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moving pure-essence.net
January 29th, 2006
moving pe is a big project. right now i’m only 30% of the way there. it was a pain moving all the database due to their sizes but i finally finished it.
i’m taking my time to check out all the wonderful new features & looks that comes with
wp 2.0. while browsing for potential plugins, i found these quite interesting:
fight comment spam plugin (wordpress hashcash)
- i probably will not install this right a way. the fact it uses ajax concerns me. nonetheless this is one of the best comment spamming projects i’ve seen out there. i will keep my eyes on it. during the move, when i was reviewing my comments data, i had to manually delete around 2mb of comments spam that somehow got logged into my table. most of them remind me a lot of
header injection
. so i added a few lines of codes to my post file to hopefully help reduce spams.
// to prevent header injection
if (eregi("\r",$_POST['email']) || eregi("\n",$_POST['email'])) { exit; }
// names must be alpha only
if(eregi("[^a-zA-Z]+", $_POST['author'])) die("Name must not contain characters other than a-z.");
the second part enforces user to enter only alphabetical inputs for the commenter name.
the awesome flickr & wordpress plugin
- now this looks extremely interesting. i will probably install it. i spent a lot of time writing a php gallery script but it might be hard integrating it with wordpress. i love the flexibility of flickr. i think it is a much better choice.
court hearing…..
January 3rd, 2006
today i went to be a character witness for my mom vs. my dad court case. i’m sure that is not something everyone experiences in their lives.
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config gaim for gtalk
December 30th, 2005
i knew you could do this but never tried. so i did it today and it works like charm.
If your like me and use GAIM as an IM client, then you might want to follow these instructions for setting up GAIM to use the GoogleTalk servers.
1. Click Accounts->Add (at the login screen)
2. Under the protocol dropdown choose “jabber”
3. Your screenname is everything before @gmail.com
4. Change server from jabber.org to gmail.com
5. Click show more options
6. Make sure “USE TLS if available” is checked.
7. Connect server should be “talk.google.com”?
8. Password is the same password that you use for gmail
Rock on!
the never ending drama, predicament and grief with my parents
December 23rd, 2005
yes it got me involved yet ONCE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!! i’ve been living on my own for over four years!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i wrote the following email to andy’s family……………
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toyota’s christmas party
December 18th, 2005
i went to andy’s company’s christmas party last night. it was a blast. so much superior than the one they held at ACT (my company). they had an excellent magician from Las Vagas performing. he was hilarious. i laughed a lot during his show. they offered HUGE cocktail shrimp. i filled up my stomach as much as i could. it was my first time seeing a chocolate fountain. you dip fruits like stawberry and pineapple in it to make your own chocolate wrapped fruit. i’m not a chocolate fan but that was certainly fun. they’ve also been giving out prizes all night long. if you win, the minium you get is a $100 gift card/cash. there were a lot of plasma TV, dvd recorder, brand new computer & photo printer, digital recorder etc. jeez i wish i had won any. and the grand prize was a brand new toyota tundra. an old lady won that and she almost fainted. HA. either way i had a great time played in their casino with the fake cash haha. we left a bit early (the party goes to 1am) so we gave all of our raffle tickets to one of andy’s friend. i hope we do win something with our raffle tickets but we won’t find that out until monday. next year i’m definitely taking my camera with me 
misty and bubo’s videos
November 15th, 2005
YAY i got some cutest videos of my puppies online
misty wearing her pink boots and scarf last saturday
this is when misty was little and she was dozing off watching a football game. darn, i guess football isn’t her thing eh?
this is when misty was little and she was sleeping with bubo on their backs. so cute!
wedding videos
November 11th, 2005
i finally got our wedding videos online. thanks to google video hosting!
andy reading the poem he wrote for our wedding
me singing the chinese song “moon represents my heart” for our wedding
you may now view them live
Old cubicle vs. New
October 27th, 2005
So last week I finally moved to a new and bigger cubicle after my promotion in Sept. The new cube is twice as big as the old. I had to take four photos to cover it all. The old one looked very cozy tho.
Old: 
New: 
almost killed by fraud
September 28th, 2005
OMG, this is the closest i ever come to having lost my life.
i’m so scared now i think the entire process over.
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wedding photos
September 14th, 2005
i put up some wedding photos. i might add some more once i get more from a friend
