Way way back in the day when I was going through a "I want to help Free Software and don't really know how" phase—somewhere around about 2002 or so I finally became a reasonable programmer, and it's still not really clear to me how that happened, after I'd tried for so long—I created a site called buglinks.org, a sort of a bug reporting portal.

It was hosted for a while by Will LaShell, who was someone I didn't know otherwise, and when I accidently nuked the directory it was hosted in, I was too shy to ask for it to be recreated, and that was that for a while. Some time passed and he must have let the domain name lapse, and in due course I had my own hosting, bought the domain name myself, and re-started it. But it's never really gone anywhere, I'm just not terribly involved in the bug fixing world. So if anyone else is interested in hosting a "welcome to the world of bug fixing" site or something similar and wants the domain name and existing content, email me. Otherwise I will let the domain lapse in June, and probably archive the content somewhere under puzzling.org.

Mark Pesce, Jeff Waugh and I did a short panel interview on blogging, online communities, standards of behaviour and so on for Triple J's Hack program. This is all part of the follow on from the inter-blog harrassment of Kathy Sierra (see also Sierra's update prior to her appearance on CNN).

It was recorded Monday and went to air yesterday afternoon. I'm appearing in my new capacity as the international coordinator of LinuxChix (of which more later), although that was actually a coincidence of timing, I'd only been coordinator for a day at that point. (LinuxChix is mischaracterised in the introduction as a blogging community, by the way.) The Hack program for that day is currently available as an MP3 file [13 megabytes] (13 megabytes is at least a half hour download for dialup users, and about 7 minutes on 265kps broadband) via their podcasts. The segment I'm in starts at 22 minutes 46 seconds and ends at 28 minutes 34 seconds.