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Today was going to be a great day. It’s Saturday so I get to sleep in – well it’s not like I wouldn’t sleep in during the week being that I have no job and all, but today I can sleep in and not feel guilty about doing so. My plan was flawless; I had everything planned out. I would wake up to the smell of fresh pizza and the sound of the birds chirping just on the other side of my window. I would go to my great-aunt’s 70th and great-uncle’s 90th mega-combo-birthday celebration for dinner while being re-introduced to family members who faintly remembered my being born, while I attempt to come up with yet another exit strategy before they figure out that I have no idea who they are. I would then come home, perhaps slightly tipsy if things went well, and start reviewing one of the 4 albums currently sitting in my “To listen to” folder while I marvel at how much I love getting to hear new music every day.

Well, 3 out of 4 ain’t bad, right?

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Last night, I was a very bad person. No, I didn’t hurt a baby, and no, I didn’t steal a homeless man’s blanket. No, what I did was much worse: I shed any semblance of moral code left in me and hacked my cellphone. I broke the agreement I signed when I had service initiated by my provider and changed the internal code allowing my phone to execute commands that it would not have otherwise been able to do from the factory.

At this point, I am sure you are comparing me to Jeffrey Dahmer or Saddam Hussein for the heinous acts I have admitted here on this very webpage. I am a blight on this fair city and must be extradited to Guantanamo Bay or Serbia so that I can be “lost in the system.” Before you get out the bamboo cane and get ready to lash me, let me explain the nature of my “hacking”: I unlocked my phone. I changed 2 bytes (essentially 16 sets of 1′s and 0′s) to allow me to use my phone on a competitor’s network.

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