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Monthly Archive for June, 2006

Double your website value at 2tothe22

Published
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Ken
on 28 June, 2006
in idea sites, ideas and online
. 4 Comments

I just ran across this idea today. Go visit 2 to the 22.

This idea is simple yet if Tonni (the guy behind it) pulls it off he will be capital letter RICH. It does remind us of the million pixel idea.

So what is the idea about?

Basically the idea is that the price to buy a slot on the homepage double each time it changes hand. Starting from 1 at $1, it will stop when it had double 22 times. Check out how it works.

(Heard of the fable of the king that was asked for grain of rice that double on each box of the checker board?)

Below I did a calculation of what he had made as of now and how much he stands to make at each stage.

Watch the power of the internet buzz!

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links for Jun 19-26

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Ken
on 26 June, 2006
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Mostly looking at PHP application integration, internationalization and localization and also side-tracked elsewhere.

Looking and collecting analytic information for a new analytic blog I am starting as well.

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Blackhole list is an useless idea

Published
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Ken
on 19 June, 2006
in online and thoughts
. 5 Comments

Spam is a problem. But something what people do to get rid of spam is an even bigger problem.

Prime example: Blackhole list (which a**hole thought of this idea anyway?)

I had commented before that I’m not a fan of blackhold list.

Today, I’m totally mad at Jeremy Zawodny for not allowing me to comment on his post.

The reason?

He, of all person, decided to use a blackhold list to scan the commenter IP and protect his blog from spam.

And I’m not simply accusing him, look at what he wrote here.

Now we all know that “high volume senders” aren’t necessarily spammer

Maybe he should also know that “China IP” aren’t necessarily spammer.

Working in Yahoo, he should know that blackhole list is nothing but problem for sites that generate content, newsletters and whatnot.

You try to keep some bad guys out but ended up pissing many that supported you.

Small update to AdAdvantage k2 Scheme

Published
by
Ken
on 18 June, 2006
in adadvantage and wordpress
. 0 Comments

Over the weekend, my AdAdvantage k2 scheme was sync with the latest svn codes.

Grab the lastest copy from my theme page.

CSS was cleaned up and more ad-blocks positions added.

Please post any feedback and comments.

links for Jun 12-18

Published
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Ken
on 17 June, 2006
in links
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Had been fully occupied this week. No time to blog or even do much surfing.

Doing so research on single sign on, integrating php applications. Also found some some online marketing, revenue and startup related information.

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Looking for a backup strategy

Published
by
Ken
on 10 June, 2006
in online and thoughts
. 2 Comments

Backup is one of those thing that is constantly on my mind and yet I have not fully implement a good enough strategy.

Alot of my information are online. My email is with GMail. I have a number of websites, both personal and business, spread across different servers. These websites contain infomation in both files and databases
There are backup of these data but none of them are automated or regular.

At the same time I have data spread across my notebook, protable harddisks and CDs. In my office I have people with different information stored in different PCs.

Without spending too much money what are some good strategies?

  • Online storage.
    I explored them but found none to be suitable. Mozy looks to be the closest to what I want but I am not happy with its refusal to allow me to remove it from the taskbar.
  • Backup server
    I toyed with the idea of setting up a linux box, hook up a large harddisk and write some scripts to pull data into the server.
    What I need to do is to break down the task into biteable chunk.

WordPress shortcuts I did not know.

Published
by
Ken
on 9 June, 2006
in tips to share and wordpress
. 0 Comments

Today I took a little time to explore around WordPress and found 2 little links so useful that I could not imagine how much time I had wasted without them!

Respective, go to the Add Link and Write Post page in the admin. Go right to the bottom of the page. You will see 2 links like the following.

link this press it

The instructions are very clear so I will just summerise,

  • click+drag the links to the bookmarks
  • go to a page that you want to link ot blog about
  • click on the booked link
  • presto!

Try it!

This experience just goes to show that we have to take some time to sharpen our saw and not keep sawing with a blunt saw.

My first donation on the way

Published
by
Ken
on 8 June, 2006
in List of, my ideas and online
. 7 Comments

Keeping with my promise. I’m making donations to opensource projects each time I get a cheque for Adsense.

This will mark the first of many to come hopefully.

List of projects in consideration for donation: (not in any order or preference)