Video Blog #2

phpBB admin password manual reset

Today I ran into a situation where I had forgotten the password to my development instance of phpBB 3. I was stuck in a situation were I needed to reset the password. I had full admin access to the database, so changing it there wouldn’t be the problem. The real problem is that phpBB uses [...]

More then just a pledge

Today was one of the funnest days I have had in a long time. It was one of those days that reafirms the choices in my life.  I love my friends like family. Proud to be CXCB.

Catch Me Ridin Nerdy with my iPhone

C-Low is one of the best dice based street gambling games there is. I have been know to play some mean C-Low in my time, in ghetto situations (random fact: I am in a gang) Here is how you play: Gather your homie in a circle, everyone places a set betting amount on the floor. [...]

a picture is worth more then 300 words

My very good friend Steve Berg, challenged me to find a pre-release of Judas Priest’s new album,  Nostradamus, in under an hour.  The wager was simple, a 300 word or more post on the losers blog in honor of the winner. After searching high and low on the underside of the web, my usual music [...]

Mac IN my PC – LEO4VMWARE

If you have been following my blog, you an read that my PC died, and for a moment, I installed OS X Leopard on it. Well, my new drive from western digital arrived, and I am back working in Vista now (I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not!). Parallels makes it [...]

Mac on my PC – LEO4ALL

In my last blog post I talked about how my computer had a system drive failure. I am waiting for Western Digital to send me a new 10,000 rpm drive to replace the broken one, so in the meantime, I thought I would screw around with trying to put Mac OS X on my desktop. [...]

A man and his devices

I have known about the tv-b-gone for some time now. If you don’t, its basically a small device that will turn off any tv in a matter of seconds, from over 200 feet away. Earlier this week I saw one of the coolest/most screwed up things I have seen in a while. One of the [...]

Hacking an old iPod to get a new one

A guy I know, “dave”, had an iPod that was acting up. On top of that, his warranty was was almost up, and he was worried that the iPod would live just long enough to go out of warranty before fully breaking, leaving him with out an iPod. He was looking for a way help [...]

4th of july fun : modified sparklers

If you looked through my permanent record, you would see that in the past my friends and I have been known to do dangerous things with fireworks. When it comes to safe fireworks, sparklers are cool until you learn how to make the other fireworks explode. This year I found out how to make sparklers [...]