So the internet is buzzing with rumours about our esteemed governor Rick Perry. It seems that his wife will be filling for devorce and she has hired a well known lawyer from Austin. This lawyer is known for her “go for the throat” tactics. Well, you know a divorce is quite common these days, but that is not all. Supposedly, Governor Rick Perry was found in bed with someone other than his wife. So what? Infidelity is quite common in politics today, right Bill? Well, it seems that Governor Rick Perry was not just caught messing around but messing around with another man! But, not just any man, but the Secretary of State Geoff Conner.



Now, if you have no idea why this is more significant than normal, please read a newspaper.



Now this is all rumours, but it seems that there is a lot of chatter, and no one is denying anything.



~david macias



what a tangled web we weave . . .



. . . when first we practice to deceive!

Fear before the march of flames,
fear before their heated pace.
Hear the steps as they approach,
feel the heat and feel the burn.
Tremble quietly there’s no pain,
praying softly for the rain.



The sun is rising there is no time,
it is now that you must hide.
Shy away from all that’s golden,
do it now, the god has spoken.
It is the light that will destroy you,
fear before the march of flames.

So at work I usee MS Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express for my personal email. So, I just reformatted my machine and decided to try a new/better email client. I had heard a lot about Mozilla Thunderbird so I decided to give a spin. The installation was quite painless, and it is very fast. I am also using it for surfing newsgroups and so far so good. There is somewhat of a learning curve and I am still trying to figure out the new keyboard shortcuts, as well as how NG posts are handled when received. Overall this is definetly a step forward passed Outlook Express. Next, I will try to import all of my old email, as well as try some themes and extensions.

-david macias

Just a little something that was running through my head, don’t expect a masterpiece, don’t expect a work of art. A lot of these little blurbs stay in my drafts folder for ages, until I feel like letting the sunlight hit them.



Wear lots of sunblock.

~david maciasThe most familiar part of your body, is the back of your head.
As you walk away I see you leave.
I see you leave again, and that oh so familiar view.
Straigh jet black hair, shoulder length, Onyx waterfalls.



Today again, you walk away. Out of my life with my life.
I look back at my life and see your face,
I look forward into my future and see me, see me there…

#./configure --enable-death --with-death-rope
#make clean
#make install

She told me that she shows everyone the poem I wrote six years ago. She even had it translate it, so people who do not speak English would understand it. By the way, translations of poems, specially not by the author, really make for a crappy poem. So this exposure has given me the idea that maybe I should post my poem here, and traslate it myself. What poem you may ask? I like to call it the best thing I’ve ever written, the most deep and personal words that have ever appeared from my pen. So, perhaps soon I will post the piece of my own writting I hold most dear.

I don’t sleep to dream, but to forget.

-david macias

Definetly a great article about Low-level enumeration (port scanning). Talks about some of the techniques everyone’s favorite scanning software (NMAP) uses, which gives you a great insight to all those little commands like:




nmap -v -sS www.microsoft.com




Read all about it, I found it more than informative.



-david macias

In the odd case that you didn’t own a calendar, today is February 1st. What is he significance of this date? Honestly, none. However, thanks to a little critter running around the internet, today might be a bit significant, at least to a couple of network administrator somewhere.

These netadmins, are the netadmins of SCO.com and MS.com. Turns out that the creator of the MyDoom virus, if you do not know what I am talking about read a newspaper, has decided to DDoS these two domains. SCO today, and MS tomorrow.

Aren’t they just some cute little critters?



-david macias