gu.pe

I often use gupe as a username on the Internet. It's from Gustav Peter. So a few weeks ago, for no real reason besides for my own amusement / hobby, I purchased the domain name gu.pe (thanks to Peru for making its second level domains available for general registration). It's now running my own link manager, which I wrote in Python. The bare domain (i.e. gu.pe/) currently just links to this blog and my link manager gives me the ability to rapidly create short links to other URLs (addresses on the Internet). I think it's really handy and very cool (but hardly anyone I've encountered thus far shares my enthusiasm). An example link is gu.pe/mutti which I've set up to link to my mother's blog; it's easier for me to type in that than the long link that it redirects to. In that sense I'm using my link manager as a sort-of bookmarking system.

I thought I'd check if gupe means something in another language. The closest I could find is guêpe in French, which means wasp. This morning I created a little logo for my link manager. As a link manager's job is transparent, the logo is only visible to the manager (me) when doing admin functions on it.