My name is Emil Erlandsson and this page (buglix.org) is my place on the net. It all started in the end of 2002 when I was tired of having a third party company responsible for my e-mail account. After discussing it with a friend for a while I decided to host my own e-mail server and domain since then I would be in full control.

The domain name

The first thing was to get a domain name. I wanted something different (I owned emil-erlandsson.com for a short while, but it was a bit ego centric) and started browsing the web for different names. After a lot of searching I stumbled across “buglix” in the Hackers New Dictionary (which I first heard of in the television show “Scrapheap” on Discovery Chanel). Here is the definition of “Buglix”:

buglix
/buhg’liks/ n. [uncommon] Pejorative term referring to DEC’s ULTRIX operating system in its earlier _severely_ buggy versions. Still used to describe ULTRIX, but without nearly so much venom. Compare AIDX, HP-SUX, Nominal Semidestructor, Telerat, sun-stools.

The server

I thought it was a bit different and also kind of funny, so I settled for buglix.org. Now for the server part. Back in those days I had an old machine as file server running some version of Debian. I used the mail configuration tool included in Debian and configured exim in a couple of minutes. After that it was the matter of forwarding some ports of the router to the server and I was good to go.

Since I now had all my e-mail on my own server I thought I might as well read it there instead of forwarding or downloading it someplace else. I started of by using Pine, but I soon settled for Mutt as the favourite e-mail client.

The web hotell

After a while I wanted some more security for my e-mail (i.e. availability etc) so I decided to move it all to a web hotell (and there it has been ever since). When I moved to the web hotell I also thought it was time to add something to the domain buglix.org, except e-mail accounts. It was sometime in 2003 when I first created a blog with Movable Type on buglix.org. After a while I switched to WordPress since I liked their license model better, and also it is more snappy.

Since then, there have always been a blog at buglix.org, but unfortunately I lost most of my messages due to a database problem in early 2005.

Now I write mostly about things I discover and find interesting - mainly to remember them later. Instead of just jotting it down on a piece of paper I thought it was something that I might as well share with the rest of you.

The theme

This is a hacked version of “Almost Spring 1.3 by Becca Wei” that is available through the WordPress site. I have added a flickr badge and adjusted the image display a little.