Feeling geeky

I've been wanting to setup a server at home, that I could access from anywhere; too bad I have been too cheap to pay for a static IP, or a Dynamic IP service and I haven't had a domain name in a while.
Since work has been a bit slow as of late, and I've been working on learning shell scripting, I thought I would try my hand at creating a few scripts to help me out. One script to fetch the servers outside IP address and upload that to an FTP server (yes, I know security concerns), and another to pull that IP address from the FTP server and apply the updated IP address to my laptop's hosts file. I have it working on my server at work, and should have it working on my home server after I set the box up this weekend.

The only thing I'm not happy about is using an outside FTP server, bit I'll look for a better solution to that a bit later.

Anyone familiar with DynDNS.com? I happened to spot it while looking for a Dynamic IP service, good, bad, or ugly?

While I'm feeling geeky, I think I'll try writing the AI for Data (from TNG), should be done in a week or two.

Changes, we all go through them

During my last years of high school I became a vegetarian, that lasted for about five or six years*. Then for reasons that I still don't completely understand, I started to eat meat again, that was about five or six years ago*. Looking back, I don't feel that either of those changes were completely driven by me, but were also driven by external forces.

Why did I just bore you with that? I'm not really sure, but I think it was important for me to write out, or maybe I just like to bore people (I'm leaning towards option two).

Now I look at things and I think it is time for a change, one that is solely driven by me, and my conscience. In the not too distant future (not cosmically speaking), I will be changing to a vegetarian diet again, and I think I will be the better for it. Now I just need to tell Jana.

** The exact dates are a bit fuzzy to me.