"different...."

haven't blog and updated this for a while... perhaps because of the new twitter, meme, and facebook? nah...

today i stood up and left home for work past 6am... i have lots of things in my mind right now so i took a different path... a path i never havent crossed yet... somehow it felt strange but good... the early walk, the smell of the grass, breakfast alone... it was like going to work on your first day... it was like one of my travels in a different country...

i hope this is a start of a new good beginning in my life...

EDIT: at 6pm of this day, my father died.

I love you Pa. You'll always be here in my heart.
Thank you for everything. We'll surely miss you. Rest in Peace with the Lord.

solved problem: MSSQL Maintenance Plan Save Error "no such interface supported"

i recently encountered a problem in Microsoft SQL 2005 which did not arised in my first server.

Microsoft SQL Management Studio does not allow me to save any Maintenance Plan and pops-up this message:

"no such interface supported"

after long research on the net, solution is very simple.

solution:

regsvr32 msxml3.dll

regsvr32 msxml6.dll

30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola)

"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - Work , Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you're keeping all of these in the Air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it."

WORK EFFICIENTLY DURING OFFICE HOURS AND LEAVE ON TIME. GIVE THE REQUIRED TIME TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS & HAVE PROPER REST.

Star Wars: New Empire

OLPC, after years of launch... still unbeatable!

this laptop never fail to amaze me. i support this project.

9 year-old kid created a starwars website !

Today I stumbled upon a Star Wars blogsite created by a 9 year-old kid. Can you believe that??? And I checked the source, he's not using any content management system (cms) to aid him. He's using purely html codes.

I thought he might be 9 when he created this during the time of the movies like revenge of the Sith which is 2005 making him 13 already but his images were from the new Clone Wars series so the site is quite updated, at least 2008 or current. Therefore he's really 9.

I'm impressed on his skills considering his age. Kids usually don't have interest yet on such matters. I have a niece with same age so I can relate and I'm really amazed.

Here's his site: http://www.schwef.com/nolan

The force is strong with him.
A jedi, he will be.

Tweet using command line

simple script that will allow you to send tweets from the command line:

The script you will see takes exactly one argument: your tweet. You use it like this:

$ ~/bin/tweet "Writing my TechMails"

Successful tweet!

Once you run the script and look on Twitter, your post is there for all to see. The script itself uses nothing fancier than cURL to post the text provided to the script.

The text must observe shell constraints: it must be properly escaped for special characters (such as "!" and "?"). The script doesn't require the tweet to be in quotes; you could use:

$ ~/bin/tweet Does my tweeter need quotes\?

Successful tweet!

and it would work just as well.

The script itself:

#!/bin/sh

tweet="${@}"

user="username"

pass="sekret"

if [ $(echo "${tweet}" | wc -c) -gt 140 ]; then

    echo "FATAL: The tweet is longer than 140 characters!"

    exit 1

fi

curl -k -u ${user}:${pass} -d status="${tweet}" 
https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then

    echo "Successful tweet!"

fi

Output of the cURL command is directed to /dev/null because it returns some XML that we don't need to care about. The script also makes sure that the tweet is 140 characters or less, and exits with an error if it is longer.