Chalybeous's Journal: 0wnz0red

Okay, so the subject is a little lame (though better than my original work-in-progress title, w00t w00t!! fr1s7 p057!1!! i 0wn j00!), but hey - this is /. after all, and I think I spent a little too much time today reading MegaTokyo .

Anyhow, I finally bit the bullet and signed up. I've been reading on and off for maybe three years now, and thought it was about time I quit lurking. Should be pretty insightful stuff... ("Offtopic" and "-1: Troll" posts notwithstanding!)

Actually, it's not just MegaTokyo I spent too much time reading - a friend recently introduced me to the works of Cory Doctorow, and after reading his novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , I did a little Googling.
This one's been on /. before, but it's a pretty good story so I thought I'd share it:
0wnz0red on salon.com .

Take it easy on the new guy, folks - the asbestos underwear is still in the mail and I'm fresh out of troll repellant!
Oh, and for anyone wondering about my sig line - call me retro, but Zork was the first game I ever bought when I got my Amiga 500, around Christmas of 1990. It is, as they say, an oldie but a goodie - and I've recently taken to holing up in my dorm with my laptop, an interpreter, the IF file, and of course a lamp.
Well hey, you wouldn't want me to be eaten by the grue, would you?