Hall of Fame

This chapter is here so I can name the names of people who have performed above and beyond the call of duty in localising endless versions of FinderPop, isolating weird bugs, coming up with stonkingly good suggestions, indulging in gross bribery, and generally being good eggs, etc.

If and when FinderPop ever goes “Pintware” again (update 25-Aug-98: it is now!), persons listed herein are hereby entitled to click on the “I got turly a pint” checkbox and be dazzled by the bewildering array of flashing lights, rude noises and Macsbug crashes which result.

Note: names are in no particular order, just gotten from going over the first couple of hundred emails in my “FinderPop” email folder — of which there are over 5000 emails, and I reckon I’ve replied to at least half of ’em, so now you know where my time’s going...

Cristiano Maggi, Rene Hedemyr,Markus Kahle, Osamu Satoh, Carlos Jaramillo,  Fawzi Dormeyer, Dennis SCP, Ilkka Koski,Tamas Rell, Matthieu Baudoux, Richard Bensam, Jonathan Jacobs, Jan Skarbek, Phil Hudson, James Thomson, Frank O’Connor, KarlFranzW, Achim Haas, Horst Prillinger, Akira Rabelais, rohahn, Andrew Gara, Michel Touchot, Serge Horrent, bruce linde, Ken Bruseth, Doug Fairchild, Pat Lee, Michael D. Flaminio, Alexander Remington, Minoru Nakazato, Tom McKenna, Lawrence Guzzetta, Nathan Labhart, Kevin Roettger, Stéphane Cataldi, Graham Haultain, Tony Grzina, Timo Orre, Rem Plenzik, Kenneth Wahl, Peter Hartmann, Carlos (aka cgpipo), Leo Evershed, c.b.fabrizio, Hai Ng, Paul Tavernise, Henry Cline, Jefferson Le Blanc, Jon Gotow, Simon Lawson, Dave Polaschek, Eoin Norris, James Thomson, Pete Cassidy, Paul Barry, Will Cosgrove, luca siragusa, Brian Devendorf, Sam Caughron, Rainer Lanz, Norbert M. Doerner, Sergio Febo, Yves Anciant, the folks at Power On Software, the StuffIt Engine™ folks, Jeffrey Zeldman, Todd Matthews, David A. Muszynski, Laurent Poidevin, the folks at Kagi, the VersionTracker people, the SoftWatcher people, the Control-Click folks, Stefan Brech for having a handy copy of a disk utility thus enabling me to effect a Lazarus-style resurrection of my disks (and the FinderPop sources),

Hall of Shame

This bit is here for people who manage to piss me off, if you’ll pardon my French. (It takes some doing, but two people have managed it so far, although I don’t think they’ve noticed — how does 23 — yep, count ’em, 23 — fractious emails [to all of which I felt I had to reply] in one day from some miscreant sound?)  Despite the almost cloying cheerfulness / friendliness of the replies I send to these people, I can only maintain a cheerful facade for so long without resisting the urge to get some form of revenge by including anagrams of their names here.  Since they definitely don’t read manuals,they’ll never know…

29 April 1998: I think it’s only fair to start with a clean sheet. You have been warned :-)

27-October-1998: GeoCities gets a prominent position here for their no-warning deletion of my entire website and email address last Saturday.  Apparently my site contained nasty stuff as the message which I received last night was: 

     Subject: Homepage Deleted - Piracy/Hacking/Virus/Emulation
     Dear Community Member,

     Our guidelines have been carefully crafted to promote 
     the free flowing exchange of ideas about your interests, 
     activities, and hobbies, and at the same time maintain 
     standards consistent with the Internet community and the 
     societies of the world at large.   

     We appreciate your support and participation with GeoCities; 
     however, your homepage was inconsistent with our current 
     guidelines and has been removed from GeoCities.

     You are welcome to establish a new homepage within GeoCities 
     at any time, provided that it complies with our content 
     guidelines. We urge you to review these guidelines carefully 
     before you set up a new homepage.  

     We encourage you to review the guidelines at:
     http://www.geocities.com/members/guidelines/

     Thank you,

     GeoCities Community Response Team
     www.geocities.com
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Or maybe they reckon FinderPop is a virus :-)

  Ignoring my two emails as to why this was done also raises them up an extra notch on my “first against the wall come the revolution” scale. Scona
bliana oraid*.

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*For those of you not versed in Irish (Gaelic) curses, this could be loosely translated as “A year’s diarrhoea to ’em!”