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This is my (Zashi's) personal wiki for sharing stuff I'm working on (or have given up on). The more important, bigger, and current projects are linked to from the sidebar. Ebindkeys is probably the most widely used thing I've made. Bl-sh is my largest, most current endeavor. I've been hacking and modding wrt54g routers as an excuse to solder.

This site mostly is for documenting my adventures in hacking. I use this wiki like a digital notebook, the key difference is that in making it public, I force my self to write it in a “for the audience” mindset which results in much higher quality notes because often I will return to previous work having completely forgotten everything I previously learned and thus approach it with the same perspective as a stranger reading my site for the first time.

Here's a slightly longer list than the sidebar, but not quite everything. Check the sitemap for a complete page listing.

• BL-SH pronounced “blush”, this is my buy-low, sell-high stocks trading program.
• Hacking the WRT54G
• Killdisk linux based bootable iso. ~2.8 megs, thoroughly and quickly destroys all data on attached block devices.
• msp430 stuff (launchpad and ez430 chronos watch)
  • MSP430 Thermostat
• Zipit stuff
  • ebindkeys for Zipit
• Home Automation
• Hacking the SpeedStream 2602 Cheap router I found. Do not plan on any further progress.
• Hacking the Tivo Series 2 Was unable to continue, tossed the hardware.

What's with the t-shirt-esque website name? you might find yourself asking. My father-in-law gave me a pin for Chanukah that reads “I think therefore I'm dangerous.” It struck me as particularly amusing since I'm (a) secular humanist, and (b) a nerd and find bastardizing Descartes as particularly amusing. I put it on my netbook bag's strap and made the connection between the cute quote and hacking. Hackers think about doing things they're not necessarily supposed to do. The goal is often to gain knowledge through playing around with… anything. The most common thing I've used this website for is sharing info I've gained via hacking, thus I applied the name here.

You may be wondering why the domain name is vay8. I've owned vay8.net for around 6 years now and have explained the origin a few times, but why not once more? It comes from two things really, a video game and an anime show. The game is Forsaken, the show is Gundam Wing. In Forsaken, the VA-8 is a sunken submarine. In Gundam, the VAY8 was a prototype mobile suit that first tested the technology later used in the mobile dolls. In the end, I just like the name.

I host this site off my home internet connection. The web server is actually the little itx box that acts as my router. Why not get a better host? Because it's super fast and easy for me to transfer stuff to my wiki (from home) and I see no point in paying to host a website that gets 1 unique hit a month.

My cohorts in tinkering have setup a wiki of their own–running dokuwiki with the mnml-blog template even. Their wiki is basically the same as mine, a public repository of projects and interests. It's actually LJCK, which is unpronounceable and not pretty to look at, so I'm calling it LICK. See sidebar for link. There's even some of my code on LJCK, which I'm contemplating suing for copyright infringement over.

Contacting me is easy enough. I'm always on IRC, on freenode. My nick is Zashi (or zashi_ or xashi). You can email me at zashi@vay8.net.