Another member of the socialist party voiced doubts to me today, although his reasons were somewhat different from mine. I’m moving towards a less ideology based, but still socialist conception of politics, he’s leaning more towards a liberal-left position because of what he’s been learning on his course. He no longer sees the need or inevitability of revolution. I would still hold that revolution is the only permanent and acceptable solution to the worlds problems, I just see a different way of bringing it about than the SP.
Archive for February, 2004
Justified
Thursday, February 26th, 2004Oops, sorry!
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004I’m a member of the socialist party, but increasingly I’m starting to think that I’m just not a marxist. To some extent it’s because I think that power structures are inherently a bad thing. Any member of the SP would tell you that it’s a democratic organization, and in many ways it is, but only within the party itself, with little hope that it will ever allow democracy to conflict with its ideology. Which brings me to my second point, which concerns the limits that ideology places on everything. The left is made up of a myriad of conflicting ideologys and movements, just as our society and culture is, but even with that conflict there are common goals and complimentary actions, which are often hindered by dogma and ideology. The SP has one goal: to build the party in preperation for an eventual revolution (taken to be inevitable). In pursuing this goal they frown upon all ideas and action which don’t fit neatly with their own. They don’t seek to empower people in a general way, or build structures and resources which will, they don’t seek to build democratic alternatives to the cultural and societal systems that oppress us at the moment.
They do do some good work, especially with some of the poorest sections of society, but their tactics and ideas are uninspiring and outdated. Besides, how can I be involved with a group that has such a crappy website?
More wireless card promiscuity
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004I went shopping for my moms birthday present today, and as I went I once again had my laptop sniffing for wireless networks. I passed the two I found the last day. One of them is on patricks st, around roches and Brown thomas, the other is definitely just at macd’s on winthrop street. I still don’t know exactly where they are though.
I also found a new network: Caseys ground floor. I don’t know what Casey’s is, but it’s on Oliver Plunkett street near an Brog, or in the Grafton Mall. I’m regretting not sitting down in the Grafton mall and seeing what I could learn, but there you go. I’m shy about using technology in public 
Dirty ol mess
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004What a piece of crap! Ah well, it can stay like that until tomorrow.
Dagnabbit
Monday, February 23rd, 2004The new layout works in internet explorer, but not in mozilla… Feck.
Feck more: I have an assignment to do for my Internet Computing class. Either a profile of a companies online presence, or a guide for new students to UCC. I don’t really like either of those, and it’ll take up all my time. I guess I’ll have to start doing some actual work. Maybe if I’m allowed do a not-for-profit it’ll be ok.
Sweet smell of victory
Sunday, February 22nd, 2004Success! Although the Bodega was too busy for me to stay and read/surf the net etc., the minute I walked up to the door my network found sound started playing. Every other cafe I went to was also too busy, or closed, but on my search I found two more networks, “ANY” and “Wireless”. And they don’t use WEP. One of them was definitely on Winthrop street, just before macdonalds, the other was somewhere close to that, either on Patricks street, Winthrop street or Oliver Plunkett street. I think next time I’ll go war-cycling, and during the day when I can find somewhere to whip out my laptop and see what I can do.
Here’s the log file:
Kismet-Feb-22-2004-2.network:
Network 1: “bitbuzz” BSSID: “00:02:6F:06:12:.D1″
Channel : 00
WEP : “No”
LLC : 232
Data : 0
Crypt : 0
Weak : 0
Total : 232
First : “Sun Feb 22 18:39:40 2004″
Last : “Sun Feb 22 18:40:49 2004″
Network 2: “ANY” BSSID: “00:09:5B:3F:EA:12″
Channel : 00
WEP : “No”
LLC : 2
Data : 0
Crypt : 0
Weak : 0
Total : 2
First : “Sun Feb 22 18:46:26 2004″
Last : “Sun Feb 22 18:46:33 2004″
Network 3: “Wireless” BSSID: “00:09:5B:3F:EA:9B”
Channel : 00
WEP : “No”
LLC : 14
Data : 0
Crypt : 0
Weak : 0
Total : 14
First : “Sun Feb 22 18:46:50 2004″
Last : “Sun Feb 22 18:47:14 2004″
The first wardrive
Sunday, February 22nd, 2004I just reconfigured kismet to use sounds. Later I’m going to restart apmd with different options so the computer won’t sleep when I close the lid, start up kismet, plug in the headphones and wander off into the sunset…
No, I have to make sure everything works first, so I’m just going to go straight to the bodega where I already know there’s a wireless AP. If I make it in one piece I’ll post from there.
Over & out.
Unreason
Sunday, February 22nd, 2004For some reason, I really wanted to run into Nolina tonight. I’ve been expecting it to happen for a while now, and I just want to get it over with. I thought it was her that made that dork comment, but the ip was from the states, so it was either a stranger or one of her friends from home.
Arabian drunken nights
Sunday, February 22nd, 2004It’s great coming home at 3 in the morning, drunk and thankfully womanless, knowing that you’ve a whole day to yourself the next day. nobody’s going to fuck with me tomorrow. I’m going to study economics, read “In defense of the October revolution”, finish “no logo”, learn some C++, write some poetry, write some prose, do my washing, do some shopping, buy milk, play some guitar, get started on this website…
Ah bollocks. How do people find the time? It seems like everybody has the time to do the shit they want to do and then some, except me. I won’t get half of that shit done tomorrow, even if I stay at home all day, and if I don’t go to the gym with my flatmate Kris, I’ll end up in the bodega drinking tea. Well, I should go there anyway. I’ll get half the other shit done trying to look intellectual 
Ima gonna do it
Saturday, February 21st, 2004I’m going to do something with this site, yes I am. I even did up an image to put at the top:
Whatever else gets done we’ll just have to wait and see how lazy or “busy” I am. I also registered a dot.tk domain, randomhuman.tk to point to here. It’ll take me a while to get my head around the html (I’m considering a major overhaul) but hopefully it’ll be worth it.