You mean those hot women that are following me are not real?!

You don't need to tweet for twitter to be useful. Many people follow others or use it to keep on top of things. For example, if there is a minor earthquake somewhere there is no better place to really find out what happened quickly than twitter. "Holy crap, #EARTHQUAKE, shook the building for 30 seconds"

After I started learning to code very late in life I realized that I will never finish learning and probably will never be as good at it than really good coders. But on the flip side I don't want to be someone who is paid to code. I am building these skills to enhance the ones I already have and just for fun. It's opened up so many project possibilities for me. Now if I can only keep getting better.

Dammit, the link don't work

Nice writing, holy crap. I meant;

Then I use a script to read the access_log and generate a web page with my home IP every hour.

ah ok got it.

I have a small VPS that hosts a personal website. My home Linux box just does an http get with curl to a secret html file on the VPS webserver. Then I generate an html file every hour that reads the access_log and uses a script to genereate a web page that displays my home IP I can access. Has worked fine for me for quite some time. My IP rarely changes and I can just update my hostfile if I don't want to use my IP directly.

There are probably more elegant solutions but since I am the only one using it it's fine and I can't justify paying anything when I already have a perfectly good VPS I can leverage.

Sports? What physical education. My god man, you want kids to get even fatter? Take away their xbox would be a good first step.

oh, I just realized I do have an account with a fake name. The fb slingbox client is the only way to watch my sling on Linux. heh.

There is a difference. Facebook is socializing with people you know in the real world. I don't think anyone else has as good a platform for that. Forums are a different beast, where you mostly mingle with people you don't know with names like "future assassin" and "hodet".

Not defending it, I don't have a fb account, but I have plenty of family who enjoy using it. Whatever floats ones boat I say.

woops, probably misinterpreted what you said. Rereading, I think you said ethics are of little concern. Anyhoo..... back to work. :-)

I read that article and the comments (was it yesterday or the day before???) and I just don't see sending people to Mars as unethical. Astronauts are sentient beings with free will. They choose to do this just like ancient explorers chose the unknown horizon of the sea. Who knows they may colonize and adapt and will push humankind further. They choose to go, and for the type of personality that would even consider going to Mars, they live for this type of adventure. Now we should debate the economics perhaps, and if it makes sense spending billions of dollars to strap a rocket to someones ass and launch them towards some big hunk of red rock in the middle of nowhere, but ethics....please.

Whew. It's not just me then. I can appreciate how they stuck together though. They wanted drama, well they got it.

This is what I was thinking. If this is how I made all of my purchasing decisions, I'd be living in a hollowed out stump rubbing sticks together for fire.

We are talking about kids here. They aren't stupid or careless, they are care-free. There's a difference. I think the world would be better off without stupid comments on the internet.