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 280              've managed to say some pretty daft things in my blog.</p>
 281             
 282             <p>I'm sure most of you are thinking "Well Duh!".</p>
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 284             <p>The Magic/Chess comparison was long ago prefaced with a comment that I must have been insane to write as much dribble as that.</p>
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 286             <p><a href="http://wwww.upsaid.com/xaosseed/index.php?action=viewcom&id=73" title="Comments ">Comments </a>about my culture shock in Turkey were read into more than I intended for a casual entry, within the limits of writing rapidly whilst tired in a internet cafe, but there were definite lamebrain comments of my own to justify any criticism. I take a great deal of heart from "<i>I think it's just American arrogance of the most frustrating type: that which comes from someone who should know better. </i>" and "<i>If I thought he was bona-fide certified unintelligent, I could cope, its just.... like watching a Mustang up on blocks being used as a birdfeeder. Its just such an abuse of potential.</i>" I may yet be saved.</p>
 287             
 288             <p>Theres more, but they portray my emotional state at the time, and I'm not touching a thing out ... whatever.</p>
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 290             <p>Its been a big 24 hrs. I've spent a lot of time thinking and so has Serena. Reading other peoples comments on us has its own effect, and I'm more convinced that whats being said by others isn't what I thought it was (poking fun at someone they despise), but the opposite (extreme annoyance at stupidity and waste in someone that could do better). </p>
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 292             <p><a href="http://www.upsaid.com/ironlemur/" title="Iron Lemur">Iron Lemur</a>, my apology, albiet a month late, is now pending, but to Serena, not to you. I didn't "chase tail," but I wasn't sensitive to how Serena would respond to my blogs.</p>
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 294             <p>Theres some comments reposted on Serena's blog that weren't found by my hitting Ctrl-F and typing in Riz... I've been wrong in the way I've treated Heather as far as showing up is concerned. It never seemed to bother her so I didn't ascribe it much importance, but _even_ HeatherW, that pinnacle of patience, gets frustrated at things. Just when I thought I had her figured out... (laughs wryly. She'll never let me)</p>
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 296             <p>Serena noted something:<br />
 297             <i>Even if Heather is at times rather critical.....I can tell by the frequency of mentioning Riz that she does have some amount of concern, care and friendship for him.  I vaguely recall a person telling me how its not worse to hate a person (as opposed to loving them), cause it is still a form of passion or concern.....the worse thing is to not care at all, to be indifferent.  So, while a bit hurtful, the fact that Heather was concerned enough to write about him in her blog (frequently even), is a very clear sign that she cares about Riz and what he does.</i></p>
 298             
 299             <p>I take hope in that.<br />
 300             In a lot of things. (My) Heather said some positive things today too, so I'm feeling quite better, but perhaps a bit wiser for the ware...(sp?)</p>
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 302             <p>folks out there; I'm going to be honest on my blog and avoid being stupid... Instead of mocking tones, if you could write your opinons honestly and directly, I'd genuinely apprecaite it. Things *have* been called to light, whether I like them or not. Comment boxes remain open. Post links and I'll read them. </p>
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 304             <p>I've been less careful with Serena than I should. She just asked why I didn't invite her to the S&G concert that HeatherW and I have tickets for ... I didn't want to have a tense situation when we weren't going with a big group and I'm not sure how they'd get along, or how Heather would like another person coming with us. That I didn't invite Serena isn't what I did wrong. That I didn't explain my reasons for not doing so where. She confronted me about that in a quick IM, and I realized that I should have explained that to her.</p>
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 306             <p>I'm usually careful with girlfriends and what they think, and either getting used to the situation, pure-tiredness, cynicism, knowing that Serena loves me (no matter what I do), I'm being less careful. The girls in the past have liked me because I treated them well, and Serena deserves no less. If I stay with her, I should give her what she deserves, and needs. If I'm not willing to, I'm just hurting her by staying together. Thanks to all of you out there in blogland for pointing out the stupidity of my past actions. I might not have liked the message but the surprise of yesterday cleared the way for some re-thinking. So yes, Curious, its a gift.</p>
 307             
 308             <p>In other news,<br />
 309             What does it say about me that Tom is my favorite Corleone?</p>
 310             
 311             <p>Oh, Serena posted a ton of surveys on her site...</p>
 312             
 313             <p>I never watched <a href="http://quizilla.com/users/winternight/quizzes/Which%20Incarnation%20of%20the%20Doctor%20Are%20You%3F/" title="Dr. Who">Dr. Who</a> so I didn't fill out this one.</p>
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 315             <p><img src="http://images.quizilla.com/J/jsimner/1062436747_sixteen.jpg" border="0" alt="My inner child is sixteen years old today"><br><p><b>My inner child is sixteen years old!</b><br />
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 317             Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while<br>adults might just accept that, I know<br>something's gotta change. And it's gonna<br>change, just as soon as I become an adult and<br>get some power of my own.<br />
 318             <br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/jsimner/quizzes/How%20Old%20is%20Your%20Inner%20Child%3F/"> <font size="-1">How Old is Your Inner Child?</font></a><BR> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font></p>
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 322             <p><img src="http://images.quizilla.com/N/novemberhorse/1047168468_esktopseer.jpg" border="0" alt="HASH(0x86fc500)"><br>Seer<br />
 323             <br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/novemberhorse/quizzes/The%20ULTIMATE%20personality%20test/"> <font size="-1">The ULTIMATE personality test</font></a><BR> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font></p>
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 325             <p><img src="http://images.quizilla.com/T/truly-dippy/1061406331_ktopbrain2.jpg" border="0" alt="Athena"><br>Athena<br />
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 451              ust finished an episode called "Telephone" from This American Life; the first half is quite compelling. Snippet:<br />
 452             <i><br />
 453             Stories of who we are on the phone, of of things we learn on the phone, of things that happen on the phone that don't happen anywhere else.<br />
 454             Prologue. Host Ira Glass explains why some old answering machine messages from a decade ago have such power for him: there's a special power to recordings of phone conversations. The phone is intimate, more intimate than a photograph. Even when the person on the phone is a public figure like Lyndon Johnson. He plays some tapes from the Simon & Schuster audiobook of Johnson phone tapes, Taking Charge, The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 , by Michael Beschloss, to demonstrate. (7 minutes)<br />
 455             Act One. When the Wall Came Tumbling Down. The story of a teenager, illegal drug use, lying, stealing, and a kid's life changed completely when he heard how he sounded on the phone.</p>
 456             
 457             <p>Act Two. When the telephone is your medium. Sure you can try to get your pop songs onto records, or on the radio, or onto MTV. But what happens if your medium of choice is... the telephone? Before they had record contracts, the band They Might Be Giants distributed their songs through the medium of Answering Machine. They created their own Dial-a-Song line. They say it taught them a lot about songwriting, because they could hear which songs people hated, because people hung up on the bad songs. It taught them how to do better musical arrangements for their songs. Contributing editor Sarah Vowell visited John Linnell and John Flansberg in Brooklyn and talked to them about Dial-a-Song. The Dial-a-Song phone number: 718/387-6962. (15 minutes)<br />
 458             Song: They Might Be Giants "I'm Sick" (A song they wrote about This American Life, for us)<br />
 459             </i><br />
 460             <a href="http://207.70.82.73/ra/90.ram" title="Real audio stream">Real audio stream</a>... if you want it in MP3, ive got it converted.</p>
 461             
 462             <p>Speaking of Telephone, I've been a bit stuck on "Long Distance Lover" by Sheena Easton; I've been thinking of it in context with Serena, odd enough because I'm not the first person, but the seemingly cruel Long Distance Lover. Serena liked the song. "Very 80s" <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/telephone.mp3" title="Listen">Listen</a> to it here.</p>
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 464             <p>Any "They might be Giants" fans out there? All I know is "Istanbul," (which I hummed constantly in Istanbul, much to the chagrin of ... well myself. Any recommended albums to start with?</p>
 465             
 466             <p>Ira Glass is touring a bit, I can't wait to see him speak. I'm still annoyed at my not attending the Prarie Home Companion performance in Anahiem. </p>
 467             
 468             <p>Saturday, April 10, 2004 - UCLA Performing Arts, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA. Evening presentation with Chris Ware. <br />
 469             Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA.</p>
 470             
 471             <p>Thers a big part of me wanting to become a Radio Producer, even given that my talent lies in engineering. Probably only for public radio though. Maybe. </p>
 472             
 473             <p>Barry once described working in Radio as a "bug that bites you and never lets go. You can't help wanting to work in the field ..." ... Its kinda true, and might even be moreso for radio than even television. So much to do...</p>
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 598              irst, my coverage of the Mirrodin pre-release.</p>
 599             
 600             <p>Serena and I had a middling time together the night before, but it ended with her having a few drinks, having a heart to heart with Shadiya, Serena getting annoyed with me and me asking "Should I go home?"... </p>
 601             
 602             <p>Woke up the next day, snoozing as constantly as possible, until about 8:30. Dan asked me to be at the Hitlon by 9. Went to take a shower, (Shad - "You mean you'll grace our shower without shower slippers?!"), watched the cats dart away the second I turned on the water (they are so cute), showered shaved and got out as quickly as possible. Serena wanted me to come to bed for a while, but I had told myself I wasn't going to be late (I felt bad after having made HeatherW late for the Scourge pre-rel, and I *was* working this one)... We had a chat about how much she needed me and whether I needed her or not... It maybe a male thing, but I don't like *needing* someone... I try to be independent, am quite poor at it at times, and I need my friends... but needing someone I am dating? That just seemed like beyond my capabilities. I don't know at the moment, I'm pondering.. Check her blog for more details... </p>
 603             
 604             <p>Anyhow, back to days events. Split and headed over to LAX Hilton, noticing that my car was starting to perform quite poorly... Acceleration was quite difficult and Sapna would rev up to five-k rpms with no noticable change in acceleration. More on that ...</p>
 605             
 606             <p>Mum just finished writing about a half hour's worth of email to Farhana at which point IE crashed with an error in mshtml.dll ... I'm getting less and less impressed with XP's stability (probably because more and more crap has been installed over time) ... I'm getting random BAD_POOL_CALLER and IRQ_EQUAL_OR_LESS errors for little apparent reasons, hard system crashes while visiting tvguide.com for some reason (doesn't like Flash?), random reboots... That mshtml.dll errors been around for a while now, IE doesn't seem to like yahoo's data entry javascript... *sigh*</p>
 607             
 608             <p>Arrived just before, changed to black pants and my referee shirt in the parking lot, and ran up ... Dan didn't comment on my tardiness, assigned me to someone and the work began... about an hour of handing out DCI forms to new players, and chiding old players for forgetting their numbers. After the first waves were seated, we setup some of the teams (which were a debacle and filled up *very* quickly). I wish HeatherW had come, I would have gladly given up judging to play a team event with her and someone, but she was adamant, and I felt little need to tempt her. </p>
 609             
 610 rizwank 1.1 <p>There was a lot of handing out result slips, seating new rounds, listening closely for "Judge" and looking over watching peoples games. </p>
 611             
 612             <p>Some of the questions I was getting...<br />
 613             <i>If a creature with double-strike is blocked and the blocking creature is destroyed by first combat damage, does the main round of damage get through?</i> No.<br />
 614             <i>If a creature with double-strike is unblocked, does it deal double damage to the opponent?</i> Yes, but some judge was going around telling people that the answer was No... that caused a bit of a problem.<br />
 615             <i>Can you equip a creature with pro-artifacts with equipment?</i> No.<br />
 616             <i>Does an enchantment target its, well, target?</i> Only when its being played, not after.<br />
 617             <i>What are the rules for trample damage when blockers are pro-quality or if they are gang blocked</i> The usual answer, lethal damage to all blockers.<br />
 618             <i>Does <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Vulshok%20Battlemaster')" title="Card Info on Vulshok Battlemaster">Vulshok Battlemaster</a> steal control of your opponents equipment? Does it at least equip with their equipment?</i> No, Yes.<br />
 619             <i>Why does my opponent have a Wild Mongrel out?</i> Hes cheating.</p>
 620             
 621             <p>That kinda stuff. Nothing too terribly difficult. </p>
 622             
 623             <p>There weren't insane questions about <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Liar%27s%20Pendulum')" title="Card Info on Liar's Pendulum">Liar's Pendulum</a>, <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Platinum%20Angel')" title="Card Info on Platinum Angel">Platinum Angel</a>, <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Glissa%20Sunseeker%20')" title="Card Info on Glissa Sunseeker ">Glissa Sunseeker</a>(except my catching a player for not emptying out his manapool after using Glissa, it doesn't spend the mana, just counts it)...</p>
 624             
 625             <p>Colorless lifegain was prevalent with <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Loxodon%20Warhammer')" title="Card Info on Loxodon Warhammer">Loxodon Warhammer</a> out there.</p>
 626             
 627             <p>I loved that Platinum Angel is specifically cited, pointing out that if a player leaves the play area, he/she is considered to have given up control of Platinum Angel and therefore loses the game. Attacking a judge, cheating etc. will still result in a game loss (or more ;p) </p>
 628             
 629             <p>Heather just called, I'll finish this post later. (Finishing now)</p>
 630             
 631 rizwank 1.1 <p>Wave 14 had waited about four hours to start, enough people had dropped to accomdate them, but only in between seats of other Waves, meaning that they couldn't be relied upon to find places to go, they had to be seat assigned (Group 1, table 18, group 2 table 19, group 3 table 25) etc... I'm amazed at the total stupidity of people at times. First, I've never left a tournament without actually dropping, but plenty of people just walked away, leaving us clueless at the end of the round when their slip hadn't come in. Other people didn't turn in their slips, how do you expect us to start the next round that you've been clamoring for if you've got the result sheet in your pocket...</p>
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 633             <p>A girl and guy group arrived late to Wave 14 after I had sorted everyone out and was about to award Match wins to the unpaired folks... I started to bitch at them, having absorbed the attitude of those working around me... About a minute later I caught myself, smiled and said "No problem, lets set you up," ... No reason to be surly, me thinks; just because the more jaded coords and judges are. I ended up hanging out with that couple later in the day.</p>
 634             
 635             <p>Adrian kicked some butt with his numerous bounce, and removal spells; I do wish i had played, as Mirrodin looks like a ton of fun. At six I went outside into the working cell area to notify mum that the people were still there and that I might not be able to make it to the wedding as we had planned. It wasn't a wedding of someone close or dear, it was more of a social obligation. I actually was trying to commit properly to this task at hand, even though I wouldn't have minded splitting just then. Also didn't want to risk whatever rewards we were getting.</p>
 636             
 637             <p>By 10 things calmed down and I talked more with this couple; girls name is Jennifer, and of course I can't remember the guys name. He had 12 packs of Mirr that he won, and after being shown variations on games by Dan and the other judges (Pack Wars, and some variation where you play out of a random stack of cards with infinite mana) we came upon the idea for playing Draft. We got a fourth, I paid him $10 for his 3 boosters (the winner of the draft took all, I knew I wouldn't win but it was fun, therefore worth it), and we drafted. As usual, my picks were quick and generally sub par. I had thought so much about bounce that I almost immediately went to blue; and ended up with an average (At best)  <img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/magic/blue_mana.gif" height="12" width="12" alt="blue_mana" />  <img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/magic/green_mana.gif" height="12" width="12" alt="green_mana" />  deck, with some decent equipment, including the lifegainer.</p>
 638             
 639             <p>I lost to him 0-2, but put up a big fight in the last game, but <img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/magic/red_mana.gif" height="12"
 640             width="12" alt="red_mana" />  <img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/magic/black_mana.gif" height="12" width="12" alt="black_mana" />  was a bit hard to deal with; especially as he had a number of <img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/magic/red_mana.gif" height="12"
 641             width="12" alt="red_mana" />  fatties while I had chump blockers and cheap-ass lifegain keeping me floating. I was also drawing like mad thanks <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Farsight%20Mask')" title="Card Info on Farsight Mask">Farsight Mask</a>. It was 11 by then. Slightly miffed that I couldn't even keep what I drafted, I took what cash I had left, $1.50 and bet a rare against it, <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('March%20of%20the%20Machines')" title="Card Info on March of the Machines">March of the Machines</a>. </p>
 642             
 643             <p>I played the girlfriend. Her deck was sub-par as well, but was quite workable. I always have trouble choosing colors and knowing when to change and when to stay... I really really need to work on my draft. Ger can attest to the troubles I have. I played a good game, nearly dealing her a fatal blow save for a surprise combat trick from her hand; and got pummeled soon after. </p>
 644             
 645             <p>Got a few cards in my pocket from the packs Dan threw us to teach me pack wars, including some rares that are fun... theres one that I almost got but lost to Jennifer who was also being taught in Pack Wars, a enchantment that reads : 1 <img src="http://www.geekymedia.com/magic/white_mana.gif" height="12" width="12" alt="white_mana" /> : Give all your creatures +1/+1 until end of turn. Thats a chase rare, methinks. (I just learned that term from Heather, cool eh?)</p>
 646             
 647             <p>Leaving the hotel, I find that my mother has been worried about me for the past X hours, even calling Serena in her worry and the LAX Hilton. I point out that I told them that I wouldn't be coming and that the LAX Hilton isn't South Central LA... I make the short drive to Torrance, visiting our family friends, the Hajis, spend a few moments with their son, Ali-Khan, a friend of mine; and wander off to bed.</p>
 648             
 649             <p>I'm debating if i should buy a common/uncommon set of this set. A lot of the commons are shit, and it seems more economical designing a deck via proxy and buying just what I need... Not having massive binders will hurt the part of me that is very pleased with my organizing, but thats alright. I don't need to have every slot filled, most of the cards sit doing nothing. Yeah, that sounds good. *thinks* I've got a box of mirr that I'm temtped to open, but its for my offical Simon and Garfunkel fund.... :) turns out my heather is going as well as HeatherW on the same day ... and thanks to Heather(W) we've got great seats... a bit spendy but c'est la vie. Judging one more event (Oct 11) should do it.</p>
 650             
 651             <p>*sigh* Every deck that seems fun to play has 4 <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Exalted%20Angels')" title="Card Info on Exalted Angels">Exalted Angels</a> and 4 <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Eternal%20Dragons')" title="Card Info on Eternal Dragons">Eternal Dragons</a>, not cheap cards by any means. <a href="javascript:autoCardWindow('Wrath%20of%20God')" title="Card Info on Wrath of God">Wrath of God</a>'s are hard to come by. Even Hammer of Borgadin... (however you spell it)</p>
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 815               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
 816               $title = $row['title'];
 817               $count = $row['count'];
 818               $search = $row['search'];
 819             
 820 rizwank 1.1   if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
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 843               $query = '';
 844             
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 848               $search = $row['search'];
 849             
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 884             <a name="000210"></a>
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 898             <h3 class="title">Aftermath</h3>
 899              
 900             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
 901                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
 902                 A</b>
 903                </p>
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 905              fter a civilized chat with HeatherW last night and a good nights sleep, I awoke and read more of the blog.</p>
 906             
 907             <p>I still don't like it. Not because of what Heather said but because of the comments. Heather at least knows me, the rest have only second and third-generation comments to go by, and their comments are mocking and scathing.</p>
 908             
 909             <p>That being said, I'm used to taking them with a half pound of salt, so...</p>
 910             
 911             <p>Curious; a well stated and polite argument. Response follows:</p>
 912             
 913             <p>The Ego Bubble (tm) was formed in Elemntary school onwards... Being teased, harassed and beat up often enough, authority figures said "Its becaues you are smart and they are jealous." It wasn't always, in retrospect, I had some personal habits that weren't going to vault me to a popularity list anyhow, but there was some truth in it. I offer this not as an excuse but as a clarification.</p>
 914             
 915             <p>Nature of blogging needs to be covered at some point, but yes, not today.</p>
 916             
 917             <p>As for the sugar coating and all; I would have preferred more honesty from Heather, but she is right, most of what she said (except the random bits of contempt, and that I'm full of it) have been expressed one way or ther other; and I listen to her. She knows how highly I regard her opinion, and I can't even blame her for not being totally upfront. In the end, whats done is done and I'm moving on.</p>
 918             
 919             <p>Criticism comes from enough places around me already, plenty from the parents (despite Heather's assurance that my mother has a massive blindspot regarding me; she reserves negative comments directly for me, she knows not to share them with Heather), but I've come to rely on honesty from friends like Heather (now I mean "my heather") for telling me when something is wrong. I get it from HeatherW as well, just more subtly, and sometimes via blog.</p>
 920             
 921             <p>I refuse to simplify it to the Gift/Curse setup... Its brought up issues that I had put aside to bring more focus on school, but thats part of life. I'll consider some opinons, but they've already been tainted by my not so positive opinion of the commenters. I'm not going to just let it blow over though; theres stuff to think about.</p>
 922             
 923             <p><i>"Two of our LA friends spent the evening picking over the entire contents of my blog. It's not that I regret anything I said...it's just going to be dull to have to justify several months of random bile all at once. :) "</i></p>
 924             
 925 rizwank 1.1 <p>Anyone who reads blogs in mass amounts deserves trouble, I'm now deciding. If I start reading Serena's blogs, I'm going to do it section by section to avoid getting overwhelmed. I'm going to do more blog reading, but remember the warning that I had constantly <i>planned</i> to put onto my site, but never actually got around to. <b>I write these when I'm moved to, meaning that I'm generally not thinking rationally or equitably. These are stories laced with hyperbole, and should be taken as such.</b></p>
 926             
 927             <p>Also, Heathers got interesting stories now that I read through, instead of doing a IE find for "Riz."  Context, butterfly, context. Of course, Serena looked for comments about her and found some things to think about herself. And shes worried about me, the sweet thing. (Shes convinced that Heather does care for me, else she wouldn't spend time writing about being frustrated when I don't show)</p>
 928             
 929             <p>As for posting quotes from conversations with Heather, notice that its rarely about her, partially because she doesn't talk much about herself, granted, but mostly because its like this... if it affects my relationship with her, its fairgame. If it doesn't, it isn't. Its not up to me to post about *other* peoples personal problems...</p>
 930             
 931             <p>I'm tempted to read the other sites that searching maven Serena has found, but I'll leave those for another day, and will read slowly. I'm not sure I'll accept any arguments on privacy, they arent really valid for a blog (even when I've tried to use that argument myself). I also haven't been reading as many blogs as I should; time to setup a daily RSS feed for myself or something. </p>
 932             
 933             <p>I still owe you guys that rant on infidelity. (By the way, it was my bitterness at everyone around me being unfaithful; Otabek commenting on his many girlfriends "Once you are seven steps outside the home, you are no longer married.")</p>
 934             
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 966             
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 969               $title = $row['title'];
 970               $count = $row['count'];
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 972             
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 974                 $n++;
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 989             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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 996               $query = '';
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1000               $count = $row['count'];
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1002             
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1004                 $n++;
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1026                 dc:subject="Home"
1027                 dc:description="Added Sound and Fury to my &quot;Better blogs&quot; Area. Those who aren&apos;t real fans of me might find some enjoyment there. I&apos;m starting to decide blogging about other people is a bad idea. Serena gets hurt when reading my ranting..."
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1032             
1033             
1034             <h2 class="date">September 22, 2003</h2>
1035             
1036             
1037             <div class="blogbody">
1038             <a name="000209"></a>
1039             <?php
1040             
1041             // record the referer
1042             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1043                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (209, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1044             }
1045             
1046             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1047             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=209' );
1048             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1049             $hits = $row[0];
1050             
1051 rizwank 1.1 ?>
1052             <h3 class="title">Added</h3>
1053              
1054             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1055                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1056                 A</b>
1057                </p>
1058               </td></tr></table>
1059              dded <i><a href="http://www.upsaid.com/timiat/" title="Sound and Fury">Sound and Fury</a></i> to my "Better blogs" Area. Those who aren't real fans of me might find some enjoyment there.</p>
1060             
1061             <p>I'm starting to decide blogging about other people is a bad idea. Serena gets hurt when reading my ranting blogs (that usually have nothing do to with her), I avoid reading hers to be worried by her manic blog (which give other people the impressing that I intend to cause her hurt), and now HeatherW's blog, while quite possibly accurate, (albiet cynical), was too much hurt, too quickly, from someone I trusted, even expected to tell me the truth directly. </p>
1062             
1063             <p>Its not the opinions that she holds; they've been held by other people, but those that I hate anyway. I've always been unbalanced as a person, with some traits more developed than others, and those that I've set aside while I work on responsibility and such are now back in the forefront. Social life had been worked out, it was okay; it would get better when I moved to LA and when I planned to make it up to the people that I had inconvienenced while so far away. I want to say its some feeling of betrayal, but I'm not nearly dramatic enough to think along those lines. Its as innocous as my posting about pretty Russian girls, stating a fact, but ignoring the hurt and the insecurities it would bring up in someone else, rational or not. (Yes, point made.) [Although, I still contest that talking about me directly rather than making observations about a set of people are two different situations]</p>
1064             
1065             <p>Its just the pattern of my life that I've been trying to organize for the past five years has suddenly been ripped again, and there are frays everywhere... knots long ago tied are now undone, confidences shattered, comforts destroyed. </p>
1066             
1067             <p>I've written five emails to HeatherW and deleted them all before sending them. I can't begrudge someone their own opinion, especially when some of them are right. Its just that I prefer honesty from people, not two different faces. I like to know when im held in that much contempt or disapproval though, and the next time (yes, there will be a next time*) I see HeatherW is going to be annoyingly tense, and then it will be okay. Maybe she'll be more honest with me and stop despising me in secret. Maybe the relationship will become more balanced as I've always wanted it to be after work, but at the moment, all I can feel is pain. (Anger doesn't come easily to me.)</p>
1068             
1069             <p>* - I don't break ties with people that I care about unless I have a reason to; I don't build grudges easily. Someone can think that I'm totally average and full of it and still be a friend. There are those who are. Are they right? Coping mechanisms, character flaws, whatever you call them; I survive by knowing that there is something special that shows itself... Just not all the time. Its my worldview.</p>
1070             
1071             <p>Oh, how did this post (that was simply supposed to mention the existance of HeatherW's blog) get to this length?<br />
1072 rizwank 1.1 Serena's quite worried about me (an interesting flip in the scenario) and I'm going to bed. Only an iPod playing Brahms will work tonight.</p>
1073             
1074             <p>EDIT : We talked, I feel better, and mature for not having dragged it out. Anyhow, its over. Back to normality with a slightly damaged personality quilt, but nothing that some stitching can't fix.</p>
1075             
1076             
1077             	
1078             
1079             
1080             
1081             <div class="posted">
1082             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000209" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">11:33 PM</a><?php
1083             if ($hits) { 
1084                print " | Read ";
1085                echo "$hits";
1086                print " time";
1087                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
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1089             ?>
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1093 rizwank 1.1 	
1094             </div>
1095             
1096             </div>
1097             <?php
1098             
1099             // display the list of referers
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1101             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1102             
1103             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=209 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1104             
1105             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1106             $n = 0;
1107             
1108             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1109               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1110               $title = $row['title'];
1111               $count = $row['count'];
1112               $search = $row['search'];
1113             
1114 rizwank 1.1   if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1115                 $n++;
1116                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1117                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1118               }
1119             }
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1122                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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1125             echo "<br />\n";
1126             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
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1128             echo '</div>';
1129             
1130             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1131             echo "<div class='side'>";
1132             
1133             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1134             $n = 0;
1135 rizwank 1.1 
1136             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1137               $query = '';
1138             
1139               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1140               $title = $row['title'];
1141               $count = $row['count'];
1142               $search = $row['search'];
1143             
1144               if ($search == 1) {
1145                 $n++;
1146                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1147                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
1148               }
1149             }
1150             
1151             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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1153             echo "</div>";
1154             ?>
1155             
1156 rizwank 1.1 
1157             
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1167                 dc:subject="Home"
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1170                 dc:date="2003-09-22T18:15:40-08:00" />
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1173             
1174             
1175             
1176             
1177 rizwank 1.1 <div class="blogbody">
1178             <a name="000208"></a>
1179             <?php
1180             
1181             // record the referer
1182             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1183                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (208, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1184             }
1185             
1186             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1187             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=208' );
1188             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1189             $hits = $row[0];
1190             
1191             ?>
1192             <h3 class="title"></h3>
1193              
1194             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1195                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1196                 S</b>
1197                </p>
1198 rizwank 1.1   </td></tr></table>
1199              erena Sent this to me...</p>
1200             
1201             <p><a title="FARK.com: Comments Thingee (653373)" href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=653373&mode=voteresults">FARK.com: Comments Thingee (653373)</a></p>
1202             
1203             <p>Photoshop your own "Anti-Drug" ad</p>
1204             
1205             
1206             	
1207             
1208             
1209             
1210             <div class="posted">
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1212             if ($hits) { 
1213                print " | Read ";
1214                echo "$hits";
1215                print " time";
1216                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
1217             }
1218             ?>
1219 rizwank 1.1 		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=208" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
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1222             	
1223             </div>
1224             
1225             </div>
1226             <?php
1227             
1228             // display the list of referers
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1230             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1231             
1232             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=208 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1233             
1234             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1235             $n = 0;
1236             
1237             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1238               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1239               $title = $row['title'];
1240 rizwank 1.1   $count = $row['count'];
1241               $search = $row['search'];
1242             
1243               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1244                 $n++;
1245                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1246                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
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1254             echo "<br />\n";
1255             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1256             }
1257             echo '</div>';
1258             
1259             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1260             echo "<div class='side'>";
1261 rizwank 1.1 
1262             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1263             $n = 0;
1264             
1265             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1266               $query = '';
1267             
1268               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1269               $title = $row['title'];
1270               $count = $row['count'];
1271               $search = $row['search'];
1272             
1273               if ($search == 1) {
1274                 $n++;
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1276                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
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1281             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
1282 rizwank 1.1 echo "</div>";
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1294                 dc:title="Apple moves up iTunes for PC to mid-October"
1295                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000207"
1296                 dc:subject="Home"
1297                 dc:description="iPodlounge | All Things iPod Apple moves up iTunes for PC to mid-October : &quot;In another hopeful sign for the industry last week, downloading sites Rhapsody and Apple’s iTunes bragged that paying customers were flocking their way. And Apple, NEWSWEEK..."
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1302             
1303 rizwank 1.1 
1304             <h2 class="date">September 19, 2003</h2>
1305             
1306             
1307             <div class="blogbody">
1308             <a name="000207"></a>
1309             <?php
1310             
1311             // record the referer
1312             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1313                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (207, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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1315             
1316             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1317             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=207' );
1318             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1319             $hits = $row[0];
1320             
1321             ?>
1322             <h3 class="title">Apple moves up iTunes for PC to mid-October</h3>
1323              
1324 rizwank 1.1 <p><a title="iPodlounge | All Things iPod" href="http://www.ipodlounge.com/">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1325                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1326                 i</b>
1327                </p>
1328               </td></tr></table>
1329              Podlounge | All Things iPod</a></p>
1330             
1331             <p>Apple moves up iTunes for PC to mid-October :</p>
1332             
1333             <p>"In another hopeful sign for the industry last week, downloading sites Rhapsody and Apple’s iTunes bragged that paying customers were flocking their way. And Apple, NEWSWEEK learned, quietly informed some music insiders that it’s moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-based PCs to mid-October. Apple couldn’t be reached for comment. As weeks go, it was a good one for the record industry."</p>
1334             
1335             <p><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/966392.asp" title="More info">More info</a></p>
1336             
1337             <p>Yay! Maybe I'll start legally getting music.... maybe.</p>
1338             
1339             
1340             	
1341             
1342             
1343             
1344             <div class="posted">
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1362             // display the list of referers
1363             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
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1366 rizwank 1.1 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=207 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1367             
1368             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1369             $n = 0;
1370             
1371             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1372               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1373               $title = $row['title'];
1374               $count = $row['count'];
1375               $search = $row['search'];
1376             
1377               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1378                 $n++;
1379                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1380                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
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1383             
1384             if (!($n)) {
1385                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
1386             }
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1388             echo "<br />\n";
1389             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1390             }
1391             echo '</div>';
1392             
1393             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1394             echo "<div class='side'>";
1395             
1396             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1397             $n = 0;
1398             
1399             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1400               $query = '';
1401             
1402               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1403               $title = $row['title'];
1404               $count = $row['count'];
1405               $search = $row['search'];
1406             
1407               if ($search == 1) {
1408 rizwank 1.1     $n++;
1409                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1410                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
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1419             
1420             
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1428                 dc:title="Theft"
1429 rizwank 1.1     dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000206"
1430                 dc:subject="Home"
1431                 dc:description="I just realized what happened to my Polaroid Camera and my Zippo (with the Turkish Emblem on it)... they were swiped at the airport. I checked for them right before and right after and it never occured to me that..."
1432                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
1433                 dc:date="2003-09-19T00:22:44-08:00" />
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1436             
1437             
1438             
1439             
1440             <div class="blogbody">
1441             <a name="000206"></a>
1442             <?php
1443             
1444             // record the referer
1445             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1446                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (206, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1447             }
1448             
1449             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1450 rizwank 1.1 $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=206' );
1451             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1452             $hits = $row[0];
1453             
1454             ?>
1455             <h3 class="title">Theft</h3>
1456              
1457             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1458                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1459                 I</b>
1460                </p>
1461               </td></tr></table>
1462               just realized what happened to my Polaroid Camera and my Zippo (with the Turkish Emblem on it)... they were swiped at the airport.</p>
1463             
1464             <p>I checked for them right before and right after and it never occured to me that it might have been taken during the security check. I contacted my hostel to no avail as far as getting my lighter and they *were* in the unlocked side carriers. Not that big of a deal but it explains something for me.</p>
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1470             
1471 rizwank 1.1 <div class="posted">
1472             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000206" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">12:22 AM</a><?php
1473             if ($hits) { 
1474                print " | Read ";
1475                echo "$hits";
1476                print " time";
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1478             }
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1488             
1489             // display the list of referers
1490             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1491             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1492 rizwank 1.1 
1493             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=206 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1494             
1495             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1496             $n = 0;
1497             
1498             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1499               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1500               $title = $row['title'];
1501               $count = $row['count'];
1502               $search = $row['search'];
1503             
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1505                 $n++;
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1507                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1508               }
1509             }
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1512                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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1514             else {
1515             echo "<br />\n";
1516             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1517             }
1518             echo '</div>';
1519             
1520             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1521             echo "<div class='side'>";
1522             
1523             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1524             $n = 0;
1525             
1526             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1527               $query = '';
1528             
1529               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1530               $title = $row['title'];
1531               $count = $row['count'];
1532               $search = $row['search'];
1533             
1534 rizwank 1.1   if ($search == 1) {
1535                 $n++;
1536                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1537                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
1538               }
1539             }
1540             
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1554                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/204"
1555 rizwank 1.1     dc:title="Pretty Girls"
1556                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000205"
1557                 dc:subject="Home"
1558                 dc:description="Its an odd things about pretty girls. You (and by this I mean, both myself and probably most of the men out there) just want to look at them. It isn&apos;t ogling persay and I&apos;m not fantasizing how they are..."
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1563             
1564             
1565             <h2 class="date">September 16, 2003</h2>
1566             
1567             
1568             <div class="blogbody">
1569             <a name="000205"></a>
1570             <?php
1571             
1572             // record the referer
1573             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1574                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (205, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1575             }
1576 rizwank 1.1 
1577             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1578             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=205' );
1579             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1580             $hits = $row[0];
1581             
1582             ?>
1583             <h3 class="title">Pretty Girls</h3>
1584              
1585             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1586                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1587                 I</b>
1588                </p>
1589               </td></tr></table>
1590              ts an odd things about pretty girls. You (and by this I mean, both myself and probably most of the men out there) just want to look at them. It isn't ogling persay and I'm not fantasizing how they are in bed, I just .. want to look.</p>
1591             
1592             <p>I got a hair cut today and was reminded how the prettiest girls in Victorville either work at the hair salon or are there. Is there something about the job that makes the girls pretty or do pretty girls get attracted to such fields.</p>
1593             
1594             <p>I think its the first. I've always thought of myself as not caring much whether a girl is wearing makeup, or a cute skirt, adornments, or even nice bodies for that matter... I do have a weakness for accessories, as hats/head dressings, nicely done hair, earrings... but I guess I was wrong. It might follow that those in the beauty industry would take more time on their own appearance than your average josephine, but does that mean that I'm actually as shallow as the next guy out there? Or is it not being shallow so much as the point of such dressing up is to improve ones look subtly without calling attention to the dressing up to begin with? </p>
1595             
1596             <p>I'm reminded of Russia and pretty Russian girls. Is it because, as a culture, they emphasize dress and looks more than others? I didn't think it was possible for a culture to be more ego-centric than our American culture, but we don't always dress nice..</p>
1597 rizwank 1.1 
1598             <p>I acknowledge that looking nice has as much to do with ones own self-perception as it does for showing off/attracting others; I know when I'm properly shaven, with a nice hair cut and my favorite set of clothes (HeatherW: Just remembered our conversation about favorite clothing, and the different perceptions between men and women of certain pieces *laughs*), I feel more confident, and I don't doubt that it is similar for girls..</p>
1599             
1600             <p>What do you all think? Are pretty girls more attracted to the beauty industry, or does the beauty industry re-inforce the girls want to be pretty?</p>
1601             
1602             <p><i>Added Golden <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804732078/104-0862985-9123158" title="Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia">Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia</a> to my Wishlist</i></p>
1603             
1604             <p>After doing a bit of research about Globalization for  Sis  I'm tempted to see the rate of growth of McDonalds and CocaCola, the ultimate american brands. Again, the weirdest brand I saw overseas was the Arbys in Taksim Square in Istanbul.<br />
1605             </p>
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1613             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000205" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">02:19 PM</a><?php
1614             if ($hits) { 
1615                print " | Read ";
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1617                print " time";
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1628             <?php
1629             
1630             // display the list of referers
1631             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1632             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1633             
1634             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=205 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
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1636             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1637             $n = 0;
1638             
1639 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1640               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1641               $title = $row['title'];
1642               $count = $row['count'];
1643               $search = $row['search'];
1644             
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1646                 $n++;
1647                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1648                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1649               }
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1651             
1652             if (!($n)) {
1653                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
1654             }
1655             else {
1656             echo "<br />\n";
1657             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1658             }
1659             echo '</div>';
1660 rizwank 1.1 
1661             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1662             echo "<div class='side'>";
1663             
1664             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1665             $n = 0;
1666             
1667             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1668               $query = '';
1669             
1670               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1671               $title = $row['title'];
1672               $count = $row['count'];
1673               $search = $row['search'];
1674             
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1676                 $n++;
1677                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1678                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
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1681 rizwank 1.1 
1682             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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1688             
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1696                 dc:title="Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage"
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1698                 dc:subject="Home"
1699                 dc:description="Slashdot | Xbox Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage An anonymous reader writes &quot;According to The Inquirer, Microsoft has used their Xbox Live Vole System to patch any Xboxes that access it....without asking their permission before installing the software. However, in this..."
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1702 rizwank 1.1 </rdf:RDF>
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1706             
1707             
1708             <div class="blogbody">
1709             <a name="000204"></a>
1710             <?php
1711             
1712             // record the referer
1713             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
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1716             
1717             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1718             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=204' );
1719             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1720             $hits = $row[0];
1721             
1722             ?>
1723 rizwank 1.1 <h3 class="title">Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage</h3>
1724              
1725             <p><a title="Slashdot | Xbox Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage" href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0310224">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1726                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1727                 S</b>
1728                </p>
1729               </td></tr></table>
1730              lashdot | Xbox Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage</a></p>
1731             
1732             <p>An anonymous reader writes "According to The Inquirer, Microsoft has used their Xbox Live Vole System to patch any Xboxes that access it....without asking their permission before installing the software. However, in this occurrence, the bug appears to be the 'dashboard bug' that allows Linux to be easily installed on an Xbox. Further, according to The Xbox Linux Project, users who do not have an Xbox Live account may find themselves being patched without permission as well. If a gamer tries to access any part of a game that uses Xbox Live, the console can 'phone home' and install the patches anyway. While patching bugs can be a nice touch to poor software, I don't know if I feel comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without asking permission first." </p>
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1738             
1739             <div class="posted">
1740             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000204" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">11:08 AM</a><?php
1741             if ($hits) { 
1742                print " | Read ";
1743                echo "$hits";
1744 rizwank 1.1    print " time";
1745                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
1746             }
1747             ?>
1748             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=204" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
1749             	
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1751             	
1752             </div>
1753             
1754             </div>
1755             <?php
1756             
1757             // display the list of referers
1758             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1759             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1760             
1761             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=204 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1762             
1763             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1764             $n = 0;
1765 rizwank 1.1 
1766             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1767               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1768               $title = $row['title'];
1769               $count = $row['count'];
1770               $search = $row['search'];
1771             
1772               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1773                 $n++;
1774                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1775                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1776               }
1777             }
1778             
1779             if (!($n)) {
1780                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
1781             }
1782             else {
1783             echo "<br />\n";
1784             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1785             }
1786 rizwank 1.1 echo '</div>';
1787             
1788             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1789             echo "<div class='side'>";
1790             
1791             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1792             $n = 0;
1793             
1794             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1795               $query = '';
1796             
1797               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1798               $title = $row['title'];
1799               $count = $row['count'];
1800               $search = $row['search'];
1801             
1802               if ($search == 1) {
1803                 $n++;
1804                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1805                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
1806               }
1807 rizwank 1.1 }
1808             
1809             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
1810             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
1811             echo "</div>";
1812             ?>
1813             
1814             
1815             
1816             <!--
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1822                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/202"
1823                 dc:title="Mindslayer"
1824                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000203"
1825                 dc:subject="Home"
1826                 dc:description="A Mind Is A Wonderful Thing To Waste Although the card does spell it out, let me clarify what happens when you activate this card. On your opponent&apos;s next turn, you will essentially be playing the game for your opponent...."
1827                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
1828 rizwank 1.1     dc:date="2003-09-14T23:32:34-08:00" />
1829             </rdf:RDF>
1830             -->
1831             
1832             
1833             <h2 class="date">September 14, 2003</h2>
1834             
1835             
1836             <div class="blogbody">
1837             <a name="000203"></a>
1838             <?php
1839             
1840             // record the referer
1841             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1842                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (203, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1843             }
1844             
1845             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1846             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=203' );
1847             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1848             $hits = $row[0];
1849 rizwank 1.1 
1850             ?>
1851             <h3 class="title">Mindslayer</h3>
1852              
1853             <p><a title="A Mind Is A Wonderful Thing To Waste" href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mr89">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1854                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1855                 A</b>
1856                </p>
1857               </td></tr></table>
1858               Mind Is A Wonderful Thing To Waste</a></p>
1859             
1860             <p>Although the card does spell it out, let me clarify what happens when you activate this card. On your opponent's next turn, you will essentially be playing the game for your opponent. You'll have the opportunity to see everything he can see such as his hand. You can tap his cards, play his spells, choose if and how his creatures will attack. You have taken complete control of your opponent for the turn. The only thing you're not allowed to do is mana burn him. (Or force him to concede, but see the formal rules for this card at the end of the article.) </p>
1861             
1862             <p><img src="http://www.wizards.com/global/images/mtgcom_daily_mr89_pic1_en.jpg"></p>
1863             
1864             <p>I just had to post this one. By the way, the complete Mirrodin spoilers are available everywhere; namely <a href="http://www.mtgnews.com/tracing/mirrodin/" title="here">here</a>.</p>
1865             
1866             <p>Shuffle and Cut has Mirr packs already for sale, it seems that some boxes of Mirrodin got out the back of WoTC and are for sale on the net etc... has that happened before?</p>
1867             
1868             
1869             	
1870 rizwank 1.1 
1871             
1872             
1873             <div class="posted">
1874             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000203" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">11:32 PM</a><?php
1875             if ($hits) { 
1876                print " | Read ";
1877                echo "$hits";
1878                print " time";
1879                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
1880             }
1881             ?>
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1885             	
1886             </div>
1887             
1888             </div>
1889             <?php
1890             
1891 rizwank 1.1 // display the list of referers
1892             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
1893             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
1894             
1895             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=203 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
1896             
1897             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1898             $n = 0;
1899             
1900             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1901               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1902               $title = $row['title'];
1903               $count = $row['count'];
1904               $search = $row['search'];
1905             
1906               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
1907                 $n++;
1908                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
1909                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
1910               }
1911             }
1912 rizwank 1.1 
1913             if (!($n)) {
1914                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
1915             }
1916             else {
1917             echo "<br />\n";
1918             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
1919             }
1920             echo '</div>';
1921             
1922             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
1923             echo "<div class='side'>";
1924             
1925             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
1926             $n = 0;
1927             
1928             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
1929               $query = '';
1930             
1931               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
1932               $title = $row['title'];
1933 rizwank 1.1   $count = $row['count'];
1934               $search = $row['search'];
1935             
1936               if ($search == 1) {
1937                 $n++;
1938                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
1939                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
1940               }
1941             }
1942             
1943             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
1944             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
1945             echo "</div>";
1946             ?>
1947             
1948             
1949             
1950             <!--
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1953                      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
1954 rizwank 1.1 <rdf:Description
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1956                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/201"
1957                 dc:title="Your biggest fan!"
1958                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000202"
1959                 dc:subject="Home"
1960                 dc:description="Salon.com Books | Your biggest fan! Sept. 13, 2003 | It was June 2001, and I had just gotten off the &quot;Crossfire&quot; set when one of our producers handed me a stack of mail. On the way to the elevator,..."
1961                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
1962                 dc:date="2003-09-14T23:26:12-08:00" />
1963             </rdf:RDF>
1964             -->
1965             
1966             
1967             
1968             
1969             <div class="blogbody">
1970             <a name="000202"></a>
1971             <?php
1972             
1973             // record the referer
1974             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
1975 rizwank 1.1    mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (202, '$referer', '', $time)" );
1976             }
1977             
1978             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
1979             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=202' );
1980             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
1981             $hits = $row[0];
1982             
1983             ?>
1984             <h3 class="title">Your biggest fan!</h3>
1985              
1986             <p><a title="Salon.com Books | Your biggest fan!" href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/09/13/carlson_excerpt/index.html">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
1987                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
1988                 S</b>
1989                </p>
1990               </td></tr></table>
1991              alon.com Books | Your biggest fan!</a></p>
1992             
1993             <p>Sept. 13, 2003  |  It was June 2001, and I had just gotten off the "Crossfire" set when one of our producers handed me a stack of mail. On the way to the elevator, I glanced at it. On top of the pile was a registered letter from a law firm. It got my attention immediately. I've never had a pleasant letter from a lawyer. </p>
1994             
1995             <p>This one was worse than most. It was written by an attorney in Indiana named Paul M. Blanton who wanted to let me know that his client, a woman named *Elizabeth Jansen, was planning to file criminal sex charges against me in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. "Ms. [Jansen] has informed me that she was raped by you," Blanton wrote. "If you should have any questions or concerns about any of the aforementioned, please do not hesitate to contact me." </p>
1996 rizwank 1.1 
1997             <p>Should I have any questions or concerns? I didn't know where to begin. Rape? Kentucky? Criminal charges? I knew I hadn't raped anyone. I didn't think I'd ever even been to Kentucky. The name Elizabeth Jansen sounded mildly familiar, though I couldn't recall why. I had the feeling that my life was about to change for the worse. I felt weak. </p>
1998             
1999             
2000             	
2001             
2002             
2003             
2004             <div class="posted">
2005             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000202" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">11:26 PM</a><?php
2006             if ($hits) { 
2007                print " | Read ";
2008                echo "$hits";
2009                print " time";
2010                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
2011             }
2012             ?>
2013             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=202" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
2014             	
2015             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=202" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
2016             	
2017 rizwank 1.1 </div>
2018             
2019             </div>
2020             <?php
2021             
2022             // display the list of referers
2023             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
2024             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2025             
2026             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=202 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2027             
2028             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2029             $n = 0;
2030             
2031             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2032               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2033               $title = $row['title'];
2034               $count = $row['count'];
2035               $search = $row['search'];
2036             
2037               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2038 rizwank 1.1     $n++;
2039                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2040                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2041               }
2042             }
2043             
2044             if (!($n)) {
2045                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
2046             }
2047             else {
2048             echo "<br />\n";
2049             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2050             }
2051             echo '</div>';
2052             
2053             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2054             echo "<div class='side'>";
2055             
2056             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2057             $n = 0;
2058             
2059 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2060               $query = '';
2061             
2062               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2063               $title = $row['title'];
2064               $count = $row['count'];
2065               $search = $row['search'];
2066             
2067               if ($search == 1) {
2068                 $n++;
2069                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2070                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
2071               }
2072             }
2073             
2074             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
2075             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
2076             echo "</div>";
2077             ?>
2078             
2079             
2080 rizwank 1.1 
2081             <!--
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2087                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/200"
2088                 dc:title="Adam wants his Eve"
2089                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000201"
2090                 dc:subject="Home"
2091                 dc:description="Salon.com Life | Adam wants his Eve Sept. 12, 2003 | The Rev. Joe Aufdermauer always wanted to be a Catholic priest. Even when he was a boy growing up on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin, he knew. He..."
2092                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
2093                 dc:date="2003-09-14T23:22:12-08:00" />
2094             </rdf:RDF>
2095             -->
2096             
2097             
2098             
2099             
2100             <div class="blogbody">
2101 rizwank 1.1 <a name="000201"></a>
2102             <?php
2103             
2104             // record the referer
2105             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2106                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (201, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2107             }
2108             
2109             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2110             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=201' );
2111             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2112             $hits = $row[0];
2113             
2114             ?>
2115             <h3 class="title">Adam wants his Eve</h3>
2116              
2117             <p><a title="Salon.com Life | Adam wants his Eve" href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/09/12/celibacy/index.html">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2118                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2119                 S</b>
2120                </p>
2121               </td></tr></table>
2122 rizwank 1.1  alon.com Life | Adam wants his Eve</a></p>
2123             
2124             <p>Sept. 12, 2003  |  The Rev. Joe Aufdermauer always wanted to be a Catholic priest. Even when he was a boy growing up on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin, he knew. He tried his best to follow all the church's rules, even if it meant setting his parents straight on a few things. </p>
2125             
2126             <p>"I always remember we prayed before every meal, but not after meals," he said. "Once as a kid that got me upset, because the nun said you're supposed to pray before and after." </p>
2127             
2128             <p>He even wanted to enter the seminary before he began high school, but his father and mother couldn't afford it. </p>
2129             
2130             <p>Given his traditional tendencies, it may come as something of a surprise that Aufdermauer is one of three Milwaukee priests who recently sparked a fiery debate in American Catholic thought and theology: Should the church force celibacy on all priests? Aufdermauer and 168 other local pastors who signed his petition say no, and they cite statistics to support their claim: According to the Catholic University of America, for every 100 priests who die or leave the church, only 30 or 40 replace them. Unless the church changes its policy, the Milwaukee priests argue, in a matter of years the Catholic priesthood in America might become an endangered species. </p>
2131             
2132             
2133             	
2134             
2135             
2136             
2137             <div class="posted">
2138             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000201" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">11:22 PM</a><?php
2139             if ($hits) { 
2140                print " | Read ";
2141                echo "$hits";
2142                print " time";
2143 rizwank 1.1    if($hits != 1) echo 's';
2144             }
2145             ?>
2146             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=201" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
2147             	
2148             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=201" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
2149             	
2150             </div>
2151             
2152             </div>
2153             <?php
2154             
2155             // display the list of referers
2156             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
2157             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2158             
2159             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=201 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2160             
2161             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2162             $n = 0;
2163             
2164 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2165               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2166               $title = $row['title'];
2167               $count = $row['count'];
2168               $search = $row['search'];
2169             
2170               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2171                 $n++;
2172                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2173                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2174               }
2175             }
2176             
2177             if (!($n)) {
2178                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
2179             }
2180             else {
2181             echo "<br />\n";
2182             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2183             }
2184             echo '</div>';
2185 rizwank 1.1 
2186             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2187             echo "<div class='side'>";
2188             
2189             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2190             $n = 0;
2191             
2192             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2193               $query = '';
2194             
2195               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2196               $title = $row['title'];
2197               $count = $row['count'];
2198               $search = $row['search'];
2199             
2200               if ($search == 1) {
2201                 $n++;
2202                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2203                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
2204               }
2205             }
2206 rizwank 1.1 
2207             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
2208             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
2209             echo "</div>";
2210             ?>
2211             
2212             
2213             
2214             <!--
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2220                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/199"
2221                 dc:title="Regrets?"
2222                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000200"
2223                 dc:subject="Home"
2224                 dc:description="I&apos;m feeling minor pangs of regret at coming home... It&apos;s stupid, I know. I felt miserable there. HeatherW did me a massive favor and reminded me of that... Its mostly cause I feel lousy over here and &apos;rents are constantly..."
2225                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
2226                 dc:date="2003-09-13T10:10:34-08:00" />
2227 rizwank 1.1 </rdf:RDF>
2228             -->
2229             
2230             
2231             <h2 class="date">September 13, 2003</h2>
2232             
2233             
2234             <div class="blogbody">
2235             <a name="000200"></a>
2236             <?php
2237             
2238             // record the referer
2239             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2240                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (200, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2241             }
2242             
2243             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2244             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=200' );
2245             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2246             $hits = $row[0];
2247             
2248 rizwank 1.1 ?>
2249             <h3 class="title">Regrets?</h3>
2250              
2251             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2252                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2253                 I</b>
2254                </p>
2255               </td></tr></table>
2256              'm feeling minor pangs of regret at coming home... It's stupid, I know. </p>
2257             
2258             <p>I felt miserable there. HeatherW did me a massive favor and reminded me of that... Its mostly cause I feel lousy over here and 'rents are constantly *worried* (granted, I clean the house, do as much as I can around here, but if they can't worry, they aren't happy (I think sometimes))... </p>
2259             
2260             <p>I've been helping out at Display ... reminds me of working at comedy world... just in that I'm doing things with my hands and it makes me happy... I was about to weld some parts together and I mentioned to my dad that welding is actually a good gig, making decent money; when he commented "you're too clever to do that..." ... I know that, and I wouldn't consider welding as a main career unless I ran into more trouble, but it was really nice to hear him say it.</p>
2261             
2262             <p>I come off a bit daft in my blogs, and thats another concern... when I'm seen in my element, I'm the kid genius that half the company calls when they need a problem fixed... its a great ego boost and reinforces hard work... then when I'm not in that kind of enviroment, I'm just this guy who says stupid things at times and whos mind gets too easily distracted... Perhaps that part of the difficulty with school.</p>
2263             
2264             <p>Looked it over and I've got about 5 quarters of classes left... Somewhat disheartening, to think that I'm entering the sixth year of school with about 2.5 years done. Granted, I wasn't enrolled for at least a year during that time, but its easy to rationalize that away.. too easy. </p>
2265             
2266             <p>We were drilling, sanding, welding, punching, etc at Display and my dad was surprised that, while I took to the designing of the device we were creating easily, I was new to the tools (it isn't that hard, its just I don't just *know* how to use an arc-welder) ... turns out Cal Poly had a lot more *hands on* courses when he was doing his EE there... I can't imagine welding in a UCLA class. I know we have machine shops and all, but I'll be darned if I see it anywhere here : <a href="http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu//curriculumeleccomp.html" title="B.S. in Electrical Engineering Curriculum">B.S. in Electrical Engineering Curriculum</a>. Has more hands on stuff, more labor intensive stuff been moved down to Junior Colleges? </p>
2267             
2268             <p>I just want to finish school now, to hell with all the other distractions. That being said, who knows how ill feel in a few weeks, months, after a year? This past quarter went well, first good quarter in quite a while; but it wasn't exactly a heavy load either.</p>
2269 rizwank 1.1 
2270             <p>I could just transfer to CalPoly as well... EE from Cal Poly is still respectable, but I'd have to give up UCLA, and I'm not really sure my ego/intellect/confidence is ready for that. I know I *could* handle it, its whether I will..</p>
2271             
2272             <p>Back to regrets... It isn't that strong; my mind wanders when I think of Russian girls, and the way that drop-dead gorgeous girls would wave and smile at me... Thats always nice. I learned a bit, visiting historic monuments isn't really my things... I started salivating at reading about the nature preserves and lakes in Kahzakstan and Kyrgistan; its too bad I wasn't able to visit them. I only lost about a week and a half in Central Asia and a few days in Turkey; I did complete 70% of the trip, but its just sad to have left. I did learn that I need to be backpacking though... It got way too lonely there without a constant influx of new people to meet and social challenges to meet. Cameron is in Prague right now, and having a doozy of a time. </p>
2273             
2274             <p>All that being said, I SMSed HeatherW as I arrived in Chicago saying hi, and professing to have no regrets. I don't really have regrets, I don't sit and think about being back there; its a wonderful place to visit, but it was quite a culture shock and I'll need a while to adapt. </p>
2275             
2276             <p>As usual, wandering mind, I'm not even sure if my thoughts are cohesive. <br />
2277             Oh, #1 thing I missed after the iPod died... The Beatles... (hums "We can work it out")...</p>
2278             
2279             
2280             	
2281             
2282             
2283             
2284             <div class="posted">
2285             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000200" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">10:10 AM</a><?php
2286             if ($hits) { 
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2309             $n = 0;
2310             
2311 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2312               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2313               $title = $row['title'];
2314               $count = $row['count'];
2315               $search = $row['search'];
2316             
2317               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2318                 $n++;
2319                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2320                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2321               }
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2325                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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2328             echo "<br />\n";
2329             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
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2332 rizwank 1.1 
2333             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2334             echo "<div class='side'>";
2335             
2336             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2337             $n = 0;
2338             
2339             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2340               $query = '';
2341             
2342               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2343               $title = $row['title'];
2344               $count = $row['count'];
2345               $search = $row['search'];
2346             
2347               if ($search == 1) {
2348                 $n++;
2349                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2350                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
2351               }
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2370                 dc:subject=""
2371                 dc:description="Made some site-mods Added version 6 of the Resumes. Added a new links section for &quot;Stolen Media - Warez, Audio and Video&quot;. Added a link to Alas, A blog to the sidebar of &quot;better blogs&quot; Added a link to Serena&apos;s..."
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2376             
2377             
2378             <h2 class="date">September 10, 2003</h2>
2379             
2380             
2381             <div class="blogbody">
2382             <a name="000199"></a>
2383             <?php
2384             
2385             // record the referer
2386             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2387                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (199, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2388             }
2389             
2390             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2391             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=199' );
2392             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2393             $hits = $row[0];
2394             
2395 rizwank 1.1 ?>
2396             <h3 class="title">Site Updates</h3>
2397              
2398             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2399                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2400                 M</b>
2401                </p>
2402               </td></tr></table>
2403              ade some site-mods </p>
2404             
2405             <p>Added version 6 of the Resumes.</p>
2406             
2407             <p>Added a new links section for "Stolen Media - Warez, Audio and Video".</p>
2408             
2409             <p>Added a link to Alas, A blog to the sidebar of "better blogs"<br />
2410             Added a link to Serena's Diaryland Diary in sidebar of "Better blogs"<br />
2411               From there, you can find a link to her Xanga blog.</p>
2412             
2413             <p>Added to Amazon Wishlist<br />
2414             • <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375507396/qid=1063250289/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0862985-9123158?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" title="Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World">Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World</a></i><br />
2415             Based on Wired's Recommendation<br />
2416 rizwank 1.1 • <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071348190/qid%3D1063250416/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-0862985-9123158" title="Principles of Digital Audio">Principles of Digital Audio</a></i><br />
2417             • <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004605/qid%3D1063250450/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-0862985-9123158" title="Mac OS X Hacks">Mac OS X Hacks</a></i><br />
2418             • <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400030757/qid=1063250514/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0862985-9123158?v=glance&s=books" title="India: A Wounded Civilization">India: A Wounded Civilization</a></i><br />
2419             • <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568360509/qid=1063250546/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-0862985-9123158?v=glance&s=books" title="Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet "><i>Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet</i> </a><br />
2420             • <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870234358/ref=cm_huw_sim_1_1/104-0862985-9123158?v=glance" title="Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia"><i>Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia</i></a></p>
2421             
2422             <p>I do have to get around to ranting more about the trip; various little differences and all. Also some stuff about missing working with comedians, watching Mike and Ben episodes with Serena made me think.</p>
2423             
2424             <p>Also, one of the reasons the site is so slow in loading is that it has to fetch seven URLs for the Blogrolls on the side... Anyone know a reasonable way to simple keep them cached locally and have them update off the site every hour or so? I don't really have much server level control... maybe a PHP that a loading the page calls that updates them if they are more than six hours old... Best way to see the slowness in action is to see that particular section of the page load, its alone <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/linkage.php" title="here">here</a>. (As you can probably see, I'm a fan of #includes, even in PHP)</p>
2425             
2426             
2427             	
2428             
2429             
2430             
2431             <div class="posted">
2432             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000199" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">08:23 PM</a><?php
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2434                print " | Read ";
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2448             
2449             // display the list of referers
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2451             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2452             
2453             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=199 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2454             
2455             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2456             $n = 0;
2457             
2458 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2459               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2460               $title = $row['title'];
2461               $count = $row['count'];
2462               $search = $row['search'];
2463             
2464               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2465                 $n++;
2466                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2467                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2468               }
2469             }
2470             
2471             if (!($n)) {
2472                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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2475             echo "<br />\n";
2476             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2477             }
2478             echo '</div>';
2479 rizwank 1.1 
2480             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2481             echo "<div class='side'>";
2482             
2483             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2484             $n = 0;
2485             
2486             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2487               $query = '';
2488             
2489               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2490               $title = $row['title'];
2491               $count = $row['count'];
2492               $search = $row['search'];
2493             
2494               if ($search == 1) {
2495                 $n++;
2496                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2497                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
2498               }
2499             }
2500 rizwank 1.1 
2501             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
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2527             <div class="blogbody">
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2529             <?php
2530             
2531             // record the referer
2532             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2533                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (198, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2534             }
2535             
2536             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2537             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=198' );
2538             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2539             $hits = $row[0];
2540             
2541             ?>
2542 rizwank 1.1 <h3 class="title">Kevin Smith</h3>
2543              
2544             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2545                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2546                 I</b>
2547                </p>
2548               </td></tr></table>
2549              'm slowly coming to terms with a Kevin Smith addiction. I just watched the opening half hour of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and I recalled how much I loved the movie... then I thought of Chasing Amy, Dogma and Clerks. I still haven't seen Mallrats from start to end, anyone out there with any opinions...? The flirting scene in Chasing Amy is one of my favorites.</p>
2550             
2551             <p>Spike TV (formerly "The New TNN") has a show called "The Joe Schmo Show" ... they took a guy and setup a reality show around him... turns out the damn thing was fake... it was instead a "Truman Show-esque" program designed around him... rather mercenary but looks quite interesting. I'll probably avoid watching it as part of my general protest against reality shows, or derivates thereof.</p>
2552             
2553             <p>Oh, Late Night with Conan O'Brien : 10th Anniversary Special<br />
2554             This Sunday!</p>
2555             
2556             <p>*giggles*<br />
2557             <img src="http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/HarryPotter4/1/catalino.gif"><br />
2558             <img src="http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/HarryPotter4/1/walters709.gif"></p>
2559             
2560             
2561             	
2562             
2563 rizwank 1.1 
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2590             $n = 0;
2591             
2592             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2593               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2594               $title = $row['title'];
2595               $count = $row['count'];
2596               $search = $row['search'];
2597             
2598               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2599                 $n++;
2600                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2601                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
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2606                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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2609             echo "<br />\n";
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2614             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
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2616             
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2618             $n = 0;
2619             
2620             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2621               $query = '';
2622             
2623               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2624               $title = $row['title'];
2625               $count = $row['count'];
2626 rizwank 1.1   $search = $row['search'];
2627             
2628               if ($search == 1) {
2629                 $n++;
2630                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
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2649                 dc:title="Many Run Alternate &apos;Doonesbury&apos;"
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2651                 dc:subject="Home"
2652                 dc:description="Many Run Alternate &apos;Doonesbury&apos; NEW YORK - It was expected that many newspapers wouldn&apos;t run this past Sunday&apos;s &quot;Doonesbury&quot; mentioning masturbation. But the number turned out to be unusually high. When contacted by E&amp;P Online, an American Color spokesperson said..."
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2658             
2659             
2660             
2661             <div class="blogbody">
2662             <a name="000197"></a>
2663             <?php
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2665             // record the referer
2666             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2667                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (197, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2668 rizwank 1.1 }
2669             
2670             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2671             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=197' );
2672             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2673             $hits = $row[0];
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2675             ?>
2676             <h3 class="title">Many Run Alternate 'Doonesbury'</h3>
2677              
2678             <p><a title="Many Run Alternate 'Doonesbury'" href="http://www.mediainfo.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1972291">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2679                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2680                 M</b>
2681                </p>
2682               </td></tr></table>
2683              any Run Alternate 'Doonesbury'</a></p>
2684             
2685             <p>NEW YORK -- It was expected that many newspapers wouldn't run this past Sunday's "Doonesbury" mentioning masturbation. But the number turned out to be unusually high.</p>
2686             
2687             <p>When contacted by E&P Online, an American Color spokesperson said 84% of its newspaper clients opted to publish a substitute Sept. 7 strip by Garry Trudeau. These 200-plus clients include papers that use American Color prepress services or get their Sunday comics printed by American Color Graphics.</p>
2688             
2689 rizwank 1.1 <p>"Doonesbury" runs in about 1,400 daily and Sunday papers, meaning the American Color figures don't represent every Sunday client of the Universal Press Syndicate comic.</p>
2690             
2691             <p>The Sept. 7 strip mentioned a real-life study saying regular masturbation might help prevent prostate cancer (Syndicate World, Sept. 4). Ironically, many newspapers discuss sex and other potentially controversial topics outside their comics sections, but many of these same papers feel the funnies should be "family-friendly" because they have a lot of younger readers. </p>
2692             
2693             <p><img src="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2003/db030907.gif"></p>
2694             
2695             <p><i>From Cagle's <a href="http://cagle.slate.msn.com//news/BLOG/main.asp#anchor243356" title="Blog">Blog</a>:<br><br />
2696             I asked Garry Trudeau, my Slate neighbor, for comments on his controversial strip that is scheduled to run this Sunday. Garry replied, "I think this one's going to blow over pretty quickly, but I have had heard from a few reporters ..." and he gave me this statement:</p>
2697             
2698             <p>The strip isn't really about masturbation or the prostate cancer study as such, but about the shifting nature of taboos and the inability of two adults to have a certain kind of serious conversation. It was inspired by a similar conversation I had recently with friends. The more traditional viewpoint (Boopsie's) is represented without mockery, so readers who share her discomfort shouldn't be offended. There's a laugh in there, but not really at her expense.</p>
2699             
2700             <p>Still, I understand that the mere mention of certain words will not be acceptable to some family newspapers, which is why we made an alternative strip available. This is certainly a departure from past practice, and it does not signal our intention to start supplying replacement strips (what Pogo's Walt  (ex-gf1)  used to call his "bunny rabbit strips") every time there's a chance someone might be offended by the regular release. It's a "South Park" world now, and younger readers are unlikely to be shocked or confused by anything they find in Doonesbury. Besides, our general experience is that most children don't understand Doonesbury in any event, and thus sensibly avoid it. It's been a long time since I've received a letter from an irate parent who had to answer an embarrassing question from a child.</p>
2701             
2702             <p>As to whether I'm willfully forcing the issue, it's hard to say. I simply write about things that interest me and for the most part, editors have trusted me to handle serious subjects with acceptable discretion. It is a trust I am deeply grateful for, and I try not to violate it. And on those occasions when, in an individual editor's view, I stray across the line, I'm the first to defend his or her right to withhold the strip from their papers. It's not censorship, as so many would have it -- it's editing, and the steward of a newspaper has the responsibility to decide every day what content to publish for his community. I may have a strong quarrel with an editor's justification for cutting a particular strip, but the fact is I have no fundamental right to appear in his paper every day of the year.</p>
2703             
2704             <p></i></p>
2705             
2706             
2707             	
2708             
2709             
2710 rizwank 1.1 
2711             <div class="posted">
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2731 rizwank 1.1 echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
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2735             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2736             $n = 0;
2737             
2738             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2739               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2740               $title = $row['title'];
2741               $count = $row['count'];
2742               $search = $row['search'];
2743             
2744               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2745                 $n++;
2746                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2747                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2748               }
2749             }
2750             
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2752 rizwank 1.1    echo "No referrals yet<br />";
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2754             else {
2755             echo "<br />\n";
2756             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2757             }
2758             echo '</div>';
2759             
2760             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2761             echo "<div class='side'>";
2762             
2763             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2764             $n = 0;
2765             
2766             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2767               $query = '';
2768             
2769               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2770               $title = $row['title'];
2771               $count = $row['count'];
2772               $search = $row['search'];
2773 rizwank 1.1 
2774               if ($search == 1) {
2775                 $n++;
2776                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
2777                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
2778               }
2779             }
2780             
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2782             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
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2786             
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2795                 dc:title="Old Friends"
2796                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000196"
2797                 dc:subject="Home"
2798                 dc:description="Old Friends 2003 Tour Dates It&apos;s official!! Paul Simon &amp; Art Garfunkel will embark on their first concert tour in 20 years on October 18th. Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour will visit arenas across North America, concluding in mid-December...."
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2800                 dc:date="2003-09-10T15:23:28-08:00" />
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2803             
2804             
2805             
2806             
2807             <div class="blogbody">
2808             <a name="000196"></a>
2809             <?php
2810             
2811             // record the referer
2812             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2813                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (196, '$referer', '', $time)" );
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2815 rizwank 1.1 
2816             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2817             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=196' );
2818             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2819             $hits = $row[0];
2820             
2821             ?>
2822             <h3 class="title">Old Friends</h3>
2823              
2824             <p><a title="Old Friends 2003 Tour Dates" href="http://www.artgarfunkel.com/friendstour.htm">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2825                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2826                 O</b>
2827                </p>
2828               </td></tr></table>
2829              ld Friends 2003 Tour Dates</a></p>
2830             
2831             <p><img src="http://www.artgarfunkel.com/images.sg/tourlogo.gif"><br><br />
2832             It's official!! Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel will embark on their first concert tour in 20 years on October 18th. Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour will visit arenas across North America, concluding in mid-December. Here is the first list of cities and dates.<br />
2833             <br><br />
2834             November 14, 2003 Anaheim, California ARROWHEAD POND    <br />
2835             November 17, 2003 Los Angeles, California  STAPLES CENTER  <br />
2836 rizwank 1.1 More <a href="http://www.simonandgarfunkel.com/" title="info">info</a>!</p>
2837             
2838             
2839             	
2840             
2841             
2842             
2843             <div class="posted">
2844             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000196" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">03:23 PM</a><?php
2845             if ($hits) { 
2846                print " | Read ";
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2848                print " time";
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2857 rizwank 1.1 
2858             </div>
2859             <?php
2860             
2861             // display the list of referers
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2863             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2864             
2865             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=196 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2866             
2867             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2868             $n = 0;
2869             
2870             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2871               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2872               $title = $row['title'];
2873               $count = $row['count'];
2874               $search = $row['search'];
2875             
2876               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
2877                 $n++;
2878 rizwank 1.1     echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
2879                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
2880               }
2881             }
2882             
2883             if (!($n)) {
2884                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
2885             }
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2887             echo "<br />\n";
2888             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
2889             }
2890             echo '</div>';
2891             
2892             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
2893             echo "<div class='side'>";
2894             
2895             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
2896             $n = 0;
2897             
2898             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
2899 rizwank 1.1   $query = '';
2900             
2901               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
2902               $title = $row['title'];
2903               $count = $row['count'];
2904               $search = $row['search'];
2905             
2906               if ($search == 1) {
2907                 $n++;
2908                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
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2917             
2918             
2919             
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2926                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/194"
2927                 dc:title="Lawrence Lessig: The BBC&apos;s lessons for America"
2928                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000195"
2929                 dc:subject="Home"
2930                 dc:description="FT.com Home UK Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, announced last month that the broadcaster would make the contents of its vast archive available to the public so long as any re-use of that content was for non-commercial purposes...."
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2932                 dc:date="2003-09-09T15:56:34-08:00" />
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2935             
2936             
2937             <h2 class="date">September 09, 2003</h2>
2938             
2939             
2940             <div class="blogbody">
2941 rizwank 1.1 <a name="000195"></a>
2942             <?php
2943             
2944             // record the referer
2945             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
2946                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (195, '$referer', '', $time)" );
2947             }
2948             
2949             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
2950             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=195' );
2951             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
2952             $hits = $row[0];
2953             
2954             ?>
2955             <h3 class="title">Lawrence Lessig: The BBC's lessons for America</h3>
2956              
2957             <p><a title="FT.com Home UK" href="http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479642853&p=1012571727085">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
2958                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
2959                 F</b>
2960                </p>
2961               </td></tr></table>
2962 rizwank 1.1  T.com Home UK</a></p>
2963             
2964             <p>Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, announced last month that the broadcaster would make the contents of its vast archive available to the public so long as any re-use of that content was for non-commercial purposes. (Commercial re-users will have to strike their own deal.) The BBC Creative Archive would enable the British to cultivate this national resource - for which they have already paid - for educational, critical or comedic purposes. The very structure will also make it much more likely that commercial creators will be able to identify content valuable to them, and then license that content from the BBC. The idea is a brilliant response to the extraordinary explosion of creative capacity enabled by digital technologies, in light of the BBC's founding mission - as Lord Reith put it - to inform, educate and entertain.</p>
2965             
2966             <p>It also required a bit of creative thinking. For the natural intuition of content owners is control. The very idea of giving up perfect control over how and whether content is re-used is treason among insiders. But as the BBC understands, it does not live in Disney World. And in the course of its internal review an obvious question has become increasingly pressing: if the BBC could make its archive available cheaply, what reason is there for keeping it from the people who have already paid for it? Moreover, such access would increase the BBC’s chances of selling content commercially and make it more likely that the technology to cultivate this content (computers) will be more eagerly bought.</p>
2967             
2968             <p>On the other side of the Atlantic there is little evidence of similarly creative thought. Instead, the US government remains captured by the extremists. The very same week that the Creative Archive was born in Britain, it was exercising its power to kill a planned meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo), the United Nations’ intellectual property agency, to consider “open and collaborative projects to create public goods”. The examples that had led Wipo to call for that meeting included the internet and World Wide Web (whose protocols are in the public domain); a consortium of biomedical researchers and companies exploring single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); and the Global Positioning System, which Ronald Reagan had set free for any use, commercial or non-commercial, in the United States in the early 1980s. It also included the phenomenon of free and open source software (F/OSS). It was this last category that excited the opposition of Microsoft.</p>
2969             
2970             
2971             	
2972             
2973             
2974             
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2991             <?php
2992             
2993             // display the list of referers
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2995             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
2996             
2997             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=195 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
2998             
2999             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3000             $n = 0;
3001             
3002             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3003               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3004 rizwank 1.1   $title = $row['title'];
3005               $count = $row['count'];
3006               $search = $row['search'];
3007             
3008               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3009                 $n++;
3010                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3011                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3012               }
3013             }
3014             
3015             if (!($n)) {
3016                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3017             }
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3019             echo "<br />\n";
3020             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3021             }
3022             echo '</div>';
3023             
3024             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3025 rizwank 1.1 echo "<div class='side'>";
3026             
3027             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3028             $n = 0;
3029             
3030             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3031               $query = '';
3032             
3033               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3034               $title = $row['title'];
3035               $count = $row['count'];
3036               $search = $row['search'];
3037             
3038               if ($search == 1) {
3039                 $n++;
3040                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3041                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
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3044             
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3046 rizwank 1.1 else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3047             echo "</div>";
3048             ?>
3049             
3050             
3051             
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3059                 dc:title="Sanitized for our protection"
3060                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000194"
3061                 dc:subject="Home"
3062                 dc:description="Salon.com Sex | Sanitized for our protection Sanitized for our protection Teenage movie fans can watch the stars of the execrable &quot;Bad Boys II&quot; leer over a corpse&apos;s breasts, but the all-powerful movie ratings board probably won&apos;t allow Americans to..."
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3067 rizwank 1.1 
3068             
3069             <h2 class="date">September 08, 2003</h2>
3070             
3071             
3072             <div class="blogbody">
3073             <a name="000194"></a>
3074             <?php
3075             
3076             // record the referer
3077             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3078                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (194, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3079             }
3080             
3081             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3082             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=194' );
3083             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3084             $hits = $row[0];
3085             
3086             ?>
3087             <h3 class="title">Sanitized for our protection</h3>
3088 rizwank 1.1  
3089             <p><a title="Salon.com Sex | Sanitized for our protection" href="http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/09/05/dreamers/index.html">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3090                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3091                 S</b>
3092                </p>
3093               </td></tr></table>
3094              alon.com Sex | Sanitized for our protection</a></p>
3095             
3096             <p>Sanitized for our protection<br />
3097             Teenage movie fans can watch the stars of the execrable "Bad Boys II" leer over a corpse's breasts, but the all-powerful movie ratings board probably won't allow Americans to see the Italian master Bertolucci's new film intact. <br />
3098             - - - - - - - - - - - -<br />
3099             By Charles Taylor</p>
3100             
3101             <p>Sept. 5, 2003  |  1973: A major American distributor, United Artists, releases Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" with an X rating. <br />
3102             2003: At the Venice Film Festival, Bertolucci announces that his new film, "The Dreamers," will probably have to be cut for its American release to satisfy the contract he signed with the U.S. distributor, Fox Searchlight Pictures, to deliver an R-rated film. <br />
3103              <br />
3104             That juxtaposition is an easy irony but a real one -- a mark of how society has changed in 30 years, of the growing conservatism of the film industry, a sign of how American movie audiences are infantilized when it comes to sex, and one more example of why it's past time to ditch the corrupt ratings system of the Motion Picture Association of America. </p>
3105             
3106             
3107             	
3108             
3109 rizwank 1.1 
3110             
3111             <div class="posted">
3112             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000194" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">02:47 PM</a><?php
3113             if ($hits) { 
3114                print " | Read ";
3115                echo "$hits";
3116                print " time";
3117                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3118             }
3119             ?>
3120             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=194" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
3121             	
3122             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=194" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3123             	
3124             </div>
3125             
3126             </div>
3127             <?php
3128             
3129             // display the list of referers
3130 rizwank 1.1 echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3131             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3132             
3133             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=194 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3134             
3135             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3136             $n = 0;
3137             
3138             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3139               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3140               $title = $row['title'];
3141               $count = $row['count'];
3142               $search = $row['search'];
3143             
3144               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3145                 $n++;
3146                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3147                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3148               }
3149             }
3150             
3151 rizwank 1.1 if (!($n)) {
3152                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3153             }
3154             else {
3155             echo "<br />\n";
3156             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3157             }
3158             echo '</div>';
3159             
3160             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3161             echo "<div class='side'>";
3162             
3163             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3164             $n = 0;
3165             
3166             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3167               $query = '';
3168             
3169               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3170               $title = $row['title'];
3171               $count = $row['count'];
3172 rizwank 1.1   $search = $row['search'];
3173             
3174               if ($search == 1) {
3175                 $n++;
3176                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3177                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3178               }
3179             }
3180             
3181             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3182             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3183             echo "</div>";
3184             ?>
3185             
3186             
3187             
3188             <!--
3189             <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3190                      xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
3191                      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3192             <rdf:Description
3193 rizwank 1.1     rdf:about="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000193"
3194                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/192"
3195                 dc:title="And shes looking quite fine but she&apos;s not quite mine."
3196                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000193"
3197                 dc:subject=""
3198                 dc:description="http://www.thehokiebrothers.com/ Serena&apos;s friend&apos;s bands ... His name is Eric and I listened to them at KYTV; song &quot;Cantalope Soup&quot; is quite good... just a quick plug..."
3199                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
3200                 dc:date="2003-09-07T14:14:28-08:00" />
3201             </rdf:RDF>
3202             -->
3203             
3204             
3205             <h2 class="date">September 07, 2003</h2>
3206             
3207             
3208             <div class="blogbody">
3209             <a name="000193"></a>
3210             <?php
3211             
3212             // record the referer
3213             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3214 rizwank 1.1    mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (193, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3215             }
3216             
3217             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3218             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=193' );
3219             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3220             $hits = $row[0];
3221             
3222             ?>
3223             <h3 class="title">And shes looking quite fine but she's not quite mine.</h3>
3224              
3225             <p><a href="http://www.thehokiebrothers.com/" title="http://www.thehokiebrothers.com/">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3226                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3227                 h</b>
3228                </p>
3229               </td></tr></table>
3230              ttp://www.thehokiebrothers.com/</a></p>
3231             
3232             <p>Serena's friend's bands ... His name is Eric and I listened to them at KYTV; song "Cantalope Soup" is quite good... just a quick plug</p>
3233             
3234             
3235 rizwank 1.1 	
3236             
3237             
3238             
3239             <div class="posted">
3240             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000193" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">02:14 PM</a><?php
3241             if ($hits) { 
3242                print " | Read ";
3243                echo "$hits";
3244                print " time";
3245                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3246             }
3247             ?>
3248             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=193" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (6)</a>
3249             	
3250             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=193" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3251             	
3252             </div>
3253             
3254             </div>
3255             <?php
3256 rizwank 1.1 
3257             // display the list of referers
3258             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3259             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3260             
3261             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=193 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3262             
3263             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3264             $n = 0;
3265             
3266             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3267               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3268               $title = $row['title'];
3269               $count = $row['count'];
3270               $search = $row['search'];
3271             
3272               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3273                 $n++;
3274                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3275                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3276               }
3277 rizwank 1.1 }
3278             
3279             if (!($n)) {
3280                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3281             }
3282             else {
3283             echo "<br />\n";
3284             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3285             }
3286             echo '</div>';
3287             
3288             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3289             echo "<div class='side'>";
3290             
3291             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3292             $n = 0;
3293             
3294             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3295               $query = '';
3296             
3297               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3298 rizwank 1.1   $title = $row['title'];
3299               $count = $row['count'];
3300               $search = $row['search'];
3301             
3302               if ($search == 1) {
3303                 $n++;
3304                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3305                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3306               }
3307             }
3308             
3309             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3310             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3311             echo "</div>";
3312             ?>
3313             
3314             
3315             
3316             <!--
3317             <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3318                      xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
3319 rizwank 1.1          xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3320             <rdf:Description
3321                 rdf:about="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000192"
3322                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/191"
3323                 dc:title="RIAA Goodness"
3324                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000192"
3325                 dc:subject="Home"
3326                 dc:description="RIAA to offer amnesty for P2P users It is believed that the RIAA is considering an &quot;amnesty plan&quot; for alleged P2P users. The plan would let P2P pirates off the hook if they change their habits. RIAA has refused officially..."
3327                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
3328                 dc:date="2003-09-07T05:33:37-08:00" />
3329             </rdf:RDF>
3330             -->
3331             
3332             
3333             
3334             
3335             <div class="blogbody">
3336             <a name="000192"></a>
3337             <?php
3338             
3339             // record the referer
3340 rizwank 1.1 if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3341                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (192, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3342             }
3343             
3344             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3345             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=192' );
3346             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3347             $hits = $row[0];
3348             
3349             ?>
3350             <h3 class="title">RIAA Goodness</h3>
3351              
3352             <p><a title="RIAA to offer amnesty for P2P users" href="http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4450.cfm">  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3353                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3354                 R</b>
3355                </p>
3356               </td></tr></table>
3357              IAA to offer amnesty for P2P users</a></p>
3358             
3359             <p>It is believed that the RIAA is considering an "amnesty plan" for alleged P2P users. The plan would let P2P pirates off the hook if they change their habits. <br />
3360                <br />
3361 rizwank 1.1   RIAA has refused officially to comment the alleged plan, but according to various news sites, P2P users who have been "caught" by RIAA would be able to get off hook if they destroy all the copied material they own, including copies on harddrives, CDs, etc, agree not to participate in illegal file sharing ever again and to submit a photocopy of their ID to RIAA. <br />
3362                <br />
3363               Users who wish to apply for the amnesty would have to sign a notarized contract where they agree to the rules laid out before and send that contract alongside with the photocopy of their ID to RIAA. If they get caught on violating the contract, they would be sued for committing a willful copyright infringement.</p>
3364             
3365             
3366             	
3367             
3368             
3369             
3370             <div class="posted">
3371             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000192" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">05:33 AM</a><?php
3372             if ($hits) { 
3373                print " | Read ";
3374                echo "$hits";
3375                print " time";
3376                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3377             }
3378             ?>
3379             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=192" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
3380             	
3381             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=192" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3382 rizwank 1.1 	
3383             </div>
3384             
3385             </div>
3386             <?php
3387             
3388             // display the list of referers
3389             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3390             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3391             
3392             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=192 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3393             
3394             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3395             $n = 0;
3396             
3397             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3398               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3399               $title = $row['title'];
3400               $count = $row['count'];
3401               $search = $row['search'];
3402             
3403 rizwank 1.1   if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3404                 $n++;
3405                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3406                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3407               }
3408             }
3409             
3410             if (!($n)) {
3411                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3412             }
3413             else {
3414             echo "<br />\n";
3415             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3416             }
3417             echo '</div>';
3418             
3419             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3420             echo "<div class='side'>";
3421             
3422             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3423             $n = 0;
3424 rizwank 1.1 
3425             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3426               $query = '';
3427             
3428               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3429               $title = $row['title'];
3430               $count = $row['count'];
3431               $search = $row['search'];
3432             
3433               if ($search == 1) {
3434                 $n++;
3435                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3436                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3437               }
3438             }
3439             
3440             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3441             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3442             echo "</div>";
3443             ?>
3444             
3445 rizwank 1.1 
3446             
3447             <!--
3448             <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3449                      xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
3450                      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3451             <rdf:Description
3452                 rdf:about="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000191"
3453                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/190"
3454                 dc:title="Friendster comments"
3455                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000191"
3456                 dc:subject="Home"
3457                 dc:description="Talk about something to make my day : What can I say of Rizwan? Class. Respect. A great friend. The guy is golden and goes out of his way to make sure his friends have a great time. A tad..."
3458                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
3459                 dc:date="2003-09-05T17:08:45-08:00" />
3460             </rdf:RDF>
3461             -->
3462             
3463             
3464             <h2 class="date">September 05, 2003</h2>
3465             
3466 rizwank 1.1 
3467             <div class="blogbody">
3468             <a name="000191"></a>
3469             <?php
3470             
3471             // record the referer
3472             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3473                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (191, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3474             }
3475             
3476             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3477             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=191' );
3478             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3479             $hits = $row[0];
3480             
3481             ?>
3482             <h3 class="title">Friendster comments</h3>
3483              
3484             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3485                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3486                 T</b>
3487 rizwank 1.1    </p>
3488               </td></tr></table>
3489              alk about something to make my day :</p>
3490             
3491             <p><i>What can I say of Rizwan? Class. Respect. A great friend. The guy is golden and goes out of his way to make sure his friends have a great time. A tad too obsessed with mtg, but hey, hardcore geeks rock. </i></p>
3492             
3493             <p>Thanks Seth.</p>
3494             
3495             
3496             	
3497             
3498             
3499             
3500             <div class="posted">
3501             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000191" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">05:08 PM</a><?php
3502             if ($hits) { 
3503                print " | Read ";
3504                echo "$hits";
3505                print " time";
3506                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3507             }
3508 rizwank 1.1 ?>
3509             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=191" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (2)</a>
3510             	
3511             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=191" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3512             	
3513             </div>
3514             
3515             </div>
3516             <?php
3517             
3518             // display the list of referers
3519             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3520             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3521             
3522             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=191 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3523             
3524             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3525             $n = 0;
3526             
3527             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3528               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3529 rizwank 1.1   $title = $row['title'];
3530               $count = $row['count'];
3531               $search = $row['search'];
3532             
3533               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3534                 $n++;
3535                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3536                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3537               }
3538             }
3539             
3540             if (!($n)) {
3541                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3542             }
3543             else {
3544             echo "<br />\n";
3545             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3546             }
3547             echo '</div>';
3548             
3549             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3550 rizwank 1.1 echo "<div class='side'>";
3551             
3552             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3553             $n = 0;
3554             
3555             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3556               $query = '';
3557             
3558               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3559               $title = $row['title'];
3560               $count = $row['count'];
3561               $search = $row['search'];
3562             
3563               if ($search == 1) {
3564                 $n++;
3565                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3566                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3567               }
3568             }
3569             
3570             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3571 rizwank 1.1 else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3572             echo "</div>";
3573             ?>
3574             
3575             
3576             
3577             <!--
3578             <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3579                      xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
3580                      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3581             <rdf:Description
3582                 rdf:about="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000190"
3583                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/189"
3584                 dc:title="Cablemodem Hacking again"
3585                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000190"
3586                 dc:subject="Home"
3587                 dc:description="A hack around TFTP Enfornce; When I feel better and find the damned USB cable perhaps I&apos;ll uncap my cablemodem again.. Full app Tutorial They are working on cracked firmware over there; hopefully they&apos;ll have it working sometime ....."
3588                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
3589                 dc:date="2003-09-05T16:15:58-08:00" />
3590             </rdf:RDF>
3591             -->
3592 rizwank 1.1 
3593             
3594             
3595             
3596             <div class="blogbody">
3597             <a name="000190"></a>
3598             <?php
3599             
3600             // record the referer
3601             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3602                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (190, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3603             }
3604             
3605             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3606             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=190' );
3607             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3608             $hits = $row[0];
3609             
3610             ?>
3611             <h3 class="title">Cablemodem Hacking again</h3>
3612              
3613 rizwank 1.1 <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3614                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3615                 A</b>
3616                </p>
3617               </td></tr></table>
3618               <a href="http://www.cablemodemhack.com/" title="hack">hack</a> around TFTP Enfornce; When I feel better and find the damned USB cable perhaps I'll uncap my cablemodem again..</p>
3619             
3620             <p>Full <a href="http://www.surfboard.digitallinx.com/Software/TFTPenforceHack.rar" title="app">app</a><br />
3621             <a href="http://thepr0jects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3544" title="Tutorial">Tutorial</a></p>
3622             
3623             <p>They are working on cracked firmware over there; hopefully they'll have it working sometime ..</p>
3624             
3625             
3626             	
3627             
3628             
3629             
3630             <div class="posted">
3631             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000190" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">04:15 PM</a><?php
3632             if ($hits) { 
3633                print " | Read ";
3634 rizwank 1.1    echo "$hits";
3635                print " time";
3636                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3637             }
3638             ?>
3639             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=190" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (0)</a>
3640             	
3641             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=190" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3642             	
3643             </div>
3644             
3645             </div>
3646             <?php
3647             
3648             // display the list of referers
3649             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3650             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3651             
3652             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=190 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3653             
3654             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3655 rizwank 1.1 $n = 0;
3656             
3657             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3658               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3659               $title = $row['title'];
3660               $count = $row['count'];
3661               $search = $row['search'];
3662             
3663               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3664                 $n++;
3665                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3666                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3667               }
3668             }
3669             
3670             if (!($n)) {
3671                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3672             }
3673             else {
3674             echo "<br />\n";
3675             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3676 rizwank 1.1 }
3677             echo '</div>';
3678             
3679             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3680             echo "<div class='side'>";
3681             
3682             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3683             $n = 0;
3684             
3685             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3686               $query = '';
3687             
3688               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3689               $title = $row['title'];
3690               $count = $row['count'];
3691               $search = $row['search'];
3692             
3693               if ($search == 1) {
3694                 $n++;
3695                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3696                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3697 rizwank 1.1   }
3698             }
3699             
3700             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3701             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3702             echo "</div>";
3703             ?>
3704             
3705             
3706             
3707             <!--
3708             <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3709                      xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
3710                      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3711             <rdf:Description
3712                 rdf:about="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000189"
3713                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/188"
3714                 dc:title="Home"
3715                 dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000189"
3716                 dc:subject=""
3717                 dc:description="I&apos;m home again. 25 hours of damn flights; lost baggage and everything... I&apos;m feeling alright for now; should be napping so will blog later. I&apos;m alive though and for those of you sending well wishes; thanks :)..."
3718 rizwank 1.1     dc:creator="Rizwank"
3719                 dc:date="2003-09-05T15:06:17-08:00" />
3720             </rdf:RDF>
3721             -->
3722             
3723             
3724             
3725             
3726             <div class="blogbody">
3727             <a name="000189"></a>
3728             <?php
3729             
3730             // record the referer
3731             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3732                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (189, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3733             }
3734             
3735             // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3736             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=189' );
3737             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3738             $hits = $row[0];
3739 rizwank 1.1 
3740             ?>
3741             <h3 class="title">Home</h3>
3742              
3743             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3744                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3745                 I</b>
3746                </p>
3747               </td></tr></table>
3748              'm home again. </p>
3749             
3750             <p>25 hours of damn flights; lost baggage and everything... I'm feeling alright for now; should be napping so will blog later.</p>
3751             
3752             <p>I'm alive though and for those of you sending well wishes; thanks :)</p>
3753             
3754             
3755             	
3756             
3757             
3758             
3759             <div class="posted">
3760 rizwank 1.1 	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000189" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">03:06 PM</a><?php
3761             if ($hits) { 
3762                print " | Read ";
3763                echo "$hits";
3764                print " time";
3765                if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3766             }
3767             ?>
3768             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=189" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (1)</a>
3769             	
3770             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=189" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3771             	
3772             </div>
3773             
3774             </div>
3775             <?php
3776             
3777             // display the list of referers
3778             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3779             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3780             
3781 rizwank 1.1 $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=189 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3782             
3783             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3784             $n = 0;
3785             
3786             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3787               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3788               $title = $row['title'];
3789               $count = $row['count'];
3790               $search = $row['search'];
3791             
3792               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3793                 $n++;
3794                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3795                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3796               }
3797             }
3798             
3799             if (!($n)) {
3800                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3801             }
3802 rizwank 1.1 else {
3803             echo "<br />\n";
3804             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3805             }
3806             echo '</div>';
3807             
3808             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3809             echo "<div class='side'>";
3810             
3811             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3812             $n = 0;
3813             
3814             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3815               $query = '';
3816             
3817               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3818               $title = $row['title'];
3819               $count = $row['count'];
3820               $search = $row['search'];
3821             
3822               if ($search == 1) {
3823 rizwank 1.1     $n++;
3824                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3825                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3826               }
3827             }
3828             
3829             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3830             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3831             echo "</div>";
3832             ?>
3833             
3834             
3835             
3836             <!--
3837             <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
3838                      xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"
3839                      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
3840             <rdf:Description
3841                 rdf:about="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000188"
3842                 trackback:ping="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi/187"
3843                 dc:title="So I&apos;m coming home..."
3844 rizwank 1.1     dc:identifier="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000188"
3845                 dc:subject=""
3846                 dc:description="After two doctors visits; a shot of something into my rear; An IV treatment and many periods of boredom; pain and unhappiness, I&apos;m coming home. Its not that I&apos;m done here; my short trip to Kyrgistan and Kahzahkstan will be..."
3847                 dc:creator="Rizwank"
3848                 dc:date="2003-09-02T22:29:23-08:00" />
3849             </rdf:RDF>
3850             -->
3851             
3852             
3853             <h2 class="date">September 02, 2003</h2>
3854             
3855             
3856             <div class="blogbody">
3857             <a name="000188"></a>
3858             <?php
3859             
3860             // record the referer
3861             if ($my_ip !== $remote_ip) {
3862                mysql_query( "INSERT INTO mt_entryhits(entry_id, referer,title,time) VALUES (188, '$referer', '', $time)" );
3863             }
3864             
3865 rizwank 1.1 // get the no. of times this entry has been read
3866             $rs = mysql_query( 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=188' );
3867             $row = mysql_fetch_row( $rs );
3868             $hits = $row[0];
3869             
3870             ?>
3871             <h3 class="title">So I'm coming home...</h3>
3872              
3873             <p>  <table align="left"><tr valign="bottom"><td>
3874                <p style="font-size:16pt"><b>
3875                 A</b>
3876                </p>
3877               </td></tr></table>
3878              fter two doctors visits; a shot of something into my rear; An IV treatment and many periods of boredom; pain and unhappiness, I'm coming home.</p>
3879             
3880             <p>Its not that I'm done here; my short trip to Kyrgistan and Kahzahkstan will be cut short; but I enjoyed my trip and its time to come home... I've been on a special diet after the doctors discovered a severe infection in my intestines; that wasn't much fun; let me tell you.</p>
3881             
3882             <p>Theres a lot to describe but a lot of time to describe it when I get home. Just one note...</p>
3883             
3884             <p>This morning was to be my first morning after medication and back to normal after a long rest and careful planning of meals etc. Then I vomited early in the morning... pure bile; I suppose; bright yellow. Tons of fun.</p>
3885             
3886 rizwank 1.1 <p>Went to the office to do some work and felt fatigued after a short while ... Uncle K first broached the topic; perhaps I should consider returning home..</p>
3887             
3888             <p>I felt sicker but went along; I still feel it is the right choice; I'm wasting time and money and not enjoying myself... we spent the majority of the day trying to wrangle hard to find tickets; I'd be sleeping right now (i've been sleeping at 9pm for the last two weeks) but I had to blog this.</p>
3889             
3890             <p>I feel better. It may be temporary, and I expect it to be; but I feel a lot better. I have confirmed tix via Moscow on Sunday and we are trying to wrangle earlier ones... Olga predicted that I'd feel a lot better; not because I was inventing the pains (there is plenty of blood samples and .. other evidence that the infection did exist and was quite severe, at least for me) but she told me a story of Polish people evaced into Uzbekistan during WW2; they suffered from typhus; diptheria and a number of things during their five year stay here... but on their return train; which was of a horrible condition; they felt immensely better just knowing that they were going home.</p>
3891             
3892             <p>Maybe thats the way it is. I'll be back here and it was a comparatively cheap trip; and when im older, of better constituion mentally and physically and my Russian is better ill be back.</p>
3893             
3894             <p>Until then; unless something radically changes; im coming home. </p>
3895             
3896             
3897             	
3898             
3899             
3900             
3901             <div class="posted">
3902             	<div class="posted">Penned by <!-- Rizwank --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.geekymedia.com/email.js"></script>  at <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/archives/2003/09/index.html#000188" title="Permanent Link to this Post.">10:29 PM</a><?php
3903             if ($hits) { 
3904                print " | Read ";
3905                echo "$hits";
3906                print " time";
3907 rizwank 1.1    if($hits != 1) echo 's';
3908             }
3909             ?>
3910             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=188" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (4)</a>
3911             	
3912             		| <a href="http://www.geekymedia.com/blogcgi/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&amp;entry_id=188" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack</a>
3913             	
3914             </div>
3915             
3916             </div>
3917             <?php
3918             
3919             // display the list of referers
3920             echo '<div class="sidetitle">Referrers</div>', "\n";
3921             echo '<div class="side">', "\n";
3922             
3923             $sql = 'SELECT search, time, title, referer, COUNT(*) AS count FROM mt_entryhits WHERE entry_id=188 GROUP BY referer ORDER BY count DESC, title';
3924             
3925             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3926             $n = 0;
3927             
3928 rizwank 1.1 while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3929               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3930               $title = $row['title'];
3931               $count = $row['count'];
3932               $search = $row['search'];
3933             
3934               if ((strpos($referer1,'ttp://') == 1) && ($search == 0) && (trim($title) !== '-') && (trim($title) !== '')) {
3935                 $n++;
3936                 echo '<a href="', $referer1, '" target="_blank">';
3937                 echo $title . "</a> [" . $count . "]<br />\n";
3938               }
3939             }
3940             
3941             if (!($n)) {
3942                echo "No referrals yet<br />";
3943             }
3944             else {
3945             echo "<br />\n";
3946             echo 'referrers [referrals]<br />';
3947             }
3948             echo '</div>';
3949 rizwank 1.1 
3950             echo "<div class='sidetitle'>Search Terms</div>\n";
3951             echo "<div class='side'>";
3952             
3953             $rs = mysql_query( $sql );
3954             $n = 0;
3955             
3956             while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $rs ) ) {
3957               $query = '';
3958             
3959               $referer1 = $row['referer'];
3960               $title = $row['title'];
3961               $count = $row['count'];
3962               $search = $row['search'];
3963             
3964               if ($search == 1) {
3965                 $n++;
3966                 $query = "<a href='" . $referer1 . "'>" . $title . "</a>";
3967                 echo $query . ' [' . $count . ']' . "<br />\n";
3968               }
3969             }
3970 rizwank 1.1 
3971             if (!($n)) { echo "No search terms yet<br />"; }
3972             else { echo "<br />search terms [hits]"; }
3973             echo "</div>";
3974             ?>
3975             
3976             
3977             
3978             </div>
3979             </div>
3980             <?php
3981             //Change the following to your email address
3982             $email = "rizwank@geekymedia.com";
3983             
3984             if(eregi("googlebot",$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) 
3985             { 
3986             mail($email, "Googlebot detected",
3987             "Google has crawled : ".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); 
3988             }
3989             ?>
3990             <br>
3991 rizwank 1.1 <php
3992             $rs = mysql_query( "SELECT * FROM mt_entryhits" );
3993             $deletetime = time() - (60 * 60 * 24);
3994             mysql_query( "DELETE FROM mt_entryhits WHERE time < $deletetime and entry_id = 0" );
3995             
3996             while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {
3997                if ($referer == $row['referer']) {
3998                   $title = $row['title'];
3999                }
4000             }
4001             
4002             if (($title == '') || (strpos($title,'ttp://')) && ($referer !== '')) {
4003                if ($title1 = getquery($referer)) {
4004                   $title = addslashes($title1);
4005                   $search = 1;
4006                }
4007                else { $search = 0; }
4008                if (!($search)) { $title = addslashes(URLHelper::getTitle($referer)); }
4009                if (strpos($referer,'encquery')) {
4010                   $title = addslashes(substr($title,26,-2));
4011                   $search = 1;
4012 rizwank 1.1    }
4013                if (strpos($referer,'info.dogpl')) {
4014                   $title = substr($title,21);
4015                   $search = 1;
4016                }
4017                if ((trim($title) == '-') || (trim($title) === '')) { $title = $referer; }
4018                if (!($search) && (strlen(trim($title)) > 45)) {$title = substr($title,0,42) . "..."; }
4019                else if (trim(strlen($title)) > 52) { $title = substr($title,0,49) . "..."; }
4020             }
4021             
4022             mysql_query( "UPDATE mt_entryhits SET title='$title', search=$search WHERE referer='$referer'" );
4023             
4024             function getquery($ref){
4025                 $queries = array("search=", "epq=", "p=", "qkw=", "q=", "query=", "va=", "qry=", "userQuery=", "searchfor=", "question=", "sb=");
4026             
4027                 while(list($key,$val)=each($queries)){
4028                     $pos = 0;//initialize
4029                     $pos = strpos($ref, $val);
4030                     if (strpos($ref,'encquery')) { $pos = 0; }
4031                     #$ret .= "($pos $val)";
4032                     if($pos > 0){
4033 rizwank 1.1             $endpos = strpos ($ref, "&", $pos);
4034                         if(trim($endpos) == ""){
4035                             $search = substr($ref, ($pos+strlen($val)), strlen($ref)-$pos);
4036                         }else{
4037                             $search = substr ($ref, ($pos+strlen($val)), ($endpos-$pos)-2);
4038                         }
4039                         $endpos = strpos ($search, "&");
4040                         if(trim($endpos)) {
4041                             $search = substr ($search, 0, $endpos);
4042                         }
4043                         $searched = trim($search);
4044                         $searched = str_replace("+", " ", $search);
4045                         $searched = str_replace("%2E", ".", $searched);
4046                         $searched = str_replace("%2B", "+", $searched);
4047                         $searched = str_replace("%2b", "+", $searched);
4048                         $searched = str_replace("%22", '"', $searched);
4049                         $searched = str_replace("%22", '"', $searched);
4050                         $searched = str_replace("%20", " ", $searched);
4051                         $searched = str_replace("%3F", "?", $searched);
4052                         $searched = str_replace("%28", "(", $searched);
4053                         $searched = str_replace("%27", "'", $searched);
4054 rizwank 1.1             $searched = str_replace("%3A", ":", $searched);
4055                         $searched = str_replace("%2C", ",", $searched);
4056                         $searched = str_replace("%24", "$", $searched);
4057                         $searched = str_replace("%21", "!", $searched);
4058                         $searched = str_replace("%5C", "\\", $searched);
4059                         $searched = str_replace("%2F", "/", $searched);
4060                         if(trim($searched) == ""){
4061                             $searched = substr($ref, $pos, strlen($ref)-$pos)."($endpos)";
4062                         }
4063                     }
4064                 }
4065                 if(trim($searched) !== "") {
4066                     return "$searched";
4067                 }else{
4068                     return false;
4069                 }
4070             }// end function
4071             
4072             ?>
4073             
4074             
4075 rizwank 1.1 </body>
4076             </html>

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