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Apparently, this happend before but it scared me.

So @hodown was visiting and as everyday for the last week I recevie an IM from this random internet user which I think is a robot because they once mentioned smarterchild

I asked them what their favorite person in American Idol was and they said Kelly Pickler, then they said they wanted to have sex with me. I signed off figuring it was just some internet stalker. It's hard being a celebrity.

So anyways then today I was sitting here with @hodown and the person Imed me again. I have blocked them multiuple tiems but they just chaneg screen names. This was @hodown and tehir conversation today. Is it a robot? Is it dateline trying to entrap us in some child internet sex conversation? What the fuck is it?

Start of lzberry32 buffer: Sat Apr 15 18:09:02 2006

[18:00] lzberry32: hey
[18:00] paulsidekick: yo punk, whats going on?
[18:00] lzberry32: what
[18:00] lzberry32: ???
[18:01] paulsidekick: i mean whats going on?
[18:01] lzberry32: i'm sad
[18:01] paulsidekick: oh no why?
[18:01] lzberry32: bc my brothers best friend died in a carr accident
[18:01] paulsidekick: oh my god, im so sorry.
[18:01] lzberry32: thanx
[18:01] lzberry32: 4 the support
[18:01] paulsidekick: howd that happen?
[18:02] paulsidekick: the car accident?
[18:02] lzberry32: um can i ask u somthin
[18:02] paulsidekick: sure
[18:02] lzberry32: um speed
[18:02] lzberry32: whats ur real name
[18:02] paulsidekick: paulo
[18:02] lzberry32: the car was goin to fast and he hit a tree
[18:02] paulsidekick: thats a shame
[18:02] lzberry32: i no
[18:02] lzberry32: :'(
[18:03] paulsidekick: so whats your plan for tonight?
[18:03] lzberry32: mike was goin to meet him at the movies he didn't show up so adam went in by himself after he was done he got a call from adam K. and he said sorry dude mike was in an accicedent and he didn't make ................... i was in ohio at the time when my brother called my mom my mom said to me jesse and my little sis pack your things we got to go back mike potter adam's best friend has been in a car accedent and was killed i cryed on the way home i didn't no him well but i felt bad 4 my bro the pain and missory he has to face evey day now..............................
[18:04] paulsidekick: wait im confused- how do we know each other again?
[18:04] lzberry32: i'm still crying
[18:04] lzberry32: um i got your s/n from the internet
[18:04] paulsidekick: how?
[18:04] lzberry32: but i no u aren't a robot
[18:04] paulsidekick: from where
[18:05] lzberry32: google under aol robot's
[18:05] paulsidekick: oh
[18:05] paulsidekick: im not a bot
[18:05] lzberry32: i n
[18:05] lzberry32: no***
[18:05] lzberry32: so where do u live i k,ean what state
[18:05] paulsidekick: in new york city
[18:06] lzberry32: i live in oklahoma
[18:06] lzberry32: so r we pals now
[18:06] paulsidekick: ohh thats a scary plACE
[18:06] paulsidekick: yeah i don't really think so
[18:06] lzberry32: y
[18:06] lzberry32: ???
[18:06] lzberry32: how old r u
[18:06] lzberry32: ???
[18:06] paulsidekick: because you are a random internet person and my only friends are real [people i know in real life
[18:07] paulsidekick: im 29
[18:07] lzberry32: really i'm 13
[18:07] paulsidekick: youre 13?
[18:07] lzberry32: yeah
[18:07] paulsidekick: maybe your parents should be monitoring your internet use
[18:07] lzberry32: my b- day was in Jan.
[18:08] lzberry32: ..................
[18:08] lzberry32: g2g2
[18:08] *** "lzberry32" signed off at Sat Apr 15 18:08:11 2006.

End of lzberry32 buffer: Sat Apr 15 18:09:02 2006

I had this weird kind of depression all day today. Maybe it is because I was making a web based skin cancer viewer and I unfortunately used real picsture of skin cancer off google to test it out all day. I think I can tell a cancerous mole from a non-cancerous one now. It's kind of ironic because all I wanted to do was go outside and sit in the sun.

The viewer is supposed to be able to pull up patient charts and allow the doctor to zoom, change saturation, brightness, contrast and sharpeness. Luckily flash can do all that in its more modern incarnation. Then they get to tag and annotate the images. So kind of like a mini flickr for cancer.

I generally hate working with flash though. Everytime I feel like I am excited about it a new version of actionscript comes out and everythign changes. With Actionscript 3 just around the corner I am just not as motivated to btoher with version 2.

There are so many things going on with the internet that I want to program and it is all moving to fast. Sometimes, i just get overwhelmed with it all.

Using my new loudfeeder app I can publish podcasts on the go from my phone which record in mp3 format. It is the most amazing capability. It is like having a radio studio to go. Now I just need to get motivated to have something to say. Here is the link to my loudfeeder podcast

Maybe I should just interview random people or record the noises of buffalo. There are so many freakin possibilities.

Make sure to read the latest @news journals to find out how to start your own photosharing pic feeder or how to start your own podcast

I am building a new Blog Feeder for roswell. It basically allows executives to write rss feeds with about one click. Those rss feeds, feed blogs on the main site. go XML!

Maybe I will adapt it for estip so that you can use it to publish your journals entries from it.

The colors are those of the new upcomming Roswell Park site.

I am making a website for this older gentleman using my new CMS system. I love being able to quickly get something up with little effort, it gives me more opportunity to concentrate of the design. He typed all these poems on an old fashioend typewriter and is about 80 years old. He would like his work to be published to the web. I think it is pretty cool that it will have the photograph of the typed copy next to the html text of each poem.

I will post the link when it is done. The poetry is about the stages of life and is entitled, "The Ages of Woman and Man"



While I was at it, I created a typerwiter key maker, so I am going to do an estrip theme based on typewriters. It will be the first black theme.

I redid the surebert site a while back and today I was looking at the stats. Surebert is a very simple to use AJAX API I wrote last year. It looks like it has been downloaded almost 500 times yet I the only place that linked back to the surebert site, like I requested, is my boss's church's web site. In combination with Poser (downloaded 150 times and avaiable in both ASP and PHP format), also on tthe surebert site it can grab data from anywhere on the net and include it live on your site using only javascript. in fact it is what runs the chat, the peep count, the old radio, the many other features on this site.



Today I found alexswebcamworld ] on google by searching for surbert.js.



The site seems to be a guy who keep most of his life on web cam. I frequently thought about this a couple years ago but honestly, having a mobile blog was more appealing at the timeand I went with that route. Maybe when I can have a live mobile webcam blog I will change my mind. I think actually, I can have that right now if I would just program it for my phone. I am so overly intimidated by Microsoft Visual Studio. It is so foreign to me, the way it works. Don't get me wrong, i love IDEs but the visual part is insane. I just am not comfortable giving up that much control to the system. It is probably because I don't fully understand how it works, but it seem slike whenever I start a project there a already a million files and lots of code.

Has anyone else seen google mars ? It is a new mars mapping interface based on the googlemaps interface. I cannot wait till they have the 3d version. You can see the data in elevation, visible image, and infrared image maps.

BEfore you read this - I ended up helping him more - he turned out to be cool and from denmark - we chatted a lot.

This is the moblog



I guss everyone hates their own countries

17:57] paulsidekick: the farthest north I ever got was kopenhagen
[17:58] paccer01: i live in copenhagen :)
[17:58] paulsidekick: cool
[17:58] paccer01: but im tired of denmark
[17:58] paulsidekick: why
[17:58] paulsidekick: i always thought it seems so great
[17:58] paulsidekick: compared to amerika
[17:58] paulsidekick: i rememerb when I was in germany
[17:58] paulsidekick: they built that bridge
[17:58] paccer01: i hate people in denmark
[17:58] paccer01: i mean
[17:59] paulsidekick: bridging part of denmark
[17:59] paulsidekick: and people seems so excited about their community and their country
[17:59] paulsidekick: compared to here
[17:59] paccer01: if someone falls - people look away pretend they didn't see it... and denmark is pretty racist too
[17:59] paccer01: hate it
[17:59] paulsidekick: oh ya
[17:59] paulsidekick: racist i can believe
[17:59] paulsidekick: i went dancing one time
[17:59] paulsidekick: with some turkish students
[17:59] paulsidekick: when we went to denkamrk
[17:59] paulsidekick: and they wouldnt let themn in the club with us
[17:59] paulsidekick: it was horrible
[17:59] paulsidekick: i was liek fuck you nazis
[18:00] paccer01: pisses me off
[18:00] paulsidekick: is weird
[18:00] paccer01: and you also live in denmark without knowing your neighbour.. and people looks like your insane if you smile at someone
[18:00] paulsidekick: here too
[18:01] paccer01: i wanna move to australia, i think


So I get an IM while laying there sick as hell and figure its twisted so I answered for once. Then it's some dude who read online that I solved @shawnr's nokia 3220 corrupt jpeg problem and wanted help although I had posted the solution online.

I originally hadn't responded to his email because he ask for a procedural version of the script and I refused to produce it as I had already posted the OOP one and I am too busy rewrite it. I asked him what he was using it for and he said for a moblog. Then i started to feel bad for him. I thought, " oh how sad, I can imagine having a camera phone I cannot use on my blog" and started to help him out.

Mind you I hate helping people nowadays. It has gotten really out of control. Everyone wants my help all the freakin time. My general rule is that I refuse to help on anything commecial unless they are paying me but that doesn't stop all you motherfuckers from harassing me to get information so that you can make more money. Just stop!! You know who you are!

At the end of the conversation after I pretty much held his hand about it because he said he was using it for his moblog, he tells me it is for a dating service he is starting and he will need to process many of these photos per seconds. You can see the conversation below. I am putting it here to deter future commercial help requests.

-update - afterwards I got this explaining it isn't a commercial dating servicel. I guess I shouldn't get so angry so fast. I am just a jerk sometimes but I am also stressed out with helping people. I could have asked for more details but I didn't.


[14:43] paccer01: hi paul
[14:43] paccer01: sorry to disturb you - hope you don't mind
[14:44] paccer01: have you read my email about the 3220 jpeg fix?
[14:45] paulsidekick: i did
[14:45] paulsidekick: but i have been really busy
[14:45] paccer01: ah - okay
[14:45] paulsidekick: i only write OOP
[14:45] paulsidekick: i have no idea how to write it otherwise
[14:45] paulsidekick: as that is all i learned
[14:45] paulsidekick: lol
[14:45] paulsidekick: but basically
[14:45] paulsidekick: what you need to do
[14:45] paccer01: oop example is fine ;)
[14:45] paccer01: i just perfer non-oop
[14:46] paccer01: because oop is harder for me to read
[14:46] paulsidekick: you need to read you image into a varibalre with file_get_Contents
[14:46] paulsidekick: then pass the data to imagecreatefromstring
[14:46] paulsidekick: if you run that in a command line php program
[14:46] paulsidekick: it will spit out an error
[14:46] paulsidekick: tell you there are so many extraneous bits of data
[14:46] paulsidekick: before marker whatever it says
[14:47] paulsidekick: it will tell you before which marker
[14:47] paulsidekick: then basically you can open it up in a hex editor
[14:47] paulsidekick: and find those bits
[14:47] paulsidekick: delete them but record what they are
[14:47] paulsidekick: or wherr they are
[14:47] paulsidekick: then write a program to remove those bits everytime
[14:47] paulsidekick: it relaly deopends on the phone model
[14:47] paulsidekick: and its a little bit time consuming
[14:47] paulsidekick: but it works everytime
[14:48] paulsidekick: are you on windows or linux
[14:48] paccer01: both... :)
[14:48] paulsidekick: it shoudlnt matter
[14:48] paulsidekick: well on windows just run the php file form the comand line
[14:48] paulsidekick: and from linux run it in the temrinal
[14:48] paulsidekick: it spits back an error that you otehrwsie will not see if you run it through apache or IIS
[14:49] paulsidekick: that error tells you exactly where the problem is in the image
[14:49] paulsidekick: then you just have to write the progrwm to cut that part out
[14:49] paccer01: its just odd that your fix did not work in my case
[14:49] paccer01: its a 3220 too
[14:50] paccer01: it does not find chr(0x28).chr(0x36).chr(0x28).chr(0x2B) in image for an example
[14:50] paulsidekick: it could be different in differtn for your model
"color:red">[14:52] paccer01: shouldt it be possible to just set phps error reporting a bit higher instead of running it from shell[14:52] paccer01: i had no idea that there was a difference
[14:53] paulsidekick: Corrupt JPEG dta: 74v extraneous bytes bedore marker 0xd9
[14:53] paulsidekick: is what your image says
[14:53] paulsidekick: the erro is not a PHP error
[14:53] paulsidekick: its actually an error being output by the jpeg library
[14:53] paulsidekick: that php uises
[14:53] paulsidekick: so php doesn't catch it as a module for a server
[14:54] paulsidekick: but it does spit it out to the command prompt
[14:54] paulsidekick: that is why these images wont work with gimp either
[14:54] paulsidekick: well they do but it warns of an error
[14:54] paulsidekick: anything using the jpeg libs in GD will reject them
[14:54] paulsidekick: unless they are fixed
[14:54] paulsidekick: in your case
[14:55] paulsidekick: because it is 74 byres befoe d9
[14:55] paulsidekick: which is at the end of a jpeg
[14:55] paulsidekick: you need osmethign similar to my eat function which keeps
[14:55] paulsidekick: removing a byte before whatever character
[14:55] paulsidekick: and then testing again
[14:55] paulsidekick: until the image is correct
[14:55] paulsidekick: and imagecreatefromstring returns true
[size=m]AT THIS POINT I FEEL TIRED OF EXPLAINING IT TO HIM SEEING AS I HAVE ALREADY DOCUMENTED THIS ALL ONLINE WHICH IS HOW HE FOUND ME - SO I ASK WHAT HE IS USING IT FOR BECAUSE IF IT IS COMMERICAL I AM NOT GOING TO HELP ANYMORE[/size]
[14:56] paulsidekick: what are you using this for
[14:56] paccer01: a moblog
[size=m]I FEEL BAD FOR HIM AND CONTINUE[/size]
[14:56] paccer01: at the moment, i just write the files directly to disk - but i'd like to convert files into jpegs before writing them to disk
[14:57] paulsidekick: ya
[14:57] paulsidekick: you can't manipualte them ihtout fixing this
[14:57] paulsidekick: alternatively
[14:57] paulsidekick: you can pipe the images out to imagemagick'
[14:57] paulsidekick: which can handle them
[14:57] paulsidekick: its a linux graphic program
[14:57] paulsidekick: or to photoshop or something
[14:58] paccer01: i was actually thinking about that
[14:58] paulsidekick: by using exec() with PHP
[14:58] paulsidekick: alhtough
[14:58] paulsidekick: this method is better
[14:58] paulsidekick: because it is native
[14:58] paulsidekick: if you can figure out what exactly need sto be cut form your images
[14:58] paulsidekick: some phoens it is easier
[14:58] paulsidekick: for exmaple with my PPC 6700
[14:58] paulsidekick: oits always the exact same string near the beginning that needs to be removed
[14:58] paulsidekick: so I just detect is it fromt heppc6700-
[14:58] paulsidekick: if so cut this data
[14:58] paulsidekick: no need to keep retesting it
[14:59] paccer01: how do you detect its from a 6700?
[14:59] paulsidekick: open the file in a hex editor
[14:59] paulsidekick: tehre is always something unique about it
[14:59] paccer01: the attachment?
[15:00] paccer01: one of my problems is that i don't really have much to test with
[15:00] paccer01: or compare with
[15:00] paulsidekick: what do you eman
[15:00] paulsidekick: mean
[15:00] paccer01: well - to find unique stuff - i need to compare it with something.. to find out whats unique and whats not
[15:01] paulsidekick: there are a million jpegs on the web
[15:01] paulsidekick: lol
[15:01] paulsidekick: a bizzilion
[15:01] paulsidekick: really
[15:01] paccer01: heh - yea.. of course
[15:01] paccer01: i was thinking mms'es
[15:01] paulsidekick: if you opent hat file in a hex editor
[15:01] paulsidekick: the 3220fixme.jpg
[15:01] paulsidekick: you can see ff d9
[15:01] paulsidekick: are the last two bvytes
[15:01] paulsidekick: meaning you need to delete the 74 bytes before that
[15:01] paulsidekick: if you take more pictures with your phone
[15:01] paulsidekick: you might find out that it is always 74 bvytes off
[15:02] paulsidekick: in that case just deete the 7 bytes
[15:02] paccer01: as
[15:02] paulsidekick: 74
[15:02] paccer01: so all i have to do is run a substr like you do
[15:02] paccer01: before the last two bytes
[15:02] paccer01: i think i got it now :)
[15:03] *** paulsidekick wants to directly connect.
[15:03] paccer01: pretty easy actually ;)
[15:04] paulsidekick: i am trtying to send you the fixed image
[15:04] paulsidekick: basically just rememeber each set of 2 letter in hex is one byte
[15:04] paulsidekick: e.g d9 is a byte
[15:04] paulsidekick: ff is a byte
[15:04] paccer01: i might need to open a couple of ports in my router to recieve
[15:05] paccer01: maby you could send to paulsidekick@paccer.dk ?
[15:05] paulsidekick: i emailed it
[15:05] paccer01: great
[15:05] paulsidekick: back to whatevfer you sent from
[15:05] paulsidekick: mms3220fix@paccer.dk
[15:05] paulsidekick: to there
[15:05] paccer01: :)
[15:05] paccer01: fine
[15:05] paccer01: got it
[15:05] paulsidekick: i just deleted all 74 bytes
[15:05] paulsidekick: so the more images you have from your comera
[15:05] paulsidekick: the more you can test till you ffigure it out
[15:05] paulsidekick: inthe case of my friend shawns nokia 3220
[15:06] paulsidekick: it was different everytime
[15:06] paulsidekick: but it always came before the end
[15:06] paulsidekick: so i just kept deleteing 1 and then check
[15:06] paulsidekick: in a loop
[15:06] paulsidekick: until imagecreatefromstring returns true
[15:06] paulsidekick: then you are all set
[15:06] paccer01: doesn't running imagecreatefromsting in a loop eat ALOT of resources?
[15:07] paulsidekick: no
[15:07] paulsidekick: its no big deal at all
[15:07] paulsidekick: you can run that script ina couple seconds
[15:07] paulsidekick: its not actually working when it returns false
[15:07] paulsidekick: milliseonds
[15:07] paulsidekick: i meant
[15:08] paccer01: hm
[15:08] paulsidekick: how many iamges do you expect to uplaod to your blog
[15:08] paccer01: have no idea actually
[15:08] paccer01: to start with - a few
[15:08] paulsidekick: i mean if you were sending 3000/mnute
[15:08] paulsidekick: you might want another solution
[15:08] paccer01: k
[15:09] paulsidekick: it only needs to run it on nokai 3220s for your blog
[15:09] paccer01: yea
[15:08] paccer01: at most, it will be one pr second, i thin
[15:08] paccer01: but maby it will be a part of a dating service i am working on
[15:09] paulsidekick: i cannot help you anymore if its comercial

I just got a message on the site saying

Hey Dave! I guess you must have saw my pix on here cuz I'm good friends with ladycroft. Drop me a line sometime! aj_cich AT adelphia.net

But I am not dave, maybe that will help someone else out.

On another note I have finally completed the new chat which looks about the same but the code is so amazing you can't imagine. I will release it this weekend. I only wish that I had the inspiration to promote it more. @shawnr showed me a chat at 3 bubbles that is much like our chat but they are pimping it out as a blog comment chat solution.

Mine is just better. no iframes, no stupid javascript embedded in the xhtml, everythign is perfectly separated, XHTML and CSS styled. It doesn't even require mysql anymore. If you turn styles off on their page, there isn't even a chat. Plus no image dragging, thumbnail popping ufn. So now I am torn. Do I pimp my chat solution out as a solution for other sites or sit on it because I cringe at the thought of someone else possibly profitting from my programming.

So while looking at other stuff online at AJAX matter.com I discovered this ad from yahoo. I guess they are either really in the future of ajax or they have really bad AI for their advertisment robot.