I had to smile, when I read the head line and later the article. During my first year of university, I wrote a verb conjugation engine and a very simple webserver for the UI (I wanted cross-plattform compatibility and it was easier than learning GTK+).

I, too, choose bstring for strings and used valgrind a lot. It's nice to see I'm not the only one writing C code this way. (Although I don't write much C anymore.)