Cory, I read the story a few days ago, and overall I like it, but... do any hacker/programmers really *use* l33tspeak in everyday conversation? Everytime I hit on the characters talking about getting 0wnz0r3d or r0x0ring th31r b0x0rs or whatever, it just threw me for a loop.

Maybe in the future things will be different, but excessive use of l33tspeak seems to be most prevalent in script kiddies and wannabes, not amongst actual l33t h4x0rs.