:: Personal website of a Toronto web designer
Archive, May 2001
Thursday, 31. May 2001
We were down for a bit
[12:00 am]
sashaDesign was down for a couple of hours due to power cut. I am sorry for any inconvenience.
Isn't it time for me to change the profession? Shouldn't I just quit this web design stuff? I really love what I'm doing but I just cannot compete with some guys and their ebay prices.
Tuesday, 29. May 2001
Napster soon to die
[12:00 am]
Nothing lasts forever especially when it is so good as Napster.
Napster is testing the new membership service. 400 000 users have already signed up for the beta test. According to the company the beta test should start in a few next weeks and the new Pay-Napster should start on 1 July. Limited download should cost between 2.95 and 4.95 and unlimited between 5.95 and 9.95 US Dollars.
Opera 5 for Mac Beta 1 released.
Sunday, 27. May 2001
Apache, PHP and MySQL
[12:00 am]
How did you get in here? I know there are many strange ways how people drop by this place but this one made me laugh today.
I had a little bit more time this weekend so that I finally got Apache, PHP and mySQL working together on my local machine. Pretty neat stuff! I know Linux is supposed to be better for that purpose, but I use win2000 :-). One thing I've noticed so far comparing PHP with ASP is that support for connecting to DB is built right into PHP. Less coding I guess. The tutorial on mySQL.com web site helped me a lot to grasp the concept.
Friday, 25. May 2001
Adbusters' Re-design Contest
[12:00 am]
Check out the Adbusters' Re-design Contest. I find this magazine definitely interesting. Reading it you will definitely widen your horizons. Here is the image that I sent to them.
Just in case you get lost in here, I've just created a custom 404 error page exclusively for you.
Wednesday, 23. May 2001
Google: Sasa Kulic
[12:00 am]
This page is finally on the first place if you do a Google search for Sasa Kulic.
The same with AltaVista search.
I am so happy now :-)
Tuesday, 22. May 2001
Webmonkey redesign
[12:00 am]
Webmonkey's front page seems to be different today. It's a strange feeling when you see the new design on a page that hasn't been changed for so long.
Sunday, 20. May 2001
Simmone Jade Mackinnon
[12:00 am]
After a couple of very busy weeks I finally got some rest again and had more then 7 hours of sleep. I cannot remember when it happened last time.
Saturday night is our movie night. This time we watched Attila. An amazing movie. I can only recommend it. Sofia liked Attila (Gerard Butler), but I preferred N'Kara (Simmone Jade Mackinnon) :-)
Today we had a barbecue and played a game of badminton. Yes, there is real flora and fauna out there! Don't miss it!
Friday, 18. May 2001
Independents Day
[12:00 am]
Independents Day
Enrich the Web!
Wednesday, 16. May 2001
Windows 2000, Service Pack 2 released
[12:00 am]
A note for all of you Windows 2000 users:
Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available.
It should fix whole bunch of bugs.
I have a final exam on Friday and don't think I will do well. Math needs time and I am cronically in time trouble.
Monday, 14. May 2001
dvwssr.dll, a backdoor?
[12:00 am]
Big Brother is watching you!
According to the Yahoo article Microsoft has a backdoor password into IIS web servers running FrontPage 98 server extensions.
dvwssr.dll is the key file.
I hate FrontPage extensions!
Sunday, 13. May 2001
My PC keeps crashing
[12:00 am]
It hears me. It knows what I am talking about. No, no I am not sitting to much in front of it, I know what you say . . .
Strange thing have been happening with my new PC since I bought it. The system stops responding occasionally. Everything works perfect until that very moment. Yesterday was one of those good days when it worked like a charm all day long . . . until I said "Sofia, it is amazing, the system haven't . . . " No, it cannot be a coincidence!
I spent some time today to find out what it could be. I think this is what causes the problem. And indeed, since I installed the patch I . . . (pssst).
Italian researchers claim to have found conclusive evidence that life on Earth arrived from outer space.
Why didn't they ask me? I knew that already. I have no proof but it is obvious.
Saturday, 12. May 2001
PixxxelChix
[12:00 am]
Smallest pornographic website in the world!
The PixxxelChix - The 5K 2001 Winner
On the other note, we are down since yesterday.
"The Support Department is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week by email and Trouble Tickets and 9am - 1am PST day Mon - Fri by Toll Free phone."
We'll see.
Thursday, 10. May 2001
Shredder and Ampersands
[12:00 am]
Shredder has different opinion of how my web site should look like.
I don't like horizontal scrolling but everything else looks neat. I might use the suggestion in the next version of sashaDesign.
How should we use the ampersand (&) inside a url for CGI/Server Side Scripting and still get our pages clean when we send them through the W3C html/css validator?
Use & instead of & in your links and everything will be OK.
Wednesday, 09. May 2001
Woob - On Earth
[12:00 am]
Need some inspiration?
I've just downloaded "Woob - On Earth" from Napster. Totally unknown for me. About 46 MB, but it is worth it. Amazing stuff!
Tip while listening: close you eyes, lean back in your chair and enjoy.
Tuesday, 08. May 2001
A tribute to Nikola Tesla
[12:00 am]
Oooh, if I had just 1% of his genious!
Monday, 07. May 2001
I got hacked
[12:00 am]
My development web site at home looked pretty messy today.
Dear Mr. Hacker if you touch my pages please leave them at least well-formated.
I searched through the web to find out how they do this things and I discovered it to a certain degree. It is amazing how simple it is. I am not going to teach you how to do that, because I caused enough trouble to my brother, but I'll give you a useful link. It should save you some time and frustration.
Good luck.
Sunday, 06. May 2001
use.it.or.lose.it
[12:00 am]
Something for all of you Jacob Neilsen fans :-)
Quote of the day: I'm not vegetarian because I love animals, I'm vegetarian because I hate plants.
Saturday, 05. May 2001
A beautiful day, . . . to buy a new book
[12:00 am]
Just a perfect day here in Toronto. Not too hot not too cold.
I couldn't resist and finally bought XML Black Book 2nd Edition.
Friday, 04. May 2001
Steven Spielberg's movie A.I.
[12:00 am]
I am not a big movie fan, mostly because I prefer to spend my time on the net or learning new stuff, but this story made me so curious that I can barely wait to see the new Steven Spielberg's movie A.I. (A.I. - stands for Artifical Intelligence).
The web ring was uncovered after eagle-eyed movie fans did a web search for information on a single clue contained in the film's trailer: Jeanine Salla, sentient machine therapist.
Searching that name led to a website dedicated to the fictitious Bangalore World University, and then on to Salla's own webpage. That page, in turn, links to a number of websites examining the death of someone named Evan Chan, who was allegedly killed by an artificially intelligent being, Scifi.com reports.
Thursday, 03. May 2001
Admin tool
[12:00 am]
I finally managed to write an admin script which would allow me to update this section easily, i.e. without opening DB file directly where actually all this here comes from. I hope this will work smoothly.
I also added exit section which I will update weekly.
Maybe.
Tuesday, 01. May 2001
IIS 5 vulnerability, SELFHTML and Brainrub
[12:00 am]
IIS 5 vulnerability discovered! Unchecked Buffer in ISAPI Extension Could Enable Compromise of IIS 5.0 Server. Microsoft strongly urges all IIS 5.0 server administrators to install the patch immediately.
Funny thing, in the "Technical details" section it says: "Such code would run in the Local System security context. This would give the attacker complete control of the server, and would enable her to take virtually any action she chose." I knew that only women would do such things! :-)
Heh, it is amazing how the log files can become large with this CSS skinning thing :-)
SELFHTML (German language) is on the road again. I am really happy to see it breathing again. Despite the fact that I had been a passive viewer most of the time in the past, I really missed it a lot. I am surely not the only one. I've just posted the first message! I am privileged somehow, it is 6.30 in Germany right now, most forum users are still sleeping. Good luck SELFHTML!
Apparently the board is built using XML technology. I also want to be able to tweak XML code! A good starting point for all of you who have the same goal.
My friend, fellow coworker and a smart guy Adam with a few more smart people has recently launched brainrub. Brainrub follows a simple goal: to help you discover some great sites, useful features and neat stuff. They say: "Think of us like the magazine aisle at the grocery store - you come, you browse, you find things of interest, you smile."
