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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Chip cards - hooray!
Music Now: CBC stuff
Mood Now: Tittilated
Chip cards, known only as a mythical futuristic project in my industry for the past few years, are finally coming! The plan to bring these debit/credit cards to fruition has been in the works by Interac, Visa, MC that be for quite some time, with the actual companies that would need to make the technology work sort of waiting to be asked to FINALLY dance.

The chip cards are being toted as more secure than magstripe cards and for good reason - they have the ability to not only be extremely difficult to replicate, but they can verify the security of the device that they are being used on. It's a paranoid card. Sweet.

Note - Magstripe is the black stripe on the back of your credit and debit cards that hold the card PAN (personal account number), expiry date, and sometimes info such as your name, and a code to assists in verifying your PIN. Very interesting with three tracks, and usually standard setup according to international standards. Oh - your eyes are glazing... sorry 'bout that. Anywho, the chip card, instead of the magnetic stripe on the back with this info, will have a computer chip. Rockin', eh?

Anywho, the committment in Canada is finally in place so that people like me can officially get into high gear. My beanie is rotating at phenomenal speed today. First there's the installing of card readers to be able to interface with the smart cards (most are supposed to be compliant already), then the key management security portion that intrigues me. It will make my duct-tape and bubblegum card testing a bit more difficult because right now I can make card information up and it works for financial testing. I don't think that will fly in the smart card world.

I also found the BankWatch blog today - so I'm going to link to it here for my future reference. hehe
posted @ 02:26 PM MST [link]

Monday, March 27, 2006

Soundclash makes me happy
Mood Now: Chipper now!
I was feeling a bit down - maybe because it's Monday, maybe because that's just me in late winter, maybe because I need more caffeine. Regardless, a song that can always make me happier is Bodouin Soundclash's When the Night Feels My Song. How can ya be sad after listening to that?
posted @ 02:52 PM MST [link]

I bought CD music.
Where did it all go wrong? What could I have done differently? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? A day of questions that aren't at all related to my current mindset really.

I've slept fantastically. Who'd have thought that a bedframe actually improves sleep?? Jay set ours up (we don't really like it, it's a complete pain in the ass to setup with all the bars and such that each have to be screwed in (haha I said screwed), but it was taking up too much space in storage room, so we (as in HE) set it up. Plus it gives some storage space under the bed which is always nice. Hiding bodies is really hard in such a small apartment.

In crazy ass news, I bought not one but TWO cd's. Yes, purchased. James Blunt's "Back To Bedlam" after I saw him "live" on television, and the Juno 2006 cd. I don't know what came over me, but they're much prettier in this form than in downloaded form.

Keep it real, bitches.


posted @ 11:42 AM MST [link]

Sunday, March 12, 2006

I like CBC. That's all.
I love CBC radio. It makes me smarter.
posted @ 11:50 AM MST [link]

Friday, March 10, 2006

Angry Lady
Mood Now: Kinda flabbergasted
This is a pretty well put together rant (as in the - "holy cow look at all the specific links as examples during tirade"). It's NOT for the faint of heart, anyone who likes the current American GWB govment or for anyone who doesn't like curse words. Double about the curse words:

"This isn’t a slippery slope, it’s a greased cliff with a vicious downdraft and parachute made out of f*cking elephants."


posted @ 04:00 PM MST [link]

Thursday, March 9, 2006

TV SHAME!
shocked

EVERYONE has shameful secrets. Some like their toes licked, others hide bodies in their freezers. One of my "shames" is on every Wednesday evening. I'm so into skinny petty chicks dissing each other... it's so wrong.

Mock me - I truly deserve it.
posted @ 09:29 PM MST [link]
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