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Angelina Jolie Gallery

// April 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Angelina Jolie, Celebrity Pictures, Graphics, Icons, Pictures, Useful

I think Angelina Jolie is the sexiest woman alive and I can’t really put my finger on why exactly but she just is. Period. There are over 157 Angelina Jolie pictures and wallpapers in this gallery..and all of them are Hot!!! Hot!!!

If you make user icons like me..then you can also use these as base images for Angelina Jolie icons/banners. I was gonna make some icons myself but then I got too lazy after sitting here for 40 minutes creating this post. :p

Software Credit:

I made this thumbnail gallery with Infranview my “can’t live without” image editor (freeware). If you’ve never heard of it then I highly recommend it.

Enjoy!

Presenting…a very young Angelina Jolie

// April 29th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Angelina Jolie, Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures

A very young Angelina Jolie before she became the most beautiful woman in the world. :X 

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WTF is up with the Gas prices?

// April 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // News, Personal Posts, WTF, politics

The gas prices have just gone crazy over the past month. At..fuelgaugereport.com you can view all this information by state which is pretty cool.

It took a whole year for the prices to go up 20 cents. It took only one month for them to go up another 20 cents. WTF?

Vancouver. WA (this is where I live)
Today: $3.68
Last Month: $3.46
Last Year: $3.22. WTF?

Seattle:
Today: $3.73
Last Month: $3.49
Last year: $3.28

Los Angeles-Long Beach:
Today: $3.88
Last Month: $3.60
Last Year: $3.36

Portland-Vancouver
Today: $3.64
Last Month: $3.39
Last Year: $3.22

Chicago
Today: $3.78
Last Month: $3.47
Last Year: $3.06

New York
Today: $3.79
Last Month: $3.42
Last Year: $3.07

Check out your State Here Use the drop down menu at the top..Took me a minute to find.

Gas prices are killing me…

// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy, News, Personal Posts, Update, WTF, politics

I’m just sitting here as usual working on my blog, reading stuff online..blah.

My kids went to visit my Mom in Olympia over the weekend and she took all three of them to the Space Needle in Seattle. I was supposed to go too but me and Roy were fighting over money…as usual.
It would of cost like 80 bucks to go there and back.
I swear I hate money or actually I hate being broke. It seems every time we get paid we’re broke again like 4 days later. No joke!
Even with my new job I’m not making much more then I was before and that makes me sad but I’m much happier at my new job. I guess that matters. Gas is just insane right now!
I can’t believe people are not complaining more about it. I thought my smoking habit was expensive but my gas habit is way worse.

One gallon of gas = 1 pack of cigarettes

That is insanity!! I remember and this was not very long ago when gas was still a buck a gallon. Remember? Haha! Maybe not but seriously it was like 7 years ago. So me and Roy stayed home and watched movies. I slept most of the day..making up for all the time I don’t get to sleep during the week. I get up so early to get to work and I’m just a night owl there’s nothing I can do to break that habit believe me I’ve tried so I get very little sleep.

I’ve been car pooling with my co-worker Chris and we really suck at getting going in enough time to take the max (train) into to Portland so we end up driving in. It costs 12 bucks a day to park downtown Portland so we’ve been spliting the cost. We really need to get going earlier so we can take the Max but it’s really not that much cheaper. The Max cost 2 bucks there and 2 bucks back.

Anyway..don’t mean to be a big drag but money and gas and life just kinda sucks right now.

Goodnight ya’ll!!! :X

DreamHost Coupons

// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Coupons, Domain Names, For Geeks, Hosting, Useful, Web Hosting, webdesign

I posted these before… webhosting coupons for DreamHost. If your looking for hosting and your short on cash I’m telling you this is the way to go. I used one of these coupons for my current hosting package. Once you sign up you can make your own coupons. Yes, They give me a percentage of the sign up fee but you get a hellava deal.

I made all of these for you guys to use…I think if you just click on my affiliate link you get a deal but I’d use one the coupons codes below just in case plus they’re all different..You get money off the sign up costs and you get free domain name with every coupon below.

You can not beat that! Believe me I used to work for a webhost and I know how expensive it can be. I paid 10 bucks to sign up and I got a free domain name. Now I just pay 10 bucks a month.

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Rip it up! Like Totally Tubular!

// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Freeware, Geeks, Music, Useful, web tools

I found all these really cool links posted on the patd (Panic at the Disco) community on Live Journal. These are all links for downloading videos and music. I was pretty impressed with the fact that they have (*) 12,847 members! That’s insane and their links were cool.

To rip audio/video:

♥ http://vixy.net for youtube ONLY.
♥ http://zamzar.com for most video hosts
♥ http://keepvid.com for pretty much EVERY video hosting site.
(Keep in mind, keep vids you download an flv file. you need to convert it. You could use Videora iPod Converter, or Zamzar.com)(Keep in mind, in keepvid you download an flv file. you need to convert it. You could use Videora iPod Converter, or Zamzar.com)
♥ http://online.movavi.com for ripping videos only, and into any format you want.
♥ http://www.file2hd.com for pretty much anything, not just audio and video.

To upload your files to share with others:

♥ http://www.sendspace.com
♥ http://www.divshare.com (this one lets you keep the link forever if you join, so join and don’t worry about uploading every two weeks)
♥ http://www.megaupload.com
♥ http://www.mediafire.com/
♥ http://www.rapidshare.com
♥ http://www.sharebee.com
♥ http://www.gigasize.com
♥ http://www.massmirror.com

To convert files:

♥ http://media-convert.com/
♥ http://www.zamzar.com/

Rip Music From Myspace:

Try musicgrab.org pretty sweet! and file2hd.com and this website works for more than myspace and more than music. You can rip videos, applications, files, and even pictures.

To rip videos from sites like MTV.com or VH1.com:

♥ Download Orbit Downloader

It’s free, and you can pretty much rip all kinds of media from anywhere with it

Just a Hard Working Girl

// April 26th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Email, For Geeks, Personal Posts, Update

Re-Posted from: my livejournal

Well.. I thought I’d give ya’ll an update on the new job and how things are going so far. It’s been 3 whole weeks since I started and it’s been awesome so far. The company is a young growing company with a lot of potential. The owner is 32 years young and incredibly involved and smart. My co-workers have all been helpful and friendly and I don’t feel out of place or uncomfortable being the new girl like I was worried about.
In fact one of my co-workers from my old job jumped ship and got hired at my new job too. He just started this week and it’s been very cool to have someone I know and work well with there with me.
Being in a new environment and having someone who I know and who knows me is nice.
The tech support department is small and close knit which is how I like it. Communication and team work between the departments is awesome and so key when your working with technology because things change from minute to minute it helps when everyone is clued into what’s going on in each department. I can’t say enough about my new company it’s just flipping awesome.
I’m pretty much just doing the same thing I was doing before…so far mostly just Outlook setups and email troubleshooting but I’m learning a whole lot more as well. The company I work for is called Smarsh and it’s an email archiving/email hosting company for the financial industry so there is this whole archiving piece that I’m learning about which is very interesting.

So far so good. I’m happy where I’m at.

Interesting Fact: In March 2004, Bank of America was fined $10 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to retain email records.

Rock Of Love Ramblings!

// April 26th, 2008 // No Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Featured, Funny, Reality TV, Tattoos, WTF

Ok, I don’t know how many of you watched this seasons Rock of love but I know I’m not the only tasteless loser out there. I might just be the only one who will openly admit it.. but never the less I know I’m not alone. If you watched the reunion last night then you saw how Heather from season 1 attacked Daisy AGAIN.
Seriously, if I were Daisy I’d sue the shit out of Heather and I’d definitely press charges for assault. I can’t stand that Dirty Bitch Heather. She’s a washed up stripper, she-demon. I think Daisy’s kinda hot and I like her. I didn’t at first ..my first impression was that she was kinda scary looking and I didn’t like her big over pumped lips..but by the end of the show she just kinda grew on me. Amber the girl he picked looks like a horse. (Amber being a bad girl)
I liked how Daisy handled herself when those bitch ass girls emotionally and physically attacked her in Las Vegas. She kept her cool..most girls would of folded under the pressure.
I also thought she kicked ass on the reunion show. When Heather pushed her and she almost fell down she sure enough flew right back up at her like a cat pouncing. You know she’s Oscar De La Hoya’s niece? Yep it’s True.
Brett Michaels is just your typical player. He could give a rats ass about love. He just takes those girls out for a test drive around the block and then turns in the keys.
The only rock he’s thinking about is the one in his pants.

• 20 Questions with Daisy De La Hoya from Rock of Love 2 Pretty Funny stuff.
• DAISY MYSPACE (her music isn’t horrible)

HOLY SHIT DAISY HAS ONE OF MY ICONS ON HER MYSPACE!! I MADE THIS ICONS..like 5 years ago!

I’M like totally fucking FAMOUS! Like OMG rock on! (kidding) :p

I actually found a whole bunch of my icons at profiletweaks.com ..guess I should be happy that their not going to waste, but it kinda sucks that there’s no link back to me or anything…oh well what can you do? Bitch, complain, whine? Too much energy.

• HEATHER MYSPACE YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER PROFILE SHE’S AN 80′S GROUPIE HO

My Favorite Geek Sites

// April 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, DNS, Design, Email, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Useful, web tools, webdesign

Here is a short list of my favorite geek themed websites that I use and recommend.

• Open Source Living
  http://osliving.com/
  Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software.
• OpenOffice.org
  http://www.openoffice.org/
  OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. FREE!! easy to learn, and if you’re already using another office software package, you’ll take to OpenOffice.org 2 straight away.
• TechRepublic
  http://techrepublic.com.com/
  A Resource for IT Professionals TechRepublic provides real world advice on how to make technology work in business. Through a combination of articles, forums, and multimedia
• mail2web.com
  http://mail2web.com/
  Pick Up Your Email From any computer, anywhere in the world. No need to register! Free!

More after the jump

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Errors Installing Windows Service Pack 1? Problems with Vista’s Event Log Viewer? A FIX!

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Errors, For Geeks, Freeware, Microsoft, Useful, Windows

I run Vista on my computer at home and about 3 months after I bought it some of the Windows services stopped working out of the blue namely the Windows Event Log Viewer. Not having it hasn’t really caused me problems yet and I assumed the only way to fix it was to reinstall Vista..

So..I just ignored it.

Until a couple days ago when I was prompted to install the new Windows Service Pack 1 the installation failed and it returned Error Code 800706B5 on SP1.

So, I was forced to figure out how to fix the issue and I found a work around that worked like a charm. I finally got the Event Log Viewer running and I successfully installed the service pack.

I think what happens when you try to install the update is it trys to write to the system event file, finds that it’s non-operational, and then quits. That’s just a guess, though.

According to the forums it was discovered that the the issue has to do with permissions that have been configured incorrectly at some point. The evil lies within this folder… C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup and so you if you either delete it or rename the folder and reboot it will automatically re-create the folder and your issue will be fixed.  First I tried to rename the RtBackup folder but all I got was permission denied errors so I downloaded a client called Unlocker which worked. Some claime you can rename the folder in Safe Mode with UAC off. I already had UAC disabled; I just used the Unlocker application and I didn’t even try it in Safe Mode.

I’m such the tech rebel.. I know..

Download link: Unlocker

More detailed instructions on how to do it after the cut…..>

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Kat Von D

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Kat Von D, Tattoos

For your veiwing pleasure…Kat Von D is a rock star! I really want to get some ink work done by her one day *dreams* I want a vargas style pinup girl in black and white. She does the most amazing portraits and black and white work. Plus she’s just hot. Right?

Want to know more about Kat Von D?

• Check out her website!
• Want a Tattoo by Kat? Fill out the form on her website!
• Read her blog which she actually does write in…

Blogging..my rock star life..

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Alice in Chains, Celebrity, Demri Parrot, Ibdreamy, Layne Staley, Music, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Rest in Peace, Update, friends

I hardly blog anymore …for a long time I blogged about everything I did, saw, heard and felt..but lately I feel like I don’t have anything remotely interesting to say. Wow that sucks.

My life is pretty boring now. I go to work, I come home and I take care of my family. We do things together of course but nothing that people would want to read about. I’m sure my trip to the park or whatever is not something the general public could give two cents about. I know this because I don’t want to read other peoples posts about their boring ass crap either.

Lately I just post stuff that I’ve found online that I think is cool, funny or that I think might be useful to people.

I don’t have a rock star lifestyle but I’m no Auntie M either..I’ve had my fair share of the rock star lifestyle. In the early 90’s I was living in Seattle and I dated one of the guys in Alice in Chains, Mike Starr.

I spent most of my 20’s hanging around people in the music industry and/or people trying to get into the music industry. I’m the farthest thing from a groupie so don’t even go there. I just happen to live in Seattle at the time it was popping off like crazy and I happen to meet some of the people who were in the middle of it all. I was close friends with Layne Staley and his girlfriend Demri for years.

Demri passed away at 27 when her abusive lifestyle.. god she was so beautiful and talented…and I cried again 6 years later when Layne passed away from his broken heart and spirit.

My life is completely different now that I’ve had my kids and all that I have left from my rock star lifestyle is a Platinum album that’s framed and hanging on my wall. It was presented to me by Alice in Chains and has my name on it which is pretty bad ass. It’s one of my prized possessions and a nice reminder of the good times.

My son is turning 11 this month so it’s been years since I was hanging out backstage except for maybe backstage at my kids Winter Recital. My life has gone in such radically different directions since then.

I have 3 beautiful kids and an awesome man and we’re both concentrated on our careers and trying to make it or at least not be broke. We want more from life then we have now and we know the only way to get there is to work hard.

I recently started a new job doing tech support for an email hosting company and I really like it so far it’s a great young company that seems to have their game going on. I just moved over there after working a year at a well known web-hosting company doing tech support for them. It was great learning experience, I learned more in a year then I ever thought possible.

So..for now I’m just working hard trying to buy that dream house. I don’t regret giving up my rockstar lifestyle for the Mommy track. Memories are still good.

Demri Lara Parrot

Layne Staley

Mike Starr

Microsoft Threatens Hostile Takeover if Yahoo Does Not Agree to Buyout in Three Weeks

// April 10th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks, Microsoft, News

Microsoft CEO gives Yahoo board deadline for deal
April 5, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. has set a three-week deadline for Yahoo Inc to accept its current $31 a share cash and stock offer or Microsoft will take its case to Yahoo shareholders, Microsoft said on Saturday.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter dated April 5 and addressed to Yahoo’s board of directors that “now is the time” to negotiate final terms of a deal, one which would mark the biggest takeover yet in the high-tech industry.

“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors,” Ballmer writes.

If the Yahoo board does not agree to the bid Microsoft has threatened to launch a hostile bid, creating an “undesirable impact on the value of your company”. Microsoft may also attempt to get its own candidates onto the Yahoo board at the AGM.

“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors…” said the letter.

Sources: ap.google.com
Eric Auchard in San Francisco and Daisuke Wakabayashi in Seattle

News Corp. May Join Yahoo Bid With Microsoft

News Corp. is in talks with Microsoft over a joint bid for Yahoo. Meanwhile, Yahoo and AOL are in advanced talks about combining their Web operations, a deal that could thwart Microsoft’s effort. Yahoo also said it will carry ads from Google, which could lead to a broader partnership. Resource: nytimes.com – 8 hrs ago – Full story

April 9, 2008 4:57 pm
Yahoo to test Google search ads
Yahoo will test displaying Google search ads in a small number of its search engine queries, a move likely to be interpreted as the latest in a series of Yahoo maneuvers to resist Microsoft’s acquisition attempt.

Hacker Super Bowl – PWN 2 OWN – Mac goes down in two minutes

// April 10th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Abuse, Apple, For Geeks, Geeks, Microsoft, News, Videos, WTF, Windows

Most Mac users today live in a fantasy land. Mac’s can’t get Hacked? DOH! Read on my Mac friends…you’ve been pwned!

It’s the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first?
That’s what organizers of the CanSecWest security conference hope to discover this week as they give show attendees a shot at hacking into the three laptops they’ve put on display here in Vancouver.
The catch? They have to use a brand-new “zero day” attack that nobody has seen before. The prize is $20,000, plus you get to keep the laptop.
Show organizers are calling the contest PWN 2 OWN. It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.

He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.

Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously undisclosed “0day” attack.

Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but on Thursday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organizers using the computers to do things like visit Web sites or open e-mail messages.

The MacBook was the only system to be hacked by Thursday, however, the word on the show floor is that the Linux and Vista systems will meet with some serious challenges on Friday.

Miller, a former National Security Agency employee best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple’s iPhone last year, didn’t take much time. Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest’s organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on.

• Read the rest…

• Also read: Hacker Super Bowl pits Mac OS vs. Linux, Vista

• MacBook Air hacked in security contest

Vista Falls on the Last Day

The Vista laptop fell on the last day of the conference.

Since it was the third day of the contest, which saw a MacBook Air get hacked on Thursday, the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative relaxed the rules even further. On the first day of the contest, only the operating system could be targeted, but on the second day that was expanded to include standard applications. An undisclosed Safari flaw led to the MacBook Air’s downfall.
But on Friday, hackers could target any “popular” piece of application software that you might find on a system. The Fujitsu laptop, running Vista Ultimate, was compromised by a previously undiscovered flaw in Adobe’s Flash software.

More….

Read: Adobe already knew of Flash flaw that allowed Vista attack By Emil Protalinski | Published: April 05, 2008