Well, looks like I actually got back to this news page. Not bad. You know, at some point, I might start putting some interactive stuff on this site to showcase some fun things that you can do in CGI, etc. But for right now, this is good enough.

Heck, it's finals week. Craziness. I'm still chugging through the second of two music problem sets due Friday (in 4 days), haven't touched material for my Thursday exam, and have to think up an essay also due Friday. Eep. I'm an excellent procrastinator. =)

I put up a new version of ftpcheck rewritten from scratch in C for some blazing network performance. Next version will use threading and will pool together "host groups" perhaps. I might think of some cute algorithm. But it's not bad right now: I scanned Stanford's entire class B network (over 65 thousand hosts) in less than twenty minutes. I'm sure I could do better, but that'll have to wait for another day, especially considering I'll have to do a little dancing with locks on the output to make sure things don't get garbled...

Talked to Cobalt Networks today about bundling our Start² Perl software with their servers. Hopefully that will go well, as I haven't made a penny on it yet. Not to say I'm profit-driven, but, well, I'm running awfully low on money and earning less than minimum wage...

Looks like this summer I may be working for my friend Nathan at his fresh new startup, ScoutNet. Can't say what it's about, but let's just say that the industry is heading the right direction for this thing.

I'll hopefully get some more writeups for Audio Explosion done soon, just as soon as I can grab a sec to bang some stuff out. Seems like the days of late have just been flying by. I'm going to do a writeup of a yet-to-be-released Japanese device to play back audio. Very cool, very smooth. More details to follow, probably on my writings page.

I like working hard, hitting the books. It's quite rewarding, and I feel that I haven't hit them like this in quite a while -- it shows. My brain is in slow-motion. I can barely go for an hour without getting sucked back into the computer to check news at slashdot or freshmeat or check my email.

I fished up a crazy little program called "hunt" written by a Czechloslovakian known as kra. It can snoop in on people's telnet connections, hijack them, search for keywords, cut people off, etc. Evil! Cute program, but I really can't see its good uses. Maybe I'm just shortsighted. So I went around my dorm telling people to use our campus's security software (called Mac-Leland and PC-Leland) so they would not be susceptible to attacks using programs like hunt.