http://mooseguy.com/blog (Occasionally) Intellectual Scribblings Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:23:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently, I've become much more involved in IRC, which is really nice. This is mainly because Robert kindly gave me a shell on one of (!) his VPSes, so I now have my Irssi customized to my liking and running in a screen session. Also, I used the nice availability ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/09/general-rise-in-geekiness-and-exalted/ Sitting inside in Wales, in the rain, I was bored. Luckily however, I had free wifi! Just browsing around, I came accross this thread: http://forum.xcpus.com/mods/9693-project-cm-690-blue-mod.html. I had seen it before, but was more interested this time as I was going to get that case for moose 2. With the idea ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/08/case-mod/ Well, muchly stuff has happened lately. I've been learning Cocoa (Fun!) which has been entertaining. I have updated my iPod touch to v2.0, and installed several Apps, including the ridiculously difficult, addictive and fun Super Monkey Ball. Oh, and It's my birthday. Cocoa really is a lot of fun. It is ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/07/birthday/ You may have heard, ICANN has approved a proposal to slacken the rules on the internets TLDs. Starting in early 2009, anyone with sufficent hardware, and a buisness plan, will be able to make their own TLD. I don't like this for two main reasons. Firstly, the internet is mean to ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/06/icann-annoyance/ I decided recently that I needed to really learn how to code in one operating system. Since Linux is pretty complicated with UIs hard to make, I decided to go for either .NET or Cocoa. Since I hate Mircosoft, I thought I'd go with Apple's Cocoa, which I have used ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/06/goings-on/ Apple have just unveiled the 3G iphone! Sean and I were thinking, well, maybe, but then they went and capped the price at $199! They're releasing them accross the globe on July 11th, and as soon as I find out what contract wer'e talking about I'm having one. Also, Ubuntu is ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/06/iphone-3g-waaaaagh/ A few things have happened recently that I'd like to write about. This post may get a bit nothing-y in which case, I'll try to stop. It's my birthday in about a month, and we (Sean, Jonathan, Pete and I, the Geek Clique), are going to have a LAN party. We ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/06/happenings/ Given that I was bored this evening, I thought I'd try twitter, which sean is always going on about. I made an account, installed a wordpress widget, and it seems to be working nicely now.  As you can probably see from the tweets, Sean and I want to go to ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/05/twitter/ I've just bought a VPS from bitfolk! (www.bitfolk.com). I bought the 120MB RAM server in London. I got the last one! The servers went out of capacity as soon as I bought it, which means that I got the last one! It runs Ubuntu 8 (Hardy Heron). qIt's currently accessible ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/05/bitfolk/ Well, the upgrade failed. Utterly. I presume it was because the nvdia drivers I have installed completely messed up the xorg.conf file. I tried restoring from backup, but when that failed I really couldn't be bothered to fix it, so did a clean install. I decided to go with Ubuntu ... http://mooseguy.com/blog/2008/05/buntu/