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Blogging about Blogging Part 5: Bots and content stealing websites >:(

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at 6:22 pm

I wouldn’t have much to say about “Blogging about Blogging” this month except I fell behind on my usual # of posts this month. It’s okay…I couldn’t keep up that pace forever.

For some reason in Part 4, I said I’d discuss Bots and content stealing websites. I don’t quite remember why. But I’ll discuss them now anyways as I have nothing else to write about:

Bots >:(
So…my analytics tell me that some bot came to my page and viewed:
/default.php?amp;cpage=1&p=138%20And%20char(124)%2b(Select%20Cast(Count(1)%20as%20varchar(8000))%2Bchar(124)%20From%20[sysobjects]%20Where%201=1)>0
Figuring that out, they’re looking at the comment section of page 138 (bit.ly) and…well, it gets a bit complicated from there
the %20 is a space ” “, %2b is a “+”, chart(124) = “|”…I think
Taking those into consideration,
/default.php?amp;cpage=1&p=138 And | + (Select Cast(Count(1) as varchar(8000)) + | From [sysobjects] Where 1=1)>0

What is that? It’s a SQL query. What are they trying to do? SQL Injection attack. I don’t know too much about that stuff but see the end, where it says “Where 1=1″….that statement provides = “true” and…well, I dunno, it’s supposed to get your info. I suggest learning more about it @ the link above…where stuff is written…yknow, better.

The point is:
Wordpress 1, Bot 0

Content Stealing Sites >:(
Uh oh. I can’t find the examples that I thought I’d have. The point is that…after I make posts and blog and stuff, bots come, parse my content, and put it on their site! >:( Grrr…why is my well written, beautiful…uh…writing going on other, non good sites?! It makes me so angry! Well…kinda…I think it bothered me more when I found out about it…it’s not so bad anymore.

/to be continued in “Blogging about Blogging Part 6: I have nothing more to write about”. Exciting…

BTW: I updated my peas image. Better quality…no black line on the right….flicker remains :(

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Life updates

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 at 1:11 am

WordPress 3.0.1 updated!
Okay…that’s not very impressive.

The problem is that with every update, I have to apply my custom code to the WordPress template.
It’s editing 8 files, 100~ lines of code. I’m trying to figure out a better way to do updates…it’d be awesome to parse the files and do auto replaces…kind of like what WordPress does. But to do that, you have to know what changes…and I don’t really…

Life…has been…off
Aimless rant incoming:
Things have been weird lately. I haven’t been blogging, updating twitter, studying, taking/editing photographs, designing, developing, watching anime, watching anything…basically, I haven’t been doing anything. My sleeping schedule has been screwed up…I’m generally sleeping at 3…waking up at 9:15 (which is pretty late…for a work day). I take 2-3-4 hour naps after work. I recently had a night of insomnia…couldn’t sleep until 5am. Pretty rare for me to do that…it’s usually not very difficult for me to fall asleep but that night, my mind just wouldn’t stop racing. I’m just generally tired…even though I’m not doing anything. My life’s been busy…going out, etc. I don’t walk to work anymore because it’s too hot. Last weekend was my first weekend of unwinding but…I’m still tired. This weekend’s kinda different…still busy though.

Tomorrow I have lunch and dinner with the family…Monday or Tuesday, I’m going to the Toronto Zoo.

The weekend after this, August 7, I’m going to see Jersey Boys. And then…there’s Comicon coming up.
I have a deluxe pass (3 days) and I’m taking the day before and after off (so..Thursday-Tuesday – 5 day weekend).

So busy. I don’t have time to do the things I want (below):

I need a…list…of….like…to do…or something….(in no particular order):
(GREEN: to complete this weekend)
-design new layout for warrenshea.com…like…NOW.
-contact me web form (which shouldn’t take too long)
-decide which of my two EPIC SITE ideas to pursue…and then
-start planning/designing EPIC SITE…
-finish reading Scott Pilgrim
-watch Despicable Me, Kick-Ass (again), Once, Shutter Island, Remember Me (…which only got 28~% on RT…)
-secret project (not the epic site…even more secret!)
-update To Buy list…for comic-con
-take more photographs/galleries – Yoshi, Scarlet Witch, Psylocke, Kakashi, Scheris, Cagalli, Lunamaria, Catwoman, Yuna, Full Metal Panic! characters…
-clean Hamster cage (tomorrow)
-study ASP.NET
-catch up on 6 episodes of True Blood, 1 episode of Hell’s Kitchen, 2 episodes of Futurama
-start reading One Piece manga
-start playing Zelda: Ocarina of time again
-laundry
-watch Transformers DVDs I recently purchased
-watch EXTRAs to DVDs – Battlestar Galactica, Seinfeld, Friends, Transformers
-wear retainer…to fix my teeth…cuz they’re not looking so hot

I need to avoid
-taking naps after work
-sleeping after 2am on weekdays
-drinking…well, enough that it ruins my night…i need to moderate it better/train my terrible alcohol genes
-playing DOTA…hours passing by like nothing…it’s just a fun & addicting game! damn, i feel like playing a game right now…….
-….wasting time on things not on the list above

/i feel so scattered lately…my focus is all over the place…need to cross some of these items off…and focus.

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Peas in a pod

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 10:40 pm

Okay, the plush for this toy is like, $50 on eBay! WTF! I want one :'(

My first attempt at an animated gif where the screen is captured off of the Disney site with CamStudio. Then imported into Adobe Premiere and Exported as an animated gif.
I don’t know why there’s a black line on the right and a flicker! it’s really annoying :( the video in Premiere doesn’t have that at all! Anyways, I don’t want to spend more time on this…just yet.

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Soccer Game – Toronto VS Motagua

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 2:16 am

Went to a soccer game tonight!
So tired…wanna sleep but I haven’t blogged in what seems like forever!

The hardcore fans

City shot…around 8pm

City shot…at night….around 10-10:30pm

Red Moon

Final score…1-0 us! time to P – A – R – T – A – Y
I’m cool. That’s what my mommy says.

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Photography – eternally time consuming

Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 11:48 pm

Okay, I have 2 new galleries up. About 3 nights of work here. Originally I wanted to post like…10 galleries! but frig, it’s time consuming. I did these 2 but I need to take a break. I should do a gallery every once in a while instead of all at once…even doing 2 galleries was pretty painful.

Step 1: Set up the “studio”.
Studio

Step 2: Take pictures. Go wild, take as many angles and shots as you want.

Step 3: Select the ones you want to show.

Step 4: In Photoshop, adjust levels to lighten the background. I attempt to make it white, to blend in with pure white. Doing so, you lose color information, darkened colors, etc. It kind of sucks, losing the information…but I sacrifice it for a more intense image. The colors can become more vivid as well.

Step 5: With the Brush tool, go over the corners to make everything white. Also, use the clone tool to fix blemishes.

Step 6: Resize for the web and post.

Step 4 and 5 take the most time. The 32 shots for my recent Black Widow gallery took about….4-5 hours. It was painful. I should take fewer shots but it’s just so fun to try different angles, etc.

Anyways, here are thumbnails to my 2 most recent galleries. They can, of course, also be found at Gallery.

Kotobukiya Bishoujo Statue: Black Widow