Apparently, UFC Pres. Dana White felt like Shogun won too. That’s one thing about Dana White, he’ll tell you what he really thinks and you got to love that. When asked about another fight, a controversial call by veteran Ref Steve Mazzagatti, White said he that he “shouldn’t even be allowed to watch MMA, let alone referee it.”

(video after the jump)

At least there’s a Machida / Rua rematch coming…

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That’s why, and I’m late in implementing it, that I’m turning the site pink and slapping a nice little ribbon up top. All just a reminder that the boobies are important. The boobies are critical. The boobies are love.

Since this month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, lets be aware of the boobies. Do your part in making sure they’re taken well care of. They deserve it. Also, any monies raised via ads from my goofy site during the month of October, will go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure fund. So, if you like boobies, and want to help me help them…click some ads, buy some crap. Lets do this together! It only helps the…yeah that’s right…the boobies.

For real info about breast cancer awareness, or just better than some random guy’s blog, hit up the Susan G. Komen site where its chalked full of info, resources, and all your boobie awareness needs.

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Saturday night we saw a phenomenal DJ named Bassnectar. I’d suggest checking him out. Amazing sold-out show he put on at a club called La Zona Rosa in downtown Austin. 3 + hours of non-stop beats and this guy was killin it.

Sunday was just a day to walk S. Congress and do a little shopping. Kinda slow…my kind of day.

All-in-all, the trip to Austin was a blast. I’m ready for some “relaxation” vacation now…

Gallery of ACL Randomness

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If you’ve got an XP machine and are not planning on updating it to Windows 7, check out this little gem that turns your ordinary XP taskbar in to the new Windows 7 "pin" look and feel.

ViGlance is freeware that adds this funcitonality. While the footprint is 10MB, its not too bad considering what its doing. It also adds that nifty thumbnail preview of pinned items and replaces that boring old-school start button to a Windows 7 orb.

Check it out.

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So, I have an ESXi 4.0 server here at home that runs a Linux server, a windows 2003 server and other various guest OS flavors. As of ESX 4.0, the client was renamed and updated to vSphere Client instead of vMWare Infrastructure Client. That client piece is the piece that lets you modify your ESX host and all of its virtual machines, datastores, network, etc…

As luck would have it…the client doesn’t work under Windows 7. Blast! You get this error:
Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file.

With Google and a little patience, I got it working again – for the first time.

Here’s a little rundown of how to get VMWare’s latest client product to work under Windows 7:

For starters, your system needs a file from Microsoft’s .NET Framework on an earlier system of Windows. I got mine from an XP machine.

1. Obtain a copy of %SystemRoot%\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\System.dll from a Windows Vista or below that has .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.
2. Create a folder on your Windows 7 machine where the vSphere client is installed and copy the file from step 1 into this folder. For example, create the folder under the vSphere client launcher installation directory (%ProgramFiles%\\VMware\\Infrastructure\\Virtual Infrastructure Client\\Launcher\\Lib+).
3. Now we need to tell the vSphere client that we’re going to run the product in Development mode. So, in the vSphere client launcher directory, open the VpxClient.exe.config file in a text editor and add a <runtime> element and a <developmentMode> element as shown below. Save the file.
   
<configuration>
...
<runtime>
<developmentMode developerInstallation="true"/>
</runtime>
</configuration>

4. Create a batch/cmd file (e.g. *VpxClient.cmd*) in the same location. In this file add a command to set the DEVPATH environment variable to the folder where you copied the System.dll assembly in step 2 and a second command to launch the vSphere client.
   
SET DEVPATH=%ProgramFiles%\\VMware\\Infrastructure\\Virtual Infrastructure Client\\Launcher\\Lib
"%ProgramFiles%\\VMware\\Infrastructure\\Virtual Infrastructure Client\\Launcher\\VpxClient.exe"
5. Replace the shortcuts in the start menu to point to the batch file created in the previous step. Change the shortcut properties to run minimized so that the command window is not shown.
   You can now use the VpxClient.cmd (or the shortcut) to launch the vSphere client in Windows 7.

Note that this workaround bypasses the normal .NET Framework loading mechanism so that assembly versions in the DEVPATH folder are no longer checked.

Big up to Fernando from the VMWare Communities forum for writing this up. I changed a few things form his original post but follow these steps and you’ll vSphering in Windows 7.

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A co-worker of mine shared this little gem, and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. I can just think of the times I’ve been to Wal-Mart recently and thinking that I would’ve Bingo’d easy in a matter of minutes.

Take this with you during your next trip…and yell out “Bingo” when you win. Its not so much that you won or anything…but a fun game that probably leave you in stitches.

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It’s not easy to stay in touch with friends and family when you’re fighting in a country thousands of miles from home. I spent 13 months in Iraq as an Army journalist where I flew in Black Hawks over Balad and Baghdad working to generate news coverage about my fellow soldiers. The whole experience was physically and emotionally draining, but it was especially difficult when I called home at the end of the day and nobody was there to answer.

For servicemen and women who are constantly on the move, having a single number and an easy way to retrieve messages from loved ones can be invaluable. To help our service members communicate with their loved ones and show our support to those serving our country, Google is launching a new program. Starting today, any active U.S. service member with a .mil email address can sign up for a Google Voice account at www.google.com/militaryinvite and start using the free service within a day.

When you deploy, your life is put on hold. While you live and work in a different world, everyone else moves on with life back home. Your family and friends keep moving, and this sometimes means it’s just not possible for them to stay awake until 2 a.m. to receive a phone call. Calling Iraq or Afghanistan is seldom an option.

Google Voice provides a solution to some of these problems. Service members can set up an account before they deploy. Or if they’re already deployed, families can now set up an account for their service member. Loved ones can call to leave messages throughout the day, and then when that service member visits an Internet trailer, all the messages are right there. It’s like a care package in audio form.

Sergeant Dale Sweetnam, US Army

I’m really glad that Google’s doing this. This could mean the difference between families getting to leave daily voice mails and just simple “hellos” from home and only being able to occasionally get or make a phone call or a letter. This “Google” way, the service men and women have the opportunity to listen to these messages when they get the chance to get online. Whether that’s daily or weekly for them, it’s nice to see a system like this in place and a company like Google championing getting military families in touch a little easier.

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At work, we’ve already jumped ahead and bought an IBM Blade Center with 10 blades to run this thing, we just haven’t had the knowledge and experience to set things up properly or really know the ins and outs of the systems and how to create them using VMware’s “best practices.” This week has been a complete eye opener for me.

I enjoyed this experience immensely, but of course when you get back to the “real world” its the same old grind. Trying to take what we learned this past week to the production environment is still laced with tons of red tape and political decisions that are out of our control. Basically, we cant exactly do what we learned…we’re doing what they’ll let us do which is a little disheartening.

All that to say, I’m very excited to have this new found knowledge and sometime soon becoming a VCP.

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It started off with me starting to feel bad on Friday and just escalated from there. All weekend I felt like crap, forcing me not to go to Church on Sunday and missing both Monday and Tuesday of work.

To make things just a bit more exciting, I got to have another root canal on Monday afternoon. After that, I was in a great mood! Jumping into the car, and forgetting that the A/C in the car wasn’t working properly, this is image is what my reality was.

Also on Monday, the A/C unit on my renter’s house stopped working. In the thick of the Oklahoma heat, this is no good. I started calling around to local A/C places to find out that they couldn’t come out and look at it until like Thursday or Friday. Obviously, I couldn’t expect my renter to wait that long so then came the favor calls.

I ended up calling a friend of a friend, and it paid off big time. He was able to get it up and running at 3am. Yeah…that’s right. This dedicated guy came over to my rent house at midnight and didn’t leave until 3am. What a guy! All was good, until…

The next day, during the hottest part of the day too, it failed again. This time, all the refrigerant had leaked out due to a bad valve and they’re back to where they were…hot as hell in the house. Another call, lots of freon, lots of sweat from my renters coupled with their patience; and its cold and working again.

Hopefully it will stay that way.

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He’s a great guy to give his buddy one of his MacBook’s that he wasn’t using…especially since at that time I wasn’t a Mac enthusiast. That all changed last February when I got a call from @justinshattuck that he wanted me to come over and look at some stuff we were going to be starting to work on. During the course of this conversation, I was offered this glorious piece of hardware and absolutely fell in love with it.

Now I understand what Mac enthusiasts have claimed all along…there’s just nothing that compares to using a Mac. It’s sleek, its sexy, it works (almost ALL of the time) without reboots, memory leaks, etc… It just works!

I will admit it was hard making the switch after being a career-long PC user, but after about a week or two…there was no turning back.

Upgrades

After just a few months, I ran into a problem with the MacBook. It had a small hard drive. It was only 60GB, and that’s not near enough for a digital packrat like myself. After suffering long months, and constantly moving things back-and-forth to make enough space to do whatever it was I needed space to do…I finally sprung for a new hard drive. Luckily, these are easy to swap out.

I’ve got instructions & pictures of how to swap out a MacBook hard drive after the jump.

To swap out a hard drive, it really doesn’t take much time or effort. Just some finger crossing and relying hard on your previous backups. The route I chose isn’t the only way to restore data, but it worked out beautifully for me.

Here are some thing’s you’ll need:

• Coin
• Phillips screwdriver (#1) if possible
• Torx (T-8) driver
• Patience

Here we go…

1. Shut it down and wait for a little while for the internal components to cool down…
2. Unplug everything…
3. Flip it over and use the coin to release the battery
   
4. Once the battery is removed, touch a piece of metal inside the case to discharge any static electricity.
5. Remove the three screws
   
6. Pop that “L” bracket out. Your hard drive is on the left-hand side.
7. Slide the old hard drive out using the nifty tab.
   
8. Remove the little case that surrounds the hard drive using your Torx T-8…and add it the same way to your new drive.
9. Now, just the reverse of the above directions…
10. Put the new drive in and tuck its tab underneath it.
11. Replace the “L” bracket
    
12. Put the battery back in & boot up with the OSX install DVD.
13. Got to Utilities > Disk Utility and format the new drive to the appropriate specifications you want.
14. Restore your old data whatever way you choose…

There you go…you’ve now replaced your old hard drive with a new one. I went from a 60GB to a 500GB.

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Since I don’t subscribe to to own feed (I’m not that vain), I didn’t see that it wasn’t displaying. It essentially was blank with an error.

Checking out FeedValidator.Org, I saw that it not only wasn’t validating, it had errors on lines 1 and 2…which were empty. Empty I said? Good thing FeedValidator is so smart, it knew what I was using (WordPress) to produce the feed then offered some suggestions to fixing it.

I guess it’s a known problem with some plugins and theme files having empty lines after or before their relative opening <?php or closing ?> tags.

So began the journey to find out what was causing this…

Per FeedValidator’s recommendation, I checked wp-rss2.php and wp-atom.php both of which were fine. Then checked wp-config to see if the problem was there…still no love. I checked my theme’s functions.php file since I use that immensely in customizing the look of this blog but it too didn’t have any empty lines. Next step…checking all the plugins.

For some reason, I started alphabetically from the bottom and checked WP-Super-Cache. Boom. There’s the culprit. Right at the end of the file there was a ?> followed by two empty lines. I deleted those, and all-of-the-sudden the feed validated again. W00t.

Now you 30 people or so that subscribe to my feed…it’s working again. Thanks for hanging in there.

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What is with most people nowadays? Do we all just think that we are the most important person around? Is everyone so ideal and individualistic? What gives?

My mother and father taught me well when I was young. They taught me respect, courtesy and chivalry. Are all three dead now? I think they are for a lot of people. If we’re wanting a better world, a better place for our children; shouldn’t we be practicing these fundamental things?

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While on Google’s Webmaster Tools page, I noticed this little gem:
<script type="text/javascript">
var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = 'http://www.mydomain.com';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js"></script>

Since users need to find what they’re looking for within 7 seconds to avoid them leaving your site…use this little guy to help out. It will make it easier for them to find the information they’re looking for. So, you’re probably wondering, “What does that do to help me?” Good question, here’s a rundown of what Google says:

• It adds a search box for your site with appropriate search suggestions.
• It tries to provide alternatives to incorrect URLs.

So to make this thing a little more WP friendly, I added the <?php bloginfo('url'); ?> to that GOOG_FIXURL_SITE variable in the script and shebang, it’s working like a charm. Now, add it to your 404.php file in your template directory and users might thank you.

Here’s what it should look like sitting in your 404.php file:
<script type="text/javascript">
var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = '<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js"></script>

If you really want to tweak how this gadget looks, Google’s provided custom classes that its script uses to give you full customization.

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Everything I found was for either comments only, or simply didn’t accomplish what I wanted. So I sat down, dissected Matt Freedman’s Twitter Links to see how he did this with comments, bounced the idea off of @justinshattuck and @tshaiebly, and then added a little more functionality as far as being able to do the same with post and page content as well as comments. So its a trifecta!

You can jump on over to the Plugin page to see more about it.

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Not too long ago, someone exploited by non-updated WP installation. And in the process, injected <IFRAMES> all over the place. They even managed to infect all files ending in .html with a trojan. Weird, but it happened.

So I took the site down for a while, launched a photoblog…then tonight, up late and in the the mood for some Wordpress bench presses, I decided to bring back TQuizzle.com with a “sha-bang”! All the content is still here, none of it really worthwhile, but I just decided to ditch my old “BlueQ” theme for this simple one.

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Basically, I’m just too busy to write much anymore. Writing takes time, and time is something that is so precious these days. What with meetings during the week (after my day job), preparations to go on a mission trip soon, side business, and working at the Church…I just don’t have any “free” time anymore.

That said, I can’t say that I’m unhappy with this scenario. Right now, my life is good, my family is good, my work is good, my side work is great, and all-in-all…I’m feeling good. That’s the most important thing.

Maybe soon I’ll write, code, or something on here…but for right now — I think I’ll wait.

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Journey Lives in Tulsa.

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BuyMMOAccounts.com (BMMOA) is a new site out there for all you WoW players who are looking for an edge. They have a 100% account guarantee of the account you purchase so you can count on your purchased character to be legit. Check them out: buy WoW account.

While the buying and/or selling of MMO accounts is a direct violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Service, if you’re willing…they will provide. They also have a “real” security guarantee; that when you purchase your account, they provide you with all the data you need to protect your account.

Please note: There really is no way to prevent your new account from being “reclaimed” by the original owner but, BMMOA is the best there is when it comes to reclaim rate. They’re the lowest I could find at 1.2% of accounts ever being reclaimed and boast a 95% success rate of returning any compromised accounts back to the original owner.

• If your World of Warcraft account is found to be compromised by the original owner at any time during the life of the account we will do everything possible to return that account to you. If we are unable to return your account to you, you will be compensated with a new account of equal or greater value of your choice from our large inventory of accounts.
• If your World of Warcraft account is found to be disabled by Blizzard Entertainment for a non-negligent act of your own at any time during the life of the account we will do everything possible to have the account re-opened. If we are unable to return your account to you in fully working condition, you will be compensated with a new account of equal or greater value of your choice from our large inventory of accounts.

Do you have any questions regarding this process? No problem, check the website or call toll-free and someone will assist you. They have email, phone and even live chat support. How’s that for service?

So, say you have an account that you don’t use…or would like to dump to make some quick cash. BMMOA is available for that too. They’d love to purchase your account for top dollar. Simply fill out the form, wait to be contacted with a quote, then follow the directions. Leery about that? Concerned that they might rip you off? Have a lawyer fax them an agreement for the purchase of your WoW account and they’ll promptly sign and return it. Why would they go through that trouble? Because they want you to be comfortable selling your accounts online with them.

So, if you’re hunting for a good WoW account…point your browser to BuyMMOAccounts.com

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