After a year off Victoria's Secret staged another one of their high-profile fashion shows last night in New York City. If you want more info about the event, you can read about it here. In the interest of both fashion and entertainment, you might also be interested in this gallery. There you'll find 297 pictures from the runway. It's, um, quite the set of pictures.

There's no nudity but if your workplace frowns upon you looking at unbelievably hot women in lingerie, then you might want to hold off until you get back home. Other than that, you're good to go.

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It's come to my attention that a lot of you use pop-up blockers with your browsers. In general, that's a great idea but you have to make sure you're not blocking anything to do with this site. All my links are designed to spawn new browser windows to keep my blog in its original window. So, if you're using the Google Toolbar, for example, to block pop-ups and I decide to, I dunno, link to a story about two NFL cheerleaders having sex in a bathroom stall, you're gonna get nothing.

I also tend to post my own personal pictures that pop-up in a larger window. If you got pop-ups blocked on my site, then all you've got to look at are tiny thumbnails.



Every pop-up blocker application has functionality to allow you to specify sites that should bypass the blocking. Here's to more cheerleader sordidness and less blocking!

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The term "Google hacking" doesn't actually refer to the act of hacking into Google's web servers. Instead, it's a method of leveraging Google's immense search capabilities to find information that might not have been intended for public viewing.

Google's Googlebot crawls nearly every nook and cranny of the Internet, looking for information as it classifies as much of the web as it can. Because it's so effective, it can find many unsecured areas of web servers that some administrators did not intend for people to go looking. The result is a wealth of files, info, images, and documents that can be accessed just by using the right combination of search terms. There's even a web site that's amassed a list of Google searches that can yield specific information. It's a bit techy, so let's start with some simple stuff.

Let's say you want to look for images just sitting in a directory. All you have to do is click on the link below. It'll give you results for unsecured image directories. You can narrow the search by adding more specific terms, say "birds" if you want bird images. I'm sure your imagination can run wild. There's some crazy stuff out there if you know what to look for.

Search for unsecured images

You can repeat the search using the term "movies" instead. You'll find a lot of research based movies from university sites, anything from solar flares to animals in their habitats.

Search for unsecured movies

Let's take it in a new direction. Why don't we search for resumes? In a sense, resumes are kinda for public consumption but maybe they weren't meant to be directly seen by everyone on the Internet. Nevertheless, here they are for viewing.

Search for resumes on-line

There are a lengthy list of things you might want to find on the Internet. Experiment by changing the key search terms. You might be surprised by what you find!

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For the record, I did go back to Swiss Chalet on Friday to once again try to clear my name with Megan/Meghan. Once again, I was informed that she was not working that night. It appears she may not be working Fridays at all now. I wonder if that has anything to do with us? I neglected to ask what her new schedule was. Nevertheless, I had a fabulous double-leg dinner which never disappoints. Tasty!

On Friday, the inevitable also happened. Someone from work found my blog. It didn't come as a surprise really. I knew it would happen but I just didn't know when. All it really takes is to put my name in Google and there you go. That's what Tim did around 5pm. I saw the access on my server logs about 20 minutes later. I was also able to see he searched for his name on my blog. The search came up empty of course. From the day I started my job, I was very cognizant of the dangers of putting too much info about work on a blog. People have been fired from their jobs for doing exactly that. So while you'll read about what game I'm working on and when I'm working OT, you'll get very little info about my co-workers or anything that personal. I certainly wouldn't air out on my blog any beefs I might have with upper management. You'll have to ask me in person if I have any of those.

The rest of the weekend was quite uneventful. I drove out to UBC on Saturday to play hockey with what turned out to be a disappointing crowd. It was 3 on 2 for most of the time. Tyson did his best in asking a ton of SJC people to play. Nearly everyone's excuse was that they had too much work to do. No matter how bad SJC will continue to slide into suckiness, that excuse will always be there.

After hockey, we headed on over to the Thunderbar for some beer, food, and the Canucks game. The T-Bar is a decent place to watch several games actually. The bar overlooks the ice surface so if you're lucky, like we were, you get to see UBC varsity hockey at the same time. For those living on-campus, you can't beat the convenience, especially if you're itching to get back to work after the game.

Sunday was a most boring day, the highlight being my trip to Safeway to buy an 8-pack of frozen pizza.

That is all.

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