Meow (update 1)

The good news is that after a day of decent care and feeding, the cat is up and about and playful and stuff. This is good.

The not so good is that she decided that play time was when I was trying to go to sleep. This would not be so bad if it were not for the fact that motel rooms really are not made for that sort of thing. So, the cat was moved back to Ben's mom's place last night, and put in the "glass house". It isn't heated, but it got her out of the wind.

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As Ben has said on several occasions, there is not a whole lot to do around here. However, I am pretty good at improvising. I have a car. I have an iBook. And I have KisMAC on said iBook.

This morning, I went wardriving for the first time.

For those joining us late, the term "wardriving" comes from the older term "wardialing", dialing sequences of telephone numbers searching for unprotected dial-in modem banks. Wardriving entails driving, biking, walking, flying, ballooning, or whatever, in search of unprotected WiFi access points.

Based on my drive through the center of town and the residential areas immediately around it, there is substantial "free" Internet access available for the taking. Of the 16 BSSIDs I found, only one had any encryption enabled. Linksys has the majority share of access point hardware with eight access points discovered. D-Link and Netgear are tied for second with two each. One each for Cisco and Microsoft (I believe the Cisco AP is for the McDonalds up the street, based on the "dumac" SSID). The remaining two were unidentifiable by KisMAC.