What sort of a social networking site sends generic templated email messages to people on behalf of other people? If these "friends" or "buddies" of mine really want to be my friends, why don't they write a personal message to me saying "hey, add me to Tagged"? I already know the answer to this: it's far more convenient to enter your hotmail address and password and have Tagged scan your address book. What is my problem with this? Well, look at those scrupulous organisations that sell lists of email addresses to spammers! These "friends" of mine aren't selling my email address- they're giving it away! Look at the definition of spam:

• Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender's point-of-view, it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list culled from subscribers to a Usenet discussion group or obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists.
• Spam is the term widely used for unsolicited e-mail; spam is also referred to as junk mail. Spam is usually sent indiscriminately to hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of inbox's simultaneously.
• Unwanted, usually advertisement email. Spam are usually sent in bulk and the recipient addresses are obtained by illegal means (eg by tapping the network communication).
• Refers to the practice of blindly posting commercial messages or advertisements to a large number of unrelated and uninterested newsgroups.
• Indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic "junk mail".
• Unscrupulous or unethical means of inflating results. Usually deteriorates the quality of listings and often results in penalties or being banned from a search engine.
• A canned meat made largely from pork

I could literally pull many more definitions of that term, and relate them to the emails I recieve on the behalf of other people who are unaware that they are actually spamming by proxy of this network, with the full intention of social interaction. I'm not blaiming the participants here. This a rant to all of the organisations who send these unsolicited messages and to those who allow me to recieve such unsolicited messages. Lets have a look at the definition for unsolicited:

• unasked: not asked for; "unasked advice"; "unsolicited junk mail"
• not requested, welcome or invited
• Sent to a person who has not specifically requested to receive communications from the sender and with whom the sender does not have a prior business or personal relationship, or to a person who has previously requested not to receive communications from the sender (i.e., has opted out).

On brighter news, it seems I'm popular! I've been added to friends by one person who has been suspended both times. Hacker connections? I can be better contacted on irc://irc.icq.com/#scripters (even if it is newby for me to say so).

Whoever finds sauce for this song is so full of win that they just might obtain home-brew beer, or other goodies of that value: faggot. Spread the word, it's for a good cause. Namely, it will remind you of your very first acid trip, or in my case, acid and mushies combined (and yeh, I've had the song for that long) :)

The other day I cooked a cracker... It's a cloak cracker, capable of 2 million attempts per second, per key on my machine. That's over 360 million attempts per minute! I can't wait until OpenCL becomes a standard, so I can make it 30 times faster yet! Chamonix & I are going to be the ones who prove that downsampled md5 checksums of a key + md5 of key:IP:key aren't yet as secure as they could be. I should probably wait until I have 100% certain results before I post any actual output from my application.

Current Mood: cheerful

It's a join/part flooder... Try not to get g/z:lined & enjoy...
alias CycleFlood {
  var %c = 0
  var %x = $chan(0)
  var %y = 1

  while (%y <= %x) {
    %c = $+(%c,$chr(44),$chan(%y))
    inc %y
  }

  raw $str($+(JOIN 0,$chr(44),$1,$crlf),$iif($0 >= 2,$2,10))
  join %c
}

Next time, a recipe for a pasta sauce that tastes better than you...

Here's a transcript of my last few weeks. Boring, so I translated it to C#.

edit: For the record, the above won't compile. I guess this is due to the instability between gf and I. When I know things work as they should, I'll be so damn happy.

<Anti-Emo> Back to porn.
<Anti-Emo> What can I say - I need pleasure after a hard day's work :) 
shhh, keep those channels that I'm obliged to perform all my ophelping duties appropriate, Kat, or I'll have to punish you severly ;o

I have something to confess. I used to have this aquarium. One time... I fapped into it... and the fish... they started eating the semen! ...and I was... immensely turned on by this... that is until... they died from overfeeding... I couldn't be bothered adding sauce, I just swallowed them whole. I then watched some wrestling and had a huuuuge wank!

I lost the job at WorldWeb, and since then have been working for myself... seriously- I've worked on 2 projects, simultaneously, and I'm still working on one of them. We got ADSL2+ (perfect 8mbps down on this piece of junk, I need a better modem)... and the wireless router is giving me a headache. ack, kill kill!

I got a new (old) computer. It's an AMD Athlon 3000XP, and I'm gonna overclock the shit out of it (once I get a new fan and possibly modify the case to accomodate a 3rd fan). IrCQ has promoted me from... abusive user to... ophelper which came as a shock to me.

I'm going to start a qdb, solely on LJ as I believe there are alot of quotes I see, just daily, that would compete with many of those on bash.org (which is too old for my liking). Take this one for example:
[08:47] <@avythe> let's switch to bircd
[08:49] <@Ofloo> no i don't like that one at all
[08:49] <@avythe> i wasn't being serious
[08:51] <@avythe> maybe i'll put up some test daemons
[08:51] <@avythe> to mess around with
[08:56] <@mewse> ass daemons
[08:57] <@Ofloo> hehe
[08:57] <@avythe> dudes are all
[08:57] <@avythe> up in my shit
[08:57] <@Ofloo> huh
[08:58] <@Ofloo> nasty
[08:58] <@Ofloo> which reminds me
[08:58] <@Ofloo> at work we have a guy who shits his pants on a regular basis
[08:58] <@Ofloo> nasty
[08:58] <@Ofloo> last time shit was running in his shoes
[08:59] <@Ofloo> noone wants to go near him
[08:59] <@Ofloo> can you imagine a full grown man shitting his pants
[08:59] <@Ofloo> i couldn't
[08:59] <@Ofloo> i was speechless when i saw it
[09:00] <@mewse> lol
[09:00] <@avythe> IBS
[09:00] <@Ofloo> IBS ?
[09:00] <@avythe> probably.
[09:00] <@Ofloo> actually we've got 2 of those what are the odds of that happening
[09:01] <@Ofloo> once one was pushing on something he starts shouting aargh
[09:01] <@Ofloo> then one looked at the other one and said shit your pants and he said yes
[09:01] <@Ofloo> my god never seen anything like this
[09:01] <@Ofloo> wtf is IBS
[09:01] <@avythe> do you still work for a construction thing?
[09:01] <@Ofloo> is it contagious
[09:01] <@Ofloo> yeah
[09:02] <@avythe> yeah it's
[09:02] <@mewse> LOL
[09:02] <@avythe> extremely contagious
[09:02] <@Ofloo> i must set a secure area at work
[09:02] <@avythe> no it's
[09:02] <@avythe> ALL OVER THE PLACE
[09:02] <@Ofloo> DEFCON 5
[09:02] <@avythe> the construction site is probably crawling with
[09:02] <@avythe> ibs worms
[09:02] <@avythe> you should
[09:02] <@avythe> get the hell out of there.
[09:03] <@Ofloo> oh god you mean he's got worms ..?
[09:03] <@avythe> oh yes
[09:03] <@Ofloo> shit that's nasty
[09:03] <s00p> `LOL
[09:03] <@avythe> http://tinyurl.com/2sjdfu
[09:03] <@avythe> those are in his
[09:03] <@avythe> hair
[09:27] <@avythe> deliciously magic
[09:27] <@Ofloo> why else would i think about shit
[09:27] <@avythe> how delicious are your lucky charms?
[09:28] <@Ofloo> what does that exactly mean
[09:28] * @Ofloo googles for lucky charms
[09:28] <s00p> lol!
[09:28] <@Ofloo> never eat those
[09:29] <@Ofloo> doesn't look very tasty
[09:29] <@avythe> so they're
[09:29] <@avythe> scrumptious?
[09:29] <@Ofloo> i got a picture
[09:29] <@Ofloo> all them colors that's not for me
[09:29] <@avythe> you like your food
[09:29] <@avythe> black?
[09:29] <@Ofloo> i prefer regular cereal
[09:29] <@Ofloo> not really
[09:29] <@avythe> describe your perfect cereal.
[09:29] <@Ofloo> just not colored
[09:29] <@avythe> are you a
[09:29] <@avythe> white supremacist?
[09:30] <@Ofloo> none in particular
[09:30] <@Ofloo> a what
[09:30] <@Ofloo> i just want to eat my food without someone adding any colors to it
[09:30] <s00p> LOL
[09:30] <@Ofloo> what's next yellow apples with purple dots on it
[09:30] <@avythe> you're a racist.
[09:31] <@Ofloo> probably :p
[09:31] <@Ofloo> especially to purple cereal
[09:31] <@avythe> do you lynch count chocula?
[09:31] <@Ofloo> come again?
[09:32] <@avythe> count chocula.
[09:32] <@Ofloo> lynch
[09:32] <@avythe> he's the al sharpton of delicious breakfast cereal.
[09:32] <@Ofloo> we don't lynch here
[09:32] <@Ofloo> we burn :p at least in the 1600
[09:32] <@Ofloo> 17th centoury
[09:33] <@Ofloo> century
[09:33] <@avythe> so you burn negro breakfast cereal?
[09:34] <@Ofloo> would you want it any other way
[09:34] <@avythe> woah there
[09:34] <@Ofloo> nice roasted and hot
[09:35] <@Ofloo> rasist
[09:36] <@Ofloo> avythe, so who's poking your shit
[09:36] <@Ofloo> i'm curious
[09:36] <s00p> lol
[09:36] <@avythe> i have no idea what you're talking about
[09:36] <@Ofloo> actualy it's beter i don't know
[09:36] <@Ofloo> better
[09:36] <@Ofloo> so what you been up to lately
[09:37] <@avythe> homoerotic fantasies
[09:38] <@Ofloo> what's that like..
[09:41] <s00p> night guys
[09:42] <@Ofloo> night s00p

and, since I guess I'm not so anonymous anymore, I may as well divulge this:
[20:35] <s00p> they've just hacked things to bits, and I suspect they couldn't get info or restricted working... so they cut them out
[20:36] <s00p> which is fukt
[20:36] <@Ofloo> hmm, ..
[20:36] <s00p> completely unacceptable
[20:36] <@Ofloo> well better then have something run unsafe
[20:36] <@Ofloo> i would probably do the same thing
[20:37] <@Ofloo> oh right
[20:37] <@Ofloo> no
[20:37] <s00p> they probably have unsafe things running anyway
[20:37] <@Ofloo> then why run it at all
[20:37] <@Ofloo> i mean why change something which works
[20:37] <s00p> because they wanted... to have something that is 'unique'?
[20:37] <@Ofloo> well all code is unique
[20:37] <s00p> so they changed the entire thing.. but it all looks the same
[20:37] <@Ofloo> you're talking about he pointer thing right ?
[20:38] <s00p> the only way it is unique is that when it gets to 6000-7000 users it drops masses of people
[20:38] <s00p> yeh
[20:38] <s00p> that
[20:38] <s00p> and whatever else they did
[20:38] <@Ofloo> i think they've changed it because the coder doesn't understand pointers
[20:38] <@Ofloo> though pointers can be useful
[20:38] <s00p> certainly
[20:38] <s00p> the time he spent removing pointers in the services, he would have learnt about what they do
[20:38] <s00p> and thought 'oh shit, I should have just read a book'
[20:39] <s00p> 'ohh well, it looks better this way'
[20:39] <s00p> lol
[20:39] <@Ofloo> lol
[20:39] <s00p> "i'll just be a lazy coder like everyone else, and put code legibility IN MY OPINION ahead of application speed/reliability"
[20:39] <@Ofloo> that's funny
[20:40] <s00p> "it's magic code. it looks easy AND it runs so slow that the debugger can see things happen at a rate that he/she understands everything happening" (edit: and somehow it still works!)

I bought an ADSL2 modem off Garry. Saved $20 off one of the cheap pieces of shit, plus it's quite the decent one too. I like internode's "HOME-512SYM-Starter" plan- it's cheap and symmetrical!! There's this Korean girl who added me to MSN. She's a real sweetheart and is studying English so there's a bit of a language barrier but I'm patient... We've been talking alot and Oo I really think she's quite cute, but she wants to diet. Ohh, well, what would I know about losing weight?.. What she doesn't know won't hurt her, or will it?

The boss interviewed some new guy, again.. A 'replacement' for someone. I am so nervous right now.

Current Mood: flirty

A belated wish for a happy new year to you all. I went to Semaphore beach to watch the fireworks, which were delayed by 10 minutes due to a computer glitch of some description. I wonder if the company I work for was in charge of writing the software to control the fireworks ehehehe. Early in the night I met a friend I have not seen in a long time, we hung out and got quite drunk. fun, fun. After a while he started to really slant to one side, and complained of a sore back, so I offered to help him get home (which must have taken him hours after I left him). At around 2am we ran into an ex-con named 'Dusty', and after a while of talking, and the heat in conversations rising, he connected a punch to my jaw from behind. It's difficult to describe how it feels when you are knocked out, it's sort of like becoming blissfully ignorant of anything that happens, like everything slows down but you still remain unaware of your surroundings. This is how I felt for what seemed like a split second, and must not have been long as I did not completely lose my balance and fall flat on my arse. At that point I snapped out of it, and took a defensive stance, was lucky enough to say that was the hardest hit he got into me, and it was quite soft at that (after two days my jaw isn't even sore anymore, let alone bruised). I wonder what he went to jail for, and whether he was someone's bitch... it seemed he was large enough to do more damage (and he probably could have). 

My boss invited me to a dinner party at Europa (on the bay). Good food, expensive wine and funny little fridge magnets... I drank waaay too much, which, looking back on it should have been expected, as I was sitting down most of the time (and thus unable to judge how drunk I was/when to stop drinking). We went to a club afterwards, and I threw up... in front of police. Now I have dry vomit up my nose, it is the first time in my life I would actually welcome a runny nose.

This being my first post, I guess I should spend some time introducing myself further. I am currently employed as a web developer. We're working on an application at work that will be used by mortgage broking firms, for example ANZ. I won't pick on the development of this software solution, as my team manager is almost as new to his job as I am to mine, and the guy who had his job before him clearly wasn't very organised. At the moment I am working on, at home, a bot that is capable of remote debugging/interpretation of a simple C-like programming language (that I am also developing). My aim is to support any function implemented into the ANSI C standard library. This project is coming along well, and I expect to have a build ready for testing within the next 2-3 months (though I have been working on it for over 2 years now).

Here is a description of my team leader.

Tags: drugs, rock and roll, sex
Current Mood: alcohol poisoned