Null took her husband’s name after they married, and she told the Wall Street Journal it has caused headaches on multiple occasions. In 2014 she nearly missed a trip to India because the computer system for the Indian consulate could not process her name for her visa. She finally got her travel documents mere days before the flight.
What last name regularly breaks database entries?
Answer: Null.
Life in the digital age isn’t always easy if your last name is Null. British computer scientist Tony Hoare first used the term 60 years ago to indicate to computer systems that something had “no value.” Many databases still use this term today, as clothing designer Nontra Null can attest.
Null took her husband’s name after they married, and she told the Wall Street Journal it has caused headaches on multiple occasions. In 2014 she nearly missed a trip to India because the computer system for the Indian consulate could not process her name for her visa. She finally got her travel documents mere days before the flight.
She has taken to using her maiden name or hyphenating it with Null when she can, but this isn’t a perfect workaround. She said she regularly receives letters and packages at work for people who are not in the system, since it registers them as “null” and so they are redirected to her.
Null took her husband’s name after they married, and she told the Wall Street Journal it has caused headaches on multiple occasions. In 2014 she nearly missed a trip to India because the computer system for the Indian consulate could not process her name for her visa. She finally got her travel documents mere days before the flight.
