I mentioned Fidonet in my latest post, and that in the year 2000 I still cared about it. I think two years ago I still cared a bit, because with all the mad year-1997-web skills I could muster I made this jewel of a website: Welcome to FidoNot!.

I’m plugging it because I will probably not renew the domain next year (this year I did it by mistake) so it’s almost your last opportunity to see it, and I’m quite proud of it in an evil way. You know, it brings evil smiles to my face when I think about it and all.

And it’s actually been useful for someone: that someone was looking for animated rainbow thingies like the ones I put there, so… :-)

(Plus, the time spent looking at that thing is not spent arguing in Debian lists or proposing resolutions.)

The new Google Code Search yields about 32,700 results for “fuck” and only about 100 for “make love” (with double quotes). I haven’t tried “make sweet, tender love”, but I think the number of results would approach zero :)

Also, my name appears about 200 times, mostly as a translator — but there’s some actual code of mine too!

Next time I’m asked “have you contributed to any open-source projects as a developer?” I can point to Google Code Search and say: “oh, yes, there’s this code I made in the year 2000 (back when I still cared about Fidonet) to make GoldED+ use ncurses instead of printing directly to the terminal” or “oh, yes, I made a small library for reading and writing gettext PO and MO files in PHP for use in Drupal, and they still use heavily modified versions of two or three of my functions”.

Or I could simply say: “yes, but it’s all irrelevant now”.