Where do I file my official "stop f'ing racing stock cars at Indy" petition?

Great for McMurray, he's just such a nice guy. I don't routinely root for him, but when he wins, it always makes me smile.

But c'mon. The racing at Indy sucks, there's always some sort of debacle -- though things settled down after the competition yellow, I thought we were about to have another version of what happened with the tires a couple of years ago. NASCAR is just lucky that the field wasn't cut in half by lap 10.

Clearly the fans in Indianapolis agree with me, the stands were empty compared to 2008 -- down almost 80000 according to the Intertubes. For fucks sake, scrap Indy and one Pocono date and put Iowa & Kentucky on the schedule. If you want to celebrate the history of Indy, I get that, but rotate it in and out of the schedule.. or something.

If you think today sucked, don't worry.. next week is Pocono! Woo. *snore*

I hate picking Jimmie Johnson on my fantasy team, because the notion of being happy that he does well makes me want to vomit -- but inevitably, whenever I do pick him, he finishes 25th. What the hell is with that?

I seem quite restless lately. I'm most certainly bored, but lack the motivation to commit to any one thing. Good news is, I've been feeling better lately, hopefully it'll stay that way. Changed the theme on the blog, I think it represents my current mood.

Been doing a lot of wireless auditing lately. I never really messed with that stuff before, only knew it was theoretical possible to crack WPA2, wasn't sure how practical it was. If you're using a dictionary word and a short ESSID, change it immediately. ;) WPA(2) lets you have a 63 character pass phrase -- use it all 63.. if practical.

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Roger Waters is going back on tour, already have my tickets -- this time he's doing The Wall. The Wall has only been performed live 27 times by Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, or David Gilmour. I imagine this will be Roger's last tour, he's no spring chicken.

Just some babbling...

This oil spill has really been eye opening for me. I've obviously been aware of the opposition to off shore oil drilling, but I always assumed it was opposed mostly by rich folks with condos on the beach who didn't want to see the rigs from their back porch. Environmentalist never got my attention as to why they were so concerned about them. I get it now, unfortunately it took such a disaster to change my mind. I was indifferent to off shore oil drilling.. that's not the case now. Perhaps it's reactionary, but we cannot risk the economic and environmental survival of dozens of states for a marginal amount of oil.

I grew up in a fishing community, a lot of the kids I went to school with had parents who were shrimpers. I can't fathom what the thousands of fishermen in that one county are going to do for work, much less the tens of thousands up and down the gulf coast. This will literally destroy communities for generations to come, ravage natural hurricane barriers, and potentially wipe species off the earth (such as manatees).

The thing that scares the piss out of me is I was on the OrlandoSentinel.com yesterday and 70% of those who took the online poll still favor expansion of off shore drilling. It's time to wake up and realize that the 150 mile trip to Grandma's house in your F150 is going to cost a bit more than it did in the past. Start charging $6+ a gallon for gas and see how quickly the American public demands a rapid creation of viable alternatives and mass transit.

This situation is sickening and I hope BP pays through the nose.

PS - I'm not sure what's happening to me, I'm reverting to a bleeding heart environmentalist liberal. Perhaps that Kenyan fella' in the WhiteHouse has an evil African spell on me. ;)

First, after a quick Google search, I realize I'm the last person in the industry to know this was possible, but I figured I'd share what I discovered a few moments ago nevertheless.

I had my mobile phone voicemail setup so if I called my voicemail from my mobile phone, it would just let me right in without a password. I always assumed that it relied on the unique IMEI code to determine if I was calling from my phone, but it doesn't. On a whim, I called my cell phone from another phone while spoofing the caller ID (to that of my mobile number) and it let me right into the voicemail.

Needless to say, I have the password option enabled now.

I only tested this with AT&T, maybe other carriers are a little more secure.

A friend of mine used to listen to digital modes via my HF radio stream. The way he accomplished this was by simply looping soundcard output back into another soundcard. That process always bugged me because it seemed like a perfectly good waste of a soundcard. :) So I came up with this... These instructions presume you're running Linux, have Fldigi and mpg321/123 installed.

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