As I was driving on the road, I received text messages, emails, and phone calls about our site was being hacked. When someone clicked on an email link on any page, they would get a pop-up form instead of their email client. The recipients would get an email from [email protected] instead of the senders’.

My first thought was our site was being hacked with XSS (Cross-Site Scripting). I called my assistant on my phone and walked her through the diagnose. I asked her to look for strange scripts in our templates. Then I asked her to comment out the script tags, which included Google Tag Manager and Pixel Tracking. When she commented out the Pixel Tracking script from a third-party vendor, the pop-up form went away.

The Pixel Tracking script allowed them to hijack our site and inject XSS into our pages with any email links. The JavaScript codes created the pop-up form. The submission from the pop-up form allows them to obtain all of the email messages. This is a serious privacy concern. Email communications should be between the sender and receiver, not the third-party.

I didn’t work with them on this Pixel Tracking script. When I worked with third-party vendors in the past, I made sure that they told me exactly what they were capturing. They would need to check with me first before they implement these types of dark patterns. I would also limit their tracking to a specific set of pages under a directory instead of the entire site.

Đây là lần đầu tiên tôi nghe tiếng hát của Phạm Hoài Nam. Anh có chất giọng trầm ấm và cách hát lạc quan. “Mỗi ngày tôi chọn một niềm vui” chẳng hạn, anh hát mộc mạc tuy bài phối khí rất là swing làm tôi nhớ đến phong cách của Benny Goodman. “Chiều một mình qua phố” cũng swing nhưng phong cách của Count Basie. “Sóng về đâu” chỉ đơn giản giọng hát của anh được đệm theo đàn guitar và đàn bass. Tóm lại là phần nhạc theo điệu jazz và blues đưa tiếng hát Phạm Hoài Nam lên một bậc.

Today was my last day skiing and snowboarding at Stowe. The sun was shining bright. Unfortunately the conditions were sticky. I skied on the blue trail and I could barely move. After 5 days straight of skiing and snowboarding for 6 hours each day, my legs were exhausted. I could barely turn my legs; therefore, I didn’t even bother trying to carve.

I went on the double-black trail to see if I could ski. I could make quick turns on skis better than I could on snowboard. Somehow I hesitated on my toe side turns when I was on deep slopes with big moguls. I hit the black trails and another blue trail. By 11:00 am, I was too exhausted to keep skiing. I called the day.

I drove back to my room to rest. I cooked a bowl of instant noodle and drank a hard cider brewed right in Vermont. The alcohol kicked in and I decided to get back to the resort to snowboard. I went on the black trail and I got tired. I finished one run and I was done.

I went back to my room and booked a tour of the Alchemist Brewery. It was a fascinating tour. I am ready to head home. I miss my girl and boys.

Album này đã phát hành vào năm 2021. Thế mà giờ đây tôi mới có dịp để nghe. Mỗi ca khúc của Quốc Bảo do chính tay nhạc sĩ đệm đàn acoustic guitar được Nguyên Hà ôn lại những kỷ niệm anh đã viết tặng. Giọng hát của cô mang nhiều trải nghiệm nhưng lắng đọng hơn. Với phần mộc mạc của đàn guitar, cô hát với những cảm xúc của chính mình.

It’s Monday night in Stowe and I needed to do something after skiing and snowboarding. I haven’t been to a theater in a while so I might as well go see a movie. Alex Garland’s Civil War is an intense, disturbing, and pretty fucked up fictionalized version of America. It’s a lot of shooting and not a whole lot of plot. Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, and Stephen McKinley Henderson did their part. Let’s hope the real America won’t get to this point of no return.

I woke up this morning and it was raining again. I went downstairs to eat breakfast and went to the car to adjust my snowboard bindings. I dialed back from +20° (front foot) and +15° (back foot) back to +18° (front foot) and 9° (back foot). I wanted the ability maneuver around the trials and not just carving.

I arrived at Stowe Resort around 9:00 am and the rain had not stopped. As headed to the lift, I found my ski poles on the rack. I brought them back to my car. I headed to the lift that took me to the black trail. This trail is perfect for me to snowboard. At the top, I had to do quick turns to get down the steep black slopes. In the middle, I had to do short turns to get around the moguls. At the bottom, I could continue to learn to carve. I was having a hard time digging my board into the snow on my toe side. Fortunately, I watched Seung’s video and he talked about digging your back knee lower will make the board grip. It worked for me. I kept going back to this trail to do my three turns.

On the last run, I decided to take the blue trail instead. The blue trail led me to the double-black-diamond slopes. I hesitated for 5 seconds and decided to go for it. They were pretty steep with big moguls. I side-slipped on my heels most of the time. I couldn’t make a turn to my toe side. At least I made my way down and I didn’t have to call the ski patrols to get me down.

Tomorrow will my last day. I will try to ski down the double-black-diamond slopes. I can do short turns on skis pretty well. We’ll see.

I didn’t get much out of this collection of poems except for “Allen v Farrow.” At least I think I did anyway. My approach to reading poetry is either I get it or I don’t. It’s more often that I don’t.

The sun finally came out this morning. The conditions were fantastic. They opened up the black-diamond trails. I put my carving practice on the blue trails aside and enjoyed skiing on the black terrains. They were steep and narrow, even more challenging than the double-black-diamond slopes at Liberty and Roundtop. I wished my boys were here. They would have loved them.

I skied on the black trails for most of the day. By 3:00 pm, I was exhausted. I could barely rolled my feet. The rain began to fall. I called it the day. I went back to the ski racks to pick up my poles and they were gone. I didn’t use my poles because I wanted to focus on carving. I left it on the rack in the morning just in case I decided to use them.

The last time I was at Stowe, December 2023, I lost both my skis and my poles. I left them overnight. This time, I lost my poles on the same day. Stowe and Vail, this is an issue at the Mansfield Lodge. You need better security. Other than that, I had a great time.

Update: I found my ski poles the next day.

Album này phát hành đã khá lâu (1996) nhưng tôi chỉ mới nghe gần đây thôi. Phải công nhận rằng Lệ Quyên thổi một làn gió mới vào các ca khúc của cố nhạc sĩ Lam Phương. Cô hát “Phút cuối” rất muồi nhưng rất Lệ Quyên. Đêm khuya một mình nằm nghe album từ đầu đến cuối khỏi ngủ.

I picked up this book because the author is half Vietnamese half American. She writes about her whiteness as well as her Asian part. Though I didn’t understand much of her poems the first read. I might need to revisit them.