assorted pieces of random gobbledygook

I just ran across the following gem [via BoingBoing, yeah I know it’s old, I just saw it now though]: AirPower, a wiki dedicated to documenting power outlets at airports all around the world. I usually start scouring the airport for power outlets on multi-leg flights once I’ve completed a leg. The scariest story happening to me was circa 1998, travelling back from Melbourne through Hong Kong. Guards/military armed with submachine guns scared me away from the power outlet I was using. I don’t actually know what they said to me as they didn’t speak English, I just unplugged and got the fuck away from the outlet. Maybe it was just a friendly question, I don’t feel like taking chances in the presence of guns though.

I just set up a cross-compiling environment for the iPhone and compiled dns2tcp for the iPhone. Dns2tcp is a DNS tunnel written in C that I can heartily recommend, it however could be a little bit more stealthy. Using DNSSEC KEY RRs clearly is NOT stealthy. If you trust me somewhat, you can download the iPhone binary for dns2tcpc. I should roll that in a package, but I’m too lazy to do that at the moment.

I usually have no problems with jet lag at all. Yesterday however it dawned on me that the lack of sleep on the flight would probably require a serious afternoon nap with me awakening at 5am the next morning.

So rather than giving in to the temptation I scoured the web for some local band to go to and settled for Condor/Elephone/Boyskout. Being able to listen in to some mp3s of Boyskout on their web site really helped making that decision. Although Groove Rider was playing the same night I figured that if I really want to see him spinning records I can probably do that anytime I am in the U.K. again.

Three hours of sleep later and one hour late for the show I hauled a cab to the Bottom of the Hill. I missed some band called Condor, but the next two bands, Elephone and Boyskout were pretty good. I actually liked Boyskout a LOT, but I frigging forgot buying one of their CDs. The guy manning the merchandise counter didn’t really know how much to charge for it and started picking a random number out of his nose so I told him I’d wait till his buddy selling the Boyskout merch would come back and then buy from him; which I unfortunately forgot. Sigh. Whatever. So I ran into this guy Carey who invited me to a party on Saturday where he’d be spinning records. Let’s see what that’s about.

Later on I headed to some dive called the Delirium in the Mission district. Not bad, but man… Why the hell do they have to shut all places down on 2am on a Thursday night???

Just having finished my coffee I’ll now head out to StudioZ. According to their website it’s next door to the Paradise Lounge; so I should know where that is. Pics of yesterday should be up on flickr soonish… if they’re any good, I haven’t really checked them yet.

I’m currently on my way to CodeCon 2006 in San Francisco. I’m pretty impressed by the WLAN connection provided by Boeing Connexion on some Lufthansa flights. There were some initial connection problems, but now everything seems to be working dandy… Except for the fact that my laptop battery is running low now and no charging options are in sight in economy. The connection is running over an OpenVPN tunnel to my University and I’m still able to locate my hotel through Google Earth. Neat.