Football season is finally here. Trainings camps are being completed and stadiums are being furnished. This is indeed an exciting season and it promises to provide unparalleled excitement. Before the season starts, predictions will be made. As expected columnists and football enthusiasts have already published their bets. I am not an expert, but I do believe that these following predictions have good chances of happening. I predicted the Colts to win it all last year, this time I have another team in mind.

National Football Conference

• Division Winners: Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, and Seattle
• Wildcard: Arizona and Philadelphia
• Divisional Playoffs: Seattle over Philadelphia; Arizona over Dallas
• Division Semi-Finals: New Orleans over Seattle; Arizona over Chicago
• Division Finals: New Orleans over Arizona

American Football Conference

• Division Winners: New England, Baltimore, Indianapolis, and San Diego
• Wildcard: Denver and Cincinnati
• Divisional Playoffs: Cincinnati over Baltimore; Indianapolis over Denver
• Division Semi-Finals: New England over Indianapolis; San Diego over Cincinnati
• Division Finals: New England over San Diego

Super Bowl

New England over New Orleans

This is a new season and I picked the “new” teams to win their respective conferences. But after the final whistle is blown, the Patriots will start its “new” dynasty.

… “one always has to know when a stage comes to an end.

If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the
meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors,
ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your
parents’ house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a
sudden?

You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself
you won’t take another step until you find out why certain things that were so
important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that.

But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents,
your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be
finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.

None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away.

That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts – and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the “ideal moment.” Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person – nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.

Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust.

Stop being who you were, and change into who you are…”

——— by paulo coehlo

Don’t Go Away
Say what you say
But say that you’ll stay
Forever and a day… in the time of your life
Cos I need more time, Yes I need more time
JUST TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT….

Have not use these things… might as well start shifting to PHP5 since PHP 4 is going to stop by end of this year. This might come in handy…

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1. Use ip2long() and long2ip() to store IP addresses as integers instead of strings in a database.
2. Partially validate email addresses by checking that the domain name exists with checkdnsrr().
3. If you’re using PHP 5 with MySQL 4.1 or above, consider ditching the mysql_* functions for the improved mysqli_* functions.
4. Learn to love the ternary operator.
5. If you get the feeling that you might be reinventing the wheel during a project, check PEAR before you write another line.
6. Automatically print a nicely formatted copy of a page’s source code with highlight_file().
7. Prevent potentially sensitive error messages from being shown to users with the error_reporting(0) function.
8. Use gzcompress() and gzuncompress() to transparently compress/decompress large strings before storing them in a database.
9. Return multiple values from a function with “by reference” parameters.
10. Fully understand “magic quotes” and the dangers of SQL injection.

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