Cleaning Out My Closet #1

I did a backup of my work directory the other day and it came in at 2.2 gigs, which is odd considering that my live sites are only comprise roughly 700 megs. My conclusion was that there must be a lot of stuff in here that I've yet to put up, organize, or otherwise contains enough historical significance to no longer fear TEH SUCK of low quality or "nah, that'll never fly" work. So, I hope to be Cleaning Out My Closet over the next month or so, randomly throwing stuff up in the Detergent directories. First up is stuff that has previously been public, but has been reorganized:

  • The Syncasaurus Logo: Way back in 2000/2001, I was using a bookmark synchronizer called BookmarkSync, and Morbus saw that it was Good. It was better than all the other synchronizers or managers because it integrated with your browser without requiring anything extra: no web based signin, no javascript bookmarklet, no extra steps to take or what have you -- just the way I like my bookmarks. After a year or so of service, they went payware, and I planned Syncasaurus, an opensource alternative. I wrote a bunch of conversion code (in Perl; should be around here somewhere) between IE, Mozilla, and XBEL (an XML doctype), but never actually got around to doing the syncing part (though I had written plenty of development docs on it). Anyways, the Syncasaurus logo was drawn by Julie Wohead (someone I've not talked to in quite a while, much to my deprecating disappointment). It was, and still is, good.
  • urGhyll Archive: Before Ghyll went public, Sean B. Palmer and I spent upwards of nine months letting it ferment in our head, preparing for the inevitable time when we'd actually be "ready" to play. We've since named this the "urGhyll", and this tarbull contains our notes on the subject.