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More to come…I promise! + Prince of Tennis

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 12:02 am

I’ve been busy with life lately and more recently, sickness and a .NET project. It’s taking up most/all my time. I promise to get out of my rut and post about Taste of Danforth, Jersey Boys, and <insert things that I’ve been busy with but don’t remember>. Most of my effort is going towards this .NET project which I now realize, I’m wayyyyyyyyyy ahead of schedule. All it took was one good day/night of coding. Any extra effort is just chilling…

I’ve been rewatching a lot of Prince of Tennis lately while I eat…I used to rewatch my favorite matches, Fuji Syusuke VS Kirihara Akaya, Echizen Ryoma VS Atobe Keigo, Kevin Smith, Seiichi Yukimura, Genichiro Sanada…and other random matches. This time around though, I’m rewatching the lesser remembered matches….Inui Sadahara VS Renji Yanagi…um…what’s his face and…that other guy….yeah.

I also got the PS2JAP The Prince of Tennis: Smash Hit! 2 which is certainly no Virtua Tennis 3….but it’s crazy fun being able to do special moves. Yuuta Syusuke’s Twist Spin Shot is like, impossible to return. And Fuji Syusuke keeps Higmua Ootoshi’ng my smashes! Jerkface!

/more to come :D

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Finally, a .NET project!

Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

I’m excited! I’m putting my textbook knowledge to good use on a project that could be built in ASP Classic VB…but I thought I’d finally step out of my comfort zone and attempt something harder.

I’m excited, not only am I using .NET, I’m also learning about this Google Bar Chart API which lets me create an image like this:

Out of code like this:
<img src=”http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bhg&agent=jgcharts&chs=340×240&chxt=x,y&chf=bg,s,F3F3F3&chd=t:16.7,16.7,0,66.6&chbh=a,0,35&chds=0,100&chxr=0,0,100&chxl=1:|1.25%20%%20-%203.50%20%|%3E3.50%20%%20-%205.75%20%|%3E5.75%20%%20-%208.00%20%|%3E8.00%20%%20-%2010.25%20%&chco=0079C1&chm=t16.7%,000000,0,0,13|t16.7%,000000,0,1,13|t0%,000000,0,2,13|t66.6%,FFFFFF,0,3,13″>

I have plans to go to Taste of the Danforth today and Jersey Boys tomorrow…but in the meantime, I hope to be coding. I just know I’m gonna think about this project during these 2 events…it’s gonna pop into my head and my mind is gonna wander, thinking about solutions to the problem.

Excited! I <3 projects that motivate me. Especially when they’re work projects because I know I can’t not do it…I know my laziness, ADD, never finishing attitude won’t come into play here…because that sort of Warren only shows up during personal projects, not for work projects. /can’t wait to go home and code :D

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Heat. B.O. Deodorant. Hygiene.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

This weather sucks. I hate the summer. It’s brutally hot. Too hot to do anything. I remember trying to study for exams in Waterloo w/o AC. I’d crash at my friends’ place in Mackenzie King rather than sleep in my own bed at V1. I always did slightly worse in spring terms…the heat just makes me…not wanna do anything.

Not much has changed at this point…I hate the summer. Specifically, I hate the heat. I like the longer hours of daylight, waking up to the sun. But heat makes me miserable. You know what also sucks? People that get hot…and don’t wear deodorant. And then they stink. You know what sucks? Walking behind someone and smelling their B.O.
Smelling a stranger’s odor. Ugh.

We nerds are known for it. Cons are full of big guys. And sometimes that’s okay. But sometimes they’re full of big guys…who are just…dirty. Their hair is long, unkept, and it looks like they haven’t showered in months. Or they’re huge, sweaty, and terribly stinky. Or they’re alright…until they open their mouths and you can smell that “morning breath”…but you know it’s not their morning breath, it’s their every day 24/7 breath.

I, and I hate to admit it, have a friend who doesn’t bathe like…ever. Or brush his teeth. Ever. I can’t sit beside him because he stinks. I can’t talk to him because his breath will melt my face. And…he wonders why he’s striking out with the opposite sex. It boggles my mind.

I’m fortunate. Besides that guy, I’ve been blessed with friends who are cool as well as intelligent. I’d hate to think what would happen to me if I grew up a social outcast. I’d be that which I despise. *shudder*

/it’s hot. but not in my condo :D life is good…

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…4 days later.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm

Lists help. I kept coming back to my previous post to look at what I had to do…it kept me organized….
What I dislike about lists is that looking at them gives me stress…I feel this…need/urge to complete them. Good for work. Bad for home. Anyways, I’ll just summarize my last 4 days, since writing the list. After that, I’ll study some more ASP.NET….

What I did these last 4 days:
-had family lunch and dinner on Saturday
-Toronto Zoo for 5 hours on Monday
-Ontario Science Centre for 5 hours on Tuesday
-finished reading Scott Pilgrim
-cleaned Hamster cage
-studied ASP.NET
-caught up on ~~6 episodes of True Blood~~, 1 episode of Hell’s Kitchen, 2 episodes of Futurama
-laundry
-decide which of my two EPIC SITE ideas to pursue…

What I still need to do
-design new layout for warrenshea.com…like…NOW.
-contact me web form (which shouldn’t take too long)
-start planning/designing EPIC SITE…
-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…
-start reading One Piece manga
-start playing Zelda: Ocarina of time again
-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

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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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