In other news ...

It's been a while since I last posted something here, mostly due to the fact that I forgot about this blog for a while. So, in the interest of letting anyone who still reads this know what I've been up to, here's a basic outline:

• As I mentioned before, I'm on Identi.ca, and most of what I'm doing is being updated there. The community is really great, it's easy to use, and, by using Identifox, I never have to change tabs to dent.
  
• After my iPod shuffle broke (or crashed, or stopped working, or whatever the term for what it is now), I got a new MP3 player, a Creative Zen. 4GB of storage, FM tuner, really shiny and stuff. Also, it has a screen, which is very, very useful. I might write a reveiw of it later today, or I might not. Also, I managed to cause it to crash within 7 hours of getting it, which is rather fun. Hitting the reset button fixed it, and did so very quickly, though.
• Just started rereading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and am planning on rereading The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul after that.
• http://mysqlgame.appspot.com . Very fun game, also very time-consuming. Lots of people appear to register and then never really do anything, for various reasons. This leads to money-farm rows, which never do anything other than create money and fuel. If you register, and are lucky, you'll be in an area with a lot of them - rows with a fair amount of money and fuel, but no attackers or defenders. If you're so lucky, my suggestion is invest all of your money (100 to start out with) in 5 attackers. Attack all the money-farm rows around you: after two attacks the attackers should have paid for themselves. Then, invest in upgrades (specifically money factories and fuel factories), and invest the remaining money in more attackers. Before logging off, make sure that either a) you have no money and little fuel, or b) that you have a fair force of attackers and defenders (I would say that 20 attackers and 50 defenders would be enough to discourage smaller enemies). Save up money to upgrade, when you have 10 fuel factories and 10 money factories stop investing in them. Up your attack multiplier and defense multiplier, but be warned that you can only attack rows whos defense or attack multiplier is within 3 of your attack multiplier. Invest in more rows when you can, and build them up so they will not be attacked.
• The ACCRC is still very fun, messing around with laptops and similar stuff now.
• Just found out about a program called ClusterSSH, which I'm going to look into - it could be very useful for some things.
• Cracking WEP is easy, I encourage you to learn how. However, it is probably illegal to break into networks without the permission of their owners, so don't do it. The Google will give you a guide if you ask politely, and I suggest that you use Backtrack Linux, as it's preconfigured, and contains every tool you would need.

Well, that's all. I may update again soon, or I may not, who knows.

(Just noticed that, when I was trying ping.fm, it sent stuff here as well. I'm going to leave those posts, for no good reason. I just don't see any reason to put in the time to get rid of them).