Muuhahahaha, call me Ishmael Mario; King of newbie plumbers! Hehehehe, I used a blowtorch yesterday :D

Yes, you read right ... I, [my full name here], got to play with use FIRE!! Muuhahahahahaha!!!!

Ok, so here's the backstory:

I also watched 'MI:III' over the long weekend, and it was an ok movie.

You know what ruined the movie for me? It was at the end when Ethan Hawk (Tom Cruise) explained the meaning of IMF to his wife. Turns out that IMF stands for "Impossible Mission Force" ... WTF!?!?!? Couldn't Hollywood have come up with a better title than that? I mean COME ONNNNN, I could come up with a better title; something like MIT-E (pronounced mighty) that could stand for "Mission Impossible Team-Extraordinaire". Or how about WMIP (pronounced whimp) which would stand for "We Make the Impossible, Possible".

Ok, I also watched 'The Davinci Code' over the long weekend (my mom made me watch it with her). Actually, it was a pretty good movie. It was an action thriller with a plot.

I don't really care what the movie said about Catholisizm, that was just a springboard to make the plot interesting. Honestly, if all the religious yahoos out there hadn't made such a big fuss about it, I doubt anyone would care.

- Peace

Ok, so I saw the movie 'Stick It' over the long weekend (on Saturday). Actually it was pretty good; a fun movie I didn't mind seeing. Hehe, the movie was about gymnastics ... and I totally wanted to do some backflips after the movie was over, LOL.

Ok .... that's all I have to say about that movie.

Patch Management System :P

So our programmers in Ukraine decided a good name for our system of maintaining and updating our websites would be Patch Management System (PMS). And since this is a homebrew program, it's obviously got issues; thus there are PMS issues at work ;)

No, it's not 42.

To begin with, I must explain that the universe tends towards the lowest level of energy. This process is called entropy. Think about it, we started off with the 'Big Bang'; everything was in one location, and BOOM! it exploded out - and thus began entropy. The 'Big Bang' was the maximum energy level and everything after gets weaker and weaker.

But how does this relate to life? I'll tell you! Gawd, just hold on fool!

Ok, I just had an epiphany about getting a page to display properly in both FireFox and evil-IE.

Don't use padding ... ever.

Stupid IE uses padding in a non-standard manner. Therefore, it may require a little more coding, but use margins instead.

So to replace padding with margin, you need to nest a div INSIDE the div you would be padding. And use margin to keep the nested div the needed distance from the original div border.

Hoooooooora!

Alas, we all knew this day would come. It was inevitable that the constant flux of the english language would eventually replace or drop such a near and dear word.

Hehehehe, use this on your friends! The shear irony of them being gullible enough to believe that gullible was dropped is genius!!!

This just came to me ... hope you like it.

Zeba Hussain; the nicest person you could meet.
What she did with hair was quite a feat.
She chatted and cut then colored and curled.
And through it all she took care of her three girls.

A finer set of daughters you'll never see.
Even if you traveled from sea to sea.

Together they all shared laughter and tears.
For many, long, beautiful years.

Though fate forced her to leave us too soon,
we will always count knowing her a boon.

Though fate forced her to be gone,
her soul remains in those who live on.

- Peace

Ok, the funniest thing happened yesterday.

Anum (my 18 month old niece) was over, and she was trying to get into one of the kitchen cabinets. I, on the other hand, was stopping her from opening the aforementioned cabinet by placing a hand over the two doors.

Upon seeing this, Anum would promptly push my hand away and say 'No'. And then I would just switch to using my other hand to block the cabinet. So she and I went back and forth like this a good 5 or 6 times.

FINALLY, Anum became soooo frustrated with my shenanigans that she screamed 'MAMOOOOO!!!!!' to get me to stop.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Ok, I did another search on Google, and I found this (it's cached on Google here). It is someone else's take on the crash.

I've copied the relevant part of the post here.

So I've just been randomly trolling the Net, and I came across this. Hehe, it's soooo coool.

It's basically a football sized/shaped, phased array satellite antenna that you can stick on a mobile platform (think car). But wait! there's more! ... This antenna has no moving parts, but can maintain/track a focused connection to a satellite. That's crazy! And the best part is that's it's modular, each segment of the spheroid is the same, that's sooooo cooool.

Summary: A Co-Op student at my company's hosting provider 'accidentaly' crashed and subsequently destabalized my production server on Friday.

Ah, well, looks like we're going to be looking into automatically mirroring our production sites AND implementing a 'gatekeeper' permission required system before we let anyone at the hosting provider touch our servers again.

Stupid Co-Op.

Ok, take a tablet PC + a whole array of cool ultrasonic & magnetic sensors (with a dash of some radar sensors too ;) and then slap it all together.

Basically, I want a device that you put flat against a wall/surface, and it will display what's behind/inside that wall for you. Kinda like a virtual hole thingy.

Thus, this will take all the guess work out of fishing/finding wires, piping, studs, anything. Wouldn't that be awsome!

Yes, that is correct. You see, The week does not begin on Monday for me. Instead, the week begins on Saturday.

Thus, while other people are cursing Monday for ruining the beginning of the week, I am cursing Monday for ending what was the start of a beautiful week.

 
Normal Person

I was asked to put all (most) of my data together into one downloadable file.

Excessive speed combined with inexperience behind the wheel proved to be a deadly combination in Mississauga on Monday night.

At around 7pm, a Grand Prix lost control on Glen Erin Drive, in the Eglinton and Winston Churchill area. The car flew across a sidewalk and hit a pedestrian and a tree before rolling into a backyard.

Here's something funny that the programmer Team Lead in Ukraine told me about one of his developers. All the programmers in Ukraine were having a big laugh, at this developers expense, about this.

Apparently, one of his developers had a dream about ME. But this wasn't just any dream, noooo, I was a MOB KINGPIN in this dream. Not only that, but I was driving a SILVER MERCEDES with the DEVELOPER as my PASSENGER while also being CHASED by the POLICE!!!!

Note to self: Get picture of myself in a black suit and standing infront of a silver merc.

I just did a Google search of 'Zeba Hussain' and this was the first link I found CNW Group. It leads to a Peel Region Police "Attention News Editors" bulletin. I've pasted it below.

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Peel Regional Police - Fatal collision - Pedestrian killed

MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 2 /CNW/ - On Monday, May 1, 2006, shortly before
7:00 pm, a silver Pontiac Grand Am was travelling southbound on Glen Erin