Chinese New Year
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Wish you a prosperous New Year! There are a lot of traditions related to the Chinese New Year, which apparently people use as an excuse to spend some cash.
The New Year is the Year of the Mouse. So a new mouse would be nice. My brother got this Razer Diamondback mouse. The mouse works perfectly with the exactMat. I was thinking about getting an wireless Might Mouse for myself, but I’m really not sure if Bluetooth is 100% harmless.
Two days prior to the New Year is the day for cleaning. Nothing requires special attention except the iPod Touch. Dust was trapped inside the hard case. I had to clean it.
The Chinese pronouciation of “shoe” sounds somewhat similar to the word for “rough/unlucky”, thus getting new shoes is to be avoided during the festival. If a pair of new shoes is needed, it has to be bought before the new year.
There is something special about leather shoes. Shoes are the least visible part of your outfit, yet it has the biggest impact. If you can match a pair of leather shoes with your outfit, then everything would get along and you’re set. Canvas shoes are now for rainy day, sports shoes are… oh, I realized I don’t have any sport shoes.
The pronunciation of “hair” is similar to that of “prosperity”, so an haircut is to be avoided. If necessary it has to be done before the New Year. I left my hair growing for like 6 months, and it was too long. So I had a haircut, which at first I was very uncomfortable with the short length, but then I’m used to it now.
The Chinese is extremely superstitious. The sound of “book” sounds the same as the word for “losing”, and new books have to be avoided as well. I got myself this ADA Nature Aquarium Book 2008 Concepts and Products. Takashi Amano is a real master in aquascaping.
New Year new password. Interesting. There was a minor problem with the servers of the hosting I’m using. I see that all webpages hosted on the shared server I’m using was hacked. Well they say it is a problem with my PHP pages, but then I have another account on their servers which holds only pure HTML pages, and was hacked also. The funny thing is that, after they implied that it was my PHP pages to blame, they offered this solution:
“To stop this hacking there is one simple solution, login to Cpanel and change the cpanel password to something strong and the password should be more than 20 characters, the password should have special characters, small letters, capital letters, numbers. For e.g. like this: ds2211tH@@!Ghj765%$%^$ns%43HT*&@@#!g3Fsz”
The response suggested that changing the password is the ultimate solution. However, a secure password does not enhance the security of my PHP pages. This implies that it was not a fault in the PHP page.