… thank everyone for the support for me, my mother, and family. My mother had her surgery today, and overall, things are good. They were able to remove the tumor, and it appears it did not spread to anywhere else. However, we won’t know for 100% sure until a few tests come in on Friday.
Thanks again everyone 
UPDATE: 11/27/2007
My mother is now HOME!!!!! 
UPDATE: 12/4/2007
My mother is officially cancer free!!!!!!
Today marks the anniversary of the end of World War I. And today we remember all the brave men who lost their lives fighting for our country.
The things that make a soldier great and send him out to die,
To face the flaming cannon’s mouth nor ever question why,
Are lilacs by a little porch, the row of tulips red,
The peonies and pansies, too, the old petunia bed,
The grass plot where his children play, the roses on the wall:
‘Tis these that make a soldier great.
He’s fighting for them all.‘Tis not the pomp and pride of kings that make a soldier brave;
‘Tis not allegiance to the flag that over him may wave;
For soldiers never fight so well on land or on the foam
As when behind the cause they see the little place called home.
Endanger but that humble street whereon his children run,
You make a soldier of the man who never bore a gun.
What is it through the battle smoke the valiant soldier sees?The little garden far away, the budding apple trees,
The little patch of ground back there, the children at their play,
Perhaps a tiny mound behind the simple church of gray.
The golden thread of courage isn’t linked to castle dome
But to the spot, where’er it be — the humblest spot called home.
And now the lilacs bud again and all is lovely there
And homesick soldiers far away know spring is in the air;
The tulips come to bloom again, the grass once more is green,
And every man can see the spot where all his joys have been.He sees his children smile at him, he hears the bugle call,
And only death can stop him now — he’s fighting for them all.
About a month ago I posted about my mother having Stage III Pancreatic Cancer. The doctors have decided that she is a candidate for surgery, and have scheduled her surgery for November 19th. The surgery will be the “Whipple“, which can be a dangerous surgery.
Please keep her in your prayers, especially on that day. I’ve gotten comments and emails from quite a few people, you’ll never know how much I appreciate it.
PHP 5.2.5 has been released, and I’ve already upgraded my server
[08-Nov-2007]
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.5. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
Further details about the PHP 5.2.5 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.5, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.5:
- Fixed dl() to only accept filenames. Reported by Laurent Gaffie.
- Fixed dl() to limit argument size to MAXPATHLEN (CVE-2007-4887). Reported by Laurent Gaffie.
- Fixed htmlentities/htmlspecialchars not to accept partial multibyte sequences. Reported by Rasmus Lerdorf
- Fixed possible triggering of buffer overflows inside glibc implementations of the fnmatch(), setlocale() and glob() functions. Reported by Laurent Gaffie.
- Fixed “mail.force_extra_parameters” php.ini directive not to be modifiable in .htaccess due to the security implications. Reported by SecurityReason.
- Fixed bug #42869 (automatic session id insertion adds sessions id to non-local forms).
- Fixed bug #41561 (Values set with php_admin_* in httpd.conf can be overwritten with ini_set()).
