ive been feeling like i really should start coding again. been looking at open-source projects, looking for one that i might be able to contribute to. hopefully something security related. the only problem is that most of those are pretty hardcore, shellcoding type of stuff. i found metasploit while chatting on IRC the other night. pretty cool looking except its almost all windows exploit stuff. well maybe they need someone to get in there with UNIX stuff.
started reading up on stack/heap overflows again, too. totally know the concept behind them, now im just trying to get a handle on the details. might have to break out an OS or architecture book to remember what the EBX register does, etc. i remember thinking that this stuff was way too much the first time i heard it, and i kinda tuned it out. but now i realize that i have to learn this stuff all the way down to the hardware if i really want to do it. hrm.
in related news, i keep reading about Objective-C and haven't done much actual coding. its hard when my only chance is while im at work, where i have other things to do. ugh.
having gentoo at home is really helping me focus again. just having code so close at hand, a mellow windowmanager (fluxbox) to avoid distractions, and the whole linux feel make me want to code. which is good.