Yes, gentle readers, wardriving is alive and well and living in New Orleans.
At least, that's what the folks over at BoingBoing claim in this entry/article. Honestly, though, in many places, wouldn't it be warboating? And, yes, I found myself wondering as I skimmed the article, just how many live wifi hotspots there were running along all happy and unknown as power gets restored to parts of the city that were either relatively unscathed or have cleaned up quickly and well.

I finished reading Industrial Magic this week.

Linux in your car.
Hey, why not? This guy did it and documented it at his website. Again, this might not be everyone's idea of fun, but I am, after all, a network geek! I love the idea of having a built-in PC so that I could go war driving to the extreme. I mean, that would really redefine war driving, wouldn't it? To have the PC running off the car, built-in and scanning literally as I drove to or from work would be so cool. Geeky as all get out, but cool to me.

In 60 Minutes!
Yeah, I know that sounds a little crazy, but, according to this PDF from the NSA, it can be done. No joke. The National Security Agency doe NOT joke about computer security. Trust me, I would not lie to you about something like that. (Not that I know from personal experience, and that's the story I'm sticking to!)

No, I'll not be extolling their virtues!
I know, I know, I shouldn't drink, smoke, curse or get "frisky" with loose women. Well, I'm working on it, friends. I am working on it. So far, I've done pretty with avoiding the wild women, though, honestly, I'm not sure how much longer I'll hold out. When they're so darn good looking and aggressive, it's hard to resist!

Do you have one?
Why not? In my case, it's because I just started at this company, but I really should have gotten on this ASAP when hurricane season started. We got lucky. Everyone got out and we were able to get all our essential equipment (ie. server and associated drives) out of our New Orleans office. But, what if we hadn't been?

... pause.

Excellent advice that I all too rarely follow. In fact, just a couple of days ago I mentioned that same thing. So, today, instead of posting the "open letter" that I started, I decided I should simply...
Pause.

I may never post what I wrote in that state of high emotion last night, but, for now, I'm thinking about it.

TSR, er, sorry Wizards of the Coast has a new "educational" campaign.
Now, they've recruited librarians to the cause. No, really, they have a new program called "Afternoon Adventures with Dungeons and Dragons". It's a program designed to give librarians free materials to learn and teach kids D&D after school and then to use that as a jumping off point to more literary adventures.

Apparently, you can add telecom specialist to the list.

for future generations.