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Its been a long while since I’ve last participated in wardriving. Today i made up for it though. I had to reinstall gpsdxconfig and the drivers for my usb gps unit.* After that though, its all working fine again, even on leopard. after checking to make sure i had the latest version of kismac, I hit the road.

My first outing for the day was up the Cohoes bike path. I put Ally in the stroller and my powerbook underneath. After getting the gps positioned on top and kismac fired up, I turned the brightness off. Even with the gps and wifi card on, I still had plenty of battery life for about an hour and a half of warwalking. I’m hoping to get in a good two hour walk tomorrow.

The second outing went very well. 128 wifi points with coordinates traveling by car from Cohoes to albany then Colonie. It probably would have been higher, but i used a lot of highways.

It felt good to get back into wardriving. There is a feeling of satisfaction, seeing the data i’ve collected and the path marked out on google earth.

Some Resources:

• wigle.net
• kismac
• http://www.wardriving.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
• http://www.wardrive.net/

Before you ask… No, I don’t wardrive to find access points to connect to. I don’t wardrive to break the wep key on users routers to get into their systems. I wardrive to see what is out there and to see who has been smart enough to lock down their signal. You can get a lot of insight as to the type of people are in your neighborhood by looking at ssid’s and access limits.

* It appears that the Holux GM-210 USB GPS unit is discontinued. If you should be able to get your hands on one for cheap, I paid about $12, don’t use the drivers on the disk. Find someplace to download them from. I’ve got the OS X drivers saved if a mac user should need them.

i can finally say that all of our systems are being backed up.

the windows boxes are backed up to each other with the spare drive carrying an extra copy of each. the linux boot side of my tower… i’m not worried about… the mac is finally able to be backed up thanks to the upgrade to leopard. apples Timemachine has allowed me to finally back that up.

computing with a safe mind.

i can honestly say that i’m not so worried about any of the computers going down in the house. its really a nice feeling.

we finally wrapped up a D&D game that we started about 7 years ago.

near the end of the encounter my halfling pulled a spectacular move. he was picked up by a construct then hurled over the edge of a tower. managing to make a use rope check, he snagged a spire with his troll-gut rope. sadly the inertia cause him to collide with the wall, causing 15 points of damage and unconsciousness.

all in all the event could be described as spectacular.

i’ve decided i need new dice. i’ve never rolled that many 1’s in one night and three times i rolled above 10.

finally finished porting my posts over to the new format.  

really liking the new wordpress.

ok, thats enough for the night… my brain is dead.

sweet looks like the pic insert will be pretty easy now. gee, i remember when this was a pain…

this pic in particular courtesy of maria form back in the day. yes, she’s actually hiding behind me.

she was such a petite little lady back then.

so i’ve gotten tired of the flat file system and the limitations that are becoming more and more apparent to me.

don’t get me wrong, i’ve really liked the simplicity of it. i just need a little more. not a whole lot, but a little.

this updated site won’t go live any time soon, not until i’ve migrated my posts over. once that’s done though, i’ll be using ecto for posting and wordpress for the blogging.

as a side feature, looks like i can set it up to update when i add pics to the gallery. way cool. i’ll have to see how that goes.

EDIT:  I’m really likeing wordpress.  its much easier to deal with now.

from http://www.kawaiinot.com

yes, the title is a grammatically correct sentence, Not me losing my mind. Thats already been lost.

Don’t believe me?
Check the wiki.
and a brief discussion.

which leads us to parsing of sentences by humans… some sentences, though grammatically correct, are hard for us to handle. like a garden path scentence.

which after much discussion on tkop.com chat led us to the theory of the mobius.

“There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, from which there is no escape. When we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again.”

which some students made project/a> out of.

*rattle rattle*

me: ally, what’cha doin
ally: cat food
me: what?

*rattle rattle*

ally: cat food

i look over at ally, she’s got one of the bead necklaces in her hands, shaking it. oddly enough, it rattle a little like cat food in a tupperware container.

me: no honey, those are beads

*ally looks at the beads for a second*

ally: (hi pitched/over exaggerated) OW! OW!
me: huh? Oh! No ally, those are bea-D-s, not bees

*rattle rattle*

ally: bees

*rattle rattle*

a brief moment of excitement hit the household. we had a power outage as ally was taking her bath upstairs.

daddy to the rescue!

with ally yelling ‘daddy, light ON’ louder and louder i had to think quick as there wasn’t any flashlights upstairs. (this has since been fixed) i pulled out my iPod and set the brightness on full and the back-light set to always on. ta da! instant flashlight!

ally giggles, i beam with a little pride.

my wife then makes her way to the bathroom to barrow the new light in order to find more lights.

as luck would have it, the power came back on just as she started to light a candle.