I made a new piece of software today. It's a rather small ruby script. It goes through my gaim logs and parses out any URLs for the current day. Then it creates an rss feed from those URLs. I use cron to upload this rss feed to my webserver every half-hour or so. It's very helpful for myself because if someone sends me a link it ends up in my live bookmarks. It can also be helpful to others who want to see what everybody's talking about.

To check out the rss feed visit glues.rss

To read about why this script is version 0.1 and what it will take to make it version 1.0 read my blog post on the subject.

I switched my parents to Linux. And all is well. Could it be that the best way to switch people to Linux is to force it upon them? I envision it like windows users have a disease and Linux is the best medicine. But it tastes bad and they don't want to take it. But once you force it down their throats they are no longer ill and they'll thank you for it later.

Read full blog post here.

If you read my journal or blog you know what I think of most MMOs. You might also know I have been searching for a new MMO idea that would really blow them away. I wanted an original concept for a new game that would truly be a work of art.

Rejoice. That idea has come. And to commemorate this event I am doing a three-part blog series.

In part 1, which is already written I examine yet again why I don't like existing MMOs. I didn't go into too much detail as most of my opinion is unchanged. Also, there are others who have elaborated on the subject much more deeply than I can. So think of it as a 5 minute refresher course on the basics of what is wrong with MMOs today.

In Part 2 I will examine the paralells of MMOs and western society. While it seems slightly off-topic it will serve two purposes. First, like part 1, it will make the light you see in part 3 so much clearer. Secondly, it will throw anyong trying to guess what my ultimate MMO idea is.

In part 3, the idea will be revealed. Details will not be divulged in greater number than necessary to make readers realize the greatness of the idea. And hopefully, someone who wants to fund it will read it :)

Watch this spot or my blog or either RSS feed to see when parts 2 and 3 come out.

Yeah, that's right. You heard me. FUCK THE TROOPS

What if the Internet existed in the times of Ghandi? Why does nobody use his methods anymore? Why don't we? These questions and more in my latest blog entry.

Flash Mob Ghandi

You can always read my blog, Gourmet Geek, at this URL and it is RSS syndicated here.

I will also of course, put pointers to entries I really want people to read in the slashjournal right here, if that is your preferred method. And this slashjournal is also RSS syndicated here.

Jon Stewarts appearance on Crossfire made me lose a lot of hope I previosuly had for the future of our society. However, I also have come closer to finalizing an idea I have had on a possible way to bring real debate and enlightenment to the people. So here is my new blog entry called show of courage. Tell me what you think about it. If I can get enough interested manpower to start it up, I might consider actually executing one of my ideas for a change.

Ok, this isn't really blog material, but I'm putting it in the /journal because its so cool I can't keep it to myself.

Check this out. I got an iPod. The iPod has an alarm clock feature, so it can play a song at a specified time. Great replacement for bedside alarm clock if you have speakers that can plug into the iPod. But I don't have speakers that do that.

What I DO have is a normal clock/radio and an iTrip. Leave the clock/radio on tuned into the iTrip. There will be complete silence as long as the iTrip's LED is on and the iPod isn't playing a song. Then when the iPods alarm goes off you get an mp3 to wake you up in the morning. If I wanted I could syncrhonize the clocks on the iPod and the clock/radio so the alarm clock goes off in radio mode which happens to be the iPod playing a song.

The best part is that I can do this AND leave the iPod charging overnight.

Without even writing a line of code or taking out a soldering iron you can combine existing pieces of technology to do some really awesome stuff. Oh hotness.

I wrote a peice in my blog today that I'm pretty proud of. I describe my personal philosophy on blame. Considering the stuff going on in the presidential election, I figured it was pretty relevant. What it boils down to is that if people placed blame correctly the world would be a much better place.

Read for more details.

If at least one person improves their life a small bit after reading this, then it was worth the time it took to write it.

My latest blog entry deals with my idea of starting a geek commune. Similar to the Kibbutzes in Israel we could all group up and write software in a small, happy, cooperative community for the rest of our lives. As long as we don't look like crazy culties in the process. And as long as we don't let freaky people in.

I've posted my thoughts on the DS/PSP multiple times around the net. Mostly on games.slashdot. But I decided to reiterate them in my blog so they would have a permanent easily accesible home. But in addition to that old slightly changing opinion I also included an idea we had yesterday. The killer app for the DS has been discovered, and its a doozy. Now I just have to get a DS dev kit. Too bad they cost $10,000+. Maybe one day my dream will exist.

Anyway read all about it at my blog here. While you read it notice the Gameboy being the icon of choice for this slashdot category and what that means.

Also, my blog has RSS if you want to subscribe to it here.

Ok, that's all for now. I haven't posted much due to lots and lots of work at work. We'll see how things go. I should have more free time when school starts again in two weeks.

Remember my distro rodeo? Well I settled on Gentoo. For the same reasons I'm moving from xfce4 to fvwm2. I tried every window manager in the world. In the end I realized one thing. The only window manager good enough for me is the one that can be customized in absolutely every way just like Gentoo. To read about my new ultimate desktop project check my blog. When I make a project page for it I will post it here as well. I hope I can outdo Taviso.

So I made a post in my blog about a post in a slashdot thread. And this post in the slashjournal is a post to that blog post. And its about Farenheit 9/11 and slashdot so it will probably be interesting for you.

Here is the Link

On a side note you will notice that earlier on slashdot there was a posting about the national weather service and their SOAP web services. I'm about halfway done from implementing an application to access this web service. I'm writing it in python using SOAPpy. It's a little different from SOAP4r in ruby which I am more used to, so it will take time. I must also learn to use the python xml parser to deal with the returned SOAP envelope. My goal is to combine it with pyosd to make an xosd torsmo-like weather forecast on my desktop. If I actually work on it, it shouldn't take me long to make it go. You will see it in the blog. Oh, I'm creative commons licensing it instead of GPL or LGPL. Just a note.

I'm running around the internet posting this wherever I care to.

I GOT MECHWARRIOR 2, THE OLD DOS CD-ROM TO RUN ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESSLY UNDER GENTOO LINUX USING DOSBOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the whole story, see my blog.

This is like the greatest thing ever. I'm always happy, but this is absolutely fantastic amazing awesome stupendous. Especially considering my alone-ness and boredom as of late, this is a total turnaround. Oh yea!!!!!!

OK, so I decided I finally have a need for one of those little USB flash drives. I've started to use more encryption and I would like to keep all my encryption keys on it. Something that can go on a real life key-ring would be great, I like to keep all my keys in one place. I also want it to be relatively cheap and work with all OSes easily, mostly linux. I know there are like a zillion of these things on the market, so I really need some help in figuring out which one is the quality.

If you didn't guess I finally made an audioblog. It's kind of crappy actually. But I haven't even skimmed the surface of what is possible with this concept. I'm going to try to do a lot more with it in the future and feedback is very very good. My ultimate goal is to make something that is the equivalent of a morning radio talkshow, but for geeks. It wont be live, but it will be on the net. So it will be just like if I'm on the radio, but you have a radio Tivo. Anyway, the audio is back at my blog.

Constructive criticism desired.