Success!

I'm old enough to still have a slide rule, which I used for calculations in high school chemistry class. My cradle wasn't a wi-fi hot spot, and the first mouse that I knew of was Micky, not wireless.

Still, my plan for downloading a ton of games (see "Digging for Gold") and sharing a selection of them – a PGN database of Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+), Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 4.Bxf7+), and Semi-Italian Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6 4.0-0/4.Nc3/4.d3 Bc5 5.Bxf7+) games – with Readers (see "Sharing the Wealth") is a step closer: by the time you read this post, I will have succeeded in gathering the 100,000,000 games from FICS, in about 120 compressed files (which should take care of the file size problem for my chess database).

Selecting out the meaningful games may still take a while, but I should make my deadline of 01/01/10.