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It’s been six years since the fall of the Trade Center Towers. That’s over half a decade, yet it feels as though it happened yesterday. Where were you on the morning of September 11, 2001?

I awoke around 6am from a morning News telecast covering the events of the first plane that crashed into the North Tower. Awestruck and intrigued my eyes were glued to the TV. As the news woman described the damages on screen the second plane is seen crashing into the South Tower. The confused news woman stopped dead in her tracks and took a deep gasp and cupping her hands over her mouth, “Oh my…” she uttered. We just witnessed one of the most horrific events on live television.

I spent too much time watching the TV and it made me late. I hopped on my motorcycle and rode to my morning Chemistry lab class. Everyone in class was talking about it. I didn’t realize the extent of the situation when a fellow student said that the plane crashes were caused by terrorists. My professor was in and out of class every few minutes checking for updates from the classroom next door. We all finished our lab assignments as quickly as we could. When the lab class was over I ran over down the hall to my next class. The room was packed with students from the previous class. Their professor had setup the projector screen to CNN. Over 200 students packed into this lecture hall watching the minute by minute events until my professor turned off the projector and kicked everyone out that were not in her class. My professor lectured the entire period without being phased by what was happening. The class ended and some of the students ask to have the projector be turned on but the professor refused. I took off and hopped on my motorcycle and headed home.
When I got home I saw several instant messages from several friends asking me if I knew what was happening. Another friend called and said our School Campus just got shut down. I turned on the TV and found out the towers had collapse. For a split second all these events felt surreal. It felt like Armageddon. The end of the world.

When I think of September 11th, I don’t think of the day that terrorists attacked us, but the day we (US) changed. For the better? I’m not sure, but life now can never be the same.

Great way to sneak out of bed for a midnight snack without waking her up. 😀

Check out this post on Hemmy.net. It has pictures of crazy accidents that’ll make you wonder how it even happen in the first place.

I haven’t posted much lately because there have been quite a few things that have happened. Last month I quit my old job to work for a new one. I’m now an IT Administrator for an outstanding private school. Unlike my previous job it’s a Monday through Friday and 8am to 5pm. I’m now part of the normal workforce. No more crazy hours and unstable work schedules. With my new job I’m able to plan my days off, which are weekends and holidays that I now get.

Three weeks ago I got a new motorcycle. You can check out the picture in the previous post below. It’s a Harley Davidson. For those who haven’t ridden one it’s a motorcycle-changing experience. Sport bikes are fun too, but riding a Harley is a different type of fun. Like any Harley there are so many things you can do to it to make it unique. There are basically hundreds and hundreds parts you can add or change to make the bike fit or look how you want it. I already put forward controls on my bike and have a laundry list of other modifications to do in the future.

And just last weekend my house mate Vu and I threw a big house party (You can check out the pictures on my house mate’s Picasa). Similar to our house warming in March it was packed with friends and friends of friends. Luckily for us nothing got out of hand and the night ended well. Now that thing have slowed down a bit maybe I can get back to my blogging.

Check out my new two-wheel ride (don’t mind the Japanese in the background). It’s a 2007 Harley Davidson Dyna Street Bob. Who would have thought, a guy who’s been riding sport bikes ever since he got his license now has a road chompin’ American steel Harley. It was a calling I couldn’t resist.

I just saw this on CNN.com . It’s a short and interesting read. Mammoths are close cousins of the elephant family. The mammoths died out near the end of the ice age about 10,000 years ago. From the looks of the picture the baby mammoth was well preserved by the cold Russian Siberian environment.

It seems the integrity of my webserver has been compromised. Through an open and unsecured port someone was able to upload a folder into my root directory to run phishing scams from my server. My ISP noticed and stopped it’s services for all of last night and this morning.

It looks like someone uploaded the files on Wednesday night, so it didn’t go on for too long. I’ve managed to close up that unsecured port, deleted all that crap they uploaded on my server, and re-permissioned all my files and folder. It’s all clean now and my files have been checked for any type of tampering. Hopefully it prevents them from easily doing again.

I’m bummed out that this happened. I’m going to take measures to make my site more secure, but if it happens again I may have to host my site at a co-lo. For all you webmasters out there; keep an eye on your stuff.

Over the Memorial Day weekend I had time to record a song. Home by Chris Daughtry.

I came upon an interesting post on keeping your house cool during the hot Summer. Some of the tips apply mainly to homeowners. Check it out.