December 05, 2008

OJ Simpson Sentenced To Maximum 33 Years In Prison

Posted at: 11:52 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness

When you hear the name OJ Simpson, what do you think of? Some people would say a great football player…up until June 12, 1994 when he was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. From that point on, he was only considered by most, including me, a murderer. So he becomes involved in the “trial of the century” which ended in October 1995 where he was found not guilty. He is then brought up on civil charges where he was found guilty and has to pay $33.5 million in damages.

After the trial, he was hated by most Americans and lost “a lot” of his money. Let’s jump forward about 10 years. Let’s recap! OJ Simpson gets away with 2 counts of murder and then he thinks everything will be fine when he and a group of men rob someone at gun point over some sports memorabilia. Really OJ? You didn’t think to yourself that you might get caught.

Today he was sentenced to 33 years in prison with eligibility for parole in 9 years. First of all, he should not be allowed parole and be in jail for the rest of his life. I was talking to a friend of mine and I told him: “All his life, he was told don’t drop the football. Now it’s going to be don’t drop the soap.”

Have fun OJ!!!

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December 04, 2008

Scammers On Craigslist Are Fun To Mess With

Posted at: 11:41 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Tech and Web

Don’t be fooled by scammers on Craigslist. I was selling my 1987 Jeep Wrangler hard top on Craigslist and got a reply back from someone interested. When I sent him a reply, this is what I got.

Hello,
  Thanks for your mail and i will like to affirm that i am really interested in your items and will like to inform you that my only mode of paying you is by mailing you certified bank check and if you are ok with that… you can get back to me with your home address.. Payee name that will be on check and a valid phone number ( no voice mail number) … and as soon as you receive the check and it goes through then i will now send my shipper for the pickup of the item asap….
thanks

First of all, he said “items” and I was only talking about one thing. Second, if his only way to pay you is a certified check, there is something wrong. I may be mean to telemarketers and scammers, but it is fun sometimes. This is my exact response to his reply.

My response

No. Cash or no deal. Don’t even get me started on how this is fraud. If you send me anything, I will send it right back. If I get spam from you, let me inform you that I am a technology freak and will use it to my advantage.  Nice try, but you didn’t get me. So if you are paying me in cash, is it going to be $300 in pounds or US dollars considering I tracked this back to an IP address in the UK. Just wondering how you would pick it up and mail it. Seems like it would be easier just to give me $5000 in cash and I can punch you in the face for being an idiot.

December 03, 2008

Post-Commit Hooks With Subversion On Dreamhost

Posted at: 10:03 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Tech and Web

When I was working at my old job, we started using Subversion (SVN) as our versioning software which I really enjoyed. Now that I am working on my own web application, I am using SVN as well. Currently I am using Dreamhost for my hosting and they have SVN pre-installed on their servers, all you need to do is activate it. The installation is very easy through the web panel, however, if you want to get more advanced, you will need to know basic command line.

I wanted to setup SVN so that when I commit to the server, it automatically updates the site with the newest content. Normally you have to manually go in and update the site to the latest revision. After reading through the Dreamhost Wiki, I found out how to accomplish this in only about 5-6 quick steps. I say quick in the fact that if you do it right it is quick. I had a few issues based on false information in the wiki, but I finally got it working and they updated the article.

Read the article here.

Once I got it working, I tested it out and it worked wonders. It made my life a lot easier because not only was it one less step, but I didn’t have to go into command line after every save and commit. If you are using SVN, I would highly recommend establishing a post-commit hook so that you can save time and energy.

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December 01, 2008

Today Marks Two Consecutive Year Of Blogging

Posted at: 10:51 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness

I have been blogging consistently for the last two years and it has been great, but I have a feeling that some of my content has been fading a little bit. I am going to try to cut back on blogging just to blog and try to focus on my content. I am three posts away from my 1,000th post and when I started this consecutive streak, I was at 190 posts. I have put out around 800 posts in the last two years. I will still try to blog frequently, but not as much.

Thank you to everyone who reads this blog!

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