I should really write software that emails me when someone posts a comment on one of my old entries.

While searching my archives to see if I had blogged this Java conversion of the old CP/M game "Ladder," (I had, though the page has moved to that new URL), I found my first post about Ladder, dated July 26, 2000. In the comments for the post I note that the maintainer of the Linux ncurses conversion [source tar] contacted me to fill me in on a little history of the conversion. Then time passed, the entry scrolled off my home page, and we all forgot about it.

Sixteen months later, on November 26, 2001, a friend of the original authors of Ladder posted a comment, followed by a post the next day by one of the authors. Ladder co-author "TZ" writes:

Dave and I wrote it and was sold under the company name "Yahoo Software" through distributors and computer manufacturers (including Kaypro, Xerox and NCR). I sold the Yahoo name to a fortune 500 company. I guess I should have kept it. :)