Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Resolutions Roundup

At the beginning of the year, I set myself six tasks to achieve this year. Here they are with the actual results which followed.

Get more involved on the web - I use it every day and yet don’t seem to get that much into it. More digging, flickring, youtubing, myspacing, beboing, blogging, commenting and subscribing. When someone comments, I should comment back. Now, to find some more blogs I’m into.

Well, I did spend some more time listening to the web. I haven’t really contributed much apart from blog posts. My last podcast was June 2006, over a year and a half ago. Perhaps as not much as I may have wanted, but I gave it a try.

Learn a programing language - Last year, I knew basic HTML. Now I know HTML and CSS. Its a start. I hope to learn something like Delphi or Python, to a useable extent.

Now were rolling. At the least, I can program in Delphi, PHP and Python to a useable extent. A tiny, weeny, bit of C, but all in all, the object languages are for me.

Contribute to a Open Source project - I just feel, at the moment, that it would be a thing to get me busy and more involved.

Well, a bit. I sent in a tiny snippet of code to the Teen Lug CMS project. I could do a lot more, but at the mo, I’m being greedy.

Flickr Daily, Blog Bi - Blog once every two days and upload photos to Flickr once a day.

Pfff! That was a long-shot, even at the best of times. I didn’t even last 2 days.

Spend more time on school work - Right now I just do it, I should put more into it.

Like above, we can all dream.

Read more books - I’ve got a whole load of Sherlock Homes books for Xmas, there waiting to be read.

I got through two books on my trip to France. Catcher in the Rye (great book) and Hound Of The Baskivilles (even better). Two books read in a period of 5 days. Thats not a hobby, its simple binge reading.

Over all, the score comes back as 2/6. Not too bad. I’m pretty pleased with that. Thats one year done. Lets see what I can get done in the year of Zero Eight.

Time to set six more, almost reachable, goals.

Digital Revenge For Dummies

Got more brain than brawn, and fancy getting revenge on some arsehole whose given you more than your fair share of shit? Why not do it digitally? Were in a time when almost everyone uses the web, so use it to your advantage.

1. Buy their name.com
Simple and effective. Buy there name for a buck and a bit from somewhere like GoDaddy. Perhaps do something simple with the domain, like link it back to your site. Or perhaps set up an entire website with false information. They could have connections to the Al-Qaeda you know.

2. Fake their email
If you get an email in your inbox from a mate, do you check its header to find out if it really did come from the hotmail server? No, exactly. Although for mass email scams such as bank details, this will stand out like a cat at a dog-pound, but for a single email, it should be fine. All you need for that is a simple PHP script, like below.

$to = "ex@mple.com";
$title = "Example Title";
$content = "Example Content";
$fname = "Bob";
$femail = "bob@bob.com";
$from = "From: " + $fname + " <" + $femail + ">“;
mail($to, $title, $content, $from);

Add a bit of HTML, if you know how, and you have a re-useable form for the sending of fake-mail. Don’t forget, host it somewhere that won’t be obvious.

3. Let the spammers do the job
Just search the net for various seedy sites. Some will have a “free porn in your mailbox” signup form. A guy I know must have pissed somebody off. After searching his email in Google, up came moid.org (down at the time of writing), which contained his email address and “porn that crosses the line”.

4. Become someone on a chat room
Create an account on any major IM services and add them. Chat away, be someone your not, and start to befriend them. Then, when they have trust, start sending files. A few clean ones to start with, unless your going for the kinky angle. Once they have a bit more trust, perhaps try send something thats not clean. Be it a virus or a backdoor program. Hell, if there dumb enough, ask for remote access. P

Perhaps even get them to send you something. If you can stomach a penis picture, that could be something you can use against them. Photoshop does wonders on manipulating the size of an object in an image.

5. Be creative
Everyone has pet peeves. Something they really hate. Think about it. There are a ton of tools for anyone to use. Just stop and think for a minute. Then you may come up with one hell of an idea.

Revenge should be sweet, and although theses ideas are limited, it does start the ball rolling.

Nothing

The bad thing about this time of the year is that, for me, nothing is happening. I have nothing going on, no one to see and no where to vist. I can’t get to the gym due to it being Xmas half-term and no college boys would be using it. I don’t need a job so most of my time is spent at home. I’m looking forward to getting back to college on the 3rd.

Roll on New Year.

Lazy Sunday: Tilgate Parl

Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution has some ground here.

You Have Been Warned



nuisance, originally uploaded by Yersinia.

By the way. Nuisance does include Genocide, Mass Murder and Rape.