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ph34r and l0th1ng
We were driving to DefCon. We were somewhere around Barstow when the network went bad. Someone was war-driving us, right there in traffic, one of the other cars next to us, was sniffing and spoofing the cell net and advertising about a dozen honeypot wifi nets. I saw about a hundred attacks going out, looking for the last couple years worth of ( Read more... ) -
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Preparing for this coming Arisia I'm doing the most wardrobe planning I ever have. It used to be just "which clever t-shirt expresses what I want to project"? This time I'm going so far as to assemble something that could be called a costume. -
Time difference counter web toy
I made a web toy. A url gives you a counter. Sure, there are other things like this on the net. But this one's mine.
For example, a count down to the astronomical moment of solstice coming up in a few days:
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Training Montage!
Saw the new Batman movie last night. If I recall correctly, the training montage consisted mostly of pushups and pullups. I know that there should be a lot more to it than that, but maybe those two highly recognizable exercises worked as movie shorthand for 'did a lot of exercise to get in shape for beating up badguys'?
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Off the grid
I went out of range of my phone net some time Friday afternoon, and didn't come back until about 1:30 Monday. I didn't implode. I was busy doing awesome things with awesome people, and probably most of the technology being used was cameras. I managed to borrow a phone that worked to send one email; forgot until too late to send another email (sorry ( Read more... ) -
Hockey and Kittens
Some people I know may enjoy this WSJ piece about Hockey and Kittens -
Programming, performance vs complexity
Programming almost isn't about performance anymore. Performance has to be good enough, but most problems are small enough that's pretty easy. Most of the programming problems at my current and previous job are about managing complexity. We have to write a big complex piece of code that manages lots of attributes and has lots of rules and does lots ( Read more... ) -
[nano fic] We Met The Denebi
History was invented when there was someone to tell it to, upon our meeting of the Denebi civilization. Now we record History so that the telling is readily available. After working out communication based on math, universal physical constants, concepts immediately physically demonstrable, and an exchange of libraries to be analyzed, they asked, " ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I went out dancing to jiveboston.com electro-swing ( Read more... )