A long time ago (in this galaxy, not one far away), after reading Daniel’s WWW or no-WWW? post I implemented an Apache redirect in my .htaccess file to redirect my non-www address to www.adampieniazek.com/. It worked, but all non-www addresses would redirect to my homepage instead of to each individual page (for instance, adampieniazek.com/about/ would go to www.adampieniazek.com instead of to www.adampieniazek.com/about/). Well, it kept bugging me and bugging me and I kept trying alternate ways to get this to work properly and today it finally works right!
Here’s the piece of code that finally sorted out the kinks:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^\.adampieniazek\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.adampieniazek.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Credit goes to the good people at no-www for putting the code in their FAQ (though switched to redirect the www address to the non-www address).
It’s time again for us to take a look back at my final four picks and see how they stack up now that we’re down to the last two teams. Last time we checked, 75% of my final four picks were still intact, with USC being the sole incorrect pick. Over the weekend, Kansas beat UNC and Memphis beat UCLA setting up a national championship of Kansas vs. Memphis.
Since I picked UNC to beat USC in the national championship, my final four picks are officially kaput. Should be an interesting match-up and I’m glad to see Memphis in the big game instead of FUCLA. Since Kansas also knocked out my half-alma mater, UNC, I’m for sure rooting for Memphis.
About eight months ago I made a great decision, to buy Celtics half-season tickets. By my best estimates I went to about half of the regular season games I had tickets for but yesterday, the real reason I bought Celtics season tickets arrived in my mailbox:
Yup those are my Celtics playoff tickets and nope you can’t have ‘em! Actually, I may make a blog contest giving away tickets to one of the games if there’s a big demand, but I doubt it.
It’s a great feeling to have the best basketball team of all-time back in the playoffs.
Do you watch Battlestar Galactica? No. Then you are an idiot.
- Dwight from The Office.
The show The Office has had many memorable moments, but it’s best moment came in reference to another show, the best show on TV right now, Battlestar Galactica.
Why is Battlestar Galactica the best TV show of all time? Ten reasons come to mind.
10. Season 3’s cliff-hanger
How intense was that cliff-hanger? I’m still on edge from it and it was over a year ago, that’s how intense. Starbuck comes through the clouds and looks at Lee Adama, tells him she knows where the mythical Earth is and we fly through space until we get a shot of that unmistakable blue orb we call home. Will they get to Earth? Will it be our Earth in present-time? So many tantalizing questions that I really hope get answered.
9. It’s a great example of how to make a good remake.
They paid tribute to the old Battlestar Galactica but at he same time didn’t simply update the special effects and call it a day. BSG is a complete revamping of the show to match current events. Countless shows and movies try, few succeed. BSG goes above, beyond, and past the original (which was also of top quality).
8. It’s the best genre ever.
For centuries, the best books have been written in the science fiction genre because it can encapsulate all other genres and has nearly no limitations. Battlestar Galactica is a shining example of political, philosophical, dramatic, and romantic story lines being given focus in a science fiction setting.
7. Awesome music - One of the best remixes of All Along the Watchtower ever.
6. It’s the 1984 of our time.
George Orwell’s 1984 was a critique on the British empire and a warning of the future written in that period’s most popular medium. BSG portrays the Iraqi occupation with through a flipped perspective and critiques our ever increasing reliance on science and technology over humanity and is a warning for us to not give over all power to robots.
5. They don’t milk it. One last season to rule them all.
Countless shows and movies go on for far too long, deteriorating into a mess far removed from the original fans fell in love with (The Simpsons). BSG is going out on their own terms without dragging on endlessly. You’ve got to hand it to everyone involved with the show for ending it while the content is still fresh and not simply beating the show to death to get a few extra bucks.
4. Smart, strong, and sexy women.
You can’t have good science fiction without sex and BSG has tons of it, even going so far as to give us some freaky-deaky robot human relations.
3. Awesome, amazing, breath-taking, photo-realistic special effects. Wow.
If you like explosions and fire-fights, you’ll love this show. Check out this clip of the Battlestars coming to the rescue of the humans who are under Cylon occupation. Youtube’s video quality does not do it justice but it’s impressive nonetheless.
2. Smart, strong, and sexy women that can be duplicated infinitely.
That’s right, there’s an endless supply of these three women in the BSG universe.
My words really can’t explain how well made this show is. Do yourself a favor, head over to scifi.com and check out this 8 minute recap of the first 3 seasons and then tune in to the SciFi channel tonight at 10 PM eastern and watch the best TV show ever made. I can’t over-hype this show.
Late to the Battlestar Galactica phenomenon? Don’t worry you can still catch up on previous Battlestar Galactica seasons (as well as the excellent mini-series and feature film) at Amazon.com:
