The prize every geek must have

August 26, 2007 | 0 Responses

From time to time you will see contest notifications posted here. Oftenties it is intended to let our readers in on the good stuff thats going fast, but in this case, its because I this its cool and I really  want one SO BAD! www.enwikopedia.com is throwing this contest to give away a DARTH VADER thumb drive. A friggen Star Wars thumb drive.
So I will be your rival in this contest and you will have to match up against my Jedi mind tricks. Beware the power of the dark side.

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New header image (as if you didn’t know)

August 26, 2007 | 0 Responses

This is beyond a poor excuse for posting as it is really quite obvious. I made a new header image. The photo came from SxC, a free image site where you can download high-resolution photos/images for non-commercial use.

The old image, which drew up a lot of question from visitors, was a photo of my 3 year old neice playing with a friend on her Tigger Bike. I cropped it to make it look ‘artsy. Some people though it was really weird to have a photo of two kids with their heads cropped out of the pic. I just thought it looked cool.

I wanted to go with the sunflower image because I think they are a really nice looking flower. Also, my sister has an extensive collection of sunflower knick-knacks in her home, which I think is really cool. Collections are fun.

Life is silly

August 26, 2007 | 0 Responses

Life is silly sometimes. Sillyness is harmless but sometimes its not. For instance, there have been some silly posts on this blog as of lately. That is the harmless kind of sillyness. But in another example; sometimes I do silly things and they turn out to have a huge effect on the well being of myself or others. Sometimes both.

I guess I don’t really know what I’m getting at here. I guess I just want people to know that I’m aware of my own silliness.

Hacking attempt on Needless Productions

August 23, 2007 | 2 Responses

So somebody tried to hack Needless Productions today. I had just finished validating all the markup in the theme too. It isn’t quite clear to me just how they got in at this point. But the theme was the only thing they managed to mess with. The database was left completely unharmed.

Yup. They even let a calling card. I don’t see the point of this at all. Fuck you system? I’ve never been referred to as part of the system before. I know attack was proably random and uncalculated, but, in its’ own way, this is kind of flattering.

To be honest I wasn’t all that upset when I first logged on and saw the alerts. Something about the whole things immediately screamed “minor damage”. The whole thing just seems really amateur.  I don’t really know about hacking but it was pretty easy to recover from the attack. No problem really. At least it gave me an excuse to post at 1:30 in the morning.

In case any of you spambots out there can’t read that, the email is resnado@casus-team.org

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