I didn’t get that WeFi contest, largely because I purely didn’t have the resources to. It ended awhile back, just wanting to say that while it was entirely possible for me to get 50,000 networks over the course of 15 days, the price of doing such would outweigh the prize, plus the probability that it would be won by someone else.
Gas rose in price a lot since February, and I can imagine that it’s only going to increase during the summer. So then recent and current endeavors have gone alack, for I just haven’t been doing any wardriving. It’s expensive and slow, plus there’s the liability of having my computer in my car.
However, I don’t really care about that. So far I’ve mapped all my normal routes, and that has gone well, and now I’ll be looking to wardrive routes I haven’t done before. Originally I had a plan to cover my local town and expand outwards, but again resources limit when I can do this.
My car Zero was recently in the shop because of some massive fail: the brake pads were nonexistent and the rotary assembly was just about shot completely. I guess that’s what you get for towing a trailer much too heavy for 3 years and then letting it sit in a driveway for 4. It’s been fixed, but there’s apparently a coolant leak that isn’t a major problem, but it’s still not 100% then.
I recently got some decals for my beloved Zero, a Rush Starman logo, and two decals that say ‘hacker’ in Japanese (I have an additional one for my computer). As soon as the weather clears up I’m planning to give old Zero a wash and throw these lovely decals on. Then after that I’ll take some long-needed pictures of said automobile so I can post them on here. Of course, if my parents hadn’t lost their camera, I wouldn’t have to use the one that’s 7 years old, but meh.
I still need to fetch me a USB hub so that I can reduce two cables in my car to one, but right now I’m stuck as to which bargain I should get. Obviously it needs to have the power, but I can’t have it powered externally… oh well.
My jaw hurts from wisdom teeth extraction. Rawr.
March 17, 2008 at 9:16 am
Hey footpad
I am one of the WeFi team.
Good to see that you heard about the WeFi mapping contest – and sorry you missed it – we will be doing some more of these soon so you are welcome to pitch it.
As you can probaby tell the iPod prize is just a teaser to get people’s attention to what we are doing – eventually we want to create a world map of all accessible WiFI network, and make it easily available for everyone. We post a lot of info on worldwide WiFi in WeFi.com/blog/ too. So contest or not, if you would like to try WeFi and help us build this vision for everyone, we will be more than happy – and any comments and suggestion is welcome. You can contact us through info@wefi.com or just try us out from WeFi.com/download/