Hey look, my sister had a baby… I’m an uncle. 🙂
vBulletin 3.8.3 Upgrade…
Okay, gonna go ahead and upgrade the Digital Point Forums to vBulletin 3.8.3… Since so many of you are freaks and are on it 24/7, I made this post to keep you up to date on what’s going on (I’ll update it periodically throughout the process). You can also use this blog post as the new temporary forum for all your discussion needs while I do the upgrade. hah
- 3:26 am – Reading and posting seems to work… I suppose that’s good enough for now (still working on the other stuff, but don’t need to force everyone off to do it).
- 3:24 am – Skimming over various areas of the forum to see if things (mostly) work. I could let you guys in before the templates are fully updated possibly.
- 3:22 am – New moderator permissions set
- 3:17 am – Static CSS files located on single server in web cluster and spread around properly (I hate this about vBulletin BTW… gimme a hook location to do it please!)
- 3:09 am – Core upgrade done.
- 3:07 am – Recoded some of the upgrade scripts so they aren’t making that change to the reputation table. Will deal with issue this later instead.
- 3:00 am – Stupid reputation table was altered in 3.8.0 to not allow negative userids so it can accommodate 4 billion users instead of “only” 2 billion. Stupid. I used negative userids internally for some stuff. /thinking what to do about this…
- 2:55 am – First problem… reputation table alterations not going well. Going digging in raw database…
- 2:50 am – Running “ALTER TABLE pmtext” on DB servers. That’s a big one… going to get another beer.
- 2:49 am – Up to version 3.8.0 alpha 1
- 2:43 am – It’s almost 3am. If you are a cute girl reading this, please post your picture in the comments, k thanks.
- 2:41 am – I forgot we have to go through all versions to get to the newest… lol… going through 3.7.0 beta 4 at the moment.
- 2:40 am – Userlist rebuilding
- 2:36 am – Watching DB servers alter thread table for tagging support… (this is really boring)
- 2:34 am – Watching DB servers alter thread table for prefix support… /bored
- 2:30 am – New PHP files in place and synced across web server cluster
- 2:29 am – DB backup done
- 2:27 am – Thinking I might not have enough beer for this…
- 2:25 am – DB backup still running (it’s huge… many, many, many gigs)
- 2:18 am – Got beer and craisens
- 2:17 am – Backing up DB
- 2:13 am – Making this post
Sony Blu-Ray BDP-CX7000ES 400 Disc Changer
So I’ve been waiting for this thing for awhile now, and it looks like Sony is finally going to be releasing it (even $400 cheaper than previously rumored). Yum, yum…
400 discs, serial control, Ethernet port for pulling meta data via Internet, etc… looks nice to me.
Models et al
I gotta say, iMovie HD is really nice for hacking together quick videos with pretty decent quality. I threw together this video for a friend real quick for NVR Strings. Oh darn, I get to look at girls in bikinis while editing video. Sad day for me. 🙁
The original video I output was full 1920×1080 high def, but here’s the YouTube version…
Override CSS
So I found myself wanting to override a few items in a sitewide CSS file, but only for a single page… Rather than make entire new CSS elements, I figured there had to be a way to override the CSS file with a <style> clause within the page itself…
Sure enough, I finally figured it out… !important…
[code=css]
[/code]
!important can go at the end of any style attribute and it will override anything that isn’t “important”.
I’m Getting Married!
…well at least I assume so. I can’t imagine he would turn me down.
Dave, you have a Shawn Hogan category on your blog… marry me? <3 We can frolic in a sea of code and whatnot. //www.dellanave.com/blog/
If I have a pool party in San Diego, will you come? 🙂
Spam Blocker Works!
Okay, so I decided not to blog for 2+ years to see if the spam blocker thing I made would work, and sure enough it did… After 2+ years, not a single spam comment got through… I’d say that was pretty good, eh?
On a better note, I have 2 years of life to write about now… stay tuned… 🙂
Spider Bottlecap Nearly Killed Me
…so as I’m going through the {cough, cough} 2+ years of comments I never got around to moderating on this blog, I came across one that is freaking me out.
//www.shawnhogan.com/2006/11/vampire-bite.html#comment-33317
Dr. Finch seems to think I have some gnarley spider bite that needs immediate doctor attention and my life is in danger.
I think he missed this part about this post… lol
Thank God is all I have to say… if it were otherwise, I might be the first person to die from not moderating their blog comments fast enough.
Rebooting…
/sbin/reboot -q
I’m 1,000,000,000 Seconds Old
I just now turned 1,000,000,000 seconds old. Happy birthday to me!!!!
World’s Smallest House
How about a 96 square foot house? 🙂

//sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/04/27/carollloyd.DTL
Maybe No Less Spam?
The comment spam on my blog here was getting to the point of just being silly… around 4,000 spam comments per day (breaks down to about one every 15 seconds 24/7).
I decided to try and do something about it so I don’t have to weed through them manually (the time consumption on this task is one of the biggest reasons I don’t post as often as I used to).
So let’s see how it works… if you see me posting more often, then you know it worked. 😉
Padres On Track For All Sorts Of Records
The San Diego Padres won their season opener against San Fransisco 7-0. Let’s just put that in perspective for a moment. That puts the Padres on track to go 162-0 (undefeated the entire season, which no team has ever come remotely close to doing). It also puts them on track to outscore opponents 1,134-0. The Yankees last year went 97-65 last year, and outscored opponents 930-767 for the season.
Craziness I say…
My Face Is So Popular It’s Red
I don’t recall how I came across this image, but I was rather surprised to see it randomly (considering it’s me)…
Some sort of heat map where people look at an image, and decide what’s the most interesting part of it by clicking somewhere on it…
So people thought my face was interesting I guess… either that or they knew their click would register a red dot and were just trying to cover my face up. 🙂
The original image was taken from this blog (over here).
iRack
This is one of the funniest skits I’ve seen on MadTV in awhile…
AdSense Account Going To Be Closed Because I Didn’t Invest In Magnetic Power
People crack me up sometimes… Some dude from Iran figured out how to make infinite free energy, and all he needs from me is $1,000/month or else he will close my AdSense account… 🙂
This is a warning and if you don’t pay attention to it you will suffer from bad turns.
All your income is through Google Adsense and if you do not cooperate with us we will stop this income source.
We would like you to pay us the total amount of USD 1000 each month.
This small amount could be considered as nothing compared to your earnings from Adsense.
If you do not pay this amount we will have to close your account by the help of special robots & spaming & …
I am not happy to do this but I have to as there is no way out of it and I trust if you were me you would also have to do the same.
I am an inventor and I have recently innovated a new design which will be accepted by scientific societies only if I can present a model in advance; and making the model takes money. They will register my new design only after they have checked all aspects of the same.
My theory is changing the power into energy. If I succeed many big problems will be solved.
All my design specification could be viewed in the following web log:
//magnetic-machine.blogspot.com/
The magnets will be bought in installments and the amount you pay is to be paid monthly for the same.
After the registration of my design, the entire amount which I received from you will be paid back.
If you collaborate with me, you have helped to the science.
And if not, I will have to close your Google Adsense account.
I seek your help for the sake of the Science and if you are not prepared to collaborate I will have to close your Google Adsense account
Waiting for your reply…..
Bahahahahahahahahaahaha! Feel free to close my AdSense account.
i spam your adsense code to 100.000.000 email address
you earn 1000000 click from yahoo mail and Google close your account
plz wait until closing…!
Ghost Riding The Whip
Bahahahahahaha… stupid dumb ass. 🙂 man, that fire hydrant goes flying. 🙂
So How Close Can Google Maps Really Get?
Want to see some crazy stuff? In some areas of the world, you can zoom in to an absurd level. Pretty close to being able to actually identify an individual.
Let’s take this scene for example… some people in Africa with their herd of camels and cows, gathered around a well. I mean come on… you can see footprints, and some dude who must have known his picture was being taken, because he’s looking right at the camera. 🙂

Almost looks fake huh? Well you can see it for yourself here:
//maps.google.com/maps?f…m=1&iwloc=addr
So like maybe Google could use some of their satellites and computing power to find Osama bin Laden and collect whatever huge reward there is for him… just a suggestion for anyone listening…
1,251 Reasons To Not Have A Blog
One reason I haven’t been writing on my blog is that I just haven’t had the free time to sit around and look for cool/interesting things all day (ahhh… the good old days when I had nothing to do… hah)
I’ve been trying to keep up with comment moderation on the blog (doing it once every few days), but check this screenshot out of what I just finished.
That was about an hour of my life wasted with comment spam moderation… fun!!! 🙂
Wait What? She Wore A Diaper??
So there was that astronaut chick a couple days ago that tried to murder and kidnap someone, and I guess I missed this part the other day, but it makes the whole thing a whole lot funnier. 🙂
Verizon Pisses Off Engineer
This is what happens when you piss off a customer who happens to be an engineer. 🙂

Telemarketer Prank
This is a rather good idea for something to do when a telemarketer calls you. 🙂
Astronaut Charged With Attempted Murder
Sweet… how would you like to be isolated on the International Space Station with a murderer? 🙂
Nowak also was ordered to wear a global positioning satellite, or GPS, device.
Nowak, 43, appeared in court Tuesday afternoon to face the attempted first-degree murder charge.
Nowak is accused of accosting Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, 30, in the Orlando airport parking lot early Monday, telling police she only wanted to talk with Shipman.
Bing Bong Brothers
This is so stupid it’s actually funny… 🙂
Michael Vick & Weed
Hahaha…. funny. 🙂
The Legend Of Leeroy Jenkins
Okay, after that other World of Warcraft video, I started looking around for other funny ones… This one is kind of funny… still no idea what they are talking about most of the time, but Leeroy runs in by himself and gets everyone killed. 🙂
Warcraft Raid Leader Goes Crazy
I have no clue what half the stuff this guy is talking about, but this video is funny. I guess it was a Warcaft raid leader (leading and coordinating 40 people, so they are all listening to him) on some raid of a dragon’s den…
All I know is if I was in his raid group, I probably would fall out of my chair from laughing so hard and die anyway… 🙂
And whoever recorded him and then did the animation for it is a pretty funny guy… hah
Doors, Doors And More Doors…
Went over all the doors, door finishes and door hardware for the house today… I never knew there were so many options for door. Glad that’s over.
Cool Animal Photos
Digital Camera magazine has some really cool photos people took of animals for their photographer of the year contest… the top 3 were these:


You can find more over here:
No, I’m Not Dead…
For everyone that has been asking me (or asking others to find out)… I didn’t die.
I also didn’t get thrown in jail…
…nor did I run off with some girl…
…I also didn’t get kidnapped…
(these were all theories I’ve heard so far)
The quick version is this… I went to Mammoth for 3 days, then I was sick for a couple days, then the Chargers lost, so I didn’t feel like writing. Now I feel like writing something, but I don’t really have anything to say… So for now, I’ll just tell people where I’ve been. It’s not that easy to think of something to write about *every* day you know. 🙂
Sorry for not writing on the blog in awhile (I know Bobby loves it when people say that.. heh)
Random Email #36
A random email I just got… 🙂
I just want to know why it’s in my computer history????
If my husband is really stupid enough to deal with this kind of….thing, (I’ll put it nicely), then so he can go for it. Where are these girl’s parents?
He is old and trying to be young. But these girls are young trying to be older.
Maybe it’s a perfect match.
He’s nothing to write home about in bed…but if you get paid, what the hell?
Oh my god!!! Someone’s wife found him looking at my blog. That marriage is over I guess. Sad… so sad.
What The Hell?
Well that was pretty lame if you ask me… Tom Brady and his 12-1 post season record can kiss my ass. 🙂
Random Email #35
Now I’m MySpace, Google *and* Visa…
Send me your gift card… I will buy stuff with it until I can’t buy anymore. I will then let you know how much I charged. That should be a pretty close number for you.
Apple Gave Me A Bunch of iPhones
Well sorta anyway… since Apple officially announced their iPhone, Apple stock has gone up $11.14 per share. I bought 100 shares a long time ago (it’s since split twice, so now I have 400 shares). The value of my shares has gone up $4,456 since yesterday morning. More than paying the $500-600 price tag for one if I wanted one.
It does look like a pretty pimp phone, and includes pretty much everything you could ever want (Wi-Fi, movies, music, GPS, QWERTY keyboard, etc, etc.)
Too bad they will only work with Cingular and their over-priced data plans. But whatever… free is still free (sorta… heh)
If You Steal, The IRS Wants A Cut
This is hilarious… who in the hell comes up with this crap? Do they really think some thief is going to report it as “Other Income”? And even if they did (which would be funny), wouldn’t the government sort of be an accomplice since they are benefiting from criminal acts? It almost makes me want to go out and steal a pack of gum just so I can put something in the stolen property section of my tax return. haha
This is clip from page 88 of the IRS handbook for individuals (PDF version here).

So what do you learn from this? If you steal a car, return it before December 31 so you don’t owe taxes on it! haha
Alternately, treat it as “borrowed property without the owner’s permission”, but that’s a little more grey area and might not fall under the IRS’ safe harbor guidelines.