So I have been making bread for some time now, I really like to do it and have gotten somewhat good at it, to the point where I don't follow recipes or measure the ingredients. And since I like to experiment, I made my own sour dough (again), I have had this one for half a year at least, and it tastes really good, better than the first one I made back in Juárez.
Although, a great part of why I don't follow recipes is because I read a lot of theory of bread making, not just practice, it really is something amazing. I remember a Ted Talk video about bread that made me respect it a little more, how it is somewhat like creating life.
Every month and a half I get a free Saturday, today is that day, I wanted to go hiking... but it's freaking raining, so I decided to rest this day and do nothing... other than the normal stuff except for work. So I have all morning to lay and rest a little. But it's impossible when there are so many things that I need to do... laundry, wash the dishes, buy the groceries... this sucks XD... although slightly less than normal
But at least today I don't have to go out until I feel like it, which is nice, lol. I just hope it doesn't rain all freaking day -_-, or that some one gives me an umbrella, I don't know why but I haven't bought one, lol... I know I should.
I have nothing new to write today... so I'm going to write about my (not so) new mouse. I know most people feel comfortable with just two buttons on their mouse, and maybe a scroll wheel. But for me, I really like to have more options and be able to configure it.
A few years ago I bought a entry level gaming mouse, the Logitech MX518, it wasn't that expensive, it had back and forth buttons, and customizable dpi. It was a great mouse, but it was starting to show it's age, one of the buttons was already making double click and another one sometimes didn't register the click.
On my job I have had the opportunity of using normal mouses... and I hate them... even the ones that aren't bad feel bad against the one I had.
So, when I decided that I should probably buy another one I read and saw reviews about many brands and different type of mice. But the more I read the more I was thinking on investing more on it, investing on something that would last years and at least be as good as the one I already had.
In the end I decided to buy the Logitech G502 Proteus Core, a wired mouse with up to 12000 dpi, back and forth, fast scroll wheel, and many many other features that for a moment I thought they might be too much... but what the hell... It's not like I have some one that depends on me or anything, and I really wanted to try something nice, well... I bought this with the SSD, so... I double dipped there :P
From the moment I started playing with it I knew that this was a good investment too, so far I have been very happy with it, and I have really used it's functions, well, some of them, but it's so much better than the one I had. It feels freaking good, the switches this thing has feel way better than any other mouse I have used, it's smooth, and the weight is adjustable to make it feel better.
More info on the mouse
http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g502-proteus-core-tunable-gaming-mouse
So yesterday I had a problem, apparently some of our sites where hacked, they where redirecting to a Russian site... After checking some things my boss found that the main problem was caused because someone changed the .htaccess files on CakePHP and Wordpress. We restored those files quickly and I was looking at how it had been done. It was somewhat stressful.
After "resolving" that I had to work on some other things and didn't find what could possibly be the problem. I backed up everything (I usually back up the Database every week) and made sure everything was working properly, and checked every now and then that the sites where working normally.
Today I was checking if everything was working again and it was... though I decided to check the .htaccess files and they where changed... again... but they weren't redirecting.... I restored everything as quick as I could and decided to check some other sites that aren't being used.
In one of those I found something weird, a lot of files that I didn't recognize, so I was checking file by file. It was on an old Wordpress site that I don't develop... I don't even know if it is used, but it probably was the backdoor that made this whole mess possible. I checked every file and the ones that didn't look like they belonged to Wordpress I renamed and moved to another folder.
Now my boss is updating every site that uses Wordpress to make sure that this doesn't happen... I just hope that that was the problem, lol. If not... I'll have to look at it again XD
Back on June I bought a gaming laptop, before buying it I read a lot... a freaking lot about everything I could need, one thing that always popped was the need for a Solid State Disk, the laptop I bought only had a Hard Disk Drive, a 5400 rpm HDD, which I was OK with, I have been using them before, both laptops I have had used them and they didn't felt slower because of that, or that was what I thought.
When I got my laptop I felt that sometimes it would take more time than it seems it should need. Apparently on my older laptops they didn't feel slow because everything was slow in comparison, but on this one it really felt like a bottle neck.
When I ran a game it would take a few seconds and load the game, like it always does. When I closed them it would close them immediately and I would have to wait a few seconds before the system would respond normally because it had to write things on the HDD, in comparison, on my older laptops it would take more time closing the games while freeing resources. So it would seem normal to me to wait after closing something a game (or almost any program for that matter).
Since I knew I had to go back on July for Sergio's wedding I decided to buy a SSD. First, when I installed the system on it, it was very quick, like 15 or 20 minutes, while on the HDD it took me almost an hour. Booting up windows is quick as hell too, in the time it takes me to type my password, pick my mouse and click the Chrome icon it already finished, and Chrome is launched freaking quickly too. If I need to restart it is done in less than a minute, while on my other laptop it can take me up to 10 minutes before it restarts and boots up again.
So far, this has been a great investment, I would highly recommend it, and I don't think I can go back to HDD, unless it is for storing things like music or games, etc. My games are installed on the HDD (my laptop has two bays) since they don't really benefit that much from the speed of the SSD, and since it only runs the game on the HDD and everything else on the SSD it no longer feels like a bottle neck.
So it's time to write again, it's been a long time since last we posted, like 8 months apparently. Since then so many things have happened. I'll try to make it quick so I don't bore you all.
First things first. My last post was about me finally running a 10k (not what my phone says is 10k, but an official race, measured and everything), since then, many things have changed.
I started exercising like 2 years ago, and some time I decided that I wan't to do this thing called an Iron Man Triathlon, for me that sounded impossible (it's like 4km swimming, 41km running and 180km on bike, all on the same day), or at least that's what it would have looked for me a few years ago, to this day I can run 15k in 90 minutes, thought I know that if I rest well and take a little more care of myself I can run half a marathon no problem. So far I haven't done it because I'm always tired since I almost never rest, but I need to change that... which means I need to stop walking to my job everyday, which is a 30 minutes walk with a 10 kilos backpack, my laptop alone weights like a fat baby :P, and doing some other things.
Anyway, I never noticed how much I had changed until recently. Just a few months ago I realized that I had lost almost 1/4 of myself, and since January I have been loosing more and more weight, mainly because I didn't wan't to pay extra when I went skydiving, lol.
Before I started to exercise I was weighting more than 120 kilos, and now I'm around 85, there's still some more weight to loose, but that's nothing now.
Photo of my graduation back in 2010
Photo taken when I got to Monterrey in April 2013
Photo after skydiving taken on June 2014
Photo taken before Sergio's wedding
Since last year I have accomplished so many things, I got a good job, I became independent, I finally got to skydive (which is probably the best thing I have done yet), I got to travel a little, finally bought a good laptop. And some other minor things that I have done that I'll probably write some other day.
And... for the first time in years... I have been obsessed with a game, lol, Dark Souls, I have played it at least 60 hours, and it has been one of the hardest games that I have played in recent years. I leave this video of one boss that I fought today, although it was easy since I already have a good level and awesome equipment :P (just to put in perspective, a hard boss took me a week to beat, lol).
So... this project was intended to last at least 365 posts, obviously it isn't that easy. But I'm almost there, and if people can say anything about me is that I'm stubborn (often confused with persistent, but I like to thing otherwise :P) and I want to finish this.
In the last month many things have happened, and at the same time, not much has changed. I moved to a new house, went to Juárez to visit my family and friends, I'm almost done with my big project (the one with the Raspberry Pi), and I was able to make breath... twice (one at my parents house and one in my new one).
Other than that, nothing much has happened, I have been reading The Count of Monte Cristo as well as playing some video games, I finished the Mass Effect trilogy and have been playing Dragon Age: Origins (more than 20 hours and not even half way through). I have been trying to squeeze some time into another projects, but sometimes it is really difficult. I finally got to the third season of Star Trek (the original series) and I'm at season 5 of Doctor Who, although it get a little boring sometimes when the episodes are reconstructed (photographs of the episode with the audio and some text to describe whats happening).
I really like my new house, it's really comfy and feels better, and it has a water boiler (no more cold showers :D), there are so many minor details that I didn't like of the other one, and while this one is more expensive, I feel like it's worth it.
My niece is growing bigger and bigger, and she is so cute, I wish I could spend more time with her, but on the other hand I don't wan't to leave my job, maybe I don't make as much money as I could make in another job, but at least here I feel very good, I can experiment and learn new things.
So here are some photos that I have taken in the last month.
Garlic and paprika bread that I made at my parents home, the best I have made so far, at least that's what everyone that ate told me.
By request of my sister I cooked an Italian version of the Burek Bosinan, it was awesome too
My loot from my trip to Juárez, a few boxes of twinings tea and The Theory of Everything from Ayreon that a friend gave to me.
First try to make bread in my new oven, I didn't measure anything (haven't bought scales or measurement cups), and the oven doesn't say what temperature it is.
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Not the best looking bread, but it tasted sooooooo good
Some risotto rice balls with cheese in the center that I cooked this weekend, they were awesome
