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the recent furor over a chinese woman forced to do ear squats naked has reached new heights today, when quite a few blogs (including a respected blogger) post stills of the video clips, with the face of the victim and one of her breasts in full view . with this, the malaysian blogosphere has reached a new low.

what kind of act is that when you post stills of the victim (with her face and breast in full view)? are we helping here? or we just adding salt to the victim's injury? or is it a self-gratifying, self-serving act?

yes we are all mad. we're furious. no one deserves this kind of treatment, especially from those whose job is supposedly to protect us. spreading about the abuse is more than enough to highlight the detestable acts that our royal police had committed. however, posting stills of the images with her face in full view (and her breast too) is no-less detestable than what the police had done.

listening to: boards of canada - happy cycling

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." said linus.

this was one of the rarest mistakes i've ever made, but i accidently (due to my mad typing speed) dropped my entire wordpress database today. not that it matters much, but there goes my 4 years' worth of blog posts (1200+ in total, 2000+ comments), all gone. fortunately, i think i still have a backup (on my pentium-3 gentoo-powered server at biatch0's house) which contains all my posts up to four or six months ago. well, if i'm free, i'll archive them online. i might also figure out how to recover some of the posts from mysql's log files, but i'm not too keen to do so at the moment (lazy).

on another note, my blog moved hosting appoximately at midnight tonight. it is now hosted by takizo. thanks paul!

update: after tinkering with the innodb log files, i managed to restore the my data. unfortunately, the records are only up to the first month of january 2002. sighs. this sucks.

update: lol! i was just kidding! i managed to restore all of my posts including comments (and the spams). mysql is roxors! doing this is pretty much simple if you're using mysql with innodb. will do a write-up soon. the first few restorations failed simply because the last few lines of the log entry is drop database mel_blog. hence i had to edit a 362MB file (with over 3 million lines) which is not fun at all. the question now is - should i merge the posts with this 'new' blog, or should i just archive it online?

hi all,

i need to look for hosting providers which meets the following requirements:

• PHP and MySQL


• Email hosting


• SSH access


• Secure


• OS: Linux/FreeBSD

i'm willing to trade adhoc programming (shell, Perl, PHP) and system administration/security on the server for hosting my blog(s) and photo gallery for free. anyone?

listening to: boards of canada - chinook

[ seriously, i've ran out clever thingamajick to write. i may as well just stop blogging and start harrassing random people in the streets. now, which street?]

it's the weekend (and i'll be on a long-haul flight to brazil), so i recommend:

 
 

they are (clockwise from top left) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works (85 - 92), Retrospectacle - The Supertramp Anthology, Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days, and, Mars Volta - Frances the Mute.

and oh, does anyone have The Young Meteors by Greg Summerlin?

not recommended is of course, franz ferdinand, that band that supposedly regurgitated 80's rock. rock? rock my ass.

all right peeps, i'm gonna go memorize this manual now.

listening to: Aphex Twin - We Are the Music Makers

CMP buys Black Hat