Archive for July, 2009

“Give me your iPod or I’ll snuff you”

Jul 22nd

Posted by Julien McArdle in Everything

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…as I quote the 16 year old girl on St-Laurent boulevard. I say “Ok,” and keep walking on. She rips the headphones off of my head, they drop on the ground (breaking), and I stand there looking at her. She walks off and gives me the finger.

Her friend looked embarassed. I put the phones back together, they work. Guess she was bored. That’s my fun of the day. *sigh*

I am now a man.

Jul 15th

Posted by Julien McArdle in Everything

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This last Saturday was a milestone for me. I moved into my own apartment. No roommates – just me. With the acquiring of a solid post-university job, along with my own apartment, I’ve progressed from the status of poor student/youth to being my own man.

ConfCon; HWHQ Forums Hacked.

Jul 6th

Posted by Julien McArdle in Everything

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At the end of this month I’ll be attending the seventeenth iteration of DEFCON. I’m excited; I haven’t been to a hacker convention since HOPE, nearly three years ago now. I’ll make sure to report back with photos!

That brings me to the next topic: ConfCon. Organized by PhreakerD7 and ThoughtPhreaker, ConfCon is going to present talks on a variety of telephony subjects. It’ll all take place over an interconnected network of conference calls, allowing you to join in by simply picking up your phone.

ConfCon is free and takes place this July 25th.

In other news, HWHQ‘s forums were irreperably damaged by spammers. HWHQ is home to the fantastic podcast GameRadio, hosted by C4 & Kobar. The database was corrupted, and unfortunately, despite C4′s best efforts, a backup was not able to be restored. Thank you spammers – not only do you fill my email, cellular phone, and instant messaging accounts with garbage, but you also killed a great forum.