I just noticed my Chrome ‘amazon’ search engine thingy had a referral code in it… so did my Firefox one… I’ve tracked this back to 2003! Someone’s been making a few cents off of me here and there for SEVENTEEN YEARS?
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So if anyone knows who “netgig-20” is, tell them I said hi and they owe me a beer
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Replying to @mendel
Googling seems to indicate it might be Pete Freitag, who wrote a ColdFusion book?
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I saw that, but I wonder if Pete Freitag and I both picked it up from the same place! I found a reference in a bookmarklet in a “how to use a Mac” guide, so I bet there was an ur-bookmarklet long ago that Pete, the guide author, and I all used.
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(well, it links to him at least, plus Whois info for the domain shows it’s registered to Foundeo, which is the company name in his Twitter profile, so
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this is making me nostalgic for the days before private whois
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