Auction Phil Spammer
This is the topic of my rant today. The very repetitious, tiring event of the year, THE Model Contest. (Edit: My personal favorite Danica Joyce See did not win the contest. *sobs*)
Never mind the guy in the background. He is not as important as this. Yeah, yeah. He was some model that I don't know and don't hell care about. Whatever. Anyway, there was this spammer who posted ridiculously funny comments to each, I repeat, EACH model contestant's comment board.
IT HAS COME INTO OUR ATTENTION THAT MANY OF THE REGISTERED MEMBERS OF AUCTION.PH HAVE INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS.
THESE WILL OUTRIGHTLTY BE EXCLUDED IN THE FINAL TALLY OF VOTES WHICH WILL OCCUR ON THE 22TH OF DECEMBER.
TO AVOID DEDUCTIONS, MAKE SURE THAT THE EMAIL ADDRESS IS INDEED VALID. THANK YOU AND GOOD DAY. -AUCTION PHIL. MGT.
What the hell is wrong with this spammer? I don't know if he's stupid or just plain brainless or whatever. Let me list down my complaints:
- Auction Phil - what a lame name.
- It's not 22th It's 22nd. That's twenty-second not twenty-twoth? O_o Get your ass back to elementary!
- He types in all caps for heaven's sake. That makes him the most hateful of all hateful people.
- Auction.ph does not validate e-mails in the first place. What the heck is that "THESE WILL OUTRIGHTLTY BE EXCLUDED IN THE FINAL TALLY OF VOTES" shit?
- If that person indeed work for Auction.ph, how the heck will he remove those votes by "unvalidated e-mails"?
- Votes are tallied automatically by script. Is he thinking that I will be counting these votes manually? I don't have the time to count these shits, for the life of me. What does he think I am? Some super ingenious invention of a mega robot or something?
- If I work in Auction.ph, and that announcement was indeed by Auction.ph, would I post in the comment box? Of course not. First, I will need to inform ma'am Ria about it. Then, she'll be the one to ask the good 'ol CD and the lazy PD (moi), to change the stuffs and everything.
- And it took me, like forever to delete those damn comments. Less the fact that I am spending my precious limited time deleting his spams, for goodness' sake. I still have Coupon 15 to launch next week!
Ugh! I hate this spammer. I hope he dies a painful death. You know, some kinda him being run over by a truck or a train, being eaten to bits alive my ants or dogs, being shred to pieces by some machine or something.
I know, I'm creepy, I'm sorry. I'm just upset. And the rosary I bought isn't exactly the one I was expecting too. :(
One Moment
My time, for a while,
Seemed as if it stopped.
My thoughts, in deep,
Seemed as if it went to blank.
I felt incredible uneasy.
I start suffocating.
The silence was deafening.
Yet, even a bit of noise is irritating.
The clock keeps ticking.
My heart beats are increasing.
My breathing becomes heavy.
Everything else becomes blurry.
The echoing sounds,
The perpetual repetition,
It makes me loose myself.
It drives me insane.
And in one moment,
A moment after chaos.
I stopped by for a while.
I stopped by to cry.
This Feeling...
With each moment that passed,
With each air I breathe in,
With each sound that rings,
With my every heartbeat.
This feeling,
I could not explain well in words.
I don't know where to begin,
I don't know where to end.
See a Doctor?
Whenever I try to think deep it, after a while, it seems that my mind would go blank. Whenever my mind would go blank, I would only see every thing as something white. It's as if I was trapped in a bright white room with only me in there and nothing else. I couldn't even see myself. Then, a while after, I would come back to my senses. I would try to breathe in as deep as I could after that. Then, I will gradually realized that I forgot to breathe in that short moment that my mind went blank as I was thinking. I couldn't also tell how long have I stopped breathing since I don't even realize that my mind went to blank, not until I came back to my senses.
This often happens. Sometimes, I am not even thinking and my mind would just go blank and same thing happens - I forget to breathe again. I think, this sort of practice is not healthy at all. Maybe I should see a doctor soon or something?
Auction.ph Adventure
Today is Sunday. I'm currently at the office, burning my ass over some gay project. The only person here besides me are Ate Gi, Jones and Lyset. But since Ate Gi is a guard and both other girls are CSRs, I am the only one inside. That fact aside, the PD area is at the inner most part of the office.
Since I am a person who prefer working in total darkness (no lights at all), I asked Ate Gi not to open the lights at all. But I guess its not possible so there are a few lights opened behind me. Seriously, I work better when it's dark and it seems as if the light is blinding me. But since it's a matter of "president might be coming around," all discussions are ended.
Anyway, I heard there are ghosts here in the office that only comes out when no one's around. Since I'm all alone here inside, I wonder if I would see one.
My adventure at Auction.ph begins.
(Come back later for my conclusion.)
Heh
<?php
// Begin - Randomness
$context = $this->getContext();
$request = $context->getRequest();$brain = $request->getParameter('brai n');
if (empty($brain))
echo "GO AHEAD AND DIE. Bastard.";// And I shall spent my days cold and lonely behind a monitor, bitching.
// End - Randomness
?>
An example of what you can do with PHP. ;)
Rock the Riles
Someone asked me to post this ad. And in my all out support for events such as this with causes. :)
Rock the Riles: Rakrakan sa MRT. Libre gig sa MRT stations!
The 3rd Rock the Riles is on! An annual gathering of artists to uphold Human Rights! Abangan! Makiisa! Makielam! Salihan! Ipamalita.
Buendia Station has the theme AIDS/HIV AWARENESS. Volunteered bands playing are Too late the hero, Maryzark,
Neruda, Peacepipe, Reklamo, 18th Issue, etc. Libre ito tsong! Wear in white to show your participation in this movement.
Rock The Riles
Dec. 9
1PM to 6PM
BUENDIA STATION
For more info click here.
PHP Everywhere Conference
Yesterday, we, the people behind the scenes at this wondrous, God-inspired, awesomeness thing in the depths of the Internet called Auction.ph (that still left me an impression of doubting that people knew we even exist and that we could also try to change our tagline to "Just like Ebay" so that people wont need to ask what our site does) went to PHP Everywhere Conference held at Crown Regency Hotel in Makati. The conference was organized by the PHP User Group Philippines, Inc. and it was named the "The 1st PHP Developer's Conference in the Philippines."
Like the rest of the firsts, it was a busy day. Taking aside the fact that the schedules were 3 hours behind, it was kinda fun (playing PSP behind the scene) too. I learned quite a bit like CakePHP, Symfony and other CMS stuffs, but in general, aside from learning a few good framework we could use (if I even have any ability of using them), I didn't learn anything more than that. Although there was a point in it that I almost fell asleep *ahem to the speaker with the midnight session voice*, I still kept myself awake just like a good girl (Oh wait, I forgot that I was a male while there) does after drinking a few cups of brewed coffee. The coffee was great, by the way. Just like what I preferred it, black and strong. Going back to the topic, there were lots of popular online figure there too like Aileen Apolo of Google and dudes from other popular site like Tipid PC and Sulit.com.ph. I can't remember their names nor I can remember their faces, so don't bother asking. There were lots of raffle prizes too (in fact, the only thing that kept people awake). Too bad, I didn't get one. *sob* *sob* Dexie got a licensed Zend Software for simply staying until the last moment, Cyril got a teddy bear (is that even a bear?) for pretending that he was actually listening and went so far as to join the "class recitation", Drew got a Gunbound BlueDragon plushie, and even Gerry got an MU cap. (I want a Mobius cap too!! T_T) Oh, speaking of Mobius, kuya Bob was there too, as a speaker though. He was recommending this framework called Symphony. To me, it seems as if it's just like Agavi. Only, Symphony seemed easier to use and manipulate.
Oh, and pictures will come later. I'll have to snag them out of Dhon first since I don't have a DigiCam because I am a poor (both money and intellectual-wise) person as it is already given.
The Pictures!
Yaya
You know, yaya calls me Ate 小妹 (Xiao Mei / Sho Be). Hearing it makes me go O_o every single time.
小妹 means younger sister in Chinese.
Ate means elder sister in Tagalog.
When she says it like that, it's like she's calling me "elder sister younger sister".
It sounds so weird.
Maybe she thought 小妹 was my name because everyone calls me 小妹 at home.
A Few Updates
Last Quarter
I would like to tell everyone that I finally decided to open the comments for Last Quarter. But even then, I will keep the blog blocked away from search engines. This way, spams will still be less.
Memoire: The Antiques Fanlisting
While I'm at this, I'm also plugging Memoire. It's a fanlisting for antiques.
This fanlisting is not originally mine. It had been around for quite a while and I just adopted it from Stilla recently (About last month). The transfer of ownership has been officially made. I'm really happy about adoting this fanlisting because I love it very much. If you are a fan of antiques, please consider joining.
WordPress Issues
Since my update of this blog to 2.3.1, for some reason, my blog fucked up? I just noticed that I was missing a few categories here and there and the category ID are messed up as well. I have this thing with arrangement and numberings so I wanted everything to be arranged in my specific order. It's like this, I wanted my categories to be numbered and named according to my preference - category 1 should be named Life, etc. But then, for some reason, everything went in shambles since my update. I don't know how long will it take me this time to rearrange everything again since, well, I've blogged for ages and I have a lot of entries, if I may say so myself. Just thinking about it irritates me. Gah. :mad:
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