Things have gotten a little too quiet in my corp's channels. No one is on at the same time anymore, the teamspeak server is down, and I'm pretty sure our CEO has run out of game time, or jumped ship and left us to clean up. Meh. This is why it's always important to have a backup plan! I have one in the form of my old corp, Massive Consumption. They might be high-sec miners, but I know a lot of them, and have kept in touch with the new CEO since my departure. Now you might ask, "does this mean you won't give us posts about low-sec Dirn?", but rest assured I'm not leaving low-sec. I plan to commute to and from ops, and will continue to live in Raeg or a nearby system. I'm just too twitchy to live in hi-sec anymore. Very cheesy answer, I know. You'll get your fix of exploration regularly still (please ignore the 3 days I didn't post).
On to the real post now. I'd like to talk about a thing we should all know about, D-Scan. You'd better learn to use and love it if you want to survive out here. A T2 covops ship appears as a great padding for a killboard, and D-Scan can prevent idiots who do this from getting to your hard earned loot. Here is a list of some general rules I've thought up.
First Rule: Pull probes before you begin a site. This will allow you to see that the probes on scan are someone trying to scan you down's probes.
Second Rule: Spam the scan button while you do a site. This, a thousand times this. If you are not updating your scanner consistently, someone can easily quick-scan and jump you in the middle of a hack.
Third Rule: Set your scanner to max range for default. This will allow you to see if anyone will try and get close before they jump on you. When you have someone on you max scan range, you will know to be careful and prep to cloak or warp out.
Fourth Rule: Don't fly what you can't afford to lose. Cliche , I know, but it's also some of the most sound advice in eve.
Those are just basic rules, and there are many other ways to use D-Scan. If you want details on D-Scanning, either wait a few days or go look it up on Uniwiki.
o7 Fly safe, happy scanning