Only in DC, Posted via Sidekick II by natech.

24 hrs subway with bulletproof glass, no seats.

Xbox party, Posted via Sidekick II by natech.

Blake, Clint, Ernie, and Mark.

Xbox party, Posted via Sidekick II by natech.

Halo 2 group

Woot! They called me and told me I got the offer. I can’t reveal details but want to let everyone know that I got the job!

Bye bye Windows

New hand air blower/dryer, Posted via Sidekick II by natech.

Cool, this new blower dried off my hands in a few seconds, instead of

like 1, 2 mins. (Proof I do wash my hands, ;-)

I knew it! Sooner or later, Google was gonna do something about the so-called blogosphere. They just unveiled the new search engine for blogs. Here it is: http://blogsearch.google.com/

Know a bit about Greek Mythology? Like how Apollo is the God of Sun, Aphrodite for love and beauty, or Hades for Hell. So, if there is going to be one for the www, it has to be AWstats. It tracks every hit, visitor, and spider (search engines) that come to this website. Knowledge is truly powerful.

*fixed the photo gallery. Rewrite rules were broken. Happy looking.

I’ve never been a fan of Jeep except for the Wrangler but every next model seems to get worse and worse…till I saw this pic.

This is looking really nice; I’m seeing more SUVs coming out with more car-like platform. Guess people do spend more time on the concrete than off-road.

*update* more pics of this near-production concept suv

I get a feeling that this suv is gonna be a big hit, it has 2.4 liters, which should put the mpg at around 25 highway.

Almost like what Monster.com’s tagline, “today’s the day.” (I didn’t apply for the job thru them, I got referred.), I have an interview with Google tmw. It’s gonna be for a datacenter technician. You can find more info about this position here.

I’m getting really nervous about this opportunity and it’s almost a once-in-a-lifetime chance as I doubt I will get another shot if I didn’t make it. Looks like the requirements aren’t too high but one problem is that I don’t have much real-world experience with Linux. I never worked in a computer lab where entire servers are run on Linux; only windows. The U.S. government has a love affair with Microsoft Windows, so to speak, so I never had the chance to work directly with Linux except at home. I have played around with Linux on my computer but I doubt it’s enough to be able to perform tasks Google would expect me to do. I know some basic commands but not extensively that I’m able to make a delicious meal from basic ingredients. I’d be still looking into a cookbook. That’s what I will probably tell them in the interview. I will tell them that the best way to learn is thru work environment experience and see if I can handle it. I imagine myself crawling on my knees and begging them to just give me the chance. If I still cannot do the job at the end of 3 months stint, they are more than welcome to cut me off and say I wasn’t geeky enough. I will accept that. A chance is all I need and I will practically live at their one of the datacenters and become a workaholic, if hired. If I do get it, I will come home and wipe out the windows partition on this hard drive and eat, breathe, live through Linux only.

The best advice anybody’s given me is my mom. She always tell me, “Be yourself.” So, I’m gonna be myself and answer their questions to the best I can. Good luck to myself.

Oh yeah, I’ve been interviewed by IBM, Microsoft, and now Google. As they say, “third time’s a charm.”, this damn better be true.

Knowing that today is my last chance to finalize the transfer from dot5hosting.com over to dreamhost.com (although I haven’t gotten the last notice to let me know that my account is gonna be expired, I still better not take the risk and end up losing everything.), the first thing I did was try to figure how to retract the database from the mysql server. We the geeks call it mysql dump and with the friendly interface of myPHPadmin, this dump was as easy as you would save a file from the www. Then I gotta set up the database on the new server but dreamhost.com is more technical if not geeky as it doesn’t support localhost (default hostname for most database setups) and you gotta have to set up the hostname for the database. With the aid of docs thru dreamhost, I found a way to set up the database using my own hostname, which has a nice geeky feeling to it. Once the database has been set up, I used the import command to, well, import my blog into the new database, and then I simply copied everything thru ftp over to the new server. And here I am. Transfer complete. :-)

I just realized I only have two days left before I either renew my contract with my current web hosting server or change to a new server. Or this whole thing will be shut down and I lose everything on the server. I’ve broken the biggest rule in computing: always back up your data. Which I haven’t done so. Good thing I use Flickr as my image management. Since my current web server doesn’t allow shell access due to security reasons, I found this web hosting service that allows unix access at a good deal, $7.95 a month for two years.

I’m gonna go ahead and migrate over to the new server. I hope it’ll go smoothly without any hiccups. That’s if someone will notice. ;-)

*update*

I found this absolutely sweet deal, thanks to mymoneyblog.com, he used the coupon, ’77OFF1YEAR’ to save $77 from $111.95 for one year ($9.95 a month) to only $3.95 a month. That sealed the deal for me. Hello Dreamhost.

Hurricance Katrina timeline

Think 2004 election was crazy? Just wait till 2008…

It seems as if when people are starting to sell off Apple stocks, Apple laughs and unveils new products that make people regret for doing so.

Apple’s newest ipod called “nano”. Also, mini ipods are now discontinued. Notice that the screen is color, not mono. And its battery life is 14 hours. Damn is all I can say.

Apple’s joint product with Motorola.

This is one sick SUV that will kick the hell out of corvette’s ass!

Check out the numbers:

600 hp
637 ft-lbs of torque – (you’ll need a neck brace for it if you have no idea what that means)
4.4 seconds from 0 to 60 mph
181 mph top speed

the secret ingredient? it has twin turbochargers the size of jet engines

Who knew it would look that good when it’s lowered like a car.

This medicine really does work. My nose’s all “decongested” thanks to this.