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I just found a new hobby. It’s called Geocaching. Basically, It’s a scavenger hunt played with a hand-held GPS (Global Positioning System) reciever. Items are hidden all over the world (in water/weatherproof containers usually) and their lattitude and logitude coordinates are posted to the Geocaching.com website. You can then use your GPS to locate and find these ‘caches’ and exchange items from within them. You can then track the progress of the caches or the items contained on the web.

We found our first cache yesterday and we’re heading out to our second one today. It’s great fun, good exercide, and it introduces some beautiful places that you wouldn’t think existed.

Currently, there’s 25,840 caches in 139 countries. There’s a ton of em near me too!

One word…. Wardriving!

Okay, may words actually… Wireless, 802.11b, COOL! and that’s just a few of them. I’ve recently purchased an ORiNOCO Silver wireless PC card for my laptop. Since I don’t yet have an access point (AP) in my house, I decided to spend a few hours driving around my neighborhood…. I found numerous AP’s open to anybody who happens to be with in range.

IN LAYMANS TERMS: I drive up to a building (coffee house, cyber-cafe, someones house) and poof! I can surf the internet from my car!

I wonder if there’s anyone else in NY who’d like to exchange Access Points with me, or perhaps discuss upcoming coverage projects. I know of a few people trying to cover local recreational parks.

ACK! I have a customer who I’ve done some consulting and PC training for. They called me up for technical support today!!!

They wanted to get to WWW.PRUDENTIAL.COM

THATS IT! They needed me to walk them through opening internet explorer… and typing “www.prudential.com” and pressing enter! They have a cablemodem so they dont even need to dial up!

ARRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!

I’m getting a 900 number so I can charge!

Oh shit! I just looked out the window and saw sunlight! I havent slept yet! ACK!

Okay, Here’s an interesting one… .Was just IM’d by another one of those SPAM I.M.s promoting some chicks porn site, but this one is good…. Rather than just sending me a URL, it’s having a conversation with me….. It actually started out like a person random IMing me. I got suspicious when it didn’t answer me directly. Now, I’m answering everything it says with three or four periods and it’s still going 🙂 I’ll try to save the chat log and post it later 🙂 Lets see how long it’ll go on.

And if anyone knows where I can get a chat bot for AIM (to automate myself while I’m actually away (for humor purposes) please let me know. I’m hoping the guy running this eventually messages me with the info.

LOL. While typing this he was banned (Warned up to 95%) lol. I just bumped him up to 100%…. Too bad… was amusing me. Basically it posted the URL of a porn site then continued to talk to me, asking if I wanted to cyber… and when I said no, said good and went on…and on….and on. 🙂 Until it was banned.