Just moved this site to a VPS. Having your own hosting box is quite cool ( well it’s not actually a box 
). I reckon that the site loads much faster now.
Hell, i lost all vietnamese posts after auto-upgrade from Fanstatico. The encoding went completly wrong. Going to recover the posts from Google cache. I have no time to investigate where the bug is, maybe database crashes or unicode is not supported by the upgrade script … Anyway still lucky as all of my posts were indexed by google. Now you know another benefit of SEO
Update: Something is wrong with this WP update. I published the recovered posts, but the encoding is still fucked up …
Update: At last i found the solution: every Wordpress automatic upgrade from Fanstatico must remove these 2 lines of code in wp-config.php:
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
- Always blend ads with content: the colors of the background, the URL, the text must be the same as your site’s.
- Put the things you want clicked most towards the top and left.
- The first link in a series gets clicked most.
- Certain color combinations draw in the eye.
- Standard banner sizes in standard banner positions will get ignored, so be more creative in ads positioning.
- A frustrating or confusing navigation or layout leads to the “back” button. Even worse: “Close the window”. And immediately.
- “Professional” looking sites with nice graphics are trusted more. Here is where the affiliate links come in to play.
Update: if your site is content-based, then you should pay attention to your typography, too. According to this article: the more similar between the type of your site and Adsense type, the higher the CTR.
Come back to normal life
Yes, it means going to bed at 4am and one meal per day.
God I have freaking too many things to do this semester. I just need to stop procrastinating … oh yes indeed I do.
Ah … and try to make my dumb head more creative.
“They fuck you and fuck you and fuck you, and just when you think it’s over, that’s when the real fucking begins!” - Connie
Some declarations first:
- This is blackhat.
- Do this at your own risk.
Here we go:
There’s an exploit for PHP versions 4.4.3 -> 4.4.6 lurking around in the phpinfo() files. Basically, it’s an XSS vulnerability in the phpinfo() function which gives unescaped output for all user-submitted arrays in GET, POST and Cookies (More info can be found here). You can find all of the affected sites by querying this in Google:
“PHP Version 4.4″ “phpinfo()”
If you find one of the URLs and add this on the end:
?f[]=%3Ca%20href%3Dhttp%3A//WWW.YOURWEBSITE.COM/%3EYOUR%20ANCHOR%20TEXT%3C/a%3E
Replacing the YOURWEBSITE.COM for your URL and entering YOUR ANCHOR TEXT (with %20 as spaces). Hit enter, then scroll down to “PHP Variables” and you’ll see you’ve injected two of your links on the page.
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Posted 09 May 2007
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I really like the new Office 2007 suite with the new layout that is very easy to use. But recently I’ve found another great feature of Word 2007 to love it even more: You can edit and send posts to your blog without going to the blog admin page.
Ok assume you already have Office 2007 installed. Now call out MS Word, open a new document by click on the icon at top left corner. You will see immediately that there is already a template for blog post. After open it you will need to setup your blogging account. From here you can choose from many blog providers as Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Wordpress.com, Sharepoint server, Typepad, … or your own blog if it supports MetaWeblog or Atom API. Only username and password of your blog are needed.
Now if you become to like to compose your blog entries with Word, you will definitely find it’s very annoying to open Word and then click on New then New Blog post. I mean it’s nothing different to going to you blog and write from there. Here is how to solve the problem:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\blog.dotx
Copy or create a shortcut to the file on your desktop. I found even a faster way: double tap Ctrl to call out Google Desktop, type “blog” in the search box, enter and voila!
The only downside for composing blog post with Word I found up till now is you can’t edit the entry’s keywords, which is very important to me as I’d like my blog to be well seo’ed.
Actually, very few registries are under ICANN’s control. The generic TLDs are ICANN’s; the country code TLDs are not.
In all cases the mechanism is straightforward. When you check a domain’s availability the registrar queries the registry directly. (Each registrar enters into an agreement with each registry that they support; the registry issues credentials that allow the registrar to establish one or more persistent connections with the registry for transacting business.)
The protocol is registry-specific. While many registries are using the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), almost all have their own ‘take’ on which parts of this so-called standard they care to implement and ow to implement the protocol overall.
Registries come in two flavors: thick and thin. Thin registries, like .com/.net, don’t have any records regarding domain registrants or other contacts. It is incumbent upon the registrars to maintain that information and make it available via a WHOIS service. The thick registries, like .org, .eu, etc., maintain all of the contact information in the registry itself. While the registrars certainly have copies of their own data, registrations require the creation of contact objects in the registry and that those contact objects be associated with the domains registered.
Since all transactions go though the individual registries, they can be processed in real time on a first come, first served basis. When you check a domain’s availability, the results of that check are current as of that moment. When a domain is registered, it goes into the registry database immediately so that it’s no longer available for registration.
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Posted 05 May 2007
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Yes, I’m here again … breathing fresh air
Greets.
