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warrenshea.com VS CGI Timeout

Sunday, October 24th, 2010 at 7:08 am

It took a while, but I’ve finally removed that pesky CGI Timeout issue….I think.

I’m pretty sure it’s been caused by having the themes session variable you’ve all been using when you browse my site. I imagine that because the session variables are stored on a session server, if the session server takes too long retrieving the variable, my page can’t load….so it times out.

I’ve rectified the issue by making the theme variable store inside a javascript cookie. Anyways, here’s hoping this fixes it! :D

I’ve been updating my last post, Vacation Time frequently! I may not blog much during my vacation but I plan to keep that schedule updated!

Vacation Time!

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 2:18 am

My vacation starts tomorrow, Oct 23-31. That’s 9 days. 9 days of ME time. I need to plan ! I’m going to try not to sleep too much. I have a habit of sleeping like, a LOT on vacation days. I want to work hard but also relax. Hopefully just not dealing with the pressures of work will be like….good relaxation.

Usually when I get away from work for an extended period of time, it’s to play Warcraft. At least, that’s how it was for the last 2 years. Not this time.

Usually when I get away from work for an extended period of time, I try to leave work and all the people related to work, at work. While it kinda sucks that I already have to work 2/9 days (for a bit – couple of hours), I’m going to try to leave the people related to work at work. I don’t want any more reminders of work than I already have.

Here’s my TO DO list. I’ve done TO DO lists like this ever since highschool, what I need to do and what the priority is. It’s how I stay organized. It’s easier when you have soon-to-be-accomplished tasks, then you can cross them off the list. For this list though, I won’t be able to cross stuff out…but at least I’ll be able to know what I need/want to get done.

Updated here

To Do

Secret Project 1 – ;idwqruhgy (that’s code) (high priority – 10)
Secret Project 2 – obfwrs/xpn (that’s code too) (high priority – 10)
Study. Study. Study. ASP.NET. HTML 5. CSS3 maybe? SQL and LINQ (high priority – 10)
Work of Epic Site, Plan DB, find out how to do the stuff I want to do… (high priority – 10)
Watch Godfather (med priority – 5)
Watch True Blood S3 (med priority – 5)
Watch Dark Angel (again) (med priority – 5)
Maybe draw something… (low priority – 3)
Convert VHS to DVD (low priority – 3)
New theme for warrenshea.com (low priority – 3)
Watch Burn Notice (low priority – 1)
Write Blog Post – What I’m expecting to get/buy in November (low priority – 1)
Write Blog Post – What are my goals for November (low priority – 1)

Schedule
I’m going to try to follow this schedule and update this post as I do stuff…to stay organized and see where my time is being used. I’ve always found myself a bit of a time waster…for example, 2 hour nap tonight -_-; I’m taking too many naps lately…almost every day. I need to break that.


Friday Night (22)
06:30pm – Leave work
07:00pm – Get home & clean condo
08:00pm – Clean Hamster cage
09:00pm – Surfing the web…
09:30pm – Eat and watch Hikaru no go….too tired to study…mind needs a rest.
11:00pm – Reading
11:45pm – Hikaru no Go
12:00pm – Sleep. Ended at Hikaru no Go 20.

Saturday (23)
03:15pm – Wake up (15.25 hours of sleep -_-;)
03:15pm – Hikaru no Go
04:30pm – Eat
05:00pm – Fall asleep….(nap)
06:45pm – Wake up (1.75 hours of sleep)
06:45pm – Hikaru no Go
09:30pm – Got sidetracked and started reading why the Blue Ranger, David Yost, left the Power Rangers show. Then, started watching the Green Ranger, Jason David Frank, fighting in MMA via youtube…
09:45pm – Hikaru no Go
11:00pm – Hikaru no Go + Eat Dinner
12:00am – Hikaru no Go + Drawing
02:00am – Hikaru no Go + Working (Overtime Release)
04:45am – Drove to work to do something I couldn’t do from home…only to find the door were locked. FML.
05:00am – Got McDonalds Breakfast. They forgot the Sausage in my Sausage McGriddle and 1 of my hashbrowns. WTF WHAT DID I PAY THEM FOR?! FML
05:20am – Came Home. Hikaru no Go + Continued to work.
05:40am – Hikaru no Go. Stopped working. I shouldn’t be drinking/have drank that 1 cream 3 sugar coffee…
06:45am – Hikaru no Go + Started to fix my CGI Timeout issue.
07:15am – Hikaru no Go + Posted my warrenshea.com VS CGI Timeout. Wondering when I should sleep….getting tired.
07:45am – Sleep. Ending at Hikaru no Go 52 (watched 32~ episodes today…10+ hours worth -_-;)

Sunday (24)
02:00pm – Woke up (6 hours of sleep)
02:00pm – Hikaru no Go + Work
02:30pm – Hikaru no Go
03:30pm – Nap
04:30pm – Wake up (1 hour of sleep)
04:30pm – Video Conf. with brother to fix his Internet Explorer….spent 1 hour trying to get my mic working so we could webcam…when all he did was call me for a 2 minute conversation. He was too cheap to spend long-distance on 2 minutes….and I wasted an hour. F*CK.
05:30pm – Hikaru no Go + Installing some software/organizing files
08:30pm – Hikaru no Go + Photoshopping around


I was drawing and then I realized I’m not a fan of drawing, my art strength isn’t as great as I remember…and that’s why I like doing digitial art. There’s history, layers, and tons of tools to use. So I took this image and..well, traced it. But turned it from a Get Backers Himiko to a Catwoman from the Batman: TAS….with an orange flare to it. I’m pretty happy with it considering the time, effort and concentration used for it (I was watching Hikaru no Go the whole time).

12:15am – Hikaru no Go
12:30am – Finished Hikaru no Go (watched 23 episdoes + 1 movie)
12:30am – Organizing files, watching Neon Genesis Stuff (This Blu Ray stuff is sick…can’t wait for the series to come out)
03:00am – Sleep

Monday (25)
09:30am – Wake up…hopefully.
12:00pm – Wake up (9 hours of sleep) + General Internet Surfing
12:30pm – Dexter ep 4 and 5 + Secret Project 1 – ;idwqruhgy
02:15pm – Took out some trash
02:30pm – Starting building some ikea furniture….while watching Dark Angel (in preparation for the novels i’m gonna read)
Edit: Got sidetracked, while putting in the Dark Angel Disc, I decided to watch some How To Train Your Dragon again…
03:15pm – Dark Angel + Ikea Furniture
04:45pm – Cleaning, rearranging items in the condo to fit the new furniture
05:30pm – Dark Angel + Eating
06:00pm – Dark Angel
07:00pm – Nap
07:45pm – Wake up
07:45pm – Smallville – S10 E05 – Isis
08:45pm – Big Bang Theory – S04 E05 – The Desperation Emanation
09:10pm – The Office US – S07E05 – The Sting
09:40pm – Organizing Music Files (yes, I did this for 2+ hours…)
12:00am – Cook some fish…
12:00am – Watched Smallville – S06E11 – Justice
01:00am – Sleep

Tuesday (26)
09:00am – Wake up/Get Ready to go to Ikea/Random Surfing
10:00am – Leave for Ikea
11:30am – Went to Anime Xtreme, bought myself a Gundam toy
12:00pm – Home, got caught up reading: http://peachx.com/, my gf’s friend’s bro’s webcomic. It’s pretty good!!
12:30pm – Build Ikea Furniture….
12:45pm – Skimmed through Power Rangers: The Movie on NetFlix….wow, is that a bad movie…..I wonder if I watched it in theatres?
01:00pm – Build Ikea Furniture + Watching White Men Can’t Jump on NetFlix
02:30pm – Put stuff into the new Ikea shelves
03:15pm – Make some eggs and eat ’em
03:30pm – Trying to get Subcategories to show up in my WordPresss…. I DUNNO WHY IT NO WORK!
04:30pm – Recategorizing stuff….and blogging…
05:45pm – Opening toy….
06:15pm – Leaving for Dufferin Mall
09:00pm – Finally home. Skimmed through The Wizard (1989) and Balls of Fury.
10:00pm – Played Tetris Attack (SNES) for a bit while troubleshooting my PC -> PS3 media files…
11:00pm – Watch House – S07E04 –
11:45pm – Watch House – S07E05 –
12:30am – Watch How I Met Your Mother -S06E05 –
01:00am – Watch How I Met Your Mother -S06E06 –
01:30am – Blog/Recategorize Posts
03:00am – Sleep….finish re-categorizing tomorrow…maybe

Wednesday (27)
11:00am – Wake up, re-categorize posts
11:45am – Started watching Shutter Island while organizing my posts
01:45pm – Finished Shutter Island
01:45pm – Watching Remember Me….need to start organizing my posts again
04:00pm – Watching Balls of Fury
06:00pm – Watching Multiplicity
0~~~pm – ??
09:30pm – Waking up from 2(?) hour nap!?! I think I was drugged.
09:30pm – Watching Back to the Future Blu Ray, organizing Categories for my site

Thursday (28)
Test Costume for Saturday

Friday (29)
9:00pm – Work (ETF)
11:00pm – Finish Work

Saturday (30)
8:00pm – Benny’s Halloween Party

Sunday (31)
1:00am – Sleep

Monday (1)
7:45am – Wake up

I need to turn on that productive switch. Do things without stress but with a sense of accomplishment. Work but relax. That’s my plan. And maybe relax without work some days but we’ll see. This vacation is really just booking a large amount of time off to get personal stuff/learning done.

/very excited

How to Train Your Dragon – Review

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 at 2:56 am

I’ve seen this movie 3 times, once in theaters in 3D and twice on my newly purchased blu-ray. I watched it yesterday once…and I couldn’t get the music out of my head all day today (well, I was listening to the soundtrack at work all day) so I decided to watch it again.

I gotta say, I really love this movie.

I love the plot, the cute dragons (this movie kinda reminds me of an Ash/Pikachu combo), but I really love the music. It fits the movie so well…I liked these songs (below), and put them on the site if for no one’s benefit but my own (as I know I’m going to be listening to this @ work tomorrow). I suggest you give them a try, it takes a bit sometimes for the song to pick up…it’s also probably better if you’ve seen the movie first…


Forbidden Friendship

Test Drive

Romantic Flight

Coming Back Around

When I go over good movies, I basically rate them on what they did wrong over what they did right. I mean, if it’s a great movie but I didn’t like one thing or there was a plot hole, I’d detract from my overall score…but I can’t find anything wrong with this movie…
I’ve only seen Toy Story 3 once in theatres and a couple of times elsewhere but I can’t really find a flaw in that movie. It’s especially emotionally overwhelming at some points which knock it up a few notches.

While How to Train Your Dragon doesn’t have “emotionally overwhelming” points, there are some really emotional, awesome moments…and if you know me, I love movies that can affect you.

warrenshea.com rates – How to Train Your Dragon – 10/10!

Better icons soon…it’s just so late and they didn’t come out as I planned (they’re more fugly than I thought they’d be).

Hikaru no Go VS Death Note

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 at 3:35 am

Going to have to break my 450 px width rule… (this post won’t work on my naruto theme). Use the GMAIL theme.
Death Note Spoilers ahead – but who hasn’t seen Death Note?
I tried to keep Hikaru no Go spoilers to a minimum.

Now, onto my….

HIKARU NO GO VS DEATH NOTE
Comparison Chart
Similarities

All characters designed by Takeshi Obata

All characters designed by Takeshi Obata

Gifted player, Shindou Hikaru in a coming of age story

Gifted human, Yagami Light in a coming of the age of Kira story

Talented Rival, Touya Akira – An angry obsession towards Shindou Hikaru

Talented Rival, L – A strange obsession towards Yagami Light

Two people of equal genius. Two. (oh, it’s already written in the subs)

Two people of equal genius. Two.

Sai – An unseen partner, a ghost from a past life

Ryuk – An unseen partner, a death god from another realm

Go – a game of strategy involving deep thinking, planning, deception, and manipulation

Death Note – a cat and mouse game involving deep thinking, planning, deception, and manipulation

Go – Requires a Go board and played utilizing a person’s hand to place Go peices

Death Note – Requires a Death Note utilizing a person’s hand to write a name

Hikaru – means “Light” or “Radiance” (masculine form) – FYI feminine form is Hikari

Light – means “Light”

Touya’s father has a heartattack collapses before facing Sai

Light’s father has a heartattack before seeing Ryuk (this one is a stretch…as the 2 incidents are unrelated)

Hikaru’s kinda mean to Akari

Light’s kinda mean to Misa. To put the image in context, this is exactly what Light does.
Differences

Shindou Hikaru initially talks to Sai. Others think he’s crazy.

Yagami Light never noticably talks to Ryuk. He remains sane to others.

Not a single death occurs. Well, one guy sorta dies. And man, is it sad… :””'(

Lots of people die. Lots.

Shindou Hikaru – unlimited potential, a bright “radiant” future

Yagami Light – dies

Hikaru no Go – 75 episodes + 1 movie of anime, 23 volumes of manga

Death Note – 37 episodes + some movies and live action stuff, 12 volumes of manga

Akari – Cute girl, good intentions, you hope they end up together.

Misa – Cute girl, good intentions, Kira wants to kill her.

I gotta say, it was both fun and tedious and time consuming getting the screen grabs. I’m VERY proud of some of the shots I gathered, perfectly capturing my notes which I wrote first. It really takes someone who watches stuff over and over to be able to accurately pinpoint key lines/saying…I knew exactly what shot I wanted for most of these comparisons and a lot of them were easy to get. /pat myself on the back.

In my Hikaru no Go VS Death Note battle….I must say I definitely enjoyed Hikaru no Go more. Between Hikaru no Go, Gundam Seed and Initial D (my 3 favourite animes, overall), I think Hikaru no Go might be the top. Might be. The other 2 are high too….I think my second tier of favourite animes would include: Death Note, Get Backers, Clannad, Azumanga Daioh, Naruto, Prince of Tennis. Naruto was initially great but I’m really feeling “meh” for Part II. PoT is great but there’s not much substance. Death Note was great but I initially found the second half pretty weak, much like Get Backers. Though reading Death Note manga kinda changed the second half. Clannad was great, the best parts were the second half of After Story…that’s when it really hit it’s perfection. Azumanga Daioh was fun all around.

Anyways. Simply based on what I enjoyed more overall,

Hikaru no Go is the winner!

Smallville S10 E04 – REVIEW – EPIC of EPICNESS

Monday, October 18th, 2010 at 1:05 am

****Spoiler Alert****

WOWOWOWOWOWOWowowow I can’t even count off the top of my head how many awesome things happened this episode. Usually in every episode, there’s 1 or 2 interesting things. This season, every episode is cramming in 3 or 4 (because this is their last season). They’re fitting in SO MUCH in this 10th season, it’s ridiculous. Like, you can’t have every episode of a show like this….or it becomes Heroes, all cliffhanger endings until they aren’t shocking anymore…..and no plot behind it to back it up and it just flops.

But with Smallville, there’s 10 years of history…

EPICLY AWESOME THINGS:
1. Reappearance of Lana Lang (S01E01), if only in a Flashback
2. Reappearance of Chloe Sullivan, again…just a flashback.
3. Brainiac (James Marsters), villain of season 8, returning O_O
4. Giving closure to Clark’s father’s death.
5. The future: Superman on the newspaper
6. The future: Lois and Clark together
7. The future: Future Clark Kent, glasses and all.
8. The future: so many little easter eggs on the whole Superman thing
9. Lois and Clark declaring their love for each other
10. Green Arrow/Oliver Queen (Justin Hartly) outing himself as Green Arrow
11. Lois and Clark dancing at the end, Clark flying….because he’s with Lois

11 EPICLY AWESOME THINGS all in one episode (that I can think of right now). I have been waiting 10 years for some of these things…and it all paid off so beautifully. BEST. EPISODE. OF. SMALLVILLE. EVER. EVER.

Ah…my heart just melted watching Clark float off the ground as he danced with Lois. I fought back tears a couple times during the episode when Clark was at his father’s gravestone, saying goodbye. And also at the end…Clark’s had an issue with flying for 10 years. He can’t get it. It’s a feat that, if forced, becomes impossible to accomplish. And then at the end of the episode, he and Lois just…man, you can totally see why their love is epic and spans like, 100 years on continuity. Anyways…Clark lets his doubts and fears wash away and his dance with Lois….she’s the key! The key to his flying. Like they say those things about being in love makes you feel like you’re flying or whatever….but they totally like, showed it! ARGH. I KNOW IT SOUNDS CHEESY….but man, it totally worked on me. I was completely touched…

Lois and Clark. I could really see how perfect they are for each other this episode.

Man, it’s like, 25 minutes after I watched the episode and it has still taken my breath away. I’m just….so emotional! *fans himself*

/going to buy a skirt cuz this post was written by a 10 yr old girl…named Wareena