Like searching for a bookmark in a haystack.
A favorite web page of old carried a headline: Look,
Mommy made her own Web Page. I thought it might be nice to link to
that page here. Without a bit of serendipitous luck I probably wouldn't
have been able to find the page even had I remembered the exact wording
of that title, which I didn't, and if I couldn't find it, I wouldn't be
able to link to it. It was nowhere to be found in my bookmarks (or at least
nowhere where I seemed to be able to find it) and numerous AltaVista searches
led me nowhere. And then, at just about the same time that I decided that
perhaps I could search for it from the Boidem
search page (I seemed to recall having referred to it in a long ago
column) I hit on a collection of keywords that brought up the Boidem page
that referred to the desired page. It turns out that the title wasn't in
text, and thus wouldn't show up in an AltaVista search, but my quoting
of it long ago did.
So? So some mothers have web sites. Good for them. Three
and a half years ago I thought it was a great title for a web page,
and I still do today as well.