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So, i have a server with Volumedrive for few months now, and have heard that Jeff and Josh are really hard working fellas. Well not sure if what you hear on the web can be true these days, but how about pictures ? A picture is worth thousands  words.

Jeff at Volumedrive

What you are seeing in picture  is Jeff working hard inside the datacenter to make sure servers are working 24/7. Picture was provided by Josh from Volumedrive, and i heard jeff has picture of josh, at work in similar fashion. So when you got a crew like that to look after your servers who needs another provider !! From what i hear, either Jeff or Josh can be found in above pose at 4 am in the morning at datacenter every night/morning.
No wonder they do not have a house to sleep in, when datacenter acts as their little cove. They probably end up spending 20 out of 24 hrs inside the datacenter, it must really have a state of arts washroom facility too !!

NOTE to JEFF: Heard of a thing called Energy Drink!!

XHTML seems to be the trend i have been coding websites these days, not sure why, but I have gone crazy trying to make sure all website are xhtml valid. Well atleast if not all pages, atleast the front page :). Yes yes thats sneaky and not professional. But seriously with all the javascript sometimes i have to use, it gets really hard to make sure its xhtml valid on inner pages. Example : View My Dns , note that the main page is XHTML valid as from slicing to initial setup i made sure it will be !! But its subsequent pages are not XHTML valid.

Even though XHTML valid pages will not render properly on all the browsers is what i found with above site. It was the first site I decided to code with .png images instead of .gif and guess what ? Got burned, as IE 6 view looks so Fugggly !! But .png images offer better quality so i will stick with it, unless i get complaints from users, using the website (if ever lol) . So, is it worth spending extra time to make sure site is XHTML valid ? Well in some cases it is , but in others might not be if website is going to be filled with scripts etc. etc. But beauty of knowing XHTML is that , you become so used to it, that you start coding normally with xhtml not realizing your are doing yourself a favor !! For example this new website, was not at hard for me to make it xhtml valid, as i started coding all div’s , td’s and so on with style=”xyx:zyz;” format !!

Well enough of my craze toward xhtml, but its really easy once you get the hang of it, and not makeing extremely complex website. Following are the list of websites i have coded, and made sure front page was atleast xhtml valid

College of Engineering - University of Saskatchewan,SK (this is not a live site yet, will go live soon)
Bloggy Bloggy - This site itself.
ViewmyDns - The DNS report and other ip tools website.
A1 Web Hosting solutions (was xhtml valid i swear but not anymore i shall fit it soon)
Web Directory Reviews - (inner pages are xhtml valid not the main page though weird huh !!) example : http://www.webdirectoryreviews.com/blogging-about-h-log/ is valid page !!
H-log A Se friendly directory.
Dmoz-Resources - A dmoz directory forums for webmasters.
Php Proxy Host - Proxy Hosting at the Right Prices (sorry it has 4 errors will fix asap ! if i can)

While mentioning some of my XHTML coded website might as well tell you about my worst xhtml horror story . Its none other than my very first domain i ever bought !! Sbclansite. On doing XHTML check it come up with following report : 729 Errors, 1 warning(s) . Now thats like just what can i say “shameful” of me not to try to fix it. But i have lots of website on me , and it gets out of hand trying to look after them. Overall i think i have over 25 - 30 domains and like 10 -15 working sites.  Well if you wish to hire me to do some xhtml site of yours, do contact me via http://www.a1whs.com/support.php page. Also note that i can do psd slicing and convert those psds to XHTML valid sites !! Anyways gotta finish working on other stuff and head out for some get together kinda thingy !

I will soon probably launch my own portofio site/page maybe !! Please feel free to post your website links and your work !! I will be more than happy to view them and if you need help in xhtml validating it, do give me a shout !!

Hancock is not just another superhero movie you did expect, however it does has have the same elements as almost every superhero movie has :a. Bad Guys  b. Bad guys trying to get rid of superhero. However, this movie has one more element that makes it bit interesting “the inner struggle and fear of not knowing who you really are”.
Overall movie is decent till hancock realizes who he really is, but good part is that ends only after 15 mins later, so you do not get bored much. This movie unlike other superhero movies has humor attached to it, which keeps you entertained. You can almost expect something humor coming on its way any time. Hancock overall will get my score of 8 out of 10. Now the question that comes across everyones mind is , shall i go watch hancock in theater , well do not know i do not feel that it will look any better in a theater. But wont hurt if you are going to go to the show thats only maybe $2 or $3 :).

Here is the cast crew list again from imdb . (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/fullcredits)

	Will Smith	…	John Hancock
	Charlize Theron	…	Mary Embrey
	Jason Bateman	…	Ray Embrey
	Jae Head	…	Aaron Embrey
	Eddie Marsan	…	Kenneth ‘Red’ Parker Jr.
	David Mattey	…	Man Mountain
	Maetrix Fitten	…	Matrix
	Thomas Lennon	…	Mike
	Johnny Galecki	…	Jeremy
	Hayley Marie Norman	…	Hottie

Hiyall its Dark Knight Review Time !!

Well wanted to start this reviews section long time back, as I spent lots of time on movies or tv series. And Dark Knight or as i call it Batman Part 2 is just the right movie to start of with  a bang (cause my ears are still ringing with all that sound/blasts/ and what not from the movie)…. PS: If you ask me today or  tomorrow or day after tomorrow who were the actors/cast etc in the movie were, well I am sorry i do not know, i rather follow a movie more than try to remember who is casting (by that i mean their real life name( ) in them. So here is the info of the movie i grabbed of our friendly search engine “google”. This is directly stolen from IMDB itself, and the list was long so go crazy if you feel like it, by visiting and looking at that big cast list of Dark Knight! (source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/fullcredits )

Cast (in credits order)

	Christian Bale	…	Bruce Wayne / Batman
	Heath Ledger	…	The Joker
	Aaron Eckhart	…	Harvey Dent / Two-Face
	Michael Caine	…	Alfred Pennyworth
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	…	Rachel Dawes
	Gary Oldman	…	Lt. James Gordon
	Morgan Freeman	…	Lucius Fox
	Monique Curnen	…	Det. Ramirez
	Ron Dean	…	Detective Wuertz

Ok now that you have gone through the list by know lets start talking bit about the movie as it is. Some call Dark Knight as “Dork Knight” which I think doesnt really sink in well with the movie itself. Was it boring, well not really, from the start it had action and most importantly “The Jokers” wittyness/cunningness. I think i just made up a word !!
Were there scenes that could cause serious boredom? Read the rest of this entry »

Well disabled the non working existing captcha plugin for a day, and this blog was filled with 30 spam comments, and 1 was such a big long list of porn keywords that it overloaded the server to some point and firewall banned the ip automatically :).

Well got rid of the old one, and got the new reCaptcha plugin , which is XHTML valid whohoo.. and hopefully will serve well and prevent the unwanted spam and unwanted commented. If anyone know of a really good spam blocker for wordpress please do let me know.

I shall now be upgrading wp to latest version (yet again ) damn this WP blogging software is PITA when it comes to keeping it upto date ! It would be way more productive if it did not have so many bugs/security issues !

If you are a webmaster and crave for having the highest pagerank amongst your competitors, well check your sites again today, for Googe Pagerank Updated are underway started i think from July24th,2008. How do i know ? Well this blog had no pagerank and today i see it has a pagerank :). And bunch of other sites i have, got a brand new pagerank values. I do not chase after pagerank and hoping to get w/e pagerank all by natural links :).

On the sidenote : this blog just went from pr 0 to pr 1 whohooo :). And notice the previous entry about View My Dns site . Well guess what ? It got indexed on google already thats like less than 8 hrs time after i blogged about it . So google spider must like reading what they find here !!

View My Dns is almost ready for a launch , got few of the free scripts all modified to suite my needs, and with help of my fellow peer got some a human verification or a captcha script in place hoping to block unwanted leeching if any.

So basically, View My DNS , is a site dedicated to webmasters/server owners to view and check their dns for issues, and also other cool dns tools and ip tools. View My Dns will try to offer you free Dns Reports / DNS Status checks. Please support the site by sharing it with the webmaster community and spreading the word about us. We have put in few minor annoying human verification checks to prevent hotlinks from other sites. Scripts used here to do dns check etc. are available free of cost from their respective coders. We have just modified them a bit to suite them for our DNS cravings. Cause i do get once in a blue moon customers starting up their first website and are not really sure about setting up nameservers and checking them if they have actually propagated or not.

Hoping to have it operational by friday or saturday. Will seek more dns and webmaster scripts (free ones) and try to incorporate them too so as to give more and more options/tools to webmasters.

So, last night all the sudden i see a load on server exceeding the threshold limit (of 5 ). And i notice on the blog say 100 users online ( the thing on the left there shows how many users online right now). So i thought it must be some attack or some bot gone nuts ! Yahoo spiders are known to be crazy and can get stuck on the page :). Anyways did not know what happened till just now.

So i login to my fancy google analytic account to see traffic to this blog. And i am surprised to see around 600 visits just overnight from stumble coming from some refer.php link from stumble. Not sure what really happened cause after a month only today now i just logged to stumble to see if i can find the source or anything. But nothing…. Sooooo am at a loss as to what happened. Maybe googling around might solve the problem.

Here is a nice screenie of the stats look at that almost 75 degree sloped curve !!

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So was getting bored and decided to see how this blog or rather bloggy bloggy stands in terms of popularity. Well as any simple trick to see your website links linked via other sites/forums is to simply type domain.com into the famous Google Search Box. So i decided to put myblog.bloggybloggy.com in the magic box. After going through few of the links, found it very interesting that just like me others have been burned with purchasing FAKE USB keys and the fixes i put on here at bloggy seems to get hit and are source for finding the right fix for your fake usb key.

There are some links linking back to the articles on usb key fixing techniques, and originate from places like cnet, and ebay itself. Example :

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Hi,
Seems like its the trend people try to rip off people just like that. Example a listing i saw on craiglist :
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/sys/763918740.html

Here is copy of the same if it does not exists no more .
27 days old computer worth $2400 selling for only $1850 - $1850 (Richmond)

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Quad Core Processor LGA775 2.66GHZ Yorkfield 13333 FSB 12 MB
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro LGA777 2500 RPM 45CFM
Corsair CMPSU-620 HX 620W ATX Triple 12V 50A 24 Pin ATX Modular Power Supply 120MM Fan 2X PCI-E
Samsung Spinpoint F1 Series HD753LJ 750GB Sata2 7200RPM 8.9MS 32MB 3.5IN Hard Drive
LG G-H20L-S10 Black DVD+RW 20X8X16 DVD-RW 20X6X16 Lightscribe INT Sata DVD Writer
PNY XLR8 Geforce 9800GTX OC 725MHZ 512MB 2.33 GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-HDCP HDTV Out Video Card
Antec Sonata III Black ATX 16IN Mid Tower Quiet Case 3X5.25 2X3.5 4X3.5IN 500W 120MM Fan
EVGA Nforce 790I Ultra LGA775 ATX DDR3 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI Sata2 Raid Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard
Patriot Viper Extreme Performance 4GB DDR3 2X2GB PC3-10666 DDR3-1333 CL 7-7-7-20
Now for the main topic ” People rip off People” . Well being a computer nerd I suppose i can build you one computer exactly like that if not more powerful, for approximately $1650 . Thats right what seems to be a $2400 pc from the sounds of it by the poster(unless he got ripped off too), you can have it for $1650.

IF interested do shoot me an email or something. But anyways I suppose there are folks out there that will actually fall for such kind of rip offs. So, dont get ripped off when buying something you have no idea about in terms of price trends. Knowledge and asking around helps. If you are living in Saskatoon and interested in a system for that price tag of $1650 do post your comment will get back to you . O well back to work and remember its in our nature to rip others off . Do i rip people off ? Well i wouldnt say rip them off, i rather try to charge enough so it covers the original cost and maybe profits of $20 - $80 for each bigger sale. Hosting however i sell does not even hit that mark some times :). But still love the industry so much to learn, so many folks around to learn from and teach at the same time .

Some of you having any doubts than here is pdf file to look at the price it all can be built for from newegg, but in canada it might be maybe 100-200$ more expensive. PS: add $59 to the total for could not find that motherboard in stock and was prices 359 and was only able to find a board for $300 max. So total comes out to be 1531 USD. Now how does it even come closer to $2400 ? And remember that prices for computer parts keep dropping day by day, so same system if you read this post after a year i am sure can be built for less than 800$ . Newegg Bill << The IMAGE or rather a PDF !! Cheers