So, you want to find out a bit more about buhsnarf.net? Excellent, read on.

Why?

BuhSnarf.net has always been a bit of a playground for me. Not really ever being stable, continually changing and never really serving a great deal of purpose for the public audience. I started to learn about the “web” back in High School and then even more so when I moved up to college where we had a 33.6k dial up to AOL. State of the art machine, all 256 colours of the Windows 3.11 machine. I actually read a few books on HTML, web design and the like, wrote a few awful sites hosted by Geocities and Angelfire. Since then I’ve just been trundling along in the slow lane picking up bits and pieces as I see them and try them out on whatever webspace I have. Dedicated hosting came about when I decided that I wanted to try all this cool dynamic stuff. I’ve probably had buhsnarf.net for about three years and in that time so many cool things have come from it. Hopefully more in the future as I have quite a few plans and little things I want to build. Some for the public, some to just test what I can do myself. Of course nowadays I’m strapped for time so I tend just use it as a blogging/picture site. It of course hosts MoleTalk.

And that’s what the site is about. Me, doing a bit of coding and having a presence on the web.

Who?

This site wholy belongs to myself however I do lend space out to a few friends and family. I’ve also been known to host a few files for people.

BuhSnarf? What?

A bloody good question. To be really honest I don’t recall the absolute origin of buh or snarf. They are two seperate words and a little gap should be used when saying buhsnarf orally. It boils down to when I used to be addicted to IRC a few years back now. Most likely around 1998 or similar. A friend of mine Matt (|ack) had created an ‘entertainment’ and ‘channel control’ bot, named flobert (he went by other names at the beginning ertbot etc. but flobert is what most people knew him as.) He was basically a set of scripts to help run the channel (room) #froggie_ which is where myself and some friends from college used to ‘hang out.’ He also performed (’said’) odd things in the channel on certain keywords/specified time limits and so on. One of the first programmed commands was to respond to ‘buh’ with ’snarf.’ Basically buh and snarf are your ‘words for everything’ like foo and bar. You need a temp variable call it buh, need a output, why not call it snarf? You can’t be bothered to put anything? Just type buh.

However, it kinda grew into a channel trademark to have buh/snarf… In fact when Matt became a network admin at a primary school he taught the kids how to say buh.

So all credit goes to Matt. Unfortunately it seems that flobert is in a coma at the moment and will probably never return to IRC. He became a real personality and I actually even sent him a christmas card one year.

Whilst googling I just found out that flobert is actually a pellet used in air guns

Fancy a history lesson?

I keep meaning to write a site history. The only problem is that I have no dates for anythign that I’ve done. The majority of my old websites have no fallen into the web black hole and I can’t really remember the URLs of the ones that are probably still there! So no real history. But then I look the future, not the past.