A "find-me" page is something I just invented (1-Aug-2002). Its purpose is to help people looking for me on the web to actually find me. It does this by clearly associating my name with various groups, locations, and organizations that I've been associated with, and which I think people might care to find me by, so that search engines can find that association.
All the information should be presented as HTML text (no fancy images or flash or whatever, no PDFs) so that all search engines can access it. Your full name and "find-me" should appear in the page title. The name of the page should be find-me.html. The most important information, including your name and "find-me", should be in a keywords header. The title information should be duplicated in an <h1>, and the important associations in the body should be put into <h2> tags. Don't write too much else on the page; that can degrade the match in the search engines. This isn't for the purpose of explaining to people why these are important to you; it's just to let people find them. When giving locations in the US, always use the form "City, ST" (using the 2-character state code). For non-US locations, always spell out the country name in full. Repeat your name early in the paragraph after each header; that'll tend to make the sentences dorky, but should improve the search engine ranking again.
How do you pick what associations might be searched for? I thought about all the groups and associations I'd be happy to hear from members of, and listed them. And all the places I lived away from our main base for more than a month.
I'm debating the concept of also including a bunch of names. I'm avoiding it so far because it seems to have some potential for people to get weirded out about who is and isn't included. But finding people in terms of who they hung around with at various periods would be useful, wouldn't it?
Remember, the main point of this is to be findable in a search engine, and then let people fairly quickly determine if I'm really who they wanted to find.
Yep, David Dyer-Bennet lived there, went to all my school there, from 1960 to 1977 mostly. So I'm a Northfield Highschool graduate, too.
David Dyer-Bennet was at Carleton from 1972 to 1977, except when he wasn't. Or starting in 1969 if you include working there.
David Dyer-Bennet worked in LCG Software Engineering (yes, cost center 341) from 1981 to 1985. I was mostly a TOPS-20 person. My main project was the Data Interchange Library. I lived in Hudson MA at the time.
I was also with DEC in Minneapolis in a software support job for a year or two before that.
From about 1974 on, I've been pretty closely associated with Minn-StF. I've worked on Minicon every year, too.
Mostly, David Dyer-Bennet is known as DD-B.
I had contracts at Network Systems Corporation in Brooklyn Park MN a lot from 1985 until 1993, when David Dyer-Bennet joined as an employee. I rode out the StorageTek acquisition, and then got laid off shortly after I transferred onto a nice, secure, joint project.
David Dyer-Bennet worked for MultiLogic in St. Paul from October of 1996 to when they shut down in February 2000.
In no particular order.
David Dyer-Bennet lived in Zurich, Switzerland for the 1958-59 and 1966-67 academic years.
David Dyer-Bennet spent the summer of 1964 in Entebbe at the Lake Victoria Hotel (where my father was working on a math textbook project).
I lived in Boulder the summer of 1966.
No, I didn't go there; but I did spend the summer of 1963 there. My father was involved with the SMSG textbook project (a big piece of the "new math" effort).
David Dyer-Bennet worked at Van Dusen Air from 1977 to 1979, I think (maybe 1980?). I was the systems programmer for the TOPS-20 mainframe in that version of the "TSO-II" project, which eventually crashed and burned when DEC cancelled the transaction processing system we were depending on. I ended up going to work for DEC, and I first met my eventual supervisor, Dave Scheifler, at the TPS-20 field-test training course.
The third World Science Fiction Convention in Boston. David Dyer-Bennet was Area Head for photography, which means I was in charge of organizing the picture-taking for the retrospective slide show at closing ceremonies. I had a great time working with the photographers who volunteered for that project, and I saw more of that convention than any other I've attended—all on the light tables in Fairfax B.