FrankCastleAZ

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated as I’ve been extremely busy, but it’s time to catch up with what’s happened in the past and look at some things in the short term and long term future.

List of things I’ll be writing about:
(This will likely be edited with more material as it comes to me)

Personal Life-

Living Situation (From house in South Phoenix to Apartment in Tempe)
Girlfriend Update
New Years Resolutions

Personal Media-

Video Games acquired recently
Video Games I’ve beat in 2009
Video Games I’ve beat in 2010
Mentions on Cheap Ass Gamer Podcasts
Anime I’ve seen recently
Comics I’ve read recently
TV Shows I’ve seen recently
Thoughts on recent writing of Punisher comics
Recent success of my NFL team New Orleans Saints in Regular Season and entrance in Playoffs

Business AZHP-

Conventions and Events Past
Photography and Video at Conventions and Events
Video Game Equipment and Games acquired for AZHP
Video Game Equipment and Games acquired for resale
Arcade Machine Restoration and Customization
Connnections with Others

Business Misc-

Webhosting for NyuNyuCosplay
Webhosting for AIComics

Business Project X-

Minor Filming Details
Website Building/Finalizing
Connections with Others

I have a lot of catching up to do!

-FrankCastleAZ

I do a bit of work here and there for a friend of mine’s website and forum, known as the Miniskirt Army (or MSA) and it’s the unofficial fanclub of Travis Willingham (a popular voice actor for anime and video games).

Recently one of her members had informed her of something strange found in the source code of her index.

After looking at it and referring back to me, I looked a bit further into it and found she had  a strange “adsttnmq1″ attack.

Two folders on the root home were the cause which I assume are NOT named the same each time someone’s site is attacked.

Folder names and contents:

“abpzh”

-contained:

“m” (no file association)

“wat.php”

“gcjbb”

-contained:

“m” (no file association)

“gwf.php”

The “m” file just had “index.htm” on the first line, so it wasn’t the root of the problem, but likely told the php file where to put information.

Either way, I hope this can help someone out there having the same issue.

-FrankCastleAZ

I’ve been attempting to get as much AZHP work done as possible for many reasons, mainly so that I can continue my work on Project X.

A lot of the videos I have to edit and release are of events from quite some time ago and I’ve wanted to  get them released ASAP so when I do take new video I don’t have a huge queue of old stuff.

So I’ve finished 4 videos within the last few days all of which are available on the website of AZHP. I’ve yet to give each video their own page within the “Event Videos/Pics” tab as it’d be much more convenient to do them all at once.

They’re available to view on the front page of AZHP:

www.arizonahp.org

or click the EVENT VIDEOS/PICS button to view all videos

10-27-07 – Atomic Comics AnimeFest Cosplay Contest

07-12-08 – Anime TuCon 2008 – Tucson Kendo Kai Demonstration

07-12-08 – Anime TuCon 2008 – AZHP Console Gaming Room

07-12-08 – Anime TuCon 2008 – Dealer’s Room

I’m gonna be editing a lot more in the near future.

-FrankCastleAZ

A few months ago, my girlfriend had mentioned that I should put a link up on AZHP directing to another community in AZ called Arizona Ball Joined Doll Community.

I was disappointed to see their website and forum were both being run on free systems. Website was on geocities and forum was an InvisionFree so they had to deal with no server access, limited administrative control and ugly banner ads.

After contacting the other AZHP owner Spewmuffin, he agreed that we could do something to help them out and so I took the next step after the founder Jellie confirmed that she’d accept the help and that an all new “official” site would help the community grow.

I decided on WordPress for the website due to it’s obviously easy posting and the ease of editing the themes and I decided on phpbb3 for the forum due to it’s common use over the nation and familiarity that AZ users have with phpbb3 considering so many of the local communities and conventions use it already.

Here’s my creation log for the AZBJD community:

-Wordpress Install
-Wordpress Plugin Install – Akismet – Spam Filter
-Wordpress Plugin Install – WPSpamFree – Spam Filter
-Wordpress Plugin Install – Redirector – Allows Pages to be directed to other pages
-Wordpress Template Install – iNove 1.4.5
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/sidebar.php – Removed crap categories
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/img/wp-logo.png – replaced WordPress logo with AZBJD logo
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/footer.php – added host and theme editor info
-PHPBB3 Install
-PHPBB3 Template Install – 1thank
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/bg_header.gif – made header background black
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/background.gif – made bottom of footer look same color as bottom of flower reflection color
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/header-bg.gif – made black to help create black background of header box part 1
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/header-r.gif – made black to help create black background of header box part 2
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/header-l.gif – made black to help create black background of header box part 3
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/imageset/logo.png – put azbjd banner in middle of black background to match black background of header box
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/shadow-l.gif – replaced with same sized clear gif to remove shadow
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/theme/images/shadow-r.gif – replaced with same sized clear gif to remove shadow
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/template/overall_footer.html – added host and theme editor info
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/img/bg.jpg – customize background to match phpbb3 background part 1
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/img/light.gif – customize background to match phpbb3 background part 2
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/img/footer.jpg – customize footer to match phpbb3 footer with flowers and reflection part 1
-Wordpress Template Edit – /wp-content/themes/inove145/style.css – matched extra background color below footer to same grey color as footer.jpg
-PHPBB3 Template Edit – /forum/styles/1thank/template/overall_header.html – removed search button because it didn’t work, was in a foreign language and there’s a search bar at top of forum already

Here’s the before and after pictures for the AZBJD community:

Website BEFORE (minus the logo on the top right of course)

Website AFTER

Forum BEFORE

Forum AFTER

I’d say everything turned out nicely.

I basically made the backgrounds, headers and footers match together using my skills in photoshop.

It took a bit longer than originally expected due to some of the theme/template image files being placed in slightly odd areas or being unused altogether.

I hope the members of AZBJD can enjoy it and be much more organized and professional given they have freedom they didn’t have before.

I know the administrator Jellie is at Anime Expo and she’ll be working on the website and forum a lot more when she returns.

Good luck AZBJD.

http://www.azbjd.com

http://www.azbjd.com/forum

-FrankCastleAZ