I like the description of spending a friday night spent geeking out. It makes me miss my old viewsonic 21″ CRT that I got for ninety-nine bucks from a busted dot com venture capital business back in the 90’s.

If you just go to http://www.mailinator.com and type in an address so you can check its mailbox, you’ll notice there’s a limit on the number of characters you can use. I like using this service to vent my frustration with stupid services that require hoop jumping.

Generate a gpg keypair. Check /dev/random to make sure you’re getting some output. If you dont get any standard output when you run this, ctrl-c and you will see 0+1 records in/out. This means there is a problem with your /dev/random device. Here’s the fix…

Have you ever received an instant message from a stranger with the words Coho, Trout, or Salmon in their screen name? If the answer is yes, then you’ve been picked up by Project Upstream bot. Did you dig the hook in deep by starting a conversation…or perhaps an argument? I have run into a few Coho’s so far and they’re usually good for interesting conversation.