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IPv6 Certification

2009-07-11T00:52:47-04:00

I'm working on my Hurricane Electric IPv6 Certification. It's fun, you should too!

Pricess Grace

2009-05-16T15:25:54-04:00

DEAR FREIND.

HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR FAMILY TODAY?

I AM PRINCESS GRACE, FROM BUKINA FASO WEST AFRICA ,

ONES AGAIN I SAY GOOD DAY TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,

MY DEAR THIS PROPOSAL IS ABOUT MY LATE FATHER WAILTH

IN A SECUIRITY COMPANY, MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER DIED 4YEARS EGO, ON THEAR WAY TRAVELING TO TOGO REPOLIC, MY FATHER WAS THE DIRETOR OF EMMEX COMPENY OUAGA-FASO LIMITED,

SO DEAR MY FATHER HAVE A CROSSING ACCOUNT OF ($11.4M) ELEVEEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED US DOLLARS, AM CONTANTING YOU IN THIS BUSINESS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP ME ON THIS SUITAITION, BECAUSE I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT IN MY FAMILY,

MY GOOD FRIEND ALL I NEEDED FROM YOU IS TO CONTACT MY LATE FATHER LAWYER THAT IS IN CHARGE ON THIS FUND, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO CONTACT HIM, AND TELL HIM THAT YOU ARE MY RELATIVE THAT YOU WANT THE MONEY TO BE TRANSFERD INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, BUT I WILL SEND YOU THE LETTER THAT YOU WILL SEND TO HIM FOR THE FUND TO BE TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, I WILL DO THAT WHEN I HEAR FROM YOU SO THAT WHEN THIS FUND BE TRANSFER IN YOUR ACCOUNT I WILL COME OVER TO YOUR CONTRY TO INVEST MY OWN PART OF THE MONEY,

SO FREIND THIS IS HOW I

WANT THE MONEY TO BE SHEARD AFTER THE TRANSFER, 30% FOR YOU AND 60% FOR ME WHILE 10% WILL GOES ON EXPENSIS DURING THE TRANSFERING OF THIS FUND,

THIS IS MY ADDRESS,

PLEASE I WILL NEED YOURS URGENT FOR THIS TRANSACTION MATTERS,

MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE.

RELIGION: CHRISTIAN

PROVINCE OF ORIGINE OR STATE: BOBO-DIOULASSO BURKINA FASO .

NATIONALITY: BURKINABE.

AGE: 23

HOUSE ADDRESS: 82 ZANGOTE YENUGUA 02 BP 4587

OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO .

THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT TO HELP ME TRANSFER THIS FUND OUT OF THIS COUNTRY,

PRINCESS GRACE.

(This is not spam. Well it is spam. But it's here on purpose.)

My GitHub Page

2009-05-05T05:37:32-04:00

I also setup Jekyll to create my page on GitHub. It's pretty boring.

New Colo

2009-05-05T05:34:34-04:00

After quite a long time of PHP crapping out, I finally decided to ferret out the issue. It turns out the newer versions of chyrp want some extra libraries compiled into PHP. Since my old hosting provider was in control of their PHP implementation, I decided to move the site over to my colo'd box that's been sitting around doing nothing. Problem solved. I compiled PHP the way I wanted it, and everything's good. So welcome back!

Puzzles for Hackers

2009-05-05T05:49:41-04:00

New Year's Resolutions '09

2009-05-05T03:12:01-04:00

It is with great remorse that I begin writing the traditional "First Post" of the new year. It is, of course, on the topic of resolutions and forward looking predictions for the coming year. I usually abstain from writing this post since EVERYONE ELSE has one of their own. However, I have am already well on my way to meeting my primary resolution goal. That goal is to finish at least as many projects as I start this year. Note that I'm not actually planning to finish any of the projects I start this year. That said, here is a ridiculously incomplete list of my current, in-progress projects:

PyRSS2Twitter is a Python application that will daemonize and continually check any number of RSS feeds and post each to it's specified Twitter accounts. I've been remarkably disappointed with the existing players in this realm.
PyPingFM is a Python Interface to the Ping.fm API. This project has been started to tie into the RSS2Twitter project as it occured to me that I or others might like to post to something other than Twitter. Rather than implementing thousands of social network API's, I figured the smart approach would be to interface with someone who already had.
Practical Django Projects is a wonderfully written book that walks through the itterative development process for web apps that Django suits so well.
Puzzles for Hackers is a fun book that's almost too good to finish. It provides lots of computer-related puzzles and mind games for people with an analytical mind.
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation is a great book that can be approached from several different angles. My approach is from that of an exploit researcher. This is one thing I've needed to work on.
Processing is an interesting looking Java based language for data visualization. It just looks cool, and I've done little more than look at the website. I'd really like to learn how to do something with it.

Now I've mentioned that I intend to finish at least as many projects and I start this year. I have actually completed one project, so I guess I get a freebie to start this year.

I have now a feature complete implementation of a Python Interface to the bit.ly URL Shortening API.

Cruel 2 B Kind

2008-12-02T03:16:58-05:00

After some discussion tonight and reading the Cruel 2 B Kind website, I wondered how easy it would be to make an SMS interface, to help manage a game automatically. More details to follow...

Flattery

2009-05-05T05:38:53-04:00

I am incredibly flattered. Some folks from Public Radio have decided to use my python script to post various Gustav RSS Feeds to a handful of twitter accounts to help folks affected by the hurricane. Check out the script here: http://github.com/opie4624/pyrss2twitter/

Slacker Portable Player

2008-08-04T16:03:44-04:00

The Slacker Portable Player is one method of consuming the Slacker Personal Radio service (review here). Without a doubt, the Portable Player is the best feature of Slacker. The ability to have custom internet radio stations but still take them with you where there isn't a connection is great. Since I ordered the Portable Player I haven't spent a day without it either in my pocket or in my car. I've nearly stopped burning my MP3 cd's to play in the car, and I'm not even sure where my mp3 player is.

The player is outfitted with a USB port and a wifi card. You use the USB port to charge the player and, on a windows computer, to sync up your music. Though, I almost exclusively use the wifi connection to sync. It works effortlessly, and works while still playing music. With the windows software, you are able to load up your own MP3's on the device (no encrypted wma's though). Or if you have a Slacker subscription, anything you've favorited will automatically show up in the on-demand music library on the device. The subscription isn't required, however. The Portable Player works just fine on the free plan, if you can stand the (very) occasional audio ad.

Ultimately I like the player enough that it's replaced everything else as my primary mp3 player. The only thing to keep in mind, is that the Portable Player is a good well built device, but with beta quality firmware. This means I do experience the occasional lock-up or jittery audio, but it's easily remedied and the Slacker tech support folks are phenomenal. The firmware releases have been fairly frequent and tend to fix the most common problems that are being posted on the forums. I'd still recommend a Slacker Portable Player to anyone that doesn't want to have to load their player with music (hence the name Slacker).

Slacker Personal Radio

2008-09-03T10:11:37-04:00

Slacker Personal Radio is an online radio service that learns what you like to listen to. With many stations programmed by DJs, and the capability to create a custom station, there's always something on to listen to. As you favorite (song plays more often) or ban (song never plays again) songs, the new picks become more and more customized. I've found that I'm banning less songs because the radio is playing more that I like. All this works with the free product. Also available is a subscription model which removes the ads from all stations and from the website. With a subscription, every song you've favorited becomes available for on-demand play from the web, software, and portable players.

The radio product can be consumed in a few different ways. The web interface lets you listen to the radio anywhere you have an internet connection. I've been able to listen consistantly via my EVDO connection with the same quality that I can via my cable modem.

On Windows machines you can use the Slacker Software Player to listen. The interface looks identical to the web-based product. It allows for CD quality music as well as managing the saved songs on the Slacker Portable.

Lastly, you can purchase a Slacker Portable player. The Portable Player has a Wi-Fi card and USB Port. With a Windows computer, you can synchronize the player via USB. It works equally well over Wi-Fi. In fact, I rarely use the USB port for anything more than the requisite battery charge. I personally think the Portable Player is by far the best feature of the Slacker service. You can find a review of the Portable Player here.

Ultimately, the Slacker Personal Radio service is fantastic. The only time it's failed me is when I don't even know what I want to listen to and for that I can think of no solution.

Some radio stations I've created:

...and in this picture she was sittin' on a rock and she had her hot,...

2008-06-30T21:57:03-04:00

...and in this picture she was sittin' on a rock and she had her hot, hot pants way up to her cookies!

James W.

My Personality Mosaic

2008-06-13T16:50:20-04:00

My Personality Mosaic <br/> 1. Double Exposure - Andy & Plantrees (Lomo Fisheye 2), 2. Mussamun Curry with Chicken @ Thai Spoon, 3. Metamora Courthouse, 4. `paint the town red., 5. Jewel Staite Q & A (2), 6. Dr. Pepper, 7. Track Day., 8. Dulce de Lecce : Confiture de Lait, 9. Thieves, 10. three friends, 11. relax, 12. we are the "krauts" <br/> Wanna make your own?

PyRSS2Twitter

2008-05-30T15:44:16-04:00

Last weekend, I wrote a python script that takes in RSS feeds, and posts them to a specified twitter account. Because the script I wrote then was a total kludge and often ran into rate limiting at twitter, I scrapped it and started over. Today marks the completion of iteration 2, featuring a fully threaded approach. The direct message handling is not complete, but the basic rss posting works. If you want to check it out or contribute, hit the link. I'll probably branch it and try a version that uses an event-driven framework instead of the threading.

It's not about ClearCase

2008-05-30T13:56:03-04:00

Casey: I WILL PUNCH CLEARCASE IN THE THROAT
Andy: oh yeah?
Casey: i would if this were Tron, anyway
Casey: man, things would be so much better
Casey: when programs made me mad i could just pwn them with my electric frisbee
Andy: and then drink pure energy straight from the source
Casey: yes
Casey: that stuff looks delicious
Andy: heheh, yeah it does
Casey: also, there would be no racism because everyone would be grey
Casey: and you can go from blue to red just by touching someone

L4YER CAK3

2009-05-05T05:17:55-04:00

A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.

Layer Cake is a constantly accelerating criminal thriller. It ranks right up there with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.