Category: Spotlight
Tumblr is gangster.
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures, Spotlight Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:26 No Comments
Well, I obviously do not have much time to be blogging every now and again, so I guess I’ll start leaving this site to rot or perhaps make better use of it (Portfolio, perhaps? Forum?) So yea, I decided to go for something much more simpler in the lines of Micro Blogging (E.g. Twitter). But since Twitter only offers a 150 Words limit, I decided to try out Tumblr.
Link: http://ianlai.tumblr.com/
Since I’m not experiencing any problems with Tumblr so far and I’m actually having quite a bit of fun! I’ll continue using it, so byebye Wordpress. Hello Tumblr. I guess there’s nothing else much to say besides, Follow Me! On Tumblr + Twitter.
There’s nothing much better than seeing all these hilarious Tumblr posts and reblogging them.
If you’re interested in making some small contributions to the blog, please drop a comment and I’ll e-mail you regarding a few details. Besides, I’m quite fed up of all my previous posts (yeap yeap, they suck . I know).
Till next time, I’m signing off,
Ian Lai.
The Exam Post (post-exam post?)
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures, Spotlight Friday, 8 January 2010 17:41 No Comments
Well its not really the end of my exams yet 
Only week one! There’s still week numéro deux leaving the rest of my weekend to a good advantage for me to revise (or leave things till Sunday as usual)! As you can see, I lost my creative juices lately as well as most of my inspiration (if you had notice the new and retarded logo on the top left of the blog). But no worries! I shall revamp this blog sooner or later.
Since I haven’t been posting for a long long time, I shall set this on spotlight category (: (it is a highlight is it not?). In short, I have spent the whole 5-Days of this week with no more than 5-Hours of proper rest. Increase in loss of hair and probably gained a few one or two pimples. FML. Yes. Exams. Although its only mocks, I have no idea why I’m taking it so seriously, P.S. Jafnee: Ms.Southall Notes!
One thing I’m really proud of now… my great collection of Biology and Chemistry notes for IGCSEs!
Oh, I forgot to mention, due to various obligations, I missed my one chance to “win” something from the Adobe Innovative Awards 2009. I can’t forgive myself till today. Seriously. But it’s the past, so I’ll have to just move on. Anyhow, I have installed LiteSpeed on my Netherlands server recently, and wow, a significant performance improvement (Yes, its only a 15-Days trial at the moment).
Previously, with suPHP, the RAM (Memory) usage was at an average 20% (If I’m not mistaken), but due to the way ’suPHP’ works, I often suffered High CPU Loads (for no apparent reasons) resulting in absolutely slow loading pages. Another factor I believe that has cause this is because of the I/O problems. With not much knownledge of the actual situation, I recompiled Apache and PHP into FastCGI mode (mod_fcgid). Yes, it was great at first, but many sites suffered random and unexaplainable problems. Sadly, it did not really help in terms of CPU reduction, even with nginx working as a reverse proxy. Which led me to my final solution, LiteSpeed.
So, Thank God It’s Friday! I have the rest of the day to fool around and sleep (yay!) .
Perhaps I should also get started on revision?
I won’t have time to update. Sooo don’t expect anything for a while 
Credits to:-
~Tenchi12 - For the amazing ’spotlight’ image taken from his DeviantArt.
I really find quite a lot of deviantArt images great pieces of art, thus I’ll continue using them to show people what I mean!
As usual, shout out to: Winn, Han Yang, Jafnee, Haren.
Byeee!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Posted by MrSaints in Marvellous Misadventures, Spotlight Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:33 3 Comments
I haven’t been blogging for ages! By ages I think it has been over a few months now. However, a simple explanation for this is… “exams”. Yes, the cruel and deceitful evil that revolves around education. Its currently: “23rd December 2009″ and with Christmas only a few days away, I would like to wish everyone out there a big Merry X’Mas! And Happy New Year, wherever in the World you are. I’m stuck at home this holiday, but thats great. Nothing beats some family time and together-ness away from all the 21st Century disturbances.
To all the readers out there, I would like to extend my very best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Lets hope for an dreadful exciting start to a new year with new challenges (I have enough challenges already, thank you very much).
For those who did not notice, this blog/website was actually closed for a good 2-weeks I believe? Well, I was fed up of having a bot do all the posting, fed up of the constant plugin updates and everything that goes along with Wordpress. A simple lesson I learnt from all this was: KEEP IT SIMPLE. So I spent the last 2 days removing unnecessary plugins and trying out a more simple layout approach, like it?
There’s not much else I can update besides the fact I was considering the idea of a “New Start” by removing all my old posts since I dislike several of them, but I’ll just keep it to remind myself how much I hate them .
With that being said, yes, I find a “Post Rating” utterly useless. Yes, I find the “YouTube Widget” completely useless. Yes, I find all those “security” addons ineffectual. And yes, I find everything else I removed, unnecessary.
A few “what’s happening lately” is all on my Twitter, so go there and check it out. I’m still pretty sick after like what? 2 weeks? And I was given some “Pfizer” medication today by a new clinic (seeing as the last 3 failed). I only just realize “Pfizer” was only familiar to me cause of all those spam e-mails I get. Never knew they were actually advertising legitimate drugs (but their just affiliate sales websites, an attempt to earn easy money), hehe.
Well, happy holidays once again and hope to see everyone soon!
P.S. Thank you for the wonderful 1,000+ Unique Visitors PER DAY.
I would like to make a shoutout to:
YUI, HOMEN, ALEKS (FROM KRYPTODEV), MATEO (FROM LEAFRE), ALEX (FROM BANKAI), TOSHI AND EVERYONE ELSE!
EDIT #1: Check this video out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=104cdcySpEs
And Happy Christmas Eve!
EDIT #2: Merry Christmas Time to open up some presents!
Goodbye (:
( Ian )
Compliments to *Suryakami of DeviantART for the amazing “spotlight” image!
SerenadeCMS: Part 1… A
Posted by MrSaints in Projects, Spotlight Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:39 5 Comments
As I promised, i’ll be making a new post in continuation to my SerenadeCMS 2.0 streak But due to the lack of time I have and the lack of ideas I have on making the post interesting, I decided to take a break from that episode and hopefully something will strike me once I get something in mind. As the title states, Part 1A. Clearly this is not the actual continuation to the previous post on Serenade but I just decided to post a few (or 1, for now) images that some people might have forgotten or never seen before, but clearly it was one of the first few steps I took in creating a successful CMS, which I guess, led me to where I am today (as cheesy as it sounds).
And like many bloggers, lets communicate with the audience! So, if you like to see more, then drop a reply below this post and say along the lines of, “WE WANT MORE”. Who know’s what I might do! So have fun, and sorry I haven’t been doing much lately, I’m a slacker!
One more thing, as there were quite a few suggestions lately about setting up a forum for the hostings, I taken the liberty to set one up at http://www.frozonenetworks.com/, drop by when you get the time Its still in the progress of being setup fully! VOTE THE PICTURE 5 STARS. OR ELSE.
Land, Ho! For TPB
Posted by MrSaints in Horrible Critics, Spotlight Wednesday, 7 October 2009 19:47 No Comments
BARCODE WAS INVENTED!
Hey! It’s been ages since I last made a proper blog post (: So I decided to create a little “share” and random interest article today. Well before going into all this, I just got a letter from Google Adsense. Its nothing much or anything concerning, but its just “Woah!” getting a letter from Google. Especially since they randomly shoved their trademarked logo all over the place.
Important Account Information Enclosed
Wow, thats a big give away to place on the front of a letter don’t you think?
This sounds totally nerdy and geeky, but I find it cool Besides this, I’m still trying to hunt for my Wave invitation somewhere… (don’t ask, I used multiple e-mail accounts).
The 'Patrick' Bay
Back To Biz. If you haven’t noticed yet, Google homepage had a facelift with a new barcode logo representing the “Invention of the barcode”. Somehow this article seems a bit pro-Google, but going on… its always fascinating seeing Google homepage logo change according to seasonal events You should check out some of their videos in YouTube when you get a chance (E.g. Working Life In Google xD). I would presume that barcode logo stands for GOOGLE when parsed.
In other news, its also amusing seeing The Pirate Bay logo change once in a while to random Online Memes, Historical Events,
News, etc. Its currently standing strong showing “The Patrick Bay” marking a tribute to reputable Patrick Swayze. The image itself holds its own significance and we’re all glad TPB is once again, still alive.
After being chased by various anti-piracy groups, The Pirate Bay returned a few hours ago. “Nobody puts The Pirate Bay in a corner,” they say on their frontpage , referencing Patrick Swayze’s famous line in Dirty Dancing. Not in a corner, no, but what about a bunker?
Source From TorrentFreak.
The Pirate Bay Additional Stuff
The funny thing about all this is that, TPB is actually being hosted in a nuclear bunker at the moment, in which you can read more from the link above to TorrentFreak.com. Just to stirl up a bit of interest and perhaps make you go “WOW I DIDN’T KNOW THAT”, TPB also offer other services/interests besides its amazing Public Torrent Tracking service. These services/affiliates are placed in the most obvious place that most user(s) do not bother taking a look at… the footer.
Now, let’s go over them, one by one. For those that are completely paranoid in clicking such links in fear of getting “RICK ROLL’D” or perhaps raped by random “Gay Porn (Meatspinning) or GNAA”, then perhaps this post should shed some light. Clearly, serving hundreds of visitors everyday, this would not be logical. The link names themselves are quite self-explanatory, Login, Register.
TPB DOODLES.
Now, turn your attention to “Legal Threats“. If your clearly opting for some humour at any point of the day, have a browse through some of these e-mails, letters and legal threats made to TPB that has been posted. Funny thing about all this is that its being displayed and nothing is being done against it, so well done TPB
Now we move to “Blogs” which is clearly… blogs. This is another interesting link you can visit to find out whats happening behind the scenes, etc.
Another interesting link to check out besides that, is their Doodles. This is basically a place for them to place or the previous logo changes upon special events. Great for amusement and memory
The rest are pretty basic and may be of interest to you, including their Forums. They have quite a fine community, so its perhaps worth a look at. One of the last few services that catches most of my activity on is Slopsbox, BayImg and PasteBay.
Instead of me elaborating on what Slopsbox is, just take a look at their description about it.
What is Slopsbox™ and why do you need it?
Slopsbox is your temporary mailbox, the e-mail address you use to register for random services. It’s a long-finger up the butt to spammers who wants your real e-mail. Slopsbox™ is the inbox you don’t care about. But Slopsbox™ cares about you, your privacy and we want your spam, because we think it’s tasty!
Slopsbox™ is great when you need to retrieve the information from an e-mail but don’t want to reveal your identity.
Fuck you Sir Spamalot!
Yes, as it states, its just a temporary mailbox storage for you to check mail (not send). Personally I find it great for “fake registering” accounts, which I “do not” recommend The main intentions is obviously to fight spam (: so don’t listen to me 
. So just send an e-mail to omgianblog@slopsbox.com, open that mailbox up in slopsbox.com and you can see it there. Services like these are normally hard to find, as always, its due to maintaining it as well as user abuse. If you have a forum, you better be blocking such mail providers (:
BayImg, a great site for you to be uploading your images to, regardless of the content’s ‘explicit level’, it will not be removed. I do not need to explain what type of images these are now do I. Its a fine alternative to ImageShack or whatever image hosters your currently using.
BayWords, I do not use this however its a great online tool to help user(s) express their freedom of speech without censorship or denial. Its free and simple to use with thousands of articles already posted. I forgot to mention, but most of these are under http://forum.suprbay.org/, i’m just so glad TPB posted those links on their footer or I would had never knew some of them. I believe you already understand that the use of .ORG domains represents non-profit organisations.
In addition to all these we have the latest (http://final.ipredator.se/) iPREdator. If you haven’t notice how all these services are linking up to privacy, censorship, freedom of oppression, copyright, or whatever then your clearly not thinking hard enough.
IPREDator is a network service that makes people online more anonymous using a VPN. it costs 5 EUR a month and we store no traffic data.
our service has become very popular and we’re therefor cautious to not make it slow.
that’s why we add capacity all the time and invite people when we have capacity for them.
the network is under our control. not theirs. the pirate bay likes and knows real kopimism. and waffles.
Hopefully I did not totally pwn everyone from this redundant (in a bad way) blog post. But its great if you have surplus of time and need a quick way to burn them (: (Hooray! for 1000+ words in this post).
Stay tune for more humans
P.S. Liked the featured article image for this post? Its from DeviantArt.com.
Also, I’m a jQuery freak just so you know (: so stop asking.