Cryptography contains the word 'cry'. Does anybody know why? Well, it's because it's such a pain in the ass, and so finicky that it will make you cry if you try and figure out what's wrong for too long. On wednesday during lab, we must have spent almost 2 hours trying to figure out why our cryptographic certificates weren't working. We figured out that it was the date and time mismatches, but they never stayed whenever we tried to put them in. One of my classmates finally figured it out.

and it's always fun when working with math and keys that are 512 bits long... but oh well..

Here's a good shockwave for you http://home.ptd.net/~k3ph/alayin.swf

And another

To Whom it may concern (you know who you are):

Nobody is ever who they say they are. Why must everybody put up a front and pretend to be something that they're not? It bothers me to no end when people do this. oh well, so much for actually trying to do anything nice for anybody and trying to protect people. It bothers me that everybody just thinks that I'm lying and trying to be controlling. Well nobody understands me. I wish people would get out of their fantasy worlds and jump into reality. We all have to grow up sometime, might as well be now.

Why doesn't anybody just be who they are? Why does everybody have to say one thing and do another? Why can't people just be honest anymore? I'm sick of everybody lying, trying to be manipulative and just being inconsiderate towards others feelings. I'm sick of people living in their fantasy worlds and not living in reality. It's time to wake up, grow up and see what the world is really like. It's not all fun and games.

All I ever try to do is protect people, but they don't see it as that, they think I'm trying to be controlling. well, guess what I'm not. I know what the true world is like, and sometimes, I think that people need to be shown what's it like so they're ready for it. But nobody sees it that way. I try and give people advice, they don't like it. I try to be helpful, they just ignore me.

So if you really need to know what I'm thinking or what my thoughts are, let me know. But I don't expect anybody to.

For some reason, my router decided to restart itself. I haven't figured out why. It might have been overloaded with trying to open up the GUI for the router, but I don't know. I'll have to keep investigating to figure out why.

Well I was offered the opportunity to buy a Cisco Pix 506E, but I turned it down. It's not that it wouldn't be nice to have. But I don't need to spend money on that right now. I need to save up so I can actually move out at some point. It was a good price too, but oh well. Like I said, I don't need it.

I do have a three day weekend this weekend, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'll figure out something.

I still can't take my certification exam like I wanted to, but oh well, I'll eventually take it.

Other than that, not much else is going on. I don't really have any news or anything to post.

Well I wanted to take the second half of my CCNA Certification on Friday, but there are currently two problems.

1. The place isn't open on Fridays (how stupid).
   
2. I can't Request a Voucher because it says that I have an incomplete for the class. I e-mailed the instructor to ask him what was going on. He's looking into it.
   
   So, I'll have to take a day off in the middle of the week in order to take my certification exam. oh well, I'm not sure what to do this coming Friday. I guess I could always just read some more for my class, possibly actually sign up for classes for the summer. I'm not sure yet. I have a three day weekend, so that will be nice.

I found the following video on a news site, It's a car that drives itself (well sort of).

I made a slight change to the search results on my books page, but I doubt anybody will notice what it is. oh well.

It's always fun when a Cisco Pix firewall decides to go ahead and delete all of the stored files. Michael and I spent most of the lab time last night fixing that instead of actually doing lab. Oh, well... shit happens. We got it up and running again, so it's all good. I was able to finish the rest of the lab anyway. There's no lab next week, but I think I'm going to spend the time reading chapter 4 and doing some of that lab.

I have to work on Sunday, which is ok, I only have to work 4.5 hours and get paid for 8, and I get next Friday off, but I like having two days off in a row. oh well...

Well, my blog is at least one year old today. I started this blog about a year ago. A lot has happened since that time. I've posted over 175 entries. There has been a ton of traffic. From friends to search engines. I hope everybody keeps coming here, and I hope I can generate some more traffic. But we'll see. If anybody has any thoughts as to what I could add, please let me know.