Twelve past Twelve

Yup, it’s getting later into the evening, the next day has begun. I’ve got a day off tomorrow and I intend to spend it wisely - more stylesheet-hacking, developing proof-of-concepts, and working on my paper. Going to the Academy today, I realized I still have a ton of work to do. I need to finish a video project - and do another one, fortunately with a typographical theme. I hate working with video though, although I applaud digital work, and having a broad education, video work just doesn’t suit me.

I really feel like I have a clear goal, a clear ambition, and I even think there is a way for me to work it all out into a practical solution that also incorporates some kind of mechanism to keep me running monetarily — perhaps it is an illusion, but I don’t believe in failure. This is not to say there is nothing for me to achieve; I do believe in doing the wrong thing is bad, but I think there is a choice in everything and a chance therein to learn. I’ve got massive projects looming on the horizon and it’s all about expanding just that; my personal horizons. Fuck the world for now, I’ve got business to do.

It’s been a hot day, with the highlight being Wil Shipley’s TED blog post, and it’s really… well, honestly the funniest thing I have read in years. It goes on about Matt Groening (yes, the Simpsons, you know? They are his children) and a delight to read, like any of Wil’s posts, but this time, with an influx of drunken humor. A must-read.

Also very hot and quite NSFW link, is this ‘A hundred couples having sex in one room’ thing that roared around del.icio.us today, and although I say this with a heavy heart full of grief, the title is an understatement. The article linked contains mildly graphic depictions of some sort of bizarre synchronized fuckfest. Woo-hoo, this certainly seems like fun, doesn’t it? Ah, those Japanese.

In the meantime, I am trying to get Bastille for OS X to run on my Macbook Pro. Needing a developer issue of Perl-Tk, I have laid off the attempts to build and run it and done some IPFW (Firewall ruleset) hacking and Bonjour-disabling of my own. Geeklog now also neatly outputs the firewall log to my desktop, as you can see here (below).



Now that’s nice, isn’t it? That’s bittorrent traffic, by the way, no real point in tracing the hell out of it.

Well, my weekend’s begun. Congratulate me, envy me, do whatever you want, but I am certainly taking these days to do whatever the hell -I- want to do with my time.

Reinventing 1/16th of the wheel

Wow, Slashdot is really up to quality these days.

Check this article out dubbed “A Network Sniffer on Steroids”. A poster in the comments hit the nail on the head.

Inventing 1/16th of the Wheel

The Errata sniffer, dubbed Ferret, packs more punch than other network sniffers already available, such as Ethereal and Kismet, because it looks at so many different protocols, Graham said. Some at Black Hat called it a “network sniffer on steroids.”

Oh Wowsers! DHCP, SNMP, DNS and HTTP! That’s so many! It’s a shame Ethereal can only look at these [ethereal.com]!

Indeed. Why do developers insist on making applications that already do stuff perfectly. I mean, ethereal is completely pluggable. This is total arrogance.