One of our local geeks, Kyle Whittington, has put up a blog. In his last entries he has relayed the saga of PuddleTV. I didn't know you could make a narrative out of shell script development, but I found it a very entertaining read. It was kind of like watching a documentary about somthing you do every day, you should be bored, but you aren't, you are sucked in.

Essentailly he threw together a machine out of spare parts, slapped on linux and hacked out some shell scripts to create his own television station running in his digs/commune. Their house is called 'The Puddle', hence the name 'PuddleTV'. He even included adverts made out of his randomly generated hierarchical TV schedule, and local weather information.