Archive for November, 2003
Sunday, November 16th, 2003
It has been a long time since I painted up for Goldfellas – especially since I couldn’t paint up for the Maryland game. As always, I had a lot of fun albeit that was purely because Tech beat UNC, 41-24. It was such a disappointing game in the first half, especially with the number of calls that lead to the whole stadium boo-ing and chanting “Bullsh*t”. The rear referee was blind or something… a kick return fumble, which Tech recovered for a TD was called off by the refs. Everyone watched the jumbotron for the instant replay, you should of heard the stadium when they did the slow reply – it was a blatant fumble. Even someone standing on the opposite side of kick return could see the ball flying out of the guy’s hands while he was going down but his knees were still far from hitting the ground. Then, there were some miscalls… going from facemasks and holdings on the offensive line… they were simply ignored. This lead them like 90yds down the field for a touchdown. I hope that blind referee gets probation for those stunts he pulled. I would be surprised if ESPN didn’t cover some of these mis-calls and idiotic refereeing.
Oh well – Tech picked up the game in the second half though. Of course, the crowd was wild! People jumping up and down and hugging random people they don’t even know sometimes in the shear excitement of the game and soon-to-be victory.
We spelled out “SLAY RAMSES” – Ramses being their mascot 
haha, two more football games left and one more to get painted up for. I’ll be staying here for Thanksgiving so that I can paint up for the UGA game. The atmosphere of that game will be so exciting – even though we’re ‘predicted’ to lose to the ranked Bulldogs, you can never trust in ‘predictions’ for such rival games.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
Okay so here are some more pictures 1. Tech vs. Maryland football game in Bobby Dodd Stadium (Tech won 7-3). I wasn't able to paint up for this game because the day before, I found out I had a test on Friday (it was a Thursday night game) – so I left the game halfway afterwards… I really shouldn't have because I went back and ate some food and watched the game rest of the way through 
2. Guitar & Couch – My guitar that I bought couple days back; it's Fender DG20CE… (like the model number will tell ya anything at all 
but I've been trying to play some simple songs, I'm not used to it yet but I'll get there no matter what. I like playing instruments – remember I played the Violin for about 8 years. Couch – after making room for it about a month ago, it took our lazy butts 2 weeks to make ourselves to go to Salvation Army to buy this couch… note: this is not one of the cheap auction couches 3. Formation of my room – I think we have a very unique room formating. It took us like 4 hours to arrange it so that we'll have room for the TV and couch setup but we did it and Will and I are now proud sharers of the 'TV-in-front-of-the-couch" setup 
4. Will's 27-inch or something like that Sony flat screen TV. Well, I'm not sure if it's really flat but it looks flat 5. Buzz, Ghetto Buzz, and moi! Whenever I go to a football game, I'm painted up… since last time I didn't paint up – I had the golden (heh, get it?) opportunity to take my camera with me. As always, Buzz came by to Greet the Goldfellas and Ghetto Buzz so I got some pictures taken with him. One of the most famous College mascots of all time… who doens't know Buzz?!
p.s. i never realized i used so many friggin' smilies
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Sunday, November 9th, 2003
My site was really boring so I decided to start posting pictures whenever I could. Implemented a thumbnailer with MT so that I didn't always have to resize the image and upload manually and crap like that. MT handles uploaded images very well – I was surprised. Anyways… ummm, here are the explanations for the pictures: 1. This is Buddy sleeping on Angela's bed. He is a long-haired Chihuahua. When I first saw him, I thought he was a Doberman but later found out I was wrong. We were first going to name him Zorro because he looked like he had a black mask on his face (Scanned by Angela) 2. This is… I am not sure how old I was in this picture but very little as you can see. My parents tell me I used to eat ALOT and used to be really fat… but if you know me now, you know I am not fat at all. Anyways, that's my second oldest sister… I guess she's helping me for some reason 3. These are the cubicles in the 3rd Floor of the Library at Georgia Tech. Two floords below this floor, the Library West Commons – this is where about 50 or so iMacs and Dell PCs are with nice looking LCD screens. 4. Last spring before the end of the year, I went around tech to take pictures of the campus. I was going outside at the back side of Matheson/Perry when I saw that message… that was for a Tech vs. UGA baseball which the Goldfellas painted up for but we lost… 5. Picture of the Campanile during my Freshmen year at Tech when I first got my digital camera. You can see the Coca-Cola building in the background of 'The Shaft' and also the Westin way in the back.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2003
If you are seeing this message, that means that this site has successfully transferred over from the eagle server on the West coast to the spring server on the east coast.
Why?
Performance- Eagle was a Sub-1GHz Celeron server with about a gig of ram that has been running for couple of years steadily for the past couple of years. Lately, I realize there were some slow downs and problems of performance reliability. The server was rock-stable but for what I needed to do, it wasn’t exactly the best server. The Spring server is a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB of ram. It is comparable to Eagle but eagle had ALOT of sites being hosted on it while… spring had just a couple. I think I can host another couple hundred sites on Spring without seeing that much of a slowdown.
root@spring [~]# uptime
8:12pm up 28 days, 12:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05
As you can see, the stability of this server is unquestionable Actually, I think the last time I rebooted the server was because I had to do a kernel upgrade on it.
… if you want to continue reading about the g33ksp34k, click the link below this otherwise, just ignore the rest.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2003
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
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Friday, November 7th, 2003
okay – I realize this is a crappy one of movabletype’s default styles but as long as I am working on the PHP-MySQL-XML based project that has a high potential of becoming the backend of couple of projects that I am working on… I will not have time to work on making my site better.
I basically just took one of the MovableType’s original styles because I got sick of my old design… it wasn’t even really a design; when I created that brown-ish design, I just wanted to mess with colors I’ve never worked with before. Besides, I just liked the picture of the lamp and the plant. Anyways, so no images on my site except for the smilies.
Most of the changes are to the handy little bar on the right. The calendar isn’t that usefuly but oh well, it looked cool so I left it there. The search engine is kind of weird and my former design didn’t have the archived links so if I ever get bored, I can read what I thought in the past… this is the point of me keeping a blog, by the way
And let’s see – I took the xanga sites from my xanga site I created just so that I could comment on people’s xangas. If you got a site you want me to link to, please let me know. Also added the blogrings from Xanga too… heh
And this site now can be syndicated (look at the footer). Not that anyone will use it for anything But I’m definitely seeing usage of XML nowadays and RSS feeds – I’m going to have to implement it into my new project because… it seems like every CMS nowadays has it 
hehe
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