Slackin'

Man, has it been over a month?? The inspiration comes and goes (all too quickly, I suppose). New posts are coming soon, though--promise. Expect to see my 2005 best-of (it's so late, I know), as well as posts on why I can't seem to get enough pop these days and how I'm learning to love my ever-present sense of self-loathing (and maybe a blurb on my love of hypens)...soon-ish.

In the meantime, a PSA:

Are you like me? Do you enjoy that crazy P2P filesharing the kids are into these days? If so, you might care to know that the man is watching you. Whether you're Bittorrenting, Soulseeking, or riding your eDonkey, chances are that organizations such as the MPAA and the RIAA are spying on you.

Even if you have a software firewall installed (you should) and/or a firewall enabled on your router, you may still be at risk. I found this out recently for myself when I installed PeerGuardian, a small, open source IP-blocking firewall for Windows and OSX. I was Bittorrenting something, instructions on how to better care for my sickly grandmother or some shit, and sure enough PeerGuardian was showing hits from all sorts of weird IPs trying to scan my port. So unless you want to stop all the downloading, I suggest you do the same--install PeerGuardian and stop this ridiculous intrusion on your digital privacy.