I’m in love. One little gal touched my hard…
I didn’t know that baby can be so much fun to play with.

I severed one tendon and half of another one… Middle finger broken bone and ripped though tendons…

It may take three months of rehab before I will be allowed to put even minor weights on it.

I’m going to remove my stitches at home and go to see a doctor when come to Bangkok.

This is how it looks right now.

Several different kinds of birds created nest holes in saguaro cactus.

After I took the shot, at first look it was seems interesting . But finally I decided it doesn’t worth much and almost forgot about.
Obviously, before i forgot, I did show it to someone, because after a few month i’ve got an email from a friend of mine:

“Hey, Alex, look at that…haha… this is Arizona? There is really so huge funny cactuses arround?”

The picture was attached to his email. Imagine how I was surprised to find my own photo of saguaro cactus in this picture?

When I asked where he’s got this picture from, my friend replay it was on one of the website published funny content, he was serving the internet and didn’t paid attention to URL of the website…

Later on I’ve seen this picture on many different website all around the internet.

I have never got any credential requests, of course.

Well, It was my first experience to be a victim of photo piracy.

Bellow is another pictures also stolen and published on many websites without given credentials permission.

This sadly accident happened on North Scottsdale Rd. just next to the LOOP 101 in Phoenix, AZ (Scottsdale, to be exact)

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I Installed OS X Lion Server yesterday on Mac Mini Server 2010…. Migration from the OS X 10.6 Server to OS X Lion Server has been complete disaster. I went from working email accounts, hundreds of working websites, fully functional VPN, and web disks to nowhere. None of these things working.

The new OS X Lion Server lost a lot of the power from the previous versions and the configuration tool has been so over simplified… It does not do what I could do with the previous version. Apple has posted a PDF for Upgrading and Migrating to Lion Server. PDF Link

And after upgrading, all of my server settings were deleted and i had to start over, rebuild my server and setting it up with the services i need.

What’s REMOVED in Lion Server?
1. MySQL is replaced with PostgreSQL.
2. Tomcat: Support for Tomcat is removed from Lion Server.
3. Axis: Support for Axis is removed from Lion Server.
4. Mobile Access: Support for Mobile Access is removed from Lion Server.
5. Print service: Print service is replaced with CUPS.
6. QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS): Support for QTSS is removed from Lion Server.

What’s you lose and what’s remain after upgrade to Lion Server?
1. Existing data remain available
2. NetBoot images created using Mac OS X Server v10.5 or later can be reused. NetBoot images created using earlier versions cannot be used.
3. The launch daemons (/System/Library/ LaunchDaemons) are replaced by the Lion Server version of these daemons.
4. Open Directory on Lion Server cannot be configured as a primary domain controller (PDC) or a backup domain controller (BDC) using the SMB service.
5. Lion Server does not support Print service, MySQL, Mobile Access, Tomcat, Axis, or QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS).
6. Wiki-based mailing list and archives are not available in Lion Server.
7. If you are using Mail service with Mac OS X Server v10.6 and are performing the upgrade to Lion Server, make sure your mail data partitions and the mail database are accessible during the upgrade process. This automates the mail migration process and requires you to have no interaction.

Lion Server uses the Server app to administer many services featured on Lion Server.
Other administration tools aren’t installed by default, including Server Admin, Workgroup Manager, System Image Utility, Podcast Composer, and Xgrid Admin. You can install these tools by downloading the Server Admin Tools for Mac OS X Lion Server from the AppleCare Support Downloads website at www.apple.com/support/downloads/.

Apple has posted a PDF for Upgrading and Migrating to Lion Server. Be sure to read it careful as there a quite a few changes. PDF Link

1. last thought was give up drinking. awake in the morning I open my eyes, I see my cat with a cigarette in his mouth
2. Glitches?

yeah, two Glucks, a neighbor to theneighborhood, went to smoke in the morning, found on the balcony of valerian, dipped a cigarette filter in it, gave the cat freaks.

Jake and Jackie Evancho Duet

If you don’t know, Jake Evancho is 10 years old Gifted Child, just google her name.

How to download 1099 Misc on Google Adsense website to file taxes?

I travel about 5 or 6 months per year and getting mail is kind of complicated thing (i mean a physical mail, it looks like a hard copy of the junk folder of your gmail box).

My ex-wife was taking care of all my mail for many years, but in 2011 she managed to loose it.

Trying to make a list of all of the companies who i have affiliate with and who may send 1099 to me, I forgot about the biggest one…. Google Adsense!

Google Adsense is the main source of my income. I assumed that Google kind of related to internet so in 2011 I can download a copy of my 1099 form right from the Google Adsense website.

Nope! The biggest internet company, The Google, can only mailed it to you. Google does not have anything to allow publishers to download a copy of 1099 form!

I used the amount recorded on my Google Adsense account to figure out how much I actually got paid in 2010 for the tax purposes.

Well, Google, thanks for helping to make all that money, but… If you don’t have anyone who can get this done, hire me! It will cost you only a few dozen of Heineken, few cartons of Marlboro Menthol and some food but you won’t look so pathetic in the next year, when people will come to Google Adsense website to download 1099 form for 2012…

In the previous post i guided how to set up a free VPN server on the home computers. But if you are looking for US VPN to use from Thailand, be prepare to have very high latency (ping).

Why VPN in Thailand and many SEA countries soo slow? It is related to the distance.

There is only one Submarine Cable going from the US to SEA. It’s called Asia-America Gateway and it is 12,400 mile long submarine communications cable system, connecting South-East Asia with the USA mainland, across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii.

This submarine cable is only 2.88 Tbit/s – and this serve all countries located in the South East Asia.
Compare it to the Google’s 7.68 Tbit/s submarine communications cable connecting the United States to Japan….

If you are in Thailand, use UK based VPN service…

Setting up VPN is easy, free and takes less then 20 minutes on Linux Ubuntu or Mac OS X server. If someone tells you it is complicated, he probably, want to sell you a VPN service

Why someone need a VPN (virtual private network)?
Once you are out of the USA you become a third world person like everybody else who live abroad. Many websites are not available from overseas.
There is no google voice outside of US, no Hulu, no Netflix… Until now i can’t figure out how to login to american monster.com with foreign IP address…. VPN access will give you an american IP address and that will unlock everything for you.

You can buy VPN service from many VPN providers, but really, there is no reason to spend money if you have a computer at home connected to the internet. You can connect to this computer and then go to internet with the same IP as you would be at home.

To connect to your home computer from the outside network, you need to install a VPN server on it.

How you can install VPN server on your home computer:

If you have a PC with Ubuntu OS, it is very easy and takes less then 20 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

When I was in Asia last time, I decided to visit some of my customers in several European countries.
The Europe was cold and unfriendly as usual, but I enjoyed a personal communication with an extraordinary people.

On my way back to Bangkok, I was in the VERY old Boeing 777 (Transaero Airlines if you ever heard about) and it was so much fun!

First, it was one of the first of 777′s produced by Boeing. I guess this equipment was flying without repainting, remodeling or refurbishing for almost 17 ​​years. It is amassing! Now I’m truly believe that Boeing 777 is the superior aircraft ever produced.

Second, there was a security guard on the plane. Have you ever have seen a security guard on a board? As I understood, his duty was to prevent economy class passengers to use a lavatory, designated for the business class area.

Except of this, he was the one who taken care of the intoxicated passengers in the economy cabin… Base on the howls coming from the economy class, a lot them were intoxicated. I guess, due to the luck of any kind of entertainment system in about 12 hours long flight.

I made this video with a slight of sarcasm and humor, I hope you enjoy it I appreciate your comment regardless of your point of view.

Transaero Boeing 777 going to land in BKK. Transaero B 777 Business Class cabin. from Alex Voinich on Vimeo.

P.S. Update: Seems like this video is a rare recording of the Transaero business class cabin.

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