Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities: all is vanity
(Ecclesiastes; chapter 1 verse 2)
Based on investigation done by others, I contributed a Python script to list files in an iOS 4.x backup directory to a Stack Overflow discussion. Some researchers later used this as one of their tools to discover that iOS4 devices store a lot of location information.
I wrote a Python port of Google's libphonenumber
Someone wrapped up my Django snippet to do "su" into an egg.
I contributed a patch to Paul Boddie's Javaclass library (which is Python code to parse Java class files) to support Java 1.5 and 1.6 class files. This code is the basis for my Java nm/ldd utilities.
I get an acknowledgement from Scott Meyers for doing some reviewing of the prototype version of his Effective C++ CD-ROM.
I get an acknowledgement in a couple of LMP-related RFCs: RFC4204, RFC4209.
There's a discussion on comp.lang.lisp about an error (or possibly anachronism, as the article is from 1999) in my article about C++ and Lisp.
I get an acknowledgment about some errata I submitted for the second edition of Core Python.
My Guile tutorial now also lives at the GNU website here, with some other mentions here and here. There's also an updated variant that works with the current version of Guile here.
Mailing list discussions are here and here.
Mention of my MathML conversion module for Maxima on the Maxima mailing list.
Usenet posts are:
X Server Device Developers Kits
Generated code tight loops on HP-UX 10.20
My review of, notes on and references related to Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science" get a mention here. There's also a shorter version of it somewhere under the Amazon.com reviews.
On Usenet, the review gets, er, discussed in a thread here
My D.Phil. supervisor, Andrew Fowler mentions me in his CV and his list of what ex-students are doing now.
I also get a mention [PostScript file] for providing a bunch of corrections for the English edition of María Manzano's book "Model Theory".
Posts on maths and science topics are:
Re: What is conjugate?
Re: Prediction of unstable laser
Re: Prime Number
I also get a mention
here.
My PalmOS version of the RoboRally game was announced in rec.games.board here.
I get a mention in the Ratchet and Clank FAQ for contributing a tip.
Usenet posts on dance-related topics are:
Re: Steven Mitchell
Re: dance camp ?
Re: Michael Jackson
Ballroom camps in Europe
Re: French Style Jive (LeRoc, Ceroc etc)
Re: WCS or Boogie-Woogie?
Forever Tango (was Re: Tango Anyone?)
Lindy Hop to WCS
Herrang Trip Report
Re: Song mentioning specific dancer: Shorty George
Re: RYAN FRANCOIS workshops in Santa Barbara, CA, 19-21 July
Re: Why equate chaos with evil?
Re: Zelazny's time flows (Was Re: Lord of Light time flow?)
"No, just a Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?"
(Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe")
There seems to be a Scottish golfer.
And someone who also works in the computer industry.
There's also a Canadian epeeist who was at one point the University of New Brunswick Fencing Club President, which is a bit eerie.