Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
- Let’s start from the blog. I just upgraded my blog to WP 3.0 yesterday. Not sure exactly when the upgrade was launched, maybe two weeks ago? One thing I notice about this version is the new default WP theme called Twenty Ten 1.0 which I think is very cool! Have you upgraded yours?
- I’m still disabling my Entrecard’s ad setting as I still don’t have time to do my dropping routine. I’ll tell you I kinda miss dropping EC
- It’s been a crazy time at the office. Endless paper works! The company have some new business partners in Europe and I have to review all the legal matters.
- But there is a consolation behind the craziness. When we reach the agreement, hopefully by the end of the month, they will send me to Europe to close the deal, yey! I know it’s gonna be a business trip, not a vacation, but I think I can still enjoy the trip. So I start dreaming about London, Moscow and Amsterdam
- I feel guilty for not be able to take my son on a trip during this school break. Poor boy, it’s been a boring holiday for him. Will think of something to make it up to him.
- Lastly, I got my 4th payment from MyBux last week. Unlike previous 3, the last payment was not instant. They changed their policy regarding membership and payout rules, you can read it here. Though it’s not instant, they still paying!
- As a total I already received $101.89 from MyBux, means I already break even with my investment as I paid $100 for a yearly diamond membership last month. Here’s my 3rd and 4th payment proofs (the first two payments were posted here):
3rd payment from MyBux
4th payment from MyBux
Interested? Just click the banner below and register 
Thanks for stopping by everyone, have a great day!
I got another malware alert from Avast this morning when I was in a hurry trying to finish up my dropping. Unfortunately, I didn’t know which blogs had this malware because I had several blogs opened at the time. Should I had known it, I would inform the blog owners because most likely, according to this, it was another malware attack to WP sites hosted on GoDaddy. So if your blog is on GD better be careful because the attack still continue…
Malware hosted on losotrana.com
And maybe this and this can help you to identify the malware.
I have to say, “I’m glad my blogs are not on GD”
And oh did you see bats flying around when dropping EC? I saw them, five times to be exact…
Read more
Two posts last month and not a single post until the third week of this month. Hmm… not a good record for a blog! I’m beginning to think that maintaining two blogs is not as easy as I thought. However, I just renewed my domain last month and two weeks ago I also extended my hosting plan for another year. So I guess this blog is still running, and hopefully I’ll be more active posting 
Today was the day to clean up my spam folder. It becomes my routine to get rid of spams every time I saw their numbers already exceeded the amount of real comments. And shame on me, I was almost fooled by spammers today.
As usual those spams mostly contained a bunch of unreadable characters, or some foreign languages with “cialis” and “viagra” mentioned several times, or the endless “I bookmarked your blog” comments. However, today I also saw few familiar comments among those spams, comments that were previously approved and published. So I thought they were accidentally being marked as spam and (without thinking twice) I just re-approved them.
It took awhile for me to realize something was wrong (yes I was slow, thankfully Askimet was not). I knew I made big mistakes republishing those comments when I saw a girl name was used for a guy author. Here’s the comment:
Spam vs real comment
That spammer copied the content of my published comments along with the commentluv codes, but somehow failed to get the original author’s name, and resubmitted them. I wonder if this will become a trend for them.
Anyway, so I ended up finding those recently republished comments, remarked them as spam then deleted them. Luckily they were all under two names, Amy and Michelle (why use girl names by the way), so it was easy enough for me to find them back. I wonder if there’s a way to kick those spammers out before they managed to leave comments because I’m getting tired deleting these spams.
One week after running an ad on Adgitize, I checked my bandwidth again. As expected, there was an increase in bandwidth usage (about 50%) on the second week of the month compared to the first week before ad. But it’s still far below the 4 Gb quota.
Hmm… maybe I do need to downgrade the plan later
