Feb 15
Someone suggested I set up Adsense, just for the heck of it. So I said, “Sure. Why not? There’s nothing to lose.”
And there’s barely anything gain either, as I would find out! 
From Nov. 11, 2009 to Feb. 15, 2010 Adsense has earned me a whopping $0.31!
Is this a criticism of Adsense? Definitely not! There’s many people who earn a decent amount of money from Adsense and it’s tied to the content of the site— black hat sites that game the system not withstanding…
What I’m really saying is that I lead a life less than ordinary and I suck at blogging for commercial purposes. 
Tagged with: blogging
Feb 10
Last night, one of my blogs went down with a server error without my knowledge. I decided to hunt for a freeware website monitoring application. Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before…
I didn’t spend too much time hunting since the Google results were just clogged with a lot of non-freeware and external service-based results. It really shouldn’t be this hard to find a decent enough website monitor application!
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Tagged with: blogging
Feb 03
It’s a coincidence that I should come across that “evil robot” article about the same time I was looking into my web logs…
I haven’t complained in a while about bad bots» but turns out that a few of them have been hammering my blogs on a regular basis, increasing server memory usage and eating up my monthly bandwidth allotment.
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Tagged with: blogging
Feb 02
Wordpress has the ability to save different revisions of a saved post. While this “roll-back” capability is incredibly helpful, it can lead to database bloat over time.
I’ve been using two plug-ins that I’ve found to be quite useful for keeping revision bloat at bay.
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Tagged with: blogging
Dec 18
Twitter hacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ – CNN.com.
Not long after news broke that Iraqi insurgents were eavesdropping on Predator video feed transmissions, supposed Iranian hackers used a DNS forward exploit against Twitter to redirect users to their site.
Granted, Twitter is known for less-than-stellar security on their site. But the incident goes to show that the West has to step up its cyber warfare systems and doctrines or be left dangerously exposed.
Experts stated earlier this year that it’s a three way “dead heat” when it comes to cyber warfare capabilities between Russia, the U.S. and China. However, China has recently introduced an entirely new operating system for its military network named “Kylin” and further fortified their computers using new, secure and hardened microprocessors with built-in capabilities of dealing with external intrusion and automated attack software.
This has significantly blunted U.S. cyber warfare efforts since such operations tend to focus on popular operating systems such as Linux, UNIX and Windows.
As the existence of GhostNet proves, China has been operating on a wartime footing when it comes to cyber warfare so Western nations must ramp up their efforts to develop their own cyber warfare doctrine and infrastructure and rely less on popular, widespread operating systems whose code can be a mix of outsourced and open sourced code making them less secure.
Tagged with: world events
