popularity contest

[jfb]

So, woo! I'm finally on the first page of Google results for my name. That is, my this-millennium web site is finally on the first page.

The only pages that still rank higher are my last-millennium web site from grad school and... two posts from the URI mailing list circa 1993. Why do those posts have a higher rank? Are a lot of people linking to my decade-old opinions on syntactic wrappers for uniform resource identifiers?

But at least I've finally won out over my 1998 flirtation with programming by example, my 1993 quibbles with the URL spec, the 1824 birth of a son to John Erik Ostrom of Limborg, Sweden, and Dave's perpetual insistence that he's not really dead.

ego-googling == fun.

Comments

[pobig.livejournal.com]

The top match for my real name, and almost all of the other matches, are due to my early to mid-90s habit of voting "no" on every newsgroup proposal that didn't appeal to me. The top match is the "wet blanket" awards for 1995. Going to take a while to beat that, unfortunately.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Well, I know it's seven or eight years late, but I'd like to offer my congratulations.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

You're too kind. I can't remember what my beef with most of the proposals was now...