Staticfree Blog

D00d... check out the 1337, VB-writing h4><0rz.. the Digital Underground. (Wasn't that name taken back in ... the 80's?) It's sorta sad how poor a S/N ratio they have. I mean, where're the über 1337 "hacker tools"? Their "tools" are just a few lines of shell script. Oh well, I guess you need some source of entropy for the script kiddies to suckle on.

I've recieved some strange spam in my day, but never this strange. Often, you just get one email that almost makes some sense in some manor, but really must be spam. The first email looked sorta like some things I've seen before: someone either with a confused understanding of the electronic world seeking assistance or some sort of scam under a very weird cover. That's well-and-good, *files into interesting-spam folder* but there was a follow up. A second email from someone else (this time in HTML as well as text) appeared in my inbox. I guess it's just one of those things that happens when you have a heavily-connected world.

I've been thinking up a way to hear the doorbell better from downstairs. No, I won't simply run a wire with a bell at the end - that's too easy. Instead, I'll come up with a network-level event system (top-quality name there) so that i could build a system that would wire the doorbell to a server and have the server broadcast messages to a given set of peers.

Anyhow, I thought it might be useful to think this one through. Or has this been implemented already in some manor (I'm thinking XML::RPC, SOAP, or something like that). Like it? hate it? have no idea what i wrote but are interested? contact me.