If you know me, you’ll know that I like to waste my time on playing in my favorite MUD. If you don’t know what MUDs are, you have been born after 1970. MUDs are online multiplayer games (think WoW) but without all the graphics and fanciness. It’s purely text-based, so it takes a while to get used to, but the writing on good MUDs is great (and I mean novel-level, and not anything like the DaVinci Code or Men Are From Mars, Women Are Not) and their worlds are typically much much larger than graphical MMORPGs’.

So yeah, I particularly like MUDs because you can make bots that do anything, from fighting for you to running a casino (and you know that people are suckers for gambling), so I spend my time writing bots for MUSHclient, an excellent MUD client.

It is time for me to create something magnificent, but I am all out of ideas. Ideally, I'd like to write a tutorial or something to that effect, but I don't know what on. So, what would you like to learn? I guess if you knew what you wanted to know you'd already know it, but I'm open to ideas. Post comments here (you don't have to register) and I'll get right on it.

People (especially Diggers, I think) like to compare Digg and Slashdot in various areas (and often say how one will kill the other). This comparison has always struck me as baseless, but I’ve never seen anyone saying anything about it (yes, that may be because I haven’t looked :P), so this is what I think: Digg and Slashdot are two very different beasts, and comparing one to the other is very much like comparing apples to boobs. Sure, both may be firm and round, but, well, it’s just sick. Plus, babies can’t eat apples.

1. Digg posts items on the main page by having its users vote on them, effectively using members as editors. Slashdot uses hired editors who have more stringent submission criteria. Because of this, Digg is more of a “cool links of the day” site than a news site. Personally, I like that, since I get my news along with the occasional cool flash game to waste half an hour on. This fact also means that digg has many more stories, typically 15-20 on the homepage per day (or a few hundreds, if you like to view everything everyone submits), whereas Slashdot has about 7.

If you’re like me, you have probably stumbled upon PyPy by now, and if you’re like me you didn’t understand exactly what it is. If you’re not like me, PyPy is a Python implementation written in Python, but, uhh, what does that mean?

The PyPy site isn’t all that helpful. It says:

PERSONAL NOTE: It appears that Eva-Marie herself has read this page and commented here, which is quite awesome. Eva-Marie, if you ever read this again, e-mail me or something, don’t be a stranger :P

I like music. I listen to it all day. I listen to all kinds of music, classical, pop, rock, metal, whatever. Obviously, there many ingenious pieces, like the Swan Lake, Falling off the Edge of the World and Aerials, but they all pale in comparison (well, they don’t really pale, they’re just lesser) to Dark Tranquillity’s The Gallery.

I have not heard anything more beautiful than the voice of Eva-Marie Larsson singing

Since I’m no good at prologues, I will get right to the subject. I guess that was a prologue, though. Turns out I am a bit good at them. It wasn’t particularly good, but oh well, it serves its purpose. So, without further ado, I present to you… Hamachi!

Hamachi is “a zero-configuration virtual private networking application with an open security architecture and NAT-to-NAT traversal capabilities.” That’s basically computer talk for “LAN over the internet”. It’s great for making resources on your PCs available over the internet without having them open to everyone (or just playing games that only support LAN with your friends).

Have you ever wondered what the joke answer to every Linux-related question (“rm -rf /”) actually does? You know it deletes everything, but have you ever seen it? Well, for your viewing pleasure, I have trashed my Ubuntu system. It wasn’t really what I expected it to be, nothing blew up. I won’t spoil it for you though, I’ll let you see for yourself. If the video runs a bit fast it’s because I’ve skipped the redundant frames (there was a lot of doing nothing, about 2 minutes of the terminal deleting with no output).

You can download the video (it’s encoded in Xvid) by clicking on its link.

I just switched webhosts, I went with A small orange. I had heard many good things about them, and I reviewed their offerings. They offer everything FuitadNET does, but they have Ruby and Python support. I signed up for the small plan, which is $5/mo (I paid $7.5 at FuitadNET) but I have 400 MB of space and 10 GB of traffic per month (I only use about 150 and 1 respectively). The support is helpful and prompt and the speed is FAAAAST.

I just watched the last episode of Firefly, and I have to say, it is amazing. It is easily one of the best shows I have ever seen (together with Family Guy). If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you buy/rent/steal (I’m just kidding, I don’t think they rent it) and watch it immediately. Even if you don’t like that kind of shows (or any kind of show, or people), you should still see it. See the pilot and I guarantee you’ll want to see more or your money back. Well, if not, you’ll definitely want to see your money back.

Anyway, watch Firefly. It’s great.

When I visited Digg today I came upon this site, called Allofmp3. From it you can buy songs totally legally for as little as $0.02 per megabyte. They even have this cool service that encodes the files to whatever format you want (I recommend OGG Vorbis at Q6), so you end up paying about $3 for a whole CD (and not old ones or anything, they have almost everything).