Since Kim’s been gone, I’ve spent the last week by myself here with the cats. Dropped in at work a bit (no point in taking mid-season days off if I don’t need ‘em), done some shopping and cleaning, and LOTS of programming. Oh man. Can’t get into what I’ve been working on yet, but it’s pretty awesome.

My “presents” box got here from my dad the day after christmas. Outside of some personally wonderful gifts from Kimmy and a package still at my moms, this is it for my xmas gifts this year.

It’s a car box filled with lots’o‘goodies my dad thought I’d be missing here, along with some power cords I requested (can’t get power to the bedroom, etc, from the one massive unit adapter I have in the living room.)

Two other random images I grabbed while being around the house…

:D hehehe

It was a stunning morning one the 26th

This is an awesome logo. At first glance it makes a bit of sense. If you look at the white space (like the FedEx logo) it becomes even more compelling. Very nice.

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    Microphone:  Yes, I have a microphone.
    Media Type:  DVD
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  618141 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  224799 Mb
    OS Install Date: Aug 05 2007
    Installed Packages: <strong>Firefox,OpenOffice</strong>

I find that interesting. I wonder what else they scan for. More so, I can’t decide if I should press the submit results button or not. Hrm.

Give it a moment to sink in.

As is obvious if you’ve poked around my site a bit, you’d be aware that I like guns. I own a rifle of my own and (used to :() regularly shoot.

My preference is for rifles. I don’t like the kick to my wrist/arm that pistols deliver. Additionally, if I had to use a weapon, I’d rather be 50-300m from the danger.

I’d even more so prefer to be 1-2000 meters away…

b.f.g

And it’s legal in California, if that’s where I end up back at.

I spent some time chasing Sam and Lucy around with a camera getting photos of them. A few came out really nicely.

“Let’s go do something … some exploring!”

“What be over yonder?”

“Its a monster!”

“OMGNOWAI!”

“Oh, it’s just you!”

“Tee hehehehe”

Yes, the narrative is awesome. I know.

I am a wee bit late in posting this, but we have kitty’s now!

I grew up with lots of animals. Dogs, birds, tarantualas, and more. However, our real stock of animal was cats. So much so that at one point our house was home to 11 cats! Since moving out on my own, I’ve really been missing having cats around. Between owning a bird and living with an allergic roommate, I had no opportunities.

Moving to Sweden, however, changed that. Within about 3 weeks of my arriving we found an adoption center, laid down a few bucks, and brought home two rambunctious fun kittens. They are brother and sister, commonly referred to as “boy” and “girl” since it took us nearly 2 weeks to name them (now Sam and Lucy).

Anyway, Kim has taken tons of pictures of them, but I figured I’d pull a few from the group.

So small!

Amazingly blue eyes — they have since changed to a yellow brown. :(

“Gimme dat!”

Lazy bums.

She likes to jump up and sit on my shoulder. I call her Pirate Kitty.

He likes to hang out in front of me at my desk. In fact, as I write this, both of them are laying in the space under the monitors you see there. :)

Terribly adorable!

I think what I find most unique about the Hydra Project is that it uses the same developmental mentality of open source (more eyes == less holes) to create a project solely aimed at piracy.

Real encryption standards all have their entire source published. The basis of this idea is that “security through obscurity“ is a fallacy. Simply because someone doesn’t know your password is “lovemydog” does not make it a good password. In fact, it leads you to an entirely false sense of security. In this same way, THP is making the development of the project open so that no one tries to make it secure by saying “well, no one knows XYZ, so they couldn’t possibly break in!”

I wonder how long the **AA will let this project live on Google code and, when they begin file papers (as they are so good at), if Google will ask that the project be removed from their system.