52weeks.ca, Let's Do It And See What Happens ~ Majid Hashemi, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Excuse me if I'm coming on too strong, my girlfriend is out of town and I'm all alone. Yes, that's right.

2010-07-19T19:28:52Z

Enrique's new track, a toe-tapper, yes, baby I like it.

The synthesizer sounds pretty cool, encourages me to start doing what Enrique does for a living.

Girl, you'll be a woman soon

2010-07-03T20:23:19Z

That's right.

He said "I am the devil, boy. Come with me and we'll make many storms." He offered me the universe, but inside my heart there's a picture of a girl.

2010-06-28T19:26:58Z

Hauntingly beautiful song writing

He said I am the devil, boy, come with me and we'll make many storms. 

He offered me the universe but inside my heart there's a picture of a girl. 

Some call love a curse, some call love a thief but she's my home.

And she's as much a part of this broken heart, see broken bones always seem to mend.

I'll taste the Devil's tears 

Drink from his soul, but, i'll never give up you 

I'll taste the Devil's tears, drink from his soul, but, i'll never give up you

He said I am the devil, boy, come with and we'll break many laws. 

He offered me eternal life, but inside my heart there's a picture of a girl. 

Some call love a work, some call love a thief, but, she's my home. 

And she's as much a part of this broken heart, see broken bones always seem to mend.

I'll taste the Devil's tears, drink from his soul, but i'll never give up you. 

(Buy their music)

~ http://www.angusandjuliastone.com/

Take a nap to this

2010-05-30T20:26:18Z

This is fracking frustrating, flash won't serve

2010-05-26T18:40:49Z

That's when I realized, it's not the flash, it's the HOST.

Ho Ho... I'm the HOST.

(A downside of doing your own web-hosting, intimate knowledge of your IIS server is required).

If you're reading this trying to figure out why flash files aren't be served on a Windows IIS 6 server, read this: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/194/tn_19439.html or, here, I'll paste it here:

You basically need to define the MIME type. Here's how:

On the Windows 2003 server, open the Internet Information Services Manager.
Expand the Local Computer Server.
Right-click the local computer server and select Properties.
Select the MIME Types tab.
Click New and enter the following information:

Associated Extension box: .FLV
MIME Type box:flv-application/octet-stream

Click OK.
Restart the World Wide Web Publishing service.

Here's a screen shot:

Solid website, this 52week shenanigan

2010-05-21T19:59:18Z

A good website template shouldn't move, rock, tilt, rattle. When a user clicks through it's pages, horizontally, the size template should not move. It should be planted stiff and only grow vertically.

If you experience a hop, like I did, it's because of the browser's scrollbar appearing and disappearing. Here's how to enable a scroll bar at all times:

html {overflow-y: scroll;}

Put that in your style sheet and thank me later,

Enjoy.

P.s. Thanks to Dmitry and Faramarz for helping me find the problem, write the source code.

Commute Picture

2010-05-13T19:20:06Z

Summer of 2009, those squeaks, after each step, came from these. 2009 Alpinestars SMX motorcycle track boots. I got a good deal on them! That's why. And incredibly safer, compared to 'urban/low cut' moto shoes, actually, that's really why.

Captured by the iPhone 3G, edited in Photoshop.

Those are my feet, at some gas station in Mississauga. I'm waiting for the guy front of pay for his fuel. I checked my SMS, nothing new to reply to. I had nothing else to do, but take a picture of these bored pair of boots.

Monday, after Mother's Day

2010-05-10T15:40:44Z

Sunday, I was telling my nephew Saeed to try ginger after each round of sushi "it reboots your taste buds" clears and freshens them for the soft and slippery sashimi, for example, that was marinating in a puddle of soy and wasabi until I finished the Spicy Tuna rolls.

It was mother's day, the mom's in my family, and the kids (yes, I'm one of them) were at an Asian restaurant busy with chop sticks and a table decorated with colorful food.

I pinched a layer of pink ginger with my sticks, "this is how you do it" I showed Saeed. I looked up and dropped it my mouth. I'm terrible at expressing my taste buds, but the best I can describe ginger as is as hot, but cold (like mint), spicy and stingy.

It cleared my mouth. I reached for the sashimi.

It's Monday now, I'm at the office, with a desktop full of fresh tasks and news feeds to process. After sending a couple essential, heated emails, I have difficulties now, like now... motivating myself to move on to the next task.

What comes to mind is ginger. I need a ritual to clear the mind after each bang-bang, and move on to the next bang-bang. Otherwise, while I work on the second round of bangs, my mind is still analyzing the previous bang.

Oddly, typing this blog entry... has helped, ok back to work,

Bang bang.

The Perfect Music Video

2010-05-08T21:27:45Z

2010-05-01T20:17:07Z

Pearl.exe Rapes Processor and Sucks Memory

2010-01-24T01:55:06Z

Faramarz and I were baffled, there's a server resource (pearl.exe) hogging the processor on our Windows Server.

When a server slows down, my first reaction is to launch taskmgr.exe to see who's responsible for this debauchery. I notice Pearl.exe raping the processor to 100% and sucking a large chunk of memory.

Picture: taskmgr.exe

Pearl.exe is assigned to our Movable Type websites. We have about 10 of these sites, each share this resource. Operative word: share. When a website goes crazy on a certain resource like Pearl.exe, the processor works extra-hard and the memory consumption extra-high, unfair to other resources.

So what the frack, who's doing this? Each website belongs to a client and their client, impossible to identify the latter, I decide to find the greedy website (our client).

The plan: Give each website a unique User ID/Password with anonymous privileges. Without anonymous privileges, the user surfing the website from their internet browser won't have access, not without credentials.

The Method: (IIS, Folder Permissions, Resource Permissions, to inheirit, or not inheirt, creating ID's, Groups)

Testing Featured Images

2010-01-18T02:52:45Z

Clown on Strike

2010-01-13T20:04:59Z

PendingDelete, says my Domain Registrar

2009-12-22T00:41:15Z

If I report the domain, they know there's interest in the domain and they'll snatch it. Fack, I should I have renewed it on time.

An ulcer, is what poor domain name management offers me.

Reputation and SPF Records

2009-12-21T22:10:24Z