Like I’ve said, i am t3h awesome @ breaking things
Ok I didn’t really break anything, but pretty close. I’ve found a weakness within my router.

What you need: DGL-4300 (firmware 1.8 tested), software firewall (to look at the logs) or some other port watcher.
To reproduce this, establish as many connection as possible. I had about 5-600 active connections in my p2p prog (shhh ) and get a “all service port” port scan done on your IP from GRC.com. TADA, now watch for activity on your ports. The router lets through port 1031, 1037 TSK TSK TSK. I have no idea why only those ports and no lower ports are getting through Since the scan only scan the first 1064 ports, so I don’t know if any other ports are susceptible. Note that if you only scan a single port, the firewall will do its job just fine. Oh well, it is better than having the router crash when there are too many connection established. I have software firewalls on all the computers on the network anyways. See, just running a router with SPI is hardly enough

(Yes I did a complete scan of my computadors, and they are 100% free of virus, spyware, etc. So none of that stuff is trying to phone-home. How is that for not having anti-virus installed )

You ass nuggets

Oh of course the obligatory intarweb political correct version:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all

I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only “AMERICA” in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual orientation of the wisher.

(Disclaimer: By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher who assumes no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit.)

I updated some code for the page.
I haven’t W3C validated my page in awhile, so I’ve found 1 error with my code. Lets just say I am an idiot. I’ve defined my own tag, which will display just fine in all of the browser, but it isn’t valid xhtml. So I had to use a workaround. Also, some of the posts i used the less than sign for arrow, except that it will not validate. So I just need to remember to type ampersand L T semicolon for that so the validator doesn’t throw a fit

Edit:
I updated the Wordpress core again. I am sticking with the 2.0 branch as it seems like the 2.2 2.3 branch is getting a bit bloated.
I got the site up and running within 20min, down from 1 hour from upgrade last time.

Edit2: Hmmm I been messing with another theme. MAY be i’ll change from this simplistic theme. We’ll see if i can get this other theme displaying as I want.

I’ve found the center of the universe. Giant black hole? Hell no. Giant asshole more like it
(ask me about it )

A few weeks back, I’ve finally switched completely over to Opera. I do miss some of my plugins from FF. Most notably, the menu editor. I’ve customized my menu, but it is just painful. It was done in NOTEPAD. I mean, i love notepad, but it is just so un-userfriendly. Ah well. At least Opera has lots of build in functions, which replaced many of my plugins in FF. I still want my Firebug, FireFTP, FaviconizeTab, etc I may like lean&mean programs, but I do miss all the awesomeness that can be put into FF
Opera, the awesomest fastest browser… and I’ve finally found something that is faster in Firefox than in Opera!
Open a LARGE .txt file and just do a in page text search and do it a few times with both browser. I was amazed when I noticed that Firefox is exponentially faster than Opera
I noticed this when i loaded both my CPU core down to 100% with PCSX2, and was doing in page text search in Opera. It was painfully slow. There is less of a difference in speed within Firefox.

My Opera experience:

What I hate about Opera:

• Speed dial… completely useless. I do not see what the fuss is about.
• Mouse gestures. It is faster with my left hand on the keyboard.
• No find as i type well, not exactly not having it. It requires me to hit the backslash “/” before i type. Where as in FF, i could just start typing.
• No ability to customize the interface like FF. Like placing any menu anywhere to make the interface smaller. See Attached Images at the end, with better explanation.
• Rudimentary AD blocking… Very Meh!
• Can’t rightclick inside a frame and reload inside of the frame only.
• Can’t rightclick and save the background image.
• Can’t centerclick in the bookmarks MENU. It is helpful to open bookmarks in new tabs, or even the whole folder of bookmarks. The sidebar’s bookmarks menu lets me center click folders. I’ve somewhat remedied this by making all bookmarks open in new tabs, even searches open in new tabs. Me like!
• Opera:config seems less powerful than about:config in FF
• Widgets. Enough said
• Spell check of textboxes. Sure I may have hated when it was introduced in FF2, but man do I miss it. I missed it while I am typing up this post… Opera’s spellcheck needs an external program.

What I love about Opera:

• Speed
• Speed
• Speed, Ok fine. I’ll explain the speed. Faster rending speed, scripts run faster, you can go back into your history and they show up almost instantly, and plenty more
• Lots of built in options! So much so that many FF plugins would be obsolete
• Trash can of closed tabs! Sure FF has the “recently closed tabs”, but it is a menu inside a menu. Not as fast as a button menu. I am sure someone could code a plugin for FF with this though.
• You could customize things to place menu items even on the tabs bar! Default has new tab and trash, but you could add other stuff there. Very cool
• What Opera lacks in plugins, it makes up in awesome tiny little code to make new buttons. See HERE.
• Changed theme shows up instantly. No restarting the browser.
• A USEFUL sidebar. FF’s sidebar is a joke, so i never used it. I like how it hides and unhides too. Just click on the left side.
• A forced open “new window” is just a floating window with a tab inside the browser. you can also unmaximize tabbed pages and put it side to side with another tabbed page. VERY VERY cool.
• Right click on a search box and make it into a search in the Opera search bar!

This is what i got so far from the top of my head for likes and dislikes. I am sure I’ll run into more as I use the program some more.

Note: I made the browser window tiny and resized the images so it would fit the format of my blog.
FF With “minifoxflat” theme:

Opera with “Oxid” theme:

Same as above, except I hid the menu:

The Nav buttons and address bar thing cannot be made to occupy the same line as the menus. I added a custom button which has all the menu items, so i could just hide the menu bar, otherwise it would take up too much screen space. Also, see how much more screenspace Opera takes up more than FF with minifox. I could move the Statusbar up where the address bar is to get more space, but status bar is kind weird and it doesn’t set its width well. There should be an option that lets you set how wide the status bar is. (Yes I know breeze micro for opera is very compact, but it is so ugly. And FF+minfox is still more compact without hiding the menu.)

PS: I haven’t made such a long post in awhile. You sure got your money’s worth from this
PS2: Kind weird that Opera is more compatible with badly written webpages than FF. Like the University students I am advising. they are pretty new to writing webpages and their page cannot be rendered correctly within FF. But it works better within Opera. Though, their page is best viewed in IE I may or may not be implying that the pages the students wrote are badly coded

long story short. one of my spam blocker had issues. had to update to the latest version so i am not locked out of my own blog

also, i should update my wordpress core, but man, i don’t really feel like making modifications to the cores i need

Do it and do it well
Failure isn’t an option

How is that for a random thought