Excitingly enough my AVR Dragon is here. Before I get started though I still need to get a few chips and components before I can start fooling with it. After I get my kit completed, I'll start work on a few interesting ideas and post them on my projects page.

After much frustration, I've finally gotten mod_fastcgi set up in lighttpd and ready to use with Django. What will I be using Django for?

My new projects page. With any luck this will work out better than the small javascript dropdown I have now! Stay tuned for any further updates I may have of my Django progress.

Today I noticed that irssi was displaying a spike in network activity randomly. Wondering who it could be that was hammering my little section of the internet, I checked the lighttpd logs only to find out that the Googlebot had found my test spider trap! A bit more digging and it looks like it has been accessed over 35,000 times by Googlebot alone and is featured on over 40 pages of Google search results for listings from my site.

I guess it's about that time to set up a robots.txt :)

(The spider trap is located at http://lfowles.org/loop.py ... don't worry, it's safe to a normal browser ;) )

It's finally the start of Summer of Code (yeah, I'm a few days late to it, but I have another job as well!)

On this successful Wednesday I was able to get a base gozerbot up and running without any unneeded plugins, thanks to the help of dunk_, the creator of gozerbot.

Don't use them!

They let the enemy know your battle plan!