Friday has arrived and I'm estatic about it. This week has been so busy when dealing with school homework/assignments/quizzes/labs. I really thought it would be less busy after the mid-term but boy was I wrong. My online quiz on Tuesday night proved to be very drama filled. It included forgetting to open up a critical data sheet and then logging onto another computer to see if I could open it up without logging me out of the computer I was doing the quiz on. Luckily it worked, but then I ended up having to run back and forth from computers to attain numbers to answer my questions. During this process I stubbed my toe on the couch, ouch. Then with 15 minutes remaining until midnight (when the quiz was due) my internet cut out! I debated on what the problem was so I wiggled the cable for my modem box and the internet came back with 10 minutes remaining on my quiz. Not knowing if it logged me out of my quiz when it disconnected I crossed my fingers and clicked the "next question" button. To my relief it worked. I got a 9/10 on it eventually. Was it worth it? Not for all that drama. The next night was filled with lab writeup. I was almost finished by 1AM when I realized I made a HUGE mistake and I had to redo most of the lab. So I was finished my lab by 4am, gross. Yesterday I had a very easy lab though and we were the second group done and left an hour before lab time was up.....sweet! And today is Friday! All I have is a one hour lecture then I'm going to take my car in for a Type 1 maintnance.....oil change heh. Tomorrow I will be going to Christians for his bbq birthday party, and I'm looking forward to it. Should be good times. Anyways I better get going to class, going to be late!
pieces,
Alex.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Thursday, August 04, 2005
You and Me Go Fishing in the Dark......
Andrew, you and I have to DEFINITELY find this fishing spot and get into fly fishing!
mmmm Fishing :D
-Alex 2005
mmmm Fishing :D
-Alex 2005
Soccer Anyone?
We are definitely playing this team! hehe.
I vote the Crazy 88's play this soccer team :D
-Alex 2005
I vote the Crazy 88's play this soccer team :D
-Alex 2005
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Can't win them all.....
Our Football game on Monday was probably the best comeback ever by the Crazy 88's and to be a part of it was a fantastic feeling. For most of the game we were down about 12-14 points but slowly decreased their lead by the time 5 minute warning came up in the last half. At 5 minute warning both teams are allowed 4 plays each to get one last attempt of scoring. The score was 58-52 for them and they had first possession. After 4 nail biting downs we managed to stop them a few yards away from a touchdown and it was our go at it. Our first down brought us a quarter of the way up the field, our second down was incomplete and our 3rd down brought us to the halfway mark of the field. It was now or never, our 4th down was a hail mary into the endzone and was caught by Christian (Jacklyn's friend) and we had just tied it up!!!! We were already celebrating but then we still had a convert to complete. We decided to go for the much easier 1 pointer (rather than the 2 pointer) and get our W. Christian caught it again for a 59-58 win for the Crazy 88's!!!!!!! Woooohoooo!!!!! Usually being on the Crazy 88's means that you are usually on the losing side of a clincher but this time around we were on the winning side, and it felt damn good! Yeah that's right, it wasn't just good, it was damnnnnnnnnnnn good.
The very next evening it was the Crazy 88's weekly venture into soccer. As of late we have really done well and we went into this game with a 7-3 record. Which is spectacular because if you ask anyone after our first two games we thought we were going to be spanked each and every game. But with the addition of AJ to our line up and our increased skills in passing, defence, offense and aggresiveness we have managed to get 7 W's. However this night would prove to be fruitless. We played our heart out but started losing very early in the game when a kick from just over half sailed right into the net. Then a corner kick was headed in from a rebound and the last goal was a pass that shouldn't have gotten through. The first two goals were pretty flukey and the first one was assisted by the Sun being in our eyes. The second goal was pretty flukey as well, and the well the third one was pretty flukey too as the pass went through 2 sets of legs to find the person waiting in front of the net that I should have been covering, so I feel pretty bad about it. The team we played were a cheap and hardcore bunch. They would tell us to take it easy if we nudged them but then they would do the exact same thing to us. They would run over our girls and they even pulled up their goalie into our crease during corner kicks (even though they would be winning by 3 goals already). After the game I was still pretty worked up about it, and realized one thing about it after. I hate playing defence. I think I like playing mid-field the most.
Anyways that's good for now. Way to go Crazy 88's! Keep up the effort!
pieces,
Alex.
The very next evening it was the Crazy 88's weekly venture into soccer. As of late we have really done well and we went into this game with a 7-3 record. Which is spectacular because if you ask anyone after our first two games we thought we were going to be spanked each and every game. But with the addition of AJ to our line up and our increased skills in passing, defence, offense and aggresiveness we have managed to get 7 W's. However this night would prove to be fruitless. We played our heart out but started losing very early in the game when a kick from just over half sailed right into the net. Then a corner kick was headed in from a rebound and the last goal was a pass that shouldn't have gotten through. The first two goals were pretty flukey and the first one was assisted by the Sun being in our eyes. The second goal was pretty flukey as well, and the well the third one was pretty flukey too as the pass went through 2 sets of legs to find the person waiting in front of the net that I should have been covering, so I feel pretty bad about it. The team we played were a cheap and hardcore bunch. They would tell us to take it easy if we nudged them but then they would do the exact same thing to us. They would run over our girls and they even pulled up their goalie into our crease during corner kicks (even though they would be winning by 3 goals already). After the game I was still pretty worked up about it, and realized one thing about it after. I hate playing defence. I think I like playing mid-field the most.
Anyways that's good for now. Way to go Crazy 88's! Keep up the effort!
pieces,
Alex.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Long Weekend.....
It's civic day this Monday which I believe is Heritage Day in Alberta. I get the day off so its my second long weekend in a row. I hope to go fishing, but I don't think that will happen as I wake up so late (11pm!), yeah I'm a bum. I am however pretty stoked for football this Monday. Hopefully we kick some ass and remain in first place! Today I will be going to a bbq at Tuyet's and then perhaps some evening fishing? Hmmmm sounds like a plan. Anyways time for some sushi breakfast and then off to the bbq!
pieces,
Alex.
pieces,
Alex.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
¿Hola cómo es usted?
It's been so long since I've last posted! Why? I'd like to give you some kind of decent excuse as to how busy I was but in all honesty I was just plain ol' lazy. What's new with me though? I'll try to list it all to the best of my abilities.
- The Crazy 88's Soccer team has improved ten fold! Not without the help of a new recruit by the name of AJ. He's 15 and has the stamina of a horse and the skill of Pele....well heh not that much skill but he has some pretty good skills that has given him at least one goal per game. As for the rest our team we have improved a lot since our first two games of the year. Our passing is really good now and our goalie is amazing as well. We still have to practice clearing the ball out of our zone when we get a goalie kick and perhaps better coverage of your position. But besides that we have been doing awesome with a 5-3 record! Yeah who knew we could actually win 1 game let alone 5? Crazy! Go Crazy 88's!
- I recently joined the Crazy 88's city football team as well. My first game was yesterday and we destroyed! We are in the beginner's league but yesterday we played like pro's. All 6 of us managed to catch one or run one into the endzone. At first I wasn't going to play in this league because I didn't think I'd have time too. But a few people have screwed over Andrew by either quitting the team or not showing up at all when they said they would. So yesterday he was pretty screwed, the game is 5 on 5 and he only had 4 on his team, so he asked me to play and I agreed. And I am glad I did because it was a lot of fun! Tuyet was out there too, not playing, but cheering us on. She is now officially the Crazy 88's cheering section, heh.
- The entire team (5 + Tuyet) went to Yamato for 20% off sushi right after the game. And I must say I was very impressed! Usually Tuyet and I don't stray away from our love of Sakana but we decided to try it as the rest of the team was going. And I'm glad we did! It was so yummy! Usually when Tuyet and I go to Sakana we order the 30 piece love boat plus extra sushi on the side. But even after all that sushi we don't feel satisfied at times. However at Yamato we had 8 pieces of sushi and it was so filling and satisfying! That's because each piece of sushi was huge and the rice was so little. It was so big that I had trouble picking up the pieces of sushi at times! Crazy! We are definitely going back more often. Sorry Sakana....feels like we're cheting on you but we have found better....hehe.
- I went on an amazing trip to Saskatoon with Tuyet during Canada Day Long weekend. I didn't go visit old friends because I didn't feel the urge too. But I went back to see the place where I grew up for 15 years of my life. It was heartwarming to see my old schools and my old house and all the other landmarks that I remembered from my child hood. We did so many things together and took so many pictures (about 300pics!) and stayed at a fancy hotel to boot! We booked a Signature Club room with a guaranteed 6th floor room (8 levels total) and a river view. It was awesome. I have so much more to write about this trip so I'll leave it out for a later post that I can devote entirely to the trip.
- Chris's Birthday is coming up on August 6th, kinda stoked about it as partying with those guys is always fun. I wonder what a guy like him could use for his birthday. Stripper? Haha. Actually sounds like he is going to through a BBQ in his backyard, weather permitting of course. Now we just need games/activities to plan and play.
That's pretty much all I can think of to update at the moment, and I promise to try harder to update. I will also bring my camera out to the soccer game today and try to take some sweet pictures and post them up too. But that's it for now!
pieces,
Alex.
p.s. Andrew if you read this, we have to go fishing again....and sometime soon!
- The Crazy 88's Soccer team has improved ten fold! Not without the help of a new recruit by the name of AJ. He's 15 and has the stamina of a horse and the skill of Pele....well heh not that much skill but he has some pretty good skills that has given him at least one goal per game. As for the rest our team we have improved a lot since our first two games of the year. Our passing is really good now and our goalie is amazing as well. We still have to practice clearing the ball out of our zone when we get a goalie kick and perhaps better coverage of your position. But besides that we have been doing awesome with a 5-3 record! Yeah who knew we could actually win 1 game let alone 5? Crazy! Go Crazy 88's!
- I recently joined the Crazy 88's city football team as well. My first game was yesterday and we destroyed! We are in the beginner's league but yesterday we played like pro's. All 6 of us managed to catch one or run one into the endzone. At first I wasn't going to play in this league because I didn't think I'd have time too. But a few people have screwed over Andrew by either quitting the team or not showing up at all when they said they would. So yesterday he was pretty screwed, the game is 5 on 5 and he only had 4 on his team, so he asked me to play and I agreed. And I am glad I did because it was a lot of fun! Tuyet was out there too, not playing, but cheering us on. She is now officially the Crazy 88's cheering section, heh.
- The entire team (5 + Tuyet) went to Yamato for 20% off sushi right after the game. And I must say I was very impressed! Usually Tuyet and I don't stray away from our love of Sakana but we decided to try it as the rest of the team was going. And I'm glad we did! It was so yummy! Usually when Tuyet and I go to Sakana we order the 30 piece love boat plus extra sushi on the side. But even after all that sushi we don't feel satisfied at times. However at Yamato we had 8 pieces of sushi and it was so filling and satisfying! That's because each piece of sushi was huge and the rice was so little. It was so big that I had trouble picking up the pieces of sushi at times! Crazy! We are definitely going back more often. Sorry Sakana....feels like we're cheting on you but we have found better....hehe.
- I went on an amazing trip to Saskatoon with Tuyet during Canada Day Long weekend. I didn't go visit old friends because I didn't feel the urge too. But I went back to see the place where I grew up for 15 years of my life. It was heartwarming to see my old schools and my old house and all the other landmarks that I remembered from my child hood. We did so many things together and took so many pictures (about 300pics!) and stayed at a fancy hotel to boot! We booked a Signature Club room with a guaranteed 6th floor room (8 levels total) and a river view. It was awesome. I have so much more to write about this trip so I'll leave it out for a later post that I can devote entirely to the trip.
- Chris's Birthday is coming up on August 6th, kinda stoked about it as partying with those guys is always fun. I wonder what a guy like him could use for his birthday. Stripper? Haha. Actually sounds like he is going to through a BBQ in his backyard, weather permitting of course. Now we just need games/activities to plan and play.
That's pretty much all I can think of to update at the moment, and I promise to try harder to update. I will also bring my camera out to the soccer game today and try to take some sweet pictures and post them up too. But that's it for now!
pieces,
Alex.
p.s. Andrew if you read this, we have to go fishing again....and sometime soon!
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Crazy 88's venture into Soccer wasn't so crazy.
On Thursday the 16th of June @ 9PM MST, The Crazy 88's tried their hands... or rather feet at the sport of soccer (futbol?). It was a late time to play and proved to be quite the work out as well. We joined the rec league which was supposed to have less "hardcore" players but from our first encounter we know better now (they were pretty hardcore with matching jerseys!).
We were pretty unorganized on the field and at times lacked any real knowledge of how to play the game at all. The other team capitalized on our lack of "know how" and even though being substantially better than us still thought it was a good idea to cheat and be offside for many of their attacks and goals. Now we had a below average goalie in net for our side,a mediocore defensive line and no real forwards to lead any kind of attack so we were nothing more but annoying pylons to the other team at times. And all of this was just on the field.
Off the field we were victims of brutal mosquito attacks. And after our record rain falls for the month of June there were a lot of hungry mosquitos waiting to feed on our blood while we stood on the sidelines trying to look at the positive side of getting destroyed. I myself have counted 17 mosquito bites on my arms, legs and left shoulder and am pretty worried about West Nile Virus. So for our next game I will definitely be bringing some mosquito repellent to avoid this current itchiness and possible infection with the West Nile Virus.
I got in a few picture shots when we were warming up before the game but the day was overcast with cloud with no decent lighting so I put the camera away early. Hopefully the game on Tuesday will have better weather and since its earlier (7PM) I will be able to take a lot more pictures. I'll have to read up on how to take "sports action" photos this time so I know how to set my camera properly to take good pictures! I'm excited!
Overall I had a good time even though we loss, I think as the games progress we'll improve as a team and play a lot more organized game and hopefully our endurance will improve as well. I bought new equipment over the weekend, new shin pads/socks and sweatbands for the new game and can't wait to try them out. We are going to win the next one!!!!! *knocks on wood*. Anyways enjoy the pictures that I have added to the bottom here, and if you want full size ones just msg me and I'll see what I can do!
pieces,
Alex.
p.s. I want to buy a soccer ball soon and this device that I can somehow tie to my waist so I can practice foot eye coordination (I saw it on tv a while back). Anyone know where to get such a device/contraption in Calgary?
p.p.s. Does anyone know how to post more than one picture in one blog at the same time using the "hello" program? I had to do a lot of cutting and pasting in the dashboard to get all my pictures posted with hello into one blog.
Game Face #1
-Alex 2005
chip shot!
-Alex 2005
His forehead has an affinity for balls
-Alex 2005
Game Face #2
-Alex 2005
the "oooooooh" kick
-Alex 2005
We were pretty unorganized on the field and at times lacked any real knowledge of how to play the game at all. The other team capitalized on our lack of "know how" and even though being substantially better than us still thought it was a good idea to cheat and be offside for many of their attacks and goals. Now we had a below average goalie in net for our side,a mediocore defensive line and no real forwards to lead any kind of attack so we were nothing more but annoying pylons to the other team at times. And all of this was just on the field.
Off the field we were victims of brutal mosquito attacks. And after our record rain falls for the month of June there were a lot of hungry mosquitos waiting to feed on our blood while we stood on the sidelines trying to look at the positive side of getting destroyed. I myself have counted 17 mosquito bites on my arms, legs and left shoulder and am pretty worried about West Nile Virus. So for our next game I will definitely be bringing some mosquito repellent to avoid this current itchiness and possible infection with the West Nile Virus.
I got in a few picture shots when we were warming up before the game but the day was overcast with cloud with no decent lighting so I put the camera away early. Hopefully the game on Tuesday will have better weather and since its earlier (7PM) I will be able to take a lot more pictures. I'll have to read up on how to take "sports action" photos this time so I know how to set my camera properly to take good pictures! I'm excited!
Overall I had a good time even though we loss, I think as the games progress we'll improve as a team and play a lot more organized game and hopefully our endurance will improve as well. I bought new equipment over the weekend, new shin pads/socks and sweatbands for the new game and can't wait to try them out. We are going to win the next one!!!!! *knocks on wood*. Anyways enjoy the pictures that I have added to the bottom here, and if you want full size ones just msg me and I'll see what I can do!
pieces,
Alex.
p.s. I want to buy a soccer ball soon and this device that I can somehow tie to my waist so I can practice foot eye coordination (I saw it on tv a while back). Anyone know where to get such a device/contraption in Calgary?
p.p.s. Does anyone know how to post more than one picture in one blog at the same time using the "hello" program? I had to do a lot of cutting and pasting in the dashboard to get all my pictures posted with hello into one blog.
Game Face #1
-Alex 2005
chip shot!
-Alex 2005
His forehead has an affinity for balls
-Alex 2005
Game Face #2
-Alex 2005
the "oooooooh" kick
-Alex 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
what to write about?
Everytime I come to the dashboard of this blogger I become stumped as to what I should put into it. I wonder how much of my personal thoughts should I put out here so that every joe and jane/jack and jill can read. Should I talk about love, or rant about what bothers me or perhaps what peaks my interest? One thing I know for sure is I have one too many blogs and that after writing in one I am totally drained to write in the other. Of late the "my space" blog that MSN offers has been taking precedence over this one. But keeping to my "private" self I really don't dwelve into much on that blog as well. I rant a little more about daily life and what I want to do in the near future but nothing that is deep or of consequence. Why is it that I don't share anything with anyone yet still sign up for a blog? Perhaps I'm just an oddball.
Alex.
Alex.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
ROPTD: Star Wars - Sexual Harassment
Since Episode III just came out 1 week from this midnight I thought that this is a sweet picture for ROPTD. SW:EIII blew goats, but I'll get into that some other time.
Sexual Harassment Chewbacca!
-Alex 2005
Sexual Harassment Chewbacca!
-Alex 2005
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Traffic Waves
This is a really interesting find and in theory would work so well if everyone actually did it during a traffic jam.
The summary of this article is (if you are too lazy to read, but you should because its good!) that when I see a traffic jam in front of me I slow down and leave a big space in front of me so that the traffic jam in front of me can dissipate before I get there. By the time I arrive at the location of the traffic jam it will be gone and the cars behind me can keep a steady pace without having to feel the effects of a traffic jam. If I did exactly the opposite when approaching a traffic jam (speeding up and stopping when I get into the traffic jam) I will do nothing but feed the wave and it will keep on perpetuating the jam.
Here's the link Click here
Try this the next time you see a jam (that is if no one cuts in front of you) and see if it works.
Alex.
The summary of this article is (if you are too lazy to read, but you should because its good!) that when I see a traffic jam in front of me I slow down and leave a big space in front of me so that the traffic jam in front of me can dissipate before I get there. By the time I arrive at the location of the traffic jam it will be gone and the cars behind me can keep a steady pace without having to feel the effects of a traffic jam. If I did exactly the opposite when approaching a traffic jam (speeding up and stopping when I get into the traffic jam) I will do nothing but feed the wave and it will keep on perpetuating the jam.
Here's the link Click here
Try this the next time you see a jam (that is if no one cuts in front of you) and see if it works.
Alex.
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Spelling mistakes can be malacious!
Found this on a forum and thought it was a good warning and also and interesting read.
*****
A malicious website has been detected by F-secure, that utilizes a spelling error when typing the name of popular search engine - 'Google.com'. If a user opens a malicious website, his/her computer gets hijacked.
The name of the malicious website is 'Googkle.com'. F-secure advises users to strictly stay away from this site, since simply accessing it allows a lot of different malware to get automatically downloaded and installed. Trojan droppers, trojan downloaders, backdoors, a proxy trojan and a spying trojan are some of the malware that get installed. A few adware-related files are installed.
When 'googkle.com' is opened in a browser, it shows 2 popup windows that are linked to the ntsearch.com and toolbarpartner.com. The 'ntsearch.com' website downloads and runs the 'pop.chm' file and the 'toolbarpartner.com' website downloads and runs the 'ddfs.chm' file. Both files are downloaded using exploits and they contain exploits themselves to run embedded executable files. One of the webpages of the 'toolbarpartner.com' website downloads a file named 'pic10.jpg' using an exploit. This JPG file is actually an executable that replaces Windows Media Player application.
In addition these websites launch a stream of webpages with different exploits and eventually end up in downloading and running 2 files from the 'daosearch.com' website; web.exe and classload.jar.
Basically, a malware package gets installed on an affected computer: 2 backdoors, 2 trojan droppers, a proxy trojan, a spying trojan (that steals bank-related information) and a trojan downloader.
The entire virus packaga also includes the 'svchosts.exe' file, which is a trojan dropper. It drops a DLL named 'svchosts.dll' into Windows System folder. This DLL places a fake virus alert on a desktop.
This fake alert, in turn leads users to a site, which claims to fix the issue. Unfortunately the way people are directed to that website is somewhat deceptional.
F-secure claims to have already reported this issue to the authorities.
Click here for Story Source
Be careful!
Alex.
A malicious website has been detected by F-secure, that utilizes a spelling error when typing the name of popular search engine - 'Google.com'. If a user opens a malicious website, his/her computer gets hijacked.
The name of the malicious website is 'Googkle.com'. F-secure advises users to strictly stay away from this site, since simply accessing it allows a lot of different malware to get automatically downloaded and installed. Trojan droppers, trojan downloaders, backdoors, a proxy trojan and a spying trojan are some of the malware that get installed. A few adware-related files are installed.
When 'googkle.com' is opened in a browser, it shows 2 popup windows that are linked to the ntsearch.com and toolbarpartner.com. The 'ntsearch.com' website downloads and runs the 'pop.chm' file and the 'toolbarpartner.com' website downloads and runs the 'ddfs.chm' file. Both files are downloaded using exploits and they contain exploits themselves to run embedded executable files. One of the webpages of the 'toolbarpartner.com' website downloads a file named 'pic10.jpg' using an exploit. This JPG file is actually an executable that replaces Windows Media Player application.
In addition these websites launch a stream of webpages with different exploits and eventually end up in downloading and running 2 files from the 'daosearch.com' website; web.exe and classload.jar.
Basically, a malware package gets installed on an affected computer: 2 backdoors, 2 trojan droppers, a proxy trojan, a spying trojan (that steals bank-related information) and a trojan downloader.
The entire virus packaga also includes the 'svchosts.exe' file, which is a trojan dropper. It drops a DLL named 'svchosts.dll' into Windows System folder. This DLL places a fake virus alert on a desktop.
This fake alert, in turn leads users to a site, which claims to fix the issue. Unfortunately the way people are directed to that website is somewhat deceptional.
F-secure claims to have already reported this issue to the authorities.
Click here for Story Source
Be careful!
Alex.
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