NGPriest: Gachapon Stamp Event!

Ξ December 9th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

No. of Stamps	Item Exchangeable
1 Stamp	White Elixir Legendary potion. Recovers from any abnormal status and both HP and MP by 50%.
3 Stamps	Power Up Drink Drink up to power up! Increase Attack +25, Magic power +30, Defense +30, Jump +10 for 30 min.
5 Stamps	Energy Drink Drink up to increase MAX HP & MP for certain period of time.
25 Stamps	Onyx Apple (1) A rare, ripe apple imbued with power. Recovers 90% HP & MP, and provides +100 W.Att, +100 M.Att, +20 Def for 10 minutes.
60 Stamps	Onyx Apple (3) A rare, ripe apple imbued with power. Recovers 90% HP & MP, and provides +100 W.Att, +100 M.Att, +20 Def for 10 minutes.
100 Stamps	TV Recliner A new chair to recline and relax in throughout the Thanksgiving holiday.Recovers 60 HP and 30 MP every 10 seconds.
350 Stamps	Chaos Scroll 60% Increase/decrease the options on the current equipment. Not available on Cash Items. Success Rate:60%
500 Stamps	MV Mask (All stat +5)

NGPriest: Server Check And Cash Shop Update On 09/12

Ξ December 9th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

	Kitty Camping Hat	4000@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Camping Shirt	4500@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Cute Luxurious Shirt	4500@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Brown Casual Look	5500@Cash/90 Days	v80 Patch
	Seraphim Suit	6000@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Seraphim Cape	6000@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
Shoes 1072354	Black Ankle Shoes for Transform	4500@Cash/90 Days	Unknown Patch
	Cash Shop Surprise Get a random Cash Shop item when you open this box. Test your luck! After purchasing this item, open the box by double-clicking it in the Cash Inventory. Please keep in mind that you’ll only be able to open the box in the Cash Inventory.	1000@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Cash Shop Surprise (11) Get a random Cash Shop item when you open this box. Test your luck! After purchasing this item, open the box by double-clicking it in the Cash Inventory. Please keep in mind that you’ll only be able to open the box in the Cash Inventory.	10000@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Cash Shop Surprise (35) Get a random Cash Shop item when you open this box. Test your luck! After purchasing this item, open the box by double-clicking it in the Cash Inventory. Please keep in mind that you’ll only be able to open the box in the Cash Inventory.	30000@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch
	Under the Dark Night Watch out! Something spooky is coming for you!	7800@Cash/90 Days	v85 Patch

NGPriest: 666 and 888

Ξ December 8th, 2009 | → 1 Comment | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

666 Pick Up – 3 Traditional Large Pizzas
Pick up
From
$18.00*

888 Delivered – 3 Traditional Large Pizzas
Delivered
From
$24.00*

2 sides for $6
Choose from 1.25L Coke, Garlic Bread, Cheesy Garlic Bread or Choc Lava Cake
Add to your order for only
$6.00*

But i’m surprised why they use the beast’s number and chinese lucky numbers?

The Number of the Beast is a concept from the Book of Revelation of the New Testament of the Christian Bible, relating to the figure of "The Beast".
The number is 666 in most manuscripts of the New Testament, and in modern translations and critical editions of the Greek text.
Although Irenaeus (second century) reported several scribal errors of the number, there is still doubt by some theologians about the original reading, as some recently discovered third century early manuscripts of Revelation read 616.
This topic is a source of contention for many church groups and theologians.
Most scholars contend that the number 666 is a code for the Roman Emperor Nero.

Eight (八; accounting 捌; pinyin bā) is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word meaning to generate wealth (發(T) 发(S); Pinyin: fā). Property with the number 8 may be valued greatly by Chinese. For example, a Hong Kong number plate with the number 8 was sold for $640,000. The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing started at 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm (local time) on August 8, 2008

And i’ll be posting another post shortly. As soon as i find the camera.

NGPriest: Rice

Ξ December 7th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

I asked my sisters if I was possible to write on a grain of rice.
After getting comments from 2 of them, the 3rd asked, is it possible to survive on a grain of rice? How long?
KrystaI tried to repeat the question, my sister said, ride a grain of rice?

NGPriest: Frogs and Rabbits

Ξ December 7th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

Joey says: Yo’s
Saph says: o-o
Joey says: I updated my blog
Joey says: You should post something random
Joey says: Like, frogs and rabbits 
Saph says: LOL?

NGPriest: Better Blogging – WordPress vs. Blogger

Ξ December 7th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

Seeing how “notorious” have I become by blogging, lots of my friends got tempted to open their own blogs as well. The first question that they threw at me was usually: “How do I blog?” which then leads to “Which blogging platform should I choose?”. I know there are a few blogging platforms out there but the most popular ones are Google Blogger and WordPress. If you are not familiar with WordPress, there are actually 2 different types of “service” that WordPress offer: a free online blogging service like Blogger (@WordPress.com) and a self-hosted WordPress, i.e installing the WordPress system on your own web space (download @WordPress.org).

Lots of bloggers always have the arguments about which platform is better (we actually had this conversation when the Melbourne bloggers met for the first time at the airport for Nuffnang Blog Awards 2009). Personally, I’d say those arguments will never be valid unless if you have already blogged using each platform for at least a month. I actually switched from Google Blogger 2 years ago to a self-hosted WordPress and I’ve never regretted my decision since then.

Blogger vs a self-hosted WordPress
I don’t want to include WordPress.com service here because I found that the service is very lacking (especially once I realised that a self-hosted WordPress has way much more “unlocked” features compared to the online WordPress.com service). If you don’t want to spend any dime yet, go for Google Blogger instead of WordPress.com. Blogger allows you to install third party ads code such as Google AdSense and Nuffnang (WordPress.com doesn’t). And yeah, that reason is good enough not to choose WordPress.com over Blogger.

Why you should be blogging with a self-hosted WordPress

• Ownership
  When you blog with Blogger, Google practically owns your blog posts. If something goes wrong (ex. the service is discontinued or if your account ever gets banned by Google), your years of hard work will be gone with it. I hope that you back your posts up regularly if you are still writing at Blogger. With a self-hosted WordPress, your posts are yours and stored at your own web space.
• Categories
  You can’t create categories on Blogger. While this is okay for personal blogs, a more niche-focused blog like mine (a Technology blog) needs categories. It allows your readers to easily browse through your previous posts that interest them.
  I find that the “Archives” is not really useful in a blog. It’s a good indicator about the blog’s time line but in my opinion, categories make much more sense to have. Unless of course, if it’s a personal diary blog.
• Static Pages
  With WordPress, it’s easy to add custom pages such as “About me”, “Contact”, and other pages. All WordPress themes automatically display all pages so you don’t have to do anything to display your new pages on the blog.
• Multiple pages in a post
  Not everyone has a fast speed internet connection. Having a long post with massive images won’t help your new visitors to like your blog. If it takes too long to open your blog, they might as well just leave and find the information they want on another blog. A self-hosted WordPress allows you to easily split your post into multiple pages (as many as you want). This makes the post neater and tidier.
• Themes
  I couldn’t find my “perfect” theme when I was on Blogger but I found heaps of great WordPress themes back then. Even though Blogger themes have now started to catch up, I still find lots of better looking WordPress themes out there. On a self-hosted WordPress, you also have a complete control on the theme as you can modify it to your liking. In fact, there is no “ultimate” theme. You just have to find the theme that satisfy most of your “requirements” and tweak it.
• Full control of everything
  
• WordPress is open source. It means that the source code is freely available to anyone, including yourself as the blogger. You can modify or tweak your blog to whatever you want it to be; its layout, its CSS, and even add your own code if you know how to write a PHP script. If you freaked out reading this, don’t’ worry. You don’t need to know all of this to be able to blog at a self-hosted WordPress. It’s just a big bonus if you do but you can always find these codes on the net to be used on your own.
• Newer features every few months
  WordPress gets an update every few months. They listen to bloggers who’ve been using WordPress and more great features are being added to it. It’s like getting a new toy to play around with every now and then. I’m quite surprised to find that there haven’t been many updates to Blogger since I left it 2 years ago.
• Plugins
  • WP-SuperCache
    It caches your blog posts intelligently so that you can survive a sudden massive traffic spike. I’m not going to explain in detail here how it works but in a nutshell, it reduces the load on the server significantly. Massive traffic slows the loading time of your blog down and sometimes can take out an entire server.
  • AntiSpam Bee
    Get rid of that annoying CAPTCHA! This plug-in automatically throws away automated comments from bots alike. Spend less time validating comments without annoying your readers too much. I can’t remember how many times I wanted to comment on a Blogger’s blog, only to find that the blogger doesn’t allow anonymous comment because he/she wants to avoid spam comments!
  • Subscribe to Comments
    Your readers can selectively subscribe to the comments that they wrote on your posts. Whenever someone replies to their comment, an email will be sent. This encourages your readers to keep on coming back to your blog for more discussions.
  • WP- Greet Box
    Automatically displays a message depending on where the visitor is coming from. For example, if a visitor comes from Twitter, the message (you can modify this) will display your Twitter profile and also a retweet link in case the visitor wants to retweet the post. This works for Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, and other supported social media sites.
  • All in One SEO
    Easily tag your post with keywords and even change the title of the post dynamically. For example, your reader will see your post title as “I’m loving my new camera!” where as the post is actually searchable and titled as “Photos taken with Ricoh CX2 Camera” in search engines. This increases the potential of search engine visitors but not at the expense of having a catchy title. There are other SEO (Search Engine Optimisations) settings on the plugin too.
  • Many many more on the WordPress plugins repository!
• Other great features

NGPriest: I like this

Ξ December 4th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

NGPriest: Magic Wand + Glow

Ξ December 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

Joey says: Hmm, she used a magic wand (or eraser) and a glow tool
Joey says: I can do that easily 
Shantel says: which is…?
Shantel says: o.o
Shantel says: i dont get it…
Joey says: LOL
Shantel says: explain please
Shantel says: ==
Joey says: Hmm
Shantel says: you can instant offline message me
Shantel says: im gonna go to sleep
Shantel says: ==
Shantel says: GIMP kept me awake
Shantel says: gnight
Shantel says: and EXPLAIN PLEASE T.T
Joey says: ?

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Or else i could post it to my blog (and upload your picture to the internet?

But that’s a low res 96×96 image that i got from her DP

Might look for higher res images later

PS: Can’t be bothered doing another image, wear something that stands you out of the background, when i use the wand tool, i remove half of your clothing when i try to remove the background… (and yes, that sounded wrong)

Cya tomorrow morning?

NGPriest: Site GeoIP And Site Downtime

Ξ December 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

Okays, after typing my previous post, i started working on a new project to make the site load faster, by moving all the content off random servers (as there was a 33% chance the files will get loaded from your nearest server.
(aka Malaysia would LAG Australian viewers)
which was never a problem for me, since i rarely read the site (all comments are emailed to me and all posts are normally bypassing the main site and into the admin panel)

So, this is the finished coding

Part 1:

<?php
require_once "/home/ngpriest/php/Net/GeoIP.php";
$geoip = Net_GeoIP::getInstance("/home/ngpriest/public_html/GeoIP.dat");
$CountryCode = $geoip->lookupCountryCode($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$CountryName = $geoip->lookupCountryName($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
?>

This loads 2 variables, $CountryCode and $CountryName

Part 2

<?php
if ($CountryCode=="AU"){
	echo "Script for Australia";
}
elseif ($CountryCode=="MY"){
	echo "Script for Malaysia";
}
elseif ($CountryCode=="SG"){
	echo "Script for Singapore";
}
else {
	$k=rand(1,3);
	if ($k=="1"){
		echo "Script for Australia";
	}
	elseif ($k=="2"){
		echo "Script for Malaysia";
	}
	elseif ($k=="3"){
		echo "Script for Singapore";
	}
}
?>

So yeah, as you can see, we have 3 if, which asks if our $CountryCode is AU, MY or SG and if they aren’t, we’ll go back to the 33% of picking a random server

While implementing the above code, i screwed up the index.php file, which stores the main site, along with all additional main coding?

So, i searched for approx 1-2mins for a backup (and didn’t find any), i decided to write a new one?
And it looks closely like what it was before

But tell me if you find any bugs?

NGPriest: Sunrises and Restaurant city

Ξ December 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |

I like to watch sunrises and sunsets, well anything with enough darkness, but with the spec of God’s greatest creation.

Also makes me wish my loved ones can watch it (at 4am in the morning (Brisbane time)), but everyone is sleeping.

Welcome to my world, the nightlife is great, i’m alone in my own world, enjoying the peace and quiet and running many scenarios in my head, about my past, wishing what i could have done to improve my life… Sigh, i should stop looking back and start living my life?

If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all my shame to the grave

Latkas	Festive Roast Ham
Mince Pie	Eggnog

Well, last thing, don’t forget to visit http://www.exxohhshantel.blogspot.com/
Veni, vidi, vici = I came, I saw, I conquered…

"Veni, vidi, vici" is a famous Latin sentence reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47 BC.
It translates as "I came, I saw, I conquered". Its form (a three-part sentence or motto) is classed as a tricolon and a hendiatris.
The sentence appears in Plutarch and Suetonius (Plut. Caes. 50, Suet. Iul. 37.).
Plutarch reports that he "gave Amantius, a friend of his at Rome, an account of this action", whereas Suetonius says "In his Pontic triumph he displayed among the show-pieces of the procession an inscription of but three words, "I came, I saw, I conquered".
"Veni", "vidi", and "vici" are first person perfect tense forms of the three Latin verbs "venire", "videre", and "vincere".