Disorderly Content

2008-12-31

History Lesson

I have an ego. (Yes, I know that isn't news.) Couple that ego with a modest web presence of long standing, and what I am about to tell you will come as no surprise: I Google myself.

Heck, I bet you do it too. All the cool kids do. I used to do it reguarly, but now I let Google Google me all by its ownself and tell me when it finds something. Every day it emails me with new discoveries, most of which are no surprise. Heck, most of them are pages I put there myself.

But every now and again I get a surprise. Like just now, when in addition to noticing my studio photography page, it pointed me to an ancient article from my Sun days. The subject was moving a development team from C to C++, the author was a team lead on the project. I was mentioned in passing, as their instructor on the ways of C++ and the ways to avoid getting into a heap o' trouble. An entertaining read, especially as I don't feel any need to cringe over the advice I gave them in those long ago days before Java and web development and so much else. And proof that on the web, everything is indelible.