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2005/05/20

Sidekick 2

The Washington Post did an interview with the "hacker" that got into that dumb famous person's sidekick.
"As soon as I went into her camera and saw nudes my [expletive] went [expletive]," the young hacker recalled of his reaction to first seeing the now-public photos of a topless Hilton locked in an intimate embrace with a female friend. "I was like, HOLY [expletive] DUDE ... SHES GOT NUDES. THIS [expletive]'s [expletive] HIT THE [expletive] SO [expletive] [expletive]."

Extra expletives added for effect.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/danger/paris-hilton-sidekick-hack-explained-104243.php

2005/05/17

Incredible Little HTML File

I don't know much about this whole GTD craze that seems to be going
on, but somehow I got drawn into 43folders.com and lifehack.org and
other obsessive places. And they had a link to this little guy:
http://shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddlywiki.html

It's an Wiki html file that you save on your computer and can edit
very quickly. A self-contained wiki site!

Here's some tips on using it:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/more-tips-and-discussions-on-using-gtdtiddlywiki.html
http://tinyurl.com/d3hof

I just started moving all my personal information from an ugly
intranet site that I made to quickly access junk passwords and "GTD"
lists. It is so much easier to update info on TiddlyWIki than it was
to edit the html pages with a web design program or notepad.

It's slightly amusing (to myself, at least) that I installed apache,
perl and a wiki program on my pc a couple days ago so that I wouldn't
need to edit the html anymore. Before I could finish moving my
personal data onto the more processor intensive wiki, I stumbled on
this great alternative. Praise the lord!

-niem

2005/05/15

Crazy Dream

I had a very long and odd dream last night. I don't remember everything, but I remember the last little bit of it.

I'm in a store and all of a sudden there is an infestation of twine. The twine starts to form baskets and it's every where I go. I see some people are getting attacked by the twine. I try to run away from it, but the twin has made stacks of baskets in some parts of the store which blocks most places I try to go. I stumble on the scissors aisle and I feel like a hero. I start cutting up twine around the store, but then one strand of magic twine grabs me and pulls me up hundreds and hundreds of feet up this tube in the ceiling.

The tube is a fun slide which seems dangerous because if I was going down the tube instead of up I would probably die. When I got to the top I am no longer being bothered by twine, but I am left alone on this metal tube that is tilted in such a way that I am sliding back down the tube. I frantically hold on to some stuff on the side of the tube to prevent sliding down. I place my other hand on another lever for support, but lever breaks off.

Lever was holding a door closed that says "Emergency Frankenstein." The door starts to shake and frankenstein-like mumbling is heard on the other side of the door. I try to hold the door shut, but eventually frankenstein gets out something happens and I for some reason I start to sing a song to frankenstein about how beautiful he is. The song was kind of like a Monty Python song about how you're beautiful in your own way or something.

Now I'm viewing the song as a camera rotating around Me and the frankenstein. When the camera rotates off of me and onto the frankenstein, it turns out that I am the frankenstein, but I look mentally disabled and don't have any stitches in my scalp or bolts in my neck. I am no longer the singer, but I don't know who is singing. It was like Monty Python meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.

As the song ends, the music fades and somehow the singer slowly fades away too. I am no longer in a tube, but in my room. I set my radio alarm clock so I can wake up in the morning before going to sleep. I try to set my alarm clock to a radio station and as the static from the radio fades and the music comes in, I fade into a weird scene from a black and white movie. When I fine tune the station, I am no longer in my room, but watching two people riding in the back seat of really old car laughing and having a good time. The girl looks at the front seat and sees a spider driving the car. She says "I think that spider bit me," and then it cuts to them standing on the sidewalk and she look uneasy. She sees spiders running around everywhere and has a weird psychedelic spider freak out.

Then I woke up.