http://www.basementcoder.com Ravings of a Keyboard Commando Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:20:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (I am not an employee of DreamHost and whilst I mention them many times, I in no way represent them, their owners, employees, pets, small fuzzy things that grow under the refridgerator or even the high lord, Josh Jones. I'm just a customer.) I hang around in #dreamhost on freenode. It's ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/14 Reading this over at Hacker News made me a little.. irked, at the guys over at 37Signals. And it made me wonder, just how fast could I mock up a design using only the barest of glances at theirs, and look similar, but.. funky in my own way. I did this ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/12 It was a dark and stormy n.. okay, fine. It was an ordinary evening. I'd just placed a pizza order and I awaited my confirmation email. Nothing.. nothing.. I hit the Send/Receive button.. huh. My password doesn't work. Okay, Outlook does this occasionally. *re-enters* Nothing. Wait, two email accounts aren't working. ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/11 And no, not the OMC song. I found out that.. at least two people actually read this thing. Shocking! I haven't really done anything in the.. day.. since I updated. I missed the new episode of Numb3rs tonight, unfortunately. I've been experimenting, cooking-wise too. I made a spicy lemon chicken last night. ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/10 I promised myself when I re-did my blog, that I would update it more regularly. As you can see, that plainly hasn't happened. My bad. Suffice it to say, not much happened, bar a small vacation. We went up to New York for five days. Spent it with a friend. Good times, ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/9 I've been pondering uses for Amazon's EC2 lately. Namely, what use could you have for it from a privacy or anonymity oriented standpoint? My first thought was virtual private networks. Could these function well in an EC2 setup? Boot one up, dynamically configure it, and start routing through it. When you're ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/8 A most hilarious video by Whitest Kids U Know, a NYC comedy troupe. Pip pip! http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/7 I read over at Kotaku, that UNICEF are campaigning in Japan to help put a stop to 'Virtual Child Pornography'. To those of you who aren't sure what this means, let me say it clear. This means, if you just draw some lolicon or shotacon art.. or if you like pretending ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/6 It occured to me, last night, that what I am really good at, is thinking. I was yakking away with someone in a group on Chatterous and he had a quandry. He wanted to get into a certain market, but it's saturated and there was no new ways of doing things. ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/5 Today, I received what was to me, one of the most hilarious 419 scams that have ever existed. I received it today, and you can see the email itself in it's entirity, after the jump. Dona Chiesa Cattolica Italiana (http://www.chiesacattolica.it/), that is the Catholic Church Italy, would like to inform you that ... http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/4