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So today I woke up and decided to clean my room because it was messy as hell, and I can’t work in those conditions Anyway, I go to look at my fish and then notice he’s not there. The fish has literally disappeared. I’ve got a plant thing in his little bowl/vase, and I thought he might be stuck inside of it or something — but I took it out, and still no fish.

So at this point, I figure my cat ate it. I remember her up there (”up” because he’s on a shelf above my desk), because she knocked all of the fish food off and I had to clean up hundreds of these little balls.

I told my sister and she got all upset (LOL) and got mad at our cat and everything (she’s very odd when it comes to animals, she actually wanted me to bury the fish and have a funeral!), I decide to move my desk out from the wall to get some papers that found their way down. And what do I see? My dried up fish Blue.

Either the cat just pawed the fish out and it flopped down before she could get it (which might explain the knocked over food), or the fish wanted to commit suicide.

So, now collisions have been found in the SHA1 hashing algorithm too. Now that SHA1 and MD5 are crossed off the list, what’s left? Using either SHA1 or MD5 for passwords should still be okay (as collisions don’t matter, passwords will still need to be brute’ed), but using these hashes for digital signatures can cause some problems.

If you’re an avid /. reader like me, then you already know about LokiTorrent getting shut down.

I can’t believe it, that happened way too fast. Last time I saw, they were raising a bunch of cash to fight back, and now they’re dead. They had a lot of money too…

Well, I’ve decided I’m going to drop my last class of the day. It’s sooooo boring, I just cannot stand it at all. So that means my days now end at about noon

I was reading a thread at vBcom about the phpBB site being hacked. Wow… I’ve uploaded a screenshot for historical reasons.

The passage there is Portuguese, and using Google Translate it roughtly translates to:
Someone translated it “by hand”:

It was caused by a security hole in AWStats. Maybe I should check mine…

I’ve uploaded some ShiftBlog screenshots to show off some of it. The thing I’ve been working most on is the option system, which allows anyone to add options easily. This will make it really easy for hacks with options to be installed, or template mods (since templates can use conditions). So they choose what type of field it is (radio, checkbox, select, multiselect, text box, textarea), the values it can contain (for selection types), the default value, PHP code to execute when it gets changed, they can even choose a PHP file to generate the selection values. For example, the “Skin Choice” option there gets it’s dropdown values from a PHP file that reads the available skin directories.

So I’m quite proud of that, I think it’s really neat. Right now I’m working on the users and usergroups part.

Anyway, there it is

I’ve decided I want to learn Java. The thought has crossed my mind before but I’ve put it off because of it’s slowness (because it is compiled, but it still has to be interpreted by the Java Virtual Machine (VM) so it can “write once, run anywhere”).

But Java has been around for a while, and I can’t see it going anywhere. Being cross platform is obviously a huge plus. But that isn’t my main reason. The main reason why I’m deciding to embark on this “mission” is to get my feet wet in some serious OOP. There are other languages that are OOP, like the .NET suite, but I think the skills I can pick up from Java will be those I can use everywhere.

So there’s my plan! This doesn’t mean I’m going to stop everything I’m doing dead, of course. I just think it’s time to start something new.

Today was the last exam I had for this semester, and I am not at all sorry to see these classes go! Woo Now I get the rest of the week off, then start semester number two, which will likely be far more boring then this past one. But that’s enough complaining

I went to a friends house with 9 others today to play poker. Do I even have to say that I won again? After 6 hours, it was down to me (who had about 85% of the chips) and another guy, so we decided to split the winnings (was getting late…).

I’ve started working on ShiftBlog in full power, lately. It’s getting really good. I can’t wait until I can release an alpha. It’s just so nice