I mean, I've been a lot of different things in my life, things I barely remember being or doing. But everything I've done since, what, 1990 or so, can be found on the internet, if you know where to look.

Well, almost everything. My flagship website, that I gave away, was apparently taken over by a cybersquatter who then told the wayback machine that it wasn't allowed to archive that domain name - and all the old pages went *poof*.

BUT, in a creepy sort of look-at-the-missing-man way, if you google for pilotlibrary.org you'll find lots of other cobweb sites that still have links to it. Heh.

But, still - a quick google will turn up Amiga freeware I wrote in the early and mid-1990s, the palm pilot astronomy software I wrote in the mid- to late- 90s (and is still getting downloaded about 2k times per month!) and a Mac-to-Sony-PSP program I wrote a couple of years ago.

Long ago, I was a serious calculator hacker, spending my time writing massive games for calculators that had 4k of RAM - and the data compression routines to make the games fit. Much later, I had another HP calculator that I'd mess with for no good reason because I'm neither a math geek nor a crystallography weenie. Eventually, an EE talked me into selling it to him because he needed a backup, and then, later again, SWHTL bought me a top-of-the-line HP calc as a gift and I promptly screwed with that till I realized that mobile computing devices no longer interested me as much as they had when I was 17.

During that last period, I wrote an HP<->Mac communications program, which was fun but annoying because unlike the astronomy program (or the PSP program) people were downloading this one at the brisk pace of, not kidding, twice a day. I had also declared it as "charityware" and asked that users donate money to MDA via my clown unit and no one - not one single person - ever did.

The reason I'm remembering any of this is because last night, out of some obscure impulse, I fired up my news reader (NOT the RSS reader!) to download some porn and I hit the HP calculator news group. It was not only still there and not filled with the porn I was looking for the first thing I saw was people talking about whether or not I would ever update my software for the newest HP models.

Heh.

Am I the only one whose noticed that my diaries are all either bad attempts at sarcasm or maudlin pieces of introspection?

Just askin'.

I mean, I could write about how, over on reddit, there's a bunch of us self-diagnosed and self-proclaimed Asperger's Syndrome victims comparing our scars and giving each other advice on how to blend in with the monkeys, but who wants to talk about that? Update [2007-8-23 9:36:24 by ObviousTroll]: Whoa. I just noticed that the two guys who offered to help test the astronomy program are actually still updating it! Cool. The web site is still the design I did in, what, 1995, though.