staying.cool

so, on a dreary sunday night, i decided to upgrade my wordpress. given the message on the header that i needed to do this ASAP, and that the fantastico doesn’t put it up for another 20 days, i looked in on WPAU. nice plugin install, nice step-by-step upgrading, upgrade database.. and re-login.. and boom! i cannot login. no matter what. my backups zips are apparently corrupted, and there is no mention of such an error on any page i google.

then starts hell. no login works, no login recovery works, the blog randomly kills itself and throws 401 and 402 errors, i get very very frustrated. the mySQL database decides to show me that there is no ‘users’ field (as per the error log). my provider has no clue. this keeps on until 1pm today, when i post on the wordpress forums. i await a solution. i work.

i try again.

…and it works. for no apparent reason, everything is functioning. the plugin matter-of-factly informs me that the upgrade did not complete thoroughly last time, do i want to do it again?

i create my all-important xml backup. then the database backup. i have everything, i can recover if it dies on me.

re-try.

…and it works. perfectly. i re-login. i see an updated dashboard. a little slow, but it catches up. k2 breaks, until i upgrade it too. the blog is alive, and i have no idea why it decided to kill itself for 16 hours. abs. no clue at all. somehow everything is working, i see ‘2.5.1′ in the footer in my dashboard, and i realize just how much this space means to me. hell, i pissed myself off majorly trying to make it come back to life.

i do not know the moral of this post, except that blogs should not mean so damn much. but somehow this one does. to me.

and at the end of it, i have no idea what major improvement 2.5.1 has given me over 2.5. no idea at all.

and i still don’t know why i went crazy either. ah, mystery.

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A lot of times there are upgraded vacation packages with no changes at all. The Cancun vacation packages are know to upgrade promising the Caribbean vacation packages and sometimes even the Myrtle Beach vacation packages experience. But most of the times it is just like the San Diego vacation packages.

i last posted on march 20th, according to the post below. which makes it nearly 9 days since i came up with anything to put on here. including tiny tid-bits about the porn stars around us; or maybe the fact that i got something new. which reminds me that i got my second transformer recently, i now own both bumblebee and skyblast. not that that had anythign to do with trying to make up content for this post. as you can imagine, i’m pretty stoked about the fact that the transformer can actually convert into the robot.

the question is still what to make of this current post. in other news, i have managed to watch ‘race’, as well follow the beautiful number of messages on the rediff message boards about the review written. including comments about the reviewer’s antecedants, as well as about the sheer brilliance of the movie. which has kinda been missed by me. its a pretty straightforward movie to follow, once you realise that no-one in the movie really cares about it in the first place. the directors, of course, care least of all… including conveniently forgetting the lack of script, point, twists or anything that could possibly construe making it worthwhile. don’t ask me why i was watching it in the first place. such is life.

my flickr has been suffering, with over a 1000 photos in india alone, and not one of them making the album… simply due to lack of time. its a little frustrating to have a hobby and not be able to develop it the way i want to. i’m not sure why, the lack of a time table is probably playing a larger role than i deem to acquiesce to. this has obviously carried over into this space, i don’t like that this is happening with me.

seeing as i have managed to make a post about the lack of a title, about the lack of so many other things, its fitting that the post lacks a conclusion.

to the guy who tried to kill my site/blog:

you managed to send 250 spam messages in 2 hours. you managed to load up the server on which my blog sits, and screw with its usage enough that my provider had to shut down my blog. you managed to fuck around enough with my site that i couldn’t do anything with it - and even now am facing mysql issues.

you really are a bastard. a black hole ip too ? smart. fucker.

and thanks to ukhost4u. you guys rock !

not the show, the people.

a PSP ! these guys are beautiful.

as a side note, on my 25th birthday i’ve received candy, comics and a PSP. i guess i’m not growing up. and been stunned to silence twice.  the other time… i’ll think about telling you guys about it

[via cracked.com]

Retired porn star Asia Carrera, real name Jessica Steinhauser, is a bit of a legend in the porn industry. With 36-26-36 measurements, she performed in a jaw-dropping 400 hundred films in her career and exchanged an unthinkable amount of bodily fluids. She calls herself “the nerd of porn,” and we assumed it was some kind of in-joke, until we saw her credentials. Here is somebody who studied piano as a child and by the age of 14 was playing in Carnegie Hall.At 16, she went to Japan and taught English classes. She was a state spelling champ, in the National Mathematics League, a Spanish National Honor Society member, placing in National Geography, Language and Math Olympiads, and is a member of Mensa. That got her a free ride to Rutgers, where she double-majored in business and Japanese. This naturally inspired her to change her first name to Asia and become an entrepreneur in America’s fastest growing business. Her geek hallmark, however, is her love of LAN parties and Unreal Tournament (handle: megabitchgoddess).

and of course:

Dolph Lundgren was an almost-superstar back in the ’80s, having played comic hero The Punisher (1989 version) and even He-Man (1987). But, his greatest acting accomplishments is beating Apollo Creed into something resembling grape jelly and inspiring the greatest Rocky montage of all fucking time. The man reportedly has an IQ of 160. He graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, got his master’s in chemical engineering, then was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. After just two weeks of that, his superhuman intellect allowed him to calculate that a life spent inventing life-saving chemicals would mathematically contain less awesome than one movie spent playing He-Man. Hey, did we mention that he speaks five languages (French, Swedish, German, English and Italian)? Or, that he’s a Pentathlon Team Leader and a former Ranger? And a third-degree black belt?

jesus christ. but, i need to look up some ms. carrera now…

update: then i read this [rebutted here], and greatbong’s deconstruction of a now infamous sydney test, and i wonder…  will there really be any effect at the end of it all? or will a team that has been hounded its opponents into handing it the cup just be allowed to bully its way up the pyramid that is world cricket?
oh, and mr. symonds? tere maa ki..

rambo, with the final words: “live for nothing. or die for something.” seems bloody enough, seems brutal enough, to carry on the legacy that is rambo. given that stallone gave a class finale to rocky… one can just hope that a finale to rambo doesn’t end up as a movie that should have been called live free, part one.

memories of dubai linger on, 14 years after I’ve left it. given that i’m going to pass through the airport in december, i look forward to a reunion of sorts. however, it must also be said, that when i have $25 mil lying around, i’m retiring there
after all, living in one of the great man-made cities of the world will be something else completely. upto the point that they’re creating their own land. and snow. and everything.