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As you can see I haven’t written anything in awhile, but there has been quite a bit going on.

I started working on a little project we were talking about in my algorithms class, I dubbed the implementation ImageShrink. I don’t really plan on doing any development towards but it creates a really cool visual effect that you should check out. It’s interesting how much information our eyes have to deal with and what gets indicated in our brain as being not the important. Mostly, your brain notices edges, so if you get rid of space that isn’t an edge you don’t hardly notice.

I’m giving a presentation in my E-Commerce class on some security issues with SSL/TLS in its current state. I made a video demo of some attacks that are relatively easy to perform and users tend to know little about: Sidejacking and Man In The Middle attacks (I use ARP poisoning). I’ve attached my slides (with notes as required..) and videos. Sorry if you wanted to look at the PowerPoint and don’t have the new 2007/2008 it repeatedly crashed when I told it to conver to old style. Never would have guessed 😉
Also, I’ve fixed GAMVL to work with YouTube again, I’ll post at least some code for that soon.
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What I’ve Been Doing..

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I’ve been pretty busy — mostly with school stuff. Projects have been hitting hard as the semester winds down.  Made a digital thermometer in electronics, kind of cool.  We had a CS project that was to create a kind of online game, but really more closely resembles a glorified IRC.

I was inspired by NSA@Home and other similar projects to start learning about FPGA’s.  I got a Nexys 2 to try out. Verilog is the programming language of choice for FGPA’s and has taken a little getting used to.  I’ve been too busy to make real strides with it, but hopefully when I have more time, something interesting will come of it.

Today, I bought a motorcycle.  It’s a 1996 Honda CBR F3 600.  I’m pretty psyched about it, I’ve been wanting a bike for a long time and finally have one.  I have my license already but I definitely need some more practice… PICTURES are posted in a gallery..

Unfortunately, I also washed my car today for the first time in months.  This is unfortunate  because it (inevitably) proceeded to downpour due to a thunderstorm.