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Here is my personal “Conrad update” post that I’ll keep stickied on the top of my blog until our Cirque show opens. Click the “Read the rest of this entry” link to read current status, or the rest of the blog for tidbits on our new Cirque Du Soleil adventure in Macau, China. Sorry, no details posted about the show until after Grand Opening.

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Yes, I’m ok. I received several emails about the major earthquake that hit China today. I didn’t even know about it until I started receiving emails. I’ve read that it was felt in Hong Kong - about 40 miles North of where I’m living in Macau (SAR), China.

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Email received today:

I think my wife is cheating on me. I am a working musician and, as you would expect, travel a lot. I have been noticing strange things happening when I get home. Her mobile phone rings and she steps outside to answer it or she says, “I’ll call you back later”. When I ask her who called she gets evasive.

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A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad’s credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.

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Fix for the dreaded ImpEx white screen timeout error. ImpEx is a utility to import various forum mysql databases into the VBulletin format. This timeout error happens most common when importing the POSTS with a count over 400,000. This is probably the largest part of your database. The timeout error around 400,000 posts imported results in a blank white screen that you can’t navigate away from (and an incomplete database transfer).

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You know you have those times in your life when your walk of faith faulters - then something miraculous happens that strengthens your resolve. I have just had such a momentous experience.

Tired of eating rice and noodles, ox tail and being tricked yesterday into eating chicken feet here in China - I have decided it’s time to make a stand.

To my great exhuberent joy I have discovered a Pizza Hut around the corner that delivers to my apartment here in China. Proof positive that heavenly hosts are looking out for me…

And yes, it tastes pretty close to pizza back home. Just have to make sure you order the tomato sauce base instead of the Thousand Island dressing base. (Gross, but true…)

Hu Jintao - Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China.

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Oxford University decodes the platypus genome and finds it to be a mix of bird, reptile and lactating mammal. YAHOO NEWS SOURCE

What’s so exciting about that? It has to do with the ongoing Evolution vs. Creation and Intelligent Design debates. (I use the word “debates” lightly).

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(World Map above - click for full size)

Currently living in Macau near Hong Kong and wanting to book a vacation somewhere around here (Southern China or Islands). But I have no idea where to begin. EVERYWHERE here is exotic to me. All the countries around are places I’ve heard about but don’t really know much about.

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Hong Kong Observatory Website:

http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/currwx/current.htm

Up to date information on are typhoon warnings, hurricanes and daily weather for Hong Kong, Macau (SAR) and Southern China regions.

Email question received:

I am trying to get into a good music school for music production, vocals and maybe even to have my own music label. I’ve been singing for 8yrs and my goal is to make my own music and sing for a living, I LOVE IT. It’s my passion. I was wondering if maybe you had a good choice of school for these specialties.??

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A reverse IP domain check is a way to find websites that share a common IP. Results come from search engines so are not always up to date and completely accurate.

One free site to try this is: http://www.yougetsignal.com

This is an error seen when connecting to PhpMyAdmin via Cpanel.

Error: #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

Fix: Symbolically link /tmp/mysql.sock to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

*Restart MySql services for changes to take effect.* 

“Are you living your dream? As small as it sounds my dream is only to be content, happy and fulfilled. I am almost there!”

A friend emailed me that and my response was “There are no small dreams. I think everyone’s dream is to be happy and fulfilled - it’s just that different people have different ways of getting that.”

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Email received:

Hello. My english very bad, because i’m russian. I must have $2000 to the
end of this month.  I have $1500. Please help me. Contact me

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Some photos of the Sands Venetian in Macau (Macao) China where I am working with Cirque Du Soleil. I think this is currently the second largest building in the world and it’s truly massive. You can easily get lost roaming the shops on the upper floors.

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One of my forum servers is currently switching hosts. ETA for forums affected to be back up is by May 4, 2008. The server is a major performance upgrade from our previous host.

Once that server is back online I’ll begin migration to new forum software with social networking and blog features. After the first test site has worked out it’s bugs I’ll begin migration on all major forums.

When running a live show with audio tracks, who should have control of the initial mix: Front of House mixer or the original track software output. A great argument was put to me (which was compelling enough for me to whole heartedly agree with) that the initial output should reflect the composers intention. The FOH mixer can make adjustments from there.

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(Photo: Aviathar Pemberton) 

Conway, WA - April 26, 2008 at 8:00PM Skip Hamilton and Aviathar Pemberton, the “Eclectic Music Experience” will perform at the Conway Muse. $10.00 at the door.

Aviathar is one of the most fun people I’ve ever played with. Anywhere Aviathar is…well, that’s the place to be.

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