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Tekken Movie Trailer

Thomas Hambach — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:28:02 +0000

Even if the story might suck, I’ll be looking forward to the intense fighting scenes… and perhaps the girls in the skimpy suits

Sarcasma, programmer medications

Thomas Hambach — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:12:36 +0000

http://www.sarcasma.net/sarcasma_002.htm

Fun With Fake Facebook Accounts

Thomas Hambach — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:26:04 +0000

Here’s the chat log of my fake facebook account with another fake facebook account… read carefully Anna is the scammer, Jessie is me… Of course I changed the names!

Anna
hun
hi

10:59pm Jessie
mmmmm

11:14pm Jessie
hihi…

10:59pm Anna
how are you

10:59pm Jessie
how’s my little porn star

10:59pm Anna
aaaaaaaaaaaaaah
do you like me

11:00pm Jessie
come on, at least put an effort in your fake pictures
chloe18.com
how many of these profiles do you own anyway?

11:01pm Anna
how many do you have ???

11:01pm Jessie
ehm… you don’t answer a question with a question, bimbo

11:02pm Anna
fuck you

11:02pm Jessie
are you like one of those african scammers? or a polish one?
just out of curiousity
cause otherwise i don’t see the reasoning
you’re not trying to spam
so there must be some reason

11:02pm Anna
Im not from Africa

11:02pm Jessie
or you’re ugly… so… where are you from, bimbo

11:03pm Anna
Lebanon

11:03pm Jessie
ah… what’s the reason for the fake profile?
spam? money? fun? you’re ugly? :P

11:05pm Anna
My real name is Mumet El Baroudi . add me as freind . & you well se my picture .

11:06pm Jessie
you’re from farawayistan…

11:06pm Anna
yes
how do you know

11:06pm Jessie
i read your profile… hah
anyway… doesn’t matter… how come you’re faking profiles?

11:07pm Anna
to get a chips . from Poker
you are so cute and butiful Jessie

11:07pm Jessie
hehe…

11:08pm Anna
realy you are

11:09pm Anna
i just ask an agly men to gave you chips . then they give you a millions . coze Im soo sexy . you know

11:10pm Jessie
haha, yea… they’re prtty dumb… but at least find a different picture… this one is too obvious

11:10pm Anna
hehe ok hun

11:11pm Jessie
you can use those poker chips for changing into cash? or just online?

11:12pm Anna
just on line to play

11:12pm Jessie
ahhh…

11:13pm Anna
i add you as freind on my real profile . plz confeirm me . ok

11:13pm Jessie
okee

11:13pm Anna
see ya there

11:14pm Anna
you have a very nice face

11:14pm Jessie
hihi… thanks

11:14pm Anna
i lve your stile

Making a long story short, even the scammer is an idiot!

Google competing with code search sites

Thomas Hambach — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:46:50 +0000

Google is also starting to compete with code search sites in their organic results! When searching for a PHP function called parse_ini_file I got this result.

google code search

Personally, I don’t really see use in it. Google search is getting a bit too cluttered with all this information.

Reasons why people in IT seem to have a lot of time

Thomas Hambach — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:35:06 +0000

Google Promote

Thomas Hambach — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:54:40 +0000

New to me is Google Promote. I’ve just spotted it today while wasting my time checking where I score for certain terms. You can call me old fashion.

Either way, for this little gimmick to appear you’ll have to be logged in to your Google account. Once you’re logged in you’ll see 2 icons next to your search result. The first one being “Promote” and the second one being “Remove”. If you click promote you’ll see the search result moving to the top of your page. When clicking “Remove” the search result dissapears magically to the bottom of your page. Google has even included a “puffy cloud” that says “poof” when you click this icon!

As for now, i have not seen any change in my search results or comments from other users. Perhaps Google hasn’t released it everywhere yet?

Protect your usb wires… oldskool!

Thomas Hambach — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:42:01 +0000

Just when you think you saw everything… I ended up on a Japanese website that, in contradiction to most of them, for once doesn’t sell some weird cartoon porn. It’s quite possible that the people who invent those Japanese toys and products have too much time on their hands.

So here it comes! Protect your usb wires.. oldskool! With this slick combination lock, it will for sure take the criminal trying to use your precious mouse at least 5 or 10 minutes! Don’t wait any longer, get in touch with Thanko today and order your personal USB lock! *eek*

http://thanko.jp/usblock/

What?! You Didn’t Google Him?

Thomas Hambach — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:58:07 +0000

When you’re applying for a job, especially if it is in the IT sector, it’s getting quite common for an employer to look for you on any search engine. But shouldn’t we start Googling our (blind?) dates? Who knows, he might just be that old dirty guy from around the corner!

Yipikayee, I’m a Google Adwords Qualified Professional!

Thomas Hambach — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:14:22 +0000

After working for a Search Engine Advertising company for about 2.5 years, I’ve finally taken the Google Adwords exam and am now a Google Adwords Qualified Professional! My thanks go out to Wim, Fiorella & Annelies for their assistance!

hostgator upgrades all their servers to PHP & MySQL 5

Thomas Hambach — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:03:05 +0000

I was very pleased to receive an e-mail from hostgator today, in which they stated that they will be upgrading all servers to have MySQL 5 and PHP 5 installed by default! I hope this will send out a message to the other hosting firms, which would finally allow us to start using PHP5 in all our opensource projects.

Hostgator e-mail:

Dear HostGator clients,

As technology continues to advance and evolve, HostGator has always aimed to stay at the forefront of the technological curve. Following this trend to provide the most up-to-date hardware and software, we are proceeding with making PHP5 part of the standard working environment on all of our servers, as well as upgrading MySQL from version 4.1 to 5.0.

These upgrades will be on all new servers launched from this point forward. As of March 8th , 2008, we will begin converting current production servers to this new environment as well. We are aware that differences in PHP4 and PHP5 can lead to minor problems and instabilities in certain scripts, and are taking every measure possible to ensure your websites continue to function. This includes testing scripts that may conflict with the upgrade and automatically upgrading your code to a problem-free, stable and PHP5 compatible version. The MySQL upgrade may have minor issues as well, which will be handled in a similar manner.

This upgrade process is going to be as automated as possible, but we understand that some customers may wish to handle upgrades themselves. All servers and accounts will be upgraded to PHP5 and MySQL 5, but if you wish to handle the upgrading of any incompatible scripts yourself, please visit ( http://www.hostgator.com/php5opt-out/ ). By authenticating your login credentials on this page, you confirm that you wish leave any incompatible common scripts as they are.

With that said, only a very small percentage of customers will be affected by this, as nearly all PHP scripts have been upgraded to comply with the PHP5 standards over the past few years. MySQL 5 has also been proven stable and the upgrade will be as streamlined as possible. Of those customers still concerned or looking for more information, please read this forum post ( http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?p=101443 ) regarding the upgrade process. Any news or progress updates will be posted there.

If you are a reseller and wish to opt out of the automatic upgrade procedure, please note that all of your underlying customers will be affected by your opt-out decision.

This upgrade will help HostGator provide the most up-to-date, reliable and secure software to better meet the ever changing needs of it’s customers. PHP5 and MySQL 5 provide many new features and offer much more design flexibility for scripts written with the changes in mind. In the future, we intend on upgrading to the latest available Apache versions as well. We’ll be following a strict upgrade procedure to minimize any problems that could potentially occur.

Any future upgrades will follow a similar process with minimal conflicts and downtime. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation, and thanks for choosing HostGator!