http://navahogunleg.net/blog ...where the most significant bytes... Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:38:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just caught this on guerrillafunk.com: http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/09/01/paris-dont-stop-the-movement/ So after this, I have been reading more on the condition called Cluster Headaches, and the more I read, the more I recognise. Initially I couldn't remember being woken up by these headaches, but I have. The memories of more days in agony came back. I even remember the day ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/08/14/the-caffeine-might-have-played-a-role-though/ For most of my (working) life, I have been an avid coffee-drinker almost since the day I first forced that cup down my throat out of politeness and, after a few cups thought that, "Hey that actually tastes & feels good.". Until, a few of months ago, my stomach started acting ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/08/13/so-it-wasnt-the-caffeine-after-all/ "In between jobs", I always have wanted to say that. I wish I could say it in another situation though... Last month my employer went bankrupt and me and some colleagues haven't been payed for a couple of months. It sucks.... There's the issue of some back-pay that I still have to ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/07/04/in-between-jobs/ For fun I was checking out my statistics and discovered that my theme got hacked: the footer and header were replaced, inserting spammy URLs into the outputted page, together with some Google Adsense code. Yay. As a result I am now delisted from Google's index. :P Apparently, this has been going on for ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/06/06/omg-omg-omg-my-theme-was-hacked/ Disclaimer: The information in here is purely educational, yada yada yada. And... it's not people that abuse things who harm people -- it's the people that put those things there without thinking. An explaination: I have always been intrigued by HTML forms. As a paranoid person, I have always wondered whether ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/05/30/keylogging-in-javascript-or-why-the-fsck-does-a-password-field-send-the-keypress-value/ For the passed few days there's a finch in da hood and it's whistling it's little feathery bum off. It's is now sitting on the top of my house whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and whistling and I wonder where it gets ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/05/20/theres-a-finch-on-the-top-of-my-roof/ Hey again! Long time no post, I know.... busy, life, et cetera, but this I just needed to share. I was just reading Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM and he linked to this suprisingly good track (direct link to MP3) by MC Frontalot, called Secrets From The Future (direct link to the ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/04/15/mc-frontalot-secrets-from-the-future/ I posted about Everlast upcoming new album earlier, but this weekend I discovered the video for his latest track: This song makes me want to own a car again ... so that I can play this song on repeat -- really, really frigging loud. Everlast, Rap, Rock, War, Middle-East http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/02/11/everlast-letters-home-from-the-garden-of-stone/ So a couple of weeks ago I heard the news that, on my old "high-school", a teacher was put on non-active because he was having a sex-chat with a 12 year old girl on the internet while his laptop-screen contents were beamed onto a big screen in front of the ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/01/30/hey-teacher-leave-those-kids-alone/ It's been quiet for a long while ... probably because I didn't have anything to say or anything to vent... But I do so, now. :-) See, my girlfriend found the new site set up by Everlast (to spread the word about his new album, Love War and The Ghost of ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2008/01/02/everlast-love-war-and-the-ghost-of-whitey-ford/ Recently, my MythTV box started acting 'weird' ... initially I thought I just got a flaky SVN checkout, even after I installed a more recent version. It was only after the machine really crashed, and one of the two encoder cards didn't want to initialise resulting in only static coming from ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/11/24/woohoo/ I have got calculi in my salivary glands and it sometimes acts up. You know, if you had biology in school, there are 2 tiny little holes on the floor of your mouth, about where your tongue attaches, where your saliva comes into your mouth. Basically, what happens is that ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/29/im-a-freak-i-got-calculi-in-my-salivary-glands/ Life is what happens to you when you are too busy making other plans... Or rather, when you are sleeping... Friday morning wasn't the nicest of mornings: I woke up at 7AM as usual, went downstairs to open my laptop and make myself a nice cuppa. The laptop is usually right ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/13/no-pictures-inside/ In the song Generation Wrekkked, on The Autobiography Of Mistachuck, the following lines are mentioned: If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me. Quote Of The Week, QOTW http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/10/10/quote-of-the-week-55/ I was reading some Michel de Montaigne, who quotes Ovid at some point: Scilicet ultima semper exspectanda dies homini est; dicique beatus ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet. (We should all look forward to our last day; no one can be called happy till he is dead and buried.) Quote Of The Week, QOTW http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/27/quote-of-the-week-54/ So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign 'Cancer' to the disease 'cancer' in Dutch: The correct translation is of course, 'Kreeft'. That's the problem with ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/27/amusing-blogger-translation-bug/ I just read the news that earlier this week, Alex the Parrot has passed away. I quote: She recalls the bird said: "You be good. I love you." She responded, "I love you, too." The bird said, "You'll be in tomorrow," and she responded, "Yes, I'll be in tomorrow." Touching... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/14/764/ Yesterday, I could photograph our cat licking our rabbit; something that does not happen very often... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/12/cat-and-rabbit/ http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/09/11/we-are-here/ I noticed Skype is utilising the CPU varying between 7 and 15 %. That's insane, for a chat app ffs! http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/31/why-is-skype-hogging-my-cpu/ From the song "Eve of Destruction", originally written by P.F. Sloan, and performed by various artists such as Barry Macquire and, more recently, Public Enemy: Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin', I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin', I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation, handful of Senators don't pass legislation, and marches ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/29/quote-of-the-week-53/ One man's trash is another man's new server. I love to recycle. I got a 'new' server from a buddy of mine, which performs better than the older one. So the web- and database- stuff have just been migrated to the other machine and things seem to work OK. You may noticed ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/26/new-server/ With the recent focus on what human power consumption does to the environment (you know with initiative like a black Google page to save on energy consumption by computer screens), I suddenly realised something that would greatly reduce even more useless power consumption. It hit me when my girlfriends' laptop was ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/24/my-proposal-to-reduce-unnecessary-power-consumption-ban-animating-internet-ads/ So I ordered that game recently and in preperation, having downloaded some translated scans from the internet, my curiosity for the Japanese language has been stirred.. A dog is never to old to learn new tricks so, heck, why not try to learn some bits of a new language in my ... http://navahogunleg.net/blog/2007/08/21/japanese-is-an-interesting-language/