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Another wardriving map. If I wasn’t so bored, I wouldn’t be doing this. Click to see the rest of this post and you’ll, well, see it. Also, I guess it’s 2007 now. Ringing in the new year with excitement, as always.

This is something slightly more interesting: another wardriving escapade while traveling up north to visit my sister. My recent purchase of a GPS receiver allowed me to log the locations as well as the existence of the various wireless networks. So instead of a plain text file, you get a pretty map, thanks to the […]

Thanks to the helpful instructions here and here, I now have my very own infrared webcam. Viewing the world in infrared is a bit different than visible light. Here’s some comparison shots.

So as to not seem like a total slacker. Another trip up north, another log of wireless access points gathered. Best SSID this time: longaberger. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually drive around my own town to scope out the scene here. Also, I feel now is a good time to share my newfound […]

My replacement video card finally arrived today, over three weeks after it died, and close to three weeks since sending it in for the RMA. Now I can sit here and do the exact same thing I’ve been doing while I was using my spare computer, plus the possibility of playing recent games, instead of […]

So, Sunday night (or early Monday morning), I’m happily using my computer when the display goes garbled and it locks up. I’m then faced with a computer that will not even POST. Assuming it’s the video card, I remove it, then blow out the 1 year and 2 months of dust that accumulated in the […]

No, not on this site, though I guess that would apply as well. I’m talking about my keyboard. That’s what I get for not cleaning it in probably two years. Pretty horrid, isn’t it? Fortunately, this is how it turned out after a multi-hour session involving tetrafluoroethane, isopropyl alcohol, and an old sock. Yes, I […]