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1337 requests handled

25 February, 2006 17:38

Looking through the logs and daily stats:

"Daily average: 410.441860465116 pages sent. 1337.39534883721 requests handled. 424.078 TB bytes served."

Just yesterday I had 1337 e-mail spam messages.

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USB powered aromatherapy diffuser

25 February, 2006 16:34

Most of my friends know I practice a bit in aromatherapy. All of you know I like gadgets and other such stuff.

This USB powered diffuser sparked my interest as soon as I read the title. I will be ordering this in a few days. I can't wait!

  • Powered by USB with 4cm diameter stainless steel hot tray.
  • Fire free design with see through safety cover.
  • Can be used with fragrance oil or scented candle.
  • Easy access On/Off button.
  • LED lit-up indicator.
  • USB cable of 1.5 meter.
  • Size : 98 x 98 x 41.5 mm
  • Wieght : 86gm

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gallery to gallery

25 February, 2006 15:51

I migrated from Gallery 1 to Gallery 2. The initial setup of the application was pleasantly painless. The installation wizard is one of the best I have used.

However, the migration of data was not much fun. First of all, godaddy doesn't seem to like a script running for more than a couple of minutes. I tried changing a php variable inside .htaccess, but that was a no-go and made my content inaccesible. The reason I needed the script to run longer, is the integration of some 2000 pictures from Gallery 1.

After several attempts at importing them at once, I set out to seperate the pictures in batches of 300 in seperate directories. I then imported the pictures with the local directory feature, one directory at a time.

This had worked for the most part, but I started getting a lot of file locking errors, to many files open, and the likes. I switched over to SQL indexed file locks, and the problem went away.

After several attempts at getting everything fine and dandy, my last successful attempt I declined from making the mod_rewrite declerations. I am not about to do this over, and create them. Sorry if the absolute links are no longer absolute.

In any case, I have a pretty stable picture gallery that will be able to support the amount of pictures and video clips I plan on throwing at it.

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while looking through an archive of photos

24 February, 2006 12:40


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the real meow mix

22 February, 2006 10:32

I discovered the secret to Meow Mix's singing cats. They are not just happy to eat, and I think this is why:


This cat piano was invented by a German scholar over 350 years ago. He carefuly selected cats based on the tone of their screetch, then positioned them in the appropriate cage. When playing a particular key, the cat's tail would be poked with a pin, thus letting out the cat's meow.

The original idea was to lighten the stress of an Italian prince. Quite funny indeed, sick, but funny yes. [gizmodo]

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HomePub Fridge

21 February, 2006 09:09

Next to my cron job enabled espresso machine, I have just enough room to slip in this beer pouring slave promised to keep my miller light ice cold and my quality madison tap water chilled.

This ultra cool beer/freezer/fridge machine carries dual compressors resulting in ultra chilled beverages, which in turn results in a ultra happy me.

I expect to have one of these bad asses in 2012 when I find it on google bay or the likes. I wonder if it comes with that supremely cool beer glass?

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gethuman dial tone cheats

15 February, 2006 11:47

Pesky little monkeys, with their disguised voice, pretending to be Julie, your automated assistant when calling technical support. If you don't talk to her just right, you are certain to be pawned to the wrong extension, or disconnected.

Not anymore! Ha Ha Ha. Take that banana and stick it where there is no yellow. Here is a link to gethuman cheats, a list of dial tone sequences to get a human on the phone right away.

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sour lemons

12 February, 2006 14:54

Compiling bash on a slow mips processor is like being stuck in the desert with your only source of water located in the most sour tasting lemon available in the world.

The most sour part about it, is I only need it for one script. Too much work to convert to c shell (not a csh expert).

That's my rant, thanks...

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