I think the comments system should be fixed now. 

So I’ve been playing my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the last 3ish hours, and it’s a lot of fun.  I think if you didn’t like any of the 3 GTA 3 games you won’t like this, but it’s hard to imagine anyone who can’t like this sort of game.  The physics alone are worth hours of replay value.  I slammed into a concrete barrier while swerving into a turn evading the police and Niko flew out the RIGHT passenger window and about 150 feet through the air.. it was ridiculous.

See ya online.

I preordered my copy yesterday at the local gamestop.  If I feel like staying up late I’ll go grab it at midnight tonight and maybe snap some pictures of the melee.  If you want to play with us let me know, we’re going to form up a group on Xbox Live.  Hopefully the multiplayer features I have heard about are worth the money.

While sitting at Panera bread checking email today I developed a need to change my mac address because Panera has a 30 minute connection limit between 12 and 1pm.  A quick google search by Jay revealed this:  http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/change_mac_w2k.htm.  It takes about 3 seconds to change it and presto, I was back online.  Obviously I don’t recommend doing this anywhere where it might matter, but a simple coffee shop probably isn’t going to sue you for getting 60 minutes vice 30 minutes to check your mail.

The site’s finally up at http://securabit.com.  Darren’s working on the logo, and I am working on talking points and format for next week’s pilot.  Jay is working on the intro and ending music, what he’s come up with so far is great stuff.  I’m going to work on creating a page with a slick little layout to incorporate some of the RSS feeds we think are most relevant to the show.

If you have any comments, insights, etc please let me know, as well as if you want to be a guest.

I’ve started a Tips page, which you can find on the top bar of this site.  If there’s anything you want me to add let me know.  There will be some more stuff going up onto it later on tonight.

 I’m going to be meeting up with my friend Anthony this week to do a pilot show for the security oriented “podcast” I want to fool around with.  We’re still trying to nail down a format that will be unique enough for me to be satisfied, as well as the length, but I think that will all come together soon.  He has some hosting for the site I want to put together for it, but there are some issues to iron out with that before we can go public with the site/show.  Regardless of whether or not that gets figured out there will be a site/forums to go along with the show when we launch it.

This past weekend I did the visiting Christine routine up in MD.  We did the 105 degree variant of Yoga on Friday, and that was sure something.  90 minutes of sweating, stretching, and slurping down water so you don’t pass out.  I probably wasn’t the best candidate for it because I am a bit out of shape, but I did feel pretty damn good afterwards.  The teacher could’ve been a little nicer, as we had a totalitarian dominatrix it felt like.  You can find a yoga mat/towel for under 40 bucks combined in most places.  It was $8 per person for the actual session where we went.  A gym membership is still a better deal for general workouts.

While I was up there we went to the Orioles vs Yankees game on Saturday, where Baltimore triumphed 6-0.  There was nearly a fight in front of us where about 25-30 people got ejected from the game after at least 5 cops showed up.  It would’ve been 5 vs 20ish though, which would not have been very pretty.  I guess it’s quite a rivalry, although I wouldn’t know as I don’t really follow baseball.

If there’s filming this coming weekend for Hak5 3×10 I will most likely be doing some more reverse engineering type stuff.  I’m going to see if I can’t get what I have in mind working. 

So the live show was interesting Sat.  Thanks for all that tuned in.  I need a better way to manage the incoming callers and stuff

I’m listening to dubstep, an offshoot of my buddy Greg’s freshsets site that has listeners this time around.  Really good music.  Check em out at http://www.dubterrain.net/

In other news, I won’t be able to go to Defcon this year.  So I will likely see all the security types at Shmoocon once again next year.

 There will be a Hak5 Live show this Saturday the 12th, at 7pm EST.  Details will be on http://www.hak5.org and probably hak5live.org too.  I’ve got a couple of goodies to talk about and hopefully announce something pretty awesome.

I can consistently make it to 81% in Green Grass and High Tides by The Outlaws in Rock Band now.  I have to learn how to correctly play those sets of 3 notes which just go up and down the frets during that part.  It’s pretty ridiculous.  I’m very happy though, it’s a tough, tough song and gives me a really fun challenge.

I submitted my CPE’s for the Intrusion Detection Systems training I gave at work the last 2 weeks, which brings me up to a pretty decent number so far since I obtained the CISSP.  I may convert some of my material into a format I can put up on the site here.

I’ve added a digsby widget to the right side of the site where you can IM me if I happen to be in front of my desktop.  I ran the app after a 2 week hiatus and it pretty much rocks.

 If you’re not already following me on Twitter you can find me at http://twitter.com/dualism.  I’m testing out some new plugins today, so if things get weird you’ve been warned.