Recent Posts

• Baby Instructions

  Found this online, after reading it I feel I will be a much better father.

• Broken Ankle

  I’ve suffered my first legitimate sport injury, first broken bone(s) ever, during the last indoor soccer game of the season.
  I heard 2 pops when I went down so I knew I wasn’t going to get away with a simple ankle sprain, but the X-ray showed a much more chilling story. I had to have surgery [...]

• XBEL Bookmark Checker

  I’ve been using Bookmark Sync and Sort in conjunction with Webdisk offered by University of Calgary for quite sometime. As my bookmark file grew in size, I had no way of checking the validity of the URLs inside. To address this problem, I wrote a simple python script that checks the URLs for 404 and [...]

• RHEL/CentOS 5 Vim Syntax Color

  After installing RHEL/CentOS 5, I noticed on both system, vim under root user has no color even though I have the correct .vimrc in place. Finally found an answer in Red Hat KB. It seems that in version 5, root user by default uses a minimal version of vim that does not support syntax color. [...]

• How to shoot yourself in the foot

  Described below are several methods for shooting yourself in the foot using various programming techniques.
  How to shoot yourself in the foot

• ModSecurity2 on CentOS 5

  I’ve been trying to find time to play around with ModSecurity2 (mod_security) for web server security. The need for experimentation is partly driven by the issues I faced with regards to a vulnerable web server at work.
  Installation was painless, I modified SPEC file from tanso.net and built the RPM with latest stable version 2.1.4 source [...]

• Las Vegas

  For our annual getaway we decided to visit Las Vegas for the first time. We stayed at the mirage and overall the trip was good, nothing spectacular. However armed with lessons we learned this time, next time will definitely be better.
  Mostly, we did some shopping at the outlets as the malls on the strip are [...]

• Soccer

  I never liked soccer, always felt it’s slow and boring, a bit odd consider I like baseball. However I’ve signed up for a season of indoor soccer from Fusion Co-ed Soccer. This is my second try at indoor soccer, last time was at Mount Royal intramural several years ago and it was PHYSICAL, people killing [...]

• A guide to GNU Screen

  The same way tabbed browsing revolutionized the web experience, GNU Screen can do the same for your experience in the command line. GNU Screen allows you to manage several interactive shell instances within the same “window.” By using different keyboard shortcuts, you are able to shuffle through the shell instances and access any of them [...]