I’ve just put my car in for the suspension to be checked out and I’ve got at least 2 hours to kill. So here I am at a McD using their WiFi - pretty good speed except it’s $26 for 2 hours! F**k that’s expensive. Oh well beggers can’t be choosers.

So anyways, some observations:

1. There’s a hot chick sitting in front of me eating by herself. Tall, Eurasian looking with one of those bandannas on her head. Wooo. She’s fidgetting with her stuff: bag, phone, hair, makeup. Think she’s killing time too. *sigh* There’s no way to approach a pretty girl in a public place without coming across creepy now, is there?
2. There are a lot of moms with their kids here - some are screaming their heads off. I’m getting a mild headache.
3. There’s some pensioners in here enjoying coffee and the like. They look happy.
4. There are quite a lot of men in suits here too - bloody hell, it’s almost 9 and they got time to come here and enjoy breakfast. I’d normally be in the office by now.
5. McD’s coffee is so-so only.
6. The smell of the fries is making me hungry again.
7. I wonder if I can stay here the whole day just observing people?? It’s more fun than being in the office that’s for sure. They’ve got real nice comfy seats.
8. No wait, I forgot it’s $26 for every 2-hour block. F**k.

How does one know that one looks foreign? Is there a definitive list? Oh, the right-wingers would have a field day with this.

Another fine example of what not to write in a blog, or for that matter all forms of publicly accessable media. What an idiot.

“Of my six students, one (the smartest, wouldn’t you know it?) is incredibly hot. If you’ve ever been to Israel, she’s got the sloe eyes and bitchin’ bod of the true Sabra. It was all I could do to remember the other five students. I sense danger, Will Robinson.”

And he’s a journalism professor!

Journo-prof fired for steamy blog | News.blog | CNET News.com

If you know Crazy Frog (who doesn’t?!) then you’d know that he used to have a penis. Australian TV have since put a little black bar (marked “censored”) over it. iTunes in the USAiii has gone one better and just lopped it off. But they fail to notice that he’s sitting astride a flaming phallic object with a red tip. Oh, the irony.

I’m a geek, I might as well just embrace it.

You know you are the first generation of Internet-savvy kids in the early 90s if:

1. Your first web-browser was Mosaic.
2. Your first email client was Pine.
3. You know the commands: finger, talk and ytalk.
4. You had a “plan” - quirky ASCII art and gibberish that ppl see when they finger you.
5. When you first found porn on the Web, you thought: “This is free?! How cool is that?”
6. You downloaded said porn from a newsgroup, eg. “alt.binaries.pictures.sex.kinky”
7. You participated in online discussions on other newsgroups, much like you do now on blogs.
8. You write your name on a timesheet to use the library terminal to “talk”.
9. You get frustrated when ppl before you overstay their allocated time-slot so you hover behind them trying to make them feel uncomfortable.
10. You get a high as soon as you log in.
11. You get an even bigger high when you see that you’ve got new email messages.
12. You then become practically orgasmic when you get a “talk” request.
13. You only pick female-sounding (or male) usernames to talk to.
14. You would “talk” to a friend even though he or she is just right next to you.
15. When you got no one to talk to or email to, you instinctively type in “finger” every 5 seconds - hoping that someone that you know would magically appear.
16. If fingering your local university network doesn’t show any names, you obsessively finger any other universities that you know the network name to.
17. You get depressed when you log on and you have no emails and no one to talk to.
18. Even then, you would remain logged in staring at the screen ever so wishfully.
19. When you first discovered IRC, you immediately went to #sex.
20. You also checked out #hottub and #netsex.
21. You know and overuse the command “/me”, eg. “/me slaps Alicia with a cold trout.” WTF?!
22. You helped spread the use of net-lingo: ttyl, afk, bbl, brb, lol, lmao, rofl, roflmao, a/s/l?
23. You have done IRC sex and at the time you thought that it was hella cool.
24. You’ve had IRC gatherings.
25. You’ve snail-mailed your photo to an online friend.

and I shall end with …

26. When you discovered blogs, your first thought was: if they have had this back then …

How did you remember it?

CW, I’ve done the list! Except I only got 35. I won’t take up the space here, so just follow the link - 35 things about me.

Cherry, your turn!

For the geeks and not-so-geeks among us, these are possible scenarios whereby someone could have sniffed out passwords from a wireless network. I wonder if there was WiFi access at the recent S’pore Blog Conf and if that’s how XX got hacked. Still, prevention is better than cure - I just don’t trust using public WiFi without doing some fancy security sh*t to my laptop first. And that’s too tedious - I’ll just go home instead.

*) There is all sorts of games that are played upon the wireless network. Fake access points go up and down. Rogue DHCP servers answer to requests. The routers get hammered with DoS attacks.

*) Expect weird DHCP and DNS stuff to happen.

*) Finally, try to recall all of the attacks you have seen in the last year and dismissed because the attacker needed to be local to your network. Then realize that you are about to connect to that network.