Don't Think Again

Woke up feeling like I'd just laid down. Tried to feel good, but my nose was all dry, and my neck was really stiff. Almost like I had a headache, but I didn't. I didn't even had a headache to use as an excuse. So lame...

This can't go unnoticed: after Monty Python released every single movie they'd made onto youtube, their amazon sales increased 23000%. Here's the link for your pleasure . Wonderful.

The first two episodes of the season five of Lost have been quite amusing. The anchor thingy is a very promising feature when connected to the time travel thingy. Does the body travels back? Do you assume the control of your own body, but several years back in time? Was the line of time completely determined from the start? Can all of the aweness that was created by Lost be explained by this thingy ? Well, for the sake of drama, I hope that getting things well-explained doesn't ruin the entire saga. Maybe it'd be more interesting to have everything culminating on the last episode of the last season. Or maybe they should just leave us on the tip of our chairs, hoping they'll make a movie or something like it...

Introduction This is a simple web tutorial whose purpose is to add to the web resources available on the Internet. Actually, there are quite a few applications able to create executable programs from python scripts. Even though python scripts are quite small, the resulting executable is often quite big, and has to ship along with many DLL files. I'll write a simple script with python, then generate a win32 executable file. Write (or get) the script I've been fiddling around with socket programming, so I'm inclined to write a MSN messages sniffing program. Here's what you'll need to get through this part: Python installed on your computer (I used the 2.6 version). You can get it at www.python.org . Learn python and write your own script... Just kidding! You can use this little script I've written myself pymsnsniffer.py . Test the script. If you've downloaded and run the file, here's a picture of what you should be getting: And a file named MSN_(date).txt...

And I don't mean philosophy in a kind of academic way. I mean it like you'd hear in a NY bar, from a drunken guy (or girl) trying to hit on you: what's your philosophy? Impossible to answer right away, right? Wrong... that's the thing about "philosophies": if you can't spell them out right away, and if you have to make up excuses, then it's not robust enough.

Barack Obama would say on a speech: "How did we know that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? How do we know that Iran has weapons of mass destruction? We have the receipts."

Hopefully, Mr. Barack Obama's image will remain as untouched as it has been until now. Personally, I don't think he'll do much difference, politically speaking. But, if you agree that having a black man even running for president is cool, his victory is even cooler. But that's it.

I had one of those "bingo" moments just now. Some days ago my usb key was infected with a worm of a type I had never seen. So I started wondering about what could have infected my machine... It suddenly came to me just now: infection through the Garena hooks. By the way, the idea isn't new or exclusive: the same could be done through the bittorrent protocol , gnutella protocol, or any other application network protocol for that matter. Cool, huh?

Full version of the song that was one of Naruto's openings...

Check this out: it's sunday and I'm slacking around my apartment watching " The day after tomorrow ". Actually, the rain outside is strong, and the only thing I can thing of is Barack Obama. The next end-of-the-world movie will have to feature a black president.

I've worked some more on my little chat program . Now it's called py2pychat (sounds nicer, huh?), and it even has it's own Google Code Home Page . From there, you can download the working source code, check out a list of the features I intend to add to it and even add some features you'd like. I'd love to receive code with your modifications and additions on it.

Well. This feels uneasy. Uncomfortable. I'll choose to describe this sensation from its borders: numb fingers. I bought a book whose small title reads: "How to understand and influence people". And, yes, I feel ashamed. But, hey, what'cha gonna do? Not much choice really. It's a book about neurolinguistics (not self-help!). As it turns out, I finally convinced myself that making something real is simply a matter of talking about it. And the way you talk about has got to be important too, right? Oh, man... :-/

This might be my favorite song from the entire Naruto Anime series.

I really enjoy been inside a society and a city without synchronizing myself to their own rhythms. I like to drive around at the times people aren't coming back from work or going to eat lunch. I love eating lunch early or late. I love it as long as it is at least a little off. Off track, off time, off space. I'll be leaving this city soon. Actually, in a couple of months. Sometimes these "couple of months" seem like an eternity, sometimes they seem really small. What about the unknown future? Right now, my body is quite used to a shifting effect: from scared, to really happy, then indifferent. I mean... who wouldn't be scared of changing like this? Going off to some new country you've never even set foot on. Living there... for years. And then I get scared. But it doesn't last for too long. Fear is a strange feeling... specially once you get used to it. Sometimes it works just like Spiderman's tingling: warns of danger, mostly when my girlfr...

A very nice piece of software I'd recommend to you is Camstudio . It records whatever's happening on your desktop to an AVI file. I'll be using this to show my dad how he can edit together some videos from when he went fishing... Oh well, I guess I'll post this as a tutorial on youtube.

Instead of turning on your local radio on your stereo, try some internet radios. They're really nice and all, and you usually don't need any extra hardware or software. Try http://www.filtermusic.net/

This is a little flash application that enables us to play around with morse code. Actually, it's pretty cool: you can try to hear and identify the message been sent to you or try to send the letters the machine presents you. After playing around for a while, it gets kind of boring, though. Too bad this hasn't been included in a game somewhere... This is the link .

The all-mighty buck, you might say. I beg to differ: people make the world go around. Money in itself is nothing more than paper or numbers in a credit card or a bank account. Why would someone confuse money for people? Surely, these days you'd all agree that what mobilizes people is money. That's what makes people tick. I'm not really good at history, but it seems that money is somewhat of newly invented, and people used to "tick" way before money even existed. Even when there wasn't money, however, one can safely assume that there was something that was used as means of controlling (if you will) or directing people's actions. Religion has got to be one of those. Is music in this category too?

As for me, I've always wanted to know morse code by heart, even if I never have to use it in my entire life. It's just about being geeky enough. Anyways...

After all this time, I've finally made a choice of my own (so-called) will: I'm ok with whatever happens.

While I'm still slacking off before getting back to work, I've found this nice little "tutorial" on tcpdump . I'm currently working on a python script to use windump to get some nice results too.

Not that this really matters to you guys, but my life's about to change dramatically once again. I'm scared.