu/EdEgan Academia.edu] (and economic groundssometimes regret it - see above)*I have a [http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/ed_egan/ profile page] posted at the [http://haas.berkeley.edu/index.html Haas School of Business], UC Berkeley*I have web-space at the [http://www.nber.org/~edegan NBER]
