Yearly Archives: 2009

Nov 19

Gallery Issue

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Gallery was really the first php app/CMS I ever used, way back with the 1.x version. It was an awesome way to organize all those pictures I had laying around that I wanted to put up on the site. Lately though, I’m finding it to be clunky and overly complicated. Every time I want to change my theme in WordPress I have to fiddle with it in order to get the gallery to display right. I really don’t want to dump all of my pictures into WordPress itself however, since there’s over 1000 of them, and re-categorizing them would just drive me nuts and take way too long. So, I guess I’m stuck using Gallery for now. Maybe the 3.0 version (when its released) will allow for better WordPress integration.

Update Nov 19: Well, I tried the beta version of Gallery3 on another site a few weeks ago and absolutely hated it. Its not all that different from Gallery2. Just too much app for what I need it for. Soo.. today I grabbed the NexGen Gallery plugin for WordPress and so far I am liking it. There are a few things I’m confused by (eg, “gallery” vs “album”) but I think once I work with it some more it’ll be okay. It takes care of my two biggest issues: a) integrating with my WordPress blog and the theme I chose, and b) it gives me an easy way to upload/add/organize the pictures. I can keep the files organized on the server in the same hierarchy and upload new pictures to the folder they go with, and then log into WordPress and add them to the site with just a few clicks. I can even insert single pics into posts pretty easily. MVC_597S

Oct 26

Awesome Phishing Spam

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Below is the awesome phishing spam I got today, sent to my work email address. Apparently I was the only actual user account to get this email. The actual email addresses/domains have been redacted. However, just imagine if you had received this email in YOUR work inbox? The .exe payload was a virus.


From: "System" <redacted@redacted>
To: <redacted@redacted>
Subject: Attention - Mail system upgrade
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:47:54 +0530

Attention!

On October 30, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.

http://updates.redacted.com.secure.s-data1.net/mail/id=7254828-redacted@redacted.com-patch5370226.exe

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.

System Administrator

Oct 04

Pincushion

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Hey, I made “something”.

pincushion top

pincushion top

pincushion bottom

pincushion bottom

Its totally crooked and wonky, but its TINY at appx 3″ by 3″, which is why I included the ruler in the pics. I still need some stuffing and a hand-sewing needle to finish it off.