Archive for August, 2009

Wolf Shirt

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

I was reading something about T-shirts and followed a link to a review of a T-shirt with 3 wolves on the front on Amazon. The sad thing is, I used to have this shirt as a kid, I think it was a gift but I did wear it.. I had no idea it possessed this kind of magic. You can read the review below.

This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that’s when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to ‘howl at the moon’ from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn’t have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn’t settle for the first thing that comes to him.

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the ‘guns’), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.

Pilates and pain

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Pilates is a pretty interesting type of exercise and just watching someone do Pilates, one would think its pretty easy…

One would be sorely, SORELY mistaken.

It is amazing the amount of pain just slowly moving an extremity will inflict on the body. The strain and extended time of stress just lifting an arm or leg and moving it back and forth will cause…

15 minutes of Pilates yesterday, and I still feel the burning…

I commend thee, regulars of the pain of Pilates, men and women alike.

WordPress Funk

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Waoh so I had an RSS email from one of the blogs I read on a semi-regular basis and she had posted something interesting that lured me to click through and check out her site….

Lo and behold, her site was throwing an error and none of the content was displaying. The error went something like this:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/public_html/xxx/index.php on line 17

I check her other sites..they are all throwing the same error, with the same exact information aside from the index.php path as they are all hosted in different directories. How can that be???

My logical mind says it must be a server change that caused the problem because all the sites use a different index.php file right?

I was right in a way, it was a server change that caused the problem. The index.php files were all different but they had all been changed in the exact same way. Some bogus code was added to the bottom of each of them, in the exact same format and style that removed part of the database declaration and left an open code block on line 17.

The origin of the bogus code is somewhat unknown but from the looks of what that code was, I have a guess. The hosted server most likely had a breach allowing someone to run a script that edited all found index.php files in the same way. The same code was added to every instance of index.php on the server, removing a few lines prior and leaving the same open block following the bogus code.

To fix the problem, I backed up the databases and reinstalled WordPress for each of the sites. I wasn’t quite sure to the extent of what files were edited so this would take the sites back to a clean slate as far as WordPress files went. The database was luckily untainted and so were most of the WordPress theme files (one has some bogus code in it but was easily fixed).

After about 2 and a half hours, the disaster was averted. The sites were back up and none were the wiser aside from me and the site owner.

Lesson learned? Backup early and often!