Style Guide *

My name is frequently mangled, so I set down some rules to make everything easy.

Each letter in brian d foy must be of the same case. Lower case is preferred. Any capitalization is incorrect unless each letter is capitalized.
d does not stand for anything. It is not an initial. Do not use any punctuation.
Sentences should not start with brian d foy if you normally capitalize the first word of a sentence. Recast the sentence so that it begins with a capital letter. There has been some confusion about this, apparently. I merely make a suggestion based on most reasonable style guides that prefer not to break the sentence-style capitalization in these cases. Recasting the sentence avoids the problem.
There are two atoms in brian d foy: brian, which may be used alone, and d foy, which must be used in conjunction with brian. Any form of brian foy is incorrect.

Various discussions

I interview myself, and ask about the name
A Perlmonks thread on my name, with some input from me
The argument for conventional English in "why I'm so case sensitiVe????". Curiously, the author doesn't mind other typographical oddities, or irregular uses that she prefers.
An interesting LiveJournal discussion where my name comes up, in "On the difficult matter of names".
A mention of "publication name" in "How I learned Perl"

Brian D. Foy, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University