Re dooglus, I think he was also a contributing programmer for MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) before bitcoin existed. Can't verify that, but there are chat logs from 2005 on some ubuntu discussion.
It's true! I wrote the original Bubble Bobble driver.
And now I have that damned tune stuck in my head again. I also contributed to gzip, GNU Emacs, various ubuntu packages, and a bunch of other open source stuff.No, I'm not open sourcing Just-Dice!
I started using the nick 'dooglus' in order to dodge an IRC ban and never changed back. Some dick in the #mandrake (which dates this, I guess) channel banned me for proving him wrong in a silly argument about a bug in XChat. He had offered to give me "all his money" if I could prove him wrong. When I did so, conclusively, he banned me.
I failed several organic chemistry exams because of that game. Good thing too, given where I am in life now.