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Technology is a beautiful thing. Right now, I’m on the passenger side of a vechile purchased in Pennsylvania, over EBay. The new owner is driving. This post is being made via a transparent proxy (via iptables) to Squid running locally on my laptop. Squid then forwards the proxy on to the SSH tunnel I’ve got up, which lands on a server in Texas, where another Squid is waiting for it, and handles the request. The SSH tunnel is set up over a PPP connection on top of Bluetooth to the driver’s cell phone, which is sending traffic via GPRS to his provider. I can hardly believe it works, but it’s actually rather quick.

Additionally, I’ve got my wireless card scanning for networks in kismet, with a USB-to-serial converter plugged into my GPS, with gpsd running, and gpsdrive telling us where we are. (And, of course, we’re downloading maps for gpsdrive via the previously mentioned abomination of a network connection.)

We just finished searching for hotels on the western edge of Nebraska that have free wireless Internet access.

Kick ass. I am such a geek.