Lost happily ever after…
by Admin on Apr.12, 2010, under ABC LOST Episodes
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Finally a LOST episode that brings back some of the intrigue and suspense that captivated us in the first episodes. Finally an episode where we actually care about the characters clones/twins or alter dimensional persona/ego living life in the city, having not visited the Island. Hopefully ABC has their writers back on track and we can look forward to more interesting plots with unforeseen turns. I wonder if anyone else would agree, or if I just happened to enjoy this “Lost – Happily Ever After” Lost episode since its the first ‘break’ from annoying (buggy code) server work I’ve had in the last couple days. I hope I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed this episode more than other episodes lately. In fact, I did really enjoy the other recent episodes, not just Desmond’s recent show case with Whitmore or is it Wihtmore or Widmore or simply Witmore, I have no clue. The point is I never really cared for any of the scenes of the alternate reality city characters until now. Next time you think you’re in love at first sight, you’ll wonder if you lived that life in an alternate universe, a parallel dimension. If things continue, I’ll be happy to let them control the horizontal and the vertical into the outer limits in the twilight zone.
If you haven’t had a ticket in 3 years, you are paying too much for Auto Insurance! Not True! Well, only half true, some tickets stay 7 or more years
by Admin on Apr.08, 2010, under Local News
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I recall being lured in by some Auto Insurance companies claiming to give great rates, yet after going through everything and getting some nice quotes. Way at the end, they finally tell me they need to charge a bit higher rates because unfortunately, even though I never had a ticket in over four years, that there was still a speeding ticket on my record. Apparently, if you get a two point ticket, it can stay on your record for around 7 years! What constitutes a two point ticket may vary, in my case I think it was that the speed I was ticketed for was over 100mph on the freeway. I do recall that day, was a nice day sunny day and I was in a hurry back to work to meet some big cheese, well actually some huge cheese, the boss of my boss who apparently needed to see me right away for help on something. Of course, I didn’t mind an excuse to speed having always had a heavy lead foot. Unfortunately my enjoyment was cut short as soon as the pain hit me in the gut while I quickly applied my breaks hoping to reduce the speed registered on his gun. At the rate I was going it was futile to get it under 100mph in time, I think he had me at 112mpg or 119mph. I’ve been a ‘good boy’ since then so I guess tickets do work, at least for those who can’t afford to pay them along with higher insurance rates.
So if you’re on a budget, remember to always keep it under 100! If you’re rich, I’m jealous, guess you can keep on taunting the cops and flooring that porsche!
Bind named and kill 9 it! Yes I’m annoyed with named dns server config changes or nslookup and dig not working with no recurse, non recursive lookups
by Admin on Apr.07, 2010, under Linux Unix Stuff
-->I had not used Bind9 for quite some time and recently I was setting up some domains which I really was not authoritative for, ie Godaddy was actually acting as the real SOA DNS server for it but I wanted to TEST and check if my local configuration was working ok. In the past I would just run nslookup, then tell it to use local server with “SERVER IP” or “SERVER localhost” and then when I did my lookups it would return ONLY what my locally running named domain nameserver replied. Everything I tried this time spewed out only records from the real authoritative name servers at Godaddy, ignoring what my local dns named configuration said. I tried with dig mydomain.com @localhost and others. I even tried dig +trace and dig +recurse=no and I also tried in nslookup doing set recurse=no to disable recursion but nothing I did gave me a non recursive lookup!
What finally worked!? I went to a WINDOWS machine and used NSLOOKUP from the Windows XP machine and again with SERVER command set active (dns) domain name server to the IP of my linux box running named. Hurray, looking up the domains this way now showed me what I had configured my linux servers dns with. It confirmed for me everything on my local linux server was working as planned.
I then realized that this had worked from Windows Desktop because it being an external system, BIND had been configured in named.conf to NOT allow RECURSION to external networks so as to not create an open recursive DNS for the world.
So how can I successfully run a non recursive domain lookup from the linux server running bind 9 named? Do I need to edit /etc/named.conf and disable recursion globally for internal network also and do a quick /etc/init.d/named restart ? (yea, it’s rhel-ish ..)
Or what is the correct OPTION flag/argument for dig or nslookup so I can do no recurse, non recursive domain lookups? How about for reverse dns lookups such as dig -x IP.-in-addr.arpa @localhost ?
Gonna crash for the night so maybe it’ll come to me in a twisted morning dream 
Listen to some great Adriano Celentano songs and music videos!
by Admin on Apr.05, 2010, under Italian Music
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No doubt about it, Adriano Celentano is one of the best things to come out of Italy!
Enjoy – Confessa:
Enjoy – Per Sempre:
What you want more?
7.2 Earthquake is kid stuff, are you ready for the Big One? She’s ready for the Big One, are you?
by Admin on Apr.05, 2010, under Local News
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Yep, she’s ready for the Big One…are you?
Laying out on the beach may in fact be one of the best places to be during the ‘Big One’, the big California earthquake that seismologists have been predicting since time began. Contrary to many fears, it will probably not create killer tsunamis, that would happen if the epicenter was an ideal distance off our coast so that it would send the water towards us.
If you think you’re very safe at home, that you can quickly jump out your window, take a look what’s out your window, a ton of electrical lines and poles ready to fall on you? Gas lines ready to burst and explode all around you? Now you’re beginning to see why enjoying a nice day at the beach away from power lines and gas pipes and other waiting to happen explosions and dangerous chemical leaks.
And no, it isn’t likely that the entire state of California is going to fall into the ocean as you may have seen in some movie, but if that’s the case there’s no point worrying about preparations to survive one is there? (Unless you’re rich enough to keep a long range helicopter at seconds notice…)
If you happen to be home during the Big One, keep in mind Butane and Propane are heavier than air and can accumulate to high concentrations, stay away from gas reservoir tanks or pipes, seal off any valves, and do have some emergency supplies handy. Depending on how bad it is, you should realize it may not be so easy getting drinkable drinking water for a while and there may even be food shortages if its a really bad one destroying transportation. You can worry all you want about flashlights and the like, but what you really need is good access to food and water and safe place to sleep.
Of course it wouldn’t hurt at all to have one of those crank or solar powered radios or even high powered walkie-talkies or shortwave radio transmitters to keep in touch with family or friends and to hear public service announcements from the government. Some areas may see huge increases in violence during such emergencies, so use your own judgement and creativity to protect yourself and your family, the police force will be much too busy with emergency issues to be of any use for anyone’s protection during that time, especially businesses with goods.
Mom admits 15 year old son helped murder bedridden white South African racist farmer, claims was a payment of wages dispute
by Admin on Apr.05, 2010, under Local News
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It was sickening to hear some of the comments over the web nonchalantly condoning such evil barbaric behaviour. Racism exists and will exist forever, it is not bound by any skin color, people of all races have plenty of racists among them but how can people excuse murder if the victim maybe was a racist by someone’s definition? What if that 69 year old bedridden man, who was recovering from heart surgery, was indeed a major racist? It’s ok to murder him in cold blood? What if he even tried to cheat the two black workers and pay them less than agreed, does that make it ok to murder him? Even if he refused to pay at all, is murder in any way excusable!?
Some of the comments I have read on the web read along the lines of “not paying them for there work to feed there families isnt murder?”
This is the same ideology that terrorists all over the world use. They claim it is perfectly OK to murder innocent men, women, and children in retaliation for what they feel is some sort of oppression, or sometimes even for as little as disrespecting their ideology.
Now back to this story, there apparently was a 28 year old worker involved also who struck the elderly 69 year old man laying sick in bed, struck him several times with an iron rod or and/or some machete and a big club according to police and crime scene investigators. After the 28 year old man struck the old man, the 15 year old took his turn, apparently neither of them being disturbed by what authorities said looked more like some animal slaughter house, he was bludgeoned so badly he was barely recognizable!
Police said, Terreblanche was lying on his bed when he was attacked between 5 and 6 p.m. on Saturday. “There was blood all over the place, pools on the mattress, the pillow, the floor and splatters on the walls and ceiling,”
Some blamed the (ANC) African National Congress Youth Leader Julius Malema, saying he spread hate speech that led to Terreblanche’s killing. Malema had led college students in a song that includes the lyrics “kill the Boer.” Boer was used as a derogatory term for whites in the song.
The ANC insists the song is a valuable part of its cultural heritage and that the lyrics — which also refer to the farmers as thieves and rapists — are not intended literally and are therefore not hate speech. This stance by the ANC organization is blatant endorsement of racism itself. No respectable white political organization could get away with such inflammatory racist propaganda and they rightly shouldn’t but respect and trust can only be built through cooperation from both sides. How can they denigrate whites without just giving them more reasons to justify their racist views?
Perhaps this Terreblanche white guy, was a very terrible person, perhaps he deserved to die, perhaps he derserved even more than that gruesome beating to death. He may in fact deserve to burn in Hell forever, but regardless of this, cold blooded murder of a helpless, non-combatant person should never be excused!
(South Africa will soon be the FIRST African nation to host the FIFA WORLD CUP SOCCER TOURNAMENT)
April 5 2010 Godaddy renew or register coupon code works save up to 30%
by Admin on Apr.05, 2010, under Tech and Gadgets
-->I had to renew several domains today, OUCH! I did save some money using Godaddy coupon code gda334a today on 4/5/2010 again this worked as of April 4-5-2010 but it didn’t give me 30% off, I don’t recall exactly but I think it saved me around $10, $12, or $15 dollars max.
It’s unfortunate that many of these coupons do not work for regular renewals, they’re more generous with new purchases etc…but at least it’s something of a price break.
LOST in LOST, again…the devil’s loose from the pit and wants to get out into the world, tricked
by Admin on Feb.21, 2010, under Local News
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Well, after the dizziness and nose bleed inducing time travel watching the last Season of LOST, I thought I had enough. Apparently not, I was lured in again curious to get John Locke back. I really think at this point if John Locke is dead for good, LOST will lose viewers. Locke has become the central figure for the show, unless you watch it for the sappy triangle romance between Jack, Kate, and Sawyer…
The black guy, who appeared once in a while, and now has a good part in Fringe was always very interesting also, something about that guy’s face that is unique and intriguing. I notice that just as with Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia and others, LOST, also seems to borrow a lot from Biblical themes and stories….you could see the black smoke monster as the devil, and Jacob as Jesus, in fact at other times, there were other survivors who portrayed some Jesus like role to die to save others….in the last one I watched you could say they borrowed from Revelation, about the devil being thrown into the pit and then he would be let loose again for a while….the black cloud monster found a way to trick Ben by pretending he was John Locke, into betraying Jacob. Now Jacob though, if really dead, may somehow rise again in some way or in a different ’state’, perhaps they borrow again from Bible with idea of glorified bodies etc…it was interesting that the black monster, ie the ‘devil’ wanted to leave the Island, to go out into the world….i still have some catching up to do, I’ve only seen LAX part 1 and part 2 and I think there were one or two more episodes I haven’t seen yet. I hope we haven’t see the last yet of the ‘real’ John Locke, and I think most are tired and bored of the Sawyer and Kate thing and likely feel more empathy for Juliet….Ben probably would be nice to finally find true ‘conversion’ and redemption from all his ’sins’…..otherwise I think we want him to do some more ‘bad’ things and then watch him get his final justice….
You could also try and see the Jacob and the monster thing from a mormon perspective, ie mormons believing that Jesus and the devil/lucifer were brothers and supposedly God chose one over the other and Jesus’ plan for mankind versus Lucifer’s plan. Perhaps the angle will take a diff turn as I watch the next episodes, will be interesting to see what the deal is with that seemingly parallel universe where they are on the island but are in LA also at the same time….or perhaps it isn’t exactly same time…wasn’t clarified yet…looking forward to see if the ‘beast’, the devil, will escape the Island and get out into the rest of the world, and if he does what will happen etc…or will Jacob rise again in some way and defeat/crush the head of the devil having just bruised his heel in the previous betrayal by Ben who had felt too ignored lately by Jacob and was jealous of John Locke…
And I kind of doubt we’ve seen the last of Juliet….at least I hope we haven’t….
The game is on, Obama’s looking for a team-mate to take on Masachusetts Miracle Scott Brown and his daughter in a two on two Basketball game!
by Admin on Jan.20, 2010, under Local News, The Beginning
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The Herald heralds “He Did It!”. Against all odds conservative Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the blue state of Massachusetts to take over Ted Kennedy’s senate seat.
An email was going around with this “Expect a Miracle” video predicting Scott Brown’s victory:
Here’s a (continue reading…)
The liberals are suckers for good looks! Conservative Scott Brown crowned in Massachusetts!
by Admin on Jan.20, 2010, under Local News, The Beginning
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Bring on the beautiful people! Its liberals’ kryptonite!
See, how could anyone resist?
Seriously though, there could actually be a lot of truth to this. Think about it, would Sarah Palin have made it as far as she did without her looks? Of course she had some bad luck with 30 Rock’s Tina Fey look-alike arch-enemy and the entire liberal world conspiring against her day and night. ( lacking much experience didn’t help either..) But now here we have it again, GQ model Scott Brown (yes he really (continue reading…)
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