The Kilbot Factory

Eating my own dog food

At a party in San Francisco last year, I got talking to a nice young lady who informed me that her uncle was quite wealthy from selling dog food. “Ah!”, I said, “Does he eat his own dog food?”, quite pleased with my little joke.

She said “No” and we talked no more. Obviously she wasn’t familiar with the expression.

In any case, I bring this up because moments ago I posted an article on kilbot.com.au about the revival of personal blogging in 2010. And so, here I am, eating my own dog food so-to-speak. The article contains a link to this site, so you’ll see it all quite nicely circular … and I guess if you are reading this article you are – in a sense – eating my dog food too.
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Nerd News

If anyone is wondering how fast iiNet’s new broadband2 is…

Faster than God.

I love you (Miss Servebot)

I have been missing in action for the last 3 or so weeks… not returning friend’s calls and emails, declining offers of dinner, drinks and parties, barely leaving the house except for the necessary trips to the bottleshop 100m down the road. I need not for friends or parties or anything because I have a new love*.

Here she is, Miss Servebot;

That is her on the desk behind the laptop, all naked and shit. She is a PII, 333Mhz, 196MB RAM with 100Gb disk space, not much in desktop terms but plenty for any immediate serving needs. I spent 3 weeks installing Linux (Debian), making mistakes, reinstalling, configuring and firewalling, reinstalling, etc… and now she sits, headless, in the storeroom just outside my bedroom.

At the moment Servebot is just a test Apache/PHP/MySQL server for web design, and she takes care of my music downloads while I sleep (this morning I woke up to 1.7Gig of new Disco-Funk tracks … best Valentine’s Day present ever). Eventually she will act as a centralised mp3 server/downloader for our house and sometime after that I’ll open up some webpages to the interweb, including the long awaited premium-$25/mth-members-only webcam of Kilbot’s bedroom (Jerry gets a month free because he bought the first Kilbot Factory shirt never to be made, which is still coming by-the-way).

So anyways, that’s what I did on my summer holidays. I hope that answers some of your questions.

*Love may turn out to be infatuation.

Strange Spam

I know it is trite to bring out the ‘wacky’ spam messages for easy blogfiller, but check out the email I got in my junk mail this morning:

You are cordially invited to a balls-out, historically enlightening journey through time- courtesy of the world’s foremost headbanging historians!

http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm

Hail Satan,
Tom

calling all 3l33t haX0rs

I’ve got a question(s): how does one go about registering a domain name? And what is the deal with all the .com/.org/.net/.com.au etc. hoohaa?

I’m also figuring paying for the name and paying for server space are two separate things, is this also true?

I’m thinking of starting a website to keep track of my many international business concerns and ingoings and outgoings, so I’m thinking www.heathledger.com, that shouldn’t be a problem should it?

my kilbot.net

You may have noticed I haven’t posted to the news section of kilbot.net for a while, mostly because I’ve been looking for work and trying to devise other scams, erm, i mean plans of making some money.

Well now I am posting news and looking for work in a gross display of commercialism that would even make Eddie blush.

You can have your own kilbot.net (or something similiar) for as little as $150, which includes:

• your own .com domain name
• hosting for a year
• personalised web design
• see my.kilbot.net for an example

Now, I don’t necessarily want you guys to get your own kilbot.net, I would rather you stay right here… but Christmas is coming up and webpages make great presents