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So you know it’s reached a whole other level when Microsft Explains hax0r terminology. These are pretty good, i mean, its hard enough to make out what that 12year old german kid is saying in the chatroom.. but hey, nothing beats a good pwn3d every now and again.

Key points for learning leetspeek

• Numbers are often used as letters. The term “leet” could be written as “1337,” with “1″ replacing the letter L, “3″ posing as a backwards letter E, and “7″ resembling the letter T. “0″ (zero) will typically replace the letter “O.”
• Characters of similar appearance can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, “5″ or even “$” can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word “leetspeek” can be written as “133t5p33k” or even “!337$p34k,” with “4″ replacing the letter A.
• Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using “Z” for a final letter S, and “X” for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer “5×1llz” (skills).
• Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Many leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar.
• Mistakes are often uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as “teh” instead of “the” are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling.
• Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create “//” can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form “|-|” is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word “ham” could be written as “|-|4//.”

So I was walking back from the bank today at lunch and stoped in at the little frenchie place for some bruschetta. While waiting I grabed the new JANE mag off the rack since i cant find mine from the move *dammit* and got my fill of the dose of great photography they bless us with while the lady in the back was melting my mozzarella.. heh.

Anyways, I was looking at the horoscope in the back (I never check this stuff) and it had a Craigslist reference in the horoscope. At first I lauged but then reaized, wow, do that many people really know about the site that it makes that hardcore of a mainstream reference? So I decided to do a little PR and ask around just because I was that damn curious. Check this out:

• 9 out of 10 heard of the site
• 6 out of 10 have been to it
• 4 out of 10 have actually used it

Now i didn’t just ask people I knew would know, these were friends I catched online or people i talked to that i honestly didnt know what sort of response I’d get. How crazy is that? I suppose I shouldn’t be so supprised, but I never realized how popular that site really is.

heh.. who knew?

Happy V-Day yo! Or as Val would tell me, happy Singles Awareness Day. heh.

So damn, it’s been about half a month since i’ve posted anything. To all 3 of my regular followers, please accept my apologies. It’s been a challenge this past few weeks, so much has happend it’s been tough to keep up. But now I think things are starting to calm back down.

I’m finally moved into my place in Long Beach with Brian, mark is in soon. He’s picking up his bedset thursday. We got the new fridgidare Sat and I stoped by good ole Wal-Mart and battled the gauntlet of crazy asses for about an hour to find cheap drinks and a microwave.. ahh yea, great way to spend my sunday. But you’d never be able to guess, this place is finally starting to look like a home.

So please keep checkin back, i think i’ve finally gotten settled in and this thing will be blazin with posts before long. I’ve got a new system of passing link’age through my site before it hits my bookmarks.. so be afraid.

Thanks for stickin with me, late.