Yeah, I like to do that, a lot. My excuse is that I got to get my hands dirty and learn all the technologies behind it. That's what all behind my Republic of Admun. It's a learning platform.

When everyone is using wp, I picked a small player in the field calls NucleusCMS and write plugins and do development.

Instead of using blogroll/technorati/del.icio.us/blogmarks, I wrote my own. Yes, it's not using tag and there is no cloud, but next version will.

When people are posting on Flickr, I put my albums on gallery.

If it's too trivial, I got to try something else. So, I use Feed of Feeds instead of Google readers or bloglines.

I don't run Windows at home (only has it on my deal-boot laptop). All my machines are Linux box. So I got to install Apache, PHP, sendmail, FTP, NFS, NTP, and all the fun stuffs.

I have a PVR at home, but it's not running MythTV.

I guess I just don't trust my data w/ others on the net. The only thing I am missing is a fast pipe to home. Where is FTTH?

Maybe I am just a sick mind that want to suffer or marginalize, and have too much time at hand.