Tomble's Journal: Waaaaaa

Hmph. I'd been feeling like doing a JE, but then a day or 2 back, around the time the comments suddenly fell off, I spotted Insanecarbonbasedlif's new sig and bio... Unfortunately, I can't resist certain kinds of challenges, and ones like these are very good examples.

Result? I'm now badly sleep deprived (yet again) without any great progress in cracking the code, with a suspicion that the thing isn't doable (even supposing it's genuinely encrypted text...), and without much capacity left for journaling (due to the tiredness). This JE excepted, of course.

Cack. There's another day I won't be seeing again. OTOH, I do now have some nice scripts for creating big dictionaries and creating lots of useful word frequency data, which I'd actually wanted before for other stuff but had originally given up on out of boredom. So it wasn't a total waste of time.

What? What're you all looking at me like that for? Waddya mean, too much time on my hands? Pah. Well anyways, maybe t'other JE will drop out of my head tomorrow (although you probably shouldn't hold your breath to be honest).

[Update: about half an hour later]
Completely random?! Wow, it's a good thing I asked for clues before going any further... :D

*sigh* Well, I suppose this sort of thing is to be expected. After all, I was born with The Gullibility Gene - or so I'm told.

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[Tomble]

Just in case by "random", ICBL hadn't meant "no content" but simply "too complex to guess", I'll now point out for the sake of KshGoddess, who managed to get a reply in to that JE just before it got archived (so I can't post there):

• The analysis I did on the text (both sig and bio) showed that the order of letter frequency was IJSAOWDKEXNQ ZMLCPRUHGFV but I imagine you might have figured that out already
• In English (or at least the subset of English extracted from a combination of my email archive, a few p