Are You Going to Finish Strong?

Source: http://www.maniacworld.com/are-you-going-to-finish-strong.html

Where the hell is Matt?

At first you say "WTH?" and then you notice so much of energy that it becomes interesting...



[source: http://wherethehellismatt.com/?fbid=1FFb4WHWFo1]

Well he visited Y! office recently, here is the link



[source: http://ycorpblog.com/2008/08/04/and-now-we-dance/]

Thought of the day

Its about change, the only constant in life. You know its coming, every second and the very next second is different (there is a change). With time and experience, you may be able to identify few changes when and why they are coming; and then there will be few others which you won't be able to. Ask or not, they will come, for good or for bad. And by the human nature, you would resist. Either resist to hold the good times or try to run away from the bad times. But then you will realize, they are already there and the only thing you can do is hold onto yourself and let time flow like a cold breeze. Because when that breeze is gone there will be a new sunshine with new rays of hope. And when you look back on what the bad times have given you, you will see-"Things were not so bad after all."

My Present State of Mind...

Well yeah.. very confused state of mind. But as Neo states it - "The problem is choice". We make many conscious/unconscious decisions on these choices; few are right and few others are wrong. But our present and future both depend on these choices we make at different points of time. I own all my actions and choices i made for whatever reasons i made, after all those choices were my own and its me, only me responsible for it. [:)] No i've not committed anything wrong, its just an illusion between what could be and what can be good for me that confuses me at times. And since i've already made that decision, its time to own it and move on, in a new direction, for a new challenge. For you don't know what lies ahead until you begin the journey... only when you reach there, that you know whether that choice, your own choice that you made in past, was the right one or not... and so i keep walking, on and on and on...

Blind Men and the Cloud

It was six men of Info Tech

            To learning much inclined,

    Who went to see the Cloud

            (Though all of them were blind),

    That each by observation

            Might satisfy his mind

     

    The First approached the Cloud,

            So sure that he was boasting

    “I know exactly what this is…

           This Cloud is simply Hosting.”

     

    The Second grasped within the Cloud,

            Saying, “No it’s obvious to me,

    This Cloud is grid computing…

            Servers working together in harmony!”

     

    The Third, in need of an answer,

            Cried, "Ho! I know its source of power

    It’s a utility computing solution

           Which charges by the hour.”

     

    The Fourth reached out to touch it,

            It was there, but it was not   

    “Virtualization,” said he.

            “That’s precisely what we’ve got!”

     

    The Fifth, so sure the rest were wrong

            Declared “It’s SaaS you fools,

    Applications with no installation

            It’s breaking all the rules!"

     

    The Sixth (whose name was Benioff),

            Felt the future he did know,

    He made haste in boldly stating,           

            “This *IS* Web 3.0.”

     

    And so these men of Info Tech

            Disputed loud and long,

    Each in his own opinion

            Exceeding stiff and strong,

    Though each was partly in the right,

            And all were partly wrong!

[Source: http://www.appistry.com/blogs/sam/the-blind-men-and-cloud]

Apache configuration journal - I

Redirect all requests for any resource to single file

Steps 1: Requires mod_rewrite

Steps 2: Add following line to <APACHE_HOME>/conf/httpd.conf if it doesn't exist.

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Steps 3: Add following lines to .htaccess file in the root directory of your WEBROOT

We are asking apache to redirect all requests which don't have an existing source code to "index.php". This could have been any other existing file in the WEBROOT. This will also prohibit browsing of files in different folders. If you want to enable browsing for folders in your WEBROOT, modify the above .htaccess configuration to

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L]
</IfModule>

PS: This will however expose all the existing directories for browsing by others

However if you want to restrict access to particular type of files, use regex and following kind of configuration in .htaccess

<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

The configuration above says don't serve any file starting in name with ".ht"

To enable php's default compression while delivering any content (Saves bandwidth)

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value zlib.output_compression 16386
</IfModule>

Sunscreen by Baz Luhrman

Probably one of the best videos on Youtube i've seen.

Here are the lyrics http://www.icdc.com/~dnice/sunscreen.html