My google and weblog presence summary
So, at my recent reunion, I told Cloe that she could just
Google me. She asked "what would I be looking for?"
So I figured I'd summarize a few of the things one can
get to by Googling for me.
Today, the top result is the most popular single entry I
ever posted to my weblog -- my suspicion about one possible
reason for the 0xCAFEBABE magic hex string that starts every
Java .class file.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/2002/04/19.html
(I'll shorten my weblog links like this:
http://tmp.i.am/2002/04/19.html
but that redirector pops up some ads. If you don't have
a decent popup blocker, just substitute
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100945/
for the "http://tmp.i.am/" part of the URLs below.)
If you're new to weblogs in general general and/or Radio
Userland weblogs in general particular, and/or my weblog
in particular particular, click on the "About Me and GIGO" link.
That gets you to
http://tmp.i.am/about/about.html
which tells a little about my weblog and me.
Two of the other local links on any of my weblog pages
are "GIGO TOC" and "stories"
http://tmp.i.am/stories/BlogTOC.html#today
The TOC is the Table Of Contents, which I maintain
manually because Radio Userland lacks a table-of-contents
feature. I am pretty careful to make up relatively decent
titles for my weblog posts, so one can read through
there to get an idea of what I write about.
The "stories" link,
http://tmp.i.am/stories/
leads to some of the longer pieces I've written, and
a couple of silly other imported things. As with most weblog
things, they're listed in reverse chronological order.
They include
- Psychopathia Dyschronialis -- a humorous faux-treatise on
the illness of losing track of time.
- Long Trails in North America -- a list of most of this
continent's long-distance trails that I know of. A Google
search for long trails north used to bring up this
page as the top result. It's now slipped to second.
- Job Search Ideas for the recently Laid Off -- when I was
out of work for 7 months in the ickiest part of 2001/2002,
I kept track of the job search strategies that I tried.
Once I was again employed, I wrote up this page. So ever
since mid-2002, it has been the top Google result for
Job Search Ideas. Perhaps I should try selling
Google-ads on it, but it really doesn't seem to get all that
many hits, despite its should-be-advantageous location.
- City nicknames -- here's where the hits are. Easily
ninety percent of the page views of anything on my Radio
site are views of this page. Today, it's the top Google
hit for city nicknames, but it usually trades
places with the Trivia Asylum page that you'll see up there.
I suppose I ought to just redirect it to wikipedia, though
a few of my humorous contributions there probably wouldn't
survive.
- 'Long Walks' Books -- books about long walks their
authors have taken.
- Tahoe trip report, July 2001 -- a true trip report, all
in limericks. 'Nuff said.
Finally, here are a few of my other web presences,
about which I may choose to write more details later:
- http://zia.pycs.net/ -- in New Zealand
- http://scruzia.blogspot.com/ -- had to make an account
here in order to comment on another blogger blog.
- http://dal.i.am -- redirects to my pages at my last
dialup ISP, got.net.
- http://homepage.mac.com/landauer/ -- On Apple's "mac.com".
Slow servers long and ugly URLs. It was the guys from
NeXT, and their WebObjects software, that ended up in charge
of this part of Apple, and they never "got" the importance
of user interface, nor did they ever realize that the URL
is part of the user interface, no matter how much you
wish it weren't.
I really ought to clean up the front page here.
Anyway, there is a pix/ subdirectory there, and a bunch of
further subdirectories with photos in them. An index of
sorts named "unlinked.html" lives in that pix/ directory,
but I have a policy of not ever making any true links
to that whole URL. I don't really know why anymore.
- http://scruzia.spymac.com/ -- notable only for the puppy pix.
On LtU, Flickr, del.icio.us, and a few other places, my user id is scruzia.
11:47:41 PM
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