Great way to sneak out of bed for a midnight snack without waking her up. 😀
Crazy and stupid accidents
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.
What’s New?!
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.
Transformers
When I first heard that Transformers will be a live-action movie I didn’t know what to expect. At first Steven Spielberg was planning to direct which got me excited as a school boy with a magnifying glass and an ant hill. And when I heard Michael Bay was directing it I had mixed feelings about it. Bay is known for making huge blockbuster movies that involves a lot of action coupled with explosions. The action is great, but the story and plot were cheeky. So I couldn’t imagine how they can take a great sci-fi story that fit so well as a cartoon and make it a live-action movie.
Bay has delivered a movie that provides a lot of action that’ll keep your eyes glued to the screen. The story was decent as the movie was running at a fast pace. There were many different characters in the movie that it made it difficult to have any real character development.
Transformers is a typical fun summer movie that doesn’t disappoint. There are already talks for a sequel. So check it out while it’s still in the theaters.
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Live Free or Die Hard
John McClane is the epitome of anti-hero. He’s the bad ass cop that is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. And this time McClane is up against a group of domestic terrorists that cripples the United States by hacking to all the vital sectors of the economy and causing chaos throughout the country. Justin Long plays a computer hacker that helps McClane save the country and his daughter.
If you love the other Die Hard movies then you’ll enjoy this one, the only difference, this one has a 21st century plot to it. The action is great and the pace is fast. Too bad the story doesn’t get into McClane’s life in the past 12 years since the last Die Hard.
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The New Ride
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.
Baby mammoth discovered in Siberia
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.
UFC 73: Stacked!
UFC is back at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Ca. This time I got tickets and will be there in person. UFC 73 is aptly named Stacked because it literally has a ‘stacked’ card; Sherk v. Franca, Tito v. Evans, and Marquardt v. A. Silva. Fights like these usually span across two different events.
The match I’m looking forward most is Sherk. v. Franca. Both are excellent fighters and I can’t imagine how this fight can’t be exciting. Sherk is like a little ball of muscle that pounds his opponents into oblivion, and Franca is slick and crafty Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner that can pull a submission from the most unlikely positions.
Tito and Rashad Evans’s rivalry parallel’s that of him and Ken Shamrock’s. Tito is a very emotional fighter and his intensity thrives on it,so if this is a true rivalry and Tito really hates Rashad then Tito will win this fight. If it’s just scripted drama for entertainment then it’s a coin toss between the fighters. They both have similar fighting styles. They like to take their opponents down with their wrestling and pound their opponents away.
I believe we still haven’t seen Anderson Silva’s best yet. Everyone says that Marquadt is well-rounded and has a good chance of beating Anderson Silva. Being well-rounded just means you’re ‘okay’ at striking and ‘okay’ at the ground game. But Anderson Silva’s standup is the best in the division and his jiu jitsu is very underrated. I predict that Marquadt would not try to strike with Silva and try to take him down. That’s where Silva will submit him (Triangle Choke).
Tech Tip: How to install PHP for IIS 6.0 Windows Server 2003
A while back I wrote this tutorial for some friends who wanted to run their own Windows web server. PHP is a popular scripting language that allows the creation of dynamic webpages. PHP is server-side-scripting so the use of PHP is completely transparent to the end-user.
Windows Server does not natively support PHP and you would have to install it manually. If you’re running Windows Server 2003 and would like to setup PHP for it follow the process outlined below:
1. Download the PHP zipped package from www.php.net/downloads.php
2. Download the Collection of PECL modules zipped file. These contains the various extensions PHP can use.
3. Unzip the PHP zipped package to C:\PHP
4. Unzipped the PECL modules and extract its contents into C:\PHP\ext
5. Inside C:\PHP, rename php.ini-recommended to php.ini
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Website Down
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.