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		<title>Running here and there</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the times, I am getting more drained of my energy and of late, running errands here and there, in and out of Singapore for the paper trail which is not just tiring, but freaking HOT. I have forgotten how scalding on my skin the hot weather in Singapore is..and well, really quickly built a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the times, I am getting more drained of my energy and of late, running errands here and there, in and out of Singapore for the paper trail which is not just tiring, but freaking HOT. I have forgotten how scalding on my skin the hot weather in Singapore is..and well, really quickly built a sun tan within just 8 hours of there.</p>
<p>Some things are still the same.. Food are the same albeit the prices being up by a dollar or so, but still affordable if I eat in the local hawker center compared to the food courts which are air conditioned.</p>
<p>Other than that, the rudeness of the Chinese Chinamen who think they are better than a Singaporean are much I can&#8217;t withstand and yeah.. they are really getting on every one&#8217;s nerves.</p>
<p>This year, there are no freebies. No mention in the budget of any giveaways.. so what does it mean? No $250 give outs and as a company , you can ask for cash grants. I think but I got to carefully study the aspects of things.</p>
<p>Seriously, the heat is getting to me that I suffered with a deep abscess oozing out puss from my right calf and that affected my sore mouth. The pain in the molar area is excruciating and errgh! 7 days of unable to eat and drink.</p>
<p>Anyway&#8230; plan carefully as petrol prices is about to hike. </p>
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		<title>Celcom Crap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why I have to bear the fact that there is sort of a firewall in CELCOM that is slowing the traffic down or is there an unexplainable issue after the porn star scandal that is bugging them down? Seriously.. this is bad..seriously bad. 3.02MB downloaded in 1hour 40 mins? Come off it&#8230;Facebook is super slow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why I have to bear the fact that there is sort of a firewall in CELCOM that is slowing the traffic down or is there an unexplainable issue after the porn star scandal that is bugging them down? Seriously.. this is bad..seriously bad. 3.02MB downloaded in 1hour 40 mins? Come off it&#8230;Facebook is super slow and among other stuff like Zynga and sort. </p>
<p>Someone get a move on&#8230; even 28.8k dialup is far faster than this crappy service or shall I utilise GPRS? That is really poor service for Celcom now&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>I will follow you&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3G]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Digi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Celcom is really at it again&#8230;or someone in Celcom is&#8230;. with the clip following:

I will follow you..follow you where ever you may go&#8230;.. it reminds me of the Simpsons and something lewd from South Park where it&#8217;s really funny..but made by some one who hates Digi. Anyway..the rates sucks anyway in Digi&#8230;.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Celcom is really at it again&#8230;or someone in Celcom is&#8230;. with the clip following:<br />
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<p>I will follow you..follow you where ever you may go&#8230;.. it reminds me of the Simpsons and something lewd from South Park where it&#8217;s really funny..but made by some one who hates Digi. Anyway..the rates sucks anyway in Digi&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Critical system crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Read Me!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah.. I am a bad person in backing things up and in the times of RAID-10 et al, I still behave in the ancient ways, and resulting in bad mirrors of my files. That is not all, I also do have a tendency of NOT BACKING MY SQL and THEME UP..and so&#8230;what do I get? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah.. I am a bad person in backing things up and in the times of RAID-10 et al, I still behave in the ancient ways, and resulting in bad mirrors of my files. That is not all, I also do have a tendency of NOT BACKING MY SQL and THEME UP..and so&#8230;what do I get? somewhat full of rubbish.</p>
<p>That is just happened or is still happening to my Zyraz Master servers. I was synchronising stuff and data from Hostgator to PRONETHosting which seriously needs alot of data updates and stuff like that. The problem is that the critical data are NOT MIRRORED..and errgh! I am faced with issues again.</p>
<p>You see, there are many things to do, like 15 Wordpress blogs to reset and sync, 2 CRM systems, Support Ticket systems, AWBS for domain and hosting which are big huge files for your information, plus many data to upload. With the CELCOM giving me slow upload speeds, I am really heavy on the load and no way I am able to do all these pronto.</p>
<p>Having said that, I am trying to contemplate if the Microsoft Azure Platform is the better alternative for me as the way I see it, having a dedicated 1.6Ghz CPU with unlimited RAM resources (1.75GB I think) is quite a task despite the small bandwidth (10GB standard) and  7GB duplex data transfer for US and 2.5GB for Asia Pacific. In all, it cost $150 per TB delivered for US ($100/TB in) and $450 / TB outbound for Asia Pacific (well, $150/TB if it&#8217;s INBOUND only)&#8230;but way it works now is that if you do web hosting 12% in, 70% out and rest is in between, depending on your regional targeting, and if you use the High End Core which is a 8-Core (similar to 2 Xeon Quad Core CPU)  with 14GB RAM and 2048GB of Storage Instance but then, I need to define how and what to do as compared to a full proper instance in my Windows Server 2008 running T4200 Core-2 2.0Ghz laptop..which is sluggish even with 4GB RAM because mainly due to the hard disk.</p>
<p>Even then, I have to migrate the VHD or Virtual Hard Drives up to the servers to run them&#8230; errgh! The pain.</p>
<p>Anyone has experience with Cloud?</p>
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		<title>Got suspended again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah&#8230; Pronet Hosting kicked me off for storing my ISO files from MSDN.. I mean the WINDOWS 7 shit stuff which Microsoft is slow is sending me&#8230;. 
Anyway, Wishing all A Prosperous Lunar New Year Gong Xi Fa Cai&#8230;and Happy Valentines Day!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah&#8230; Pronet Hosting kicked me off for storing my ISO files from MSDN.. I mean the WINDOWS 7 shit stuff which Microsoft is slow is sending me&#8230;. </p>
<p>Anyway, Wishing all A Prosperous Lunar New Year Gong Xi Fa Cai&#8230;and Happy Valentines Day!</p>
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		<title>Dad in hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry guys that I can&#8217;t get my butt down to Singapore but here is the thing, I am dead broke..and it&#8217;s over 400km away. Yes, my dad is in Changi General hospital Singapore for a suspected stroke. It&#8217;s the second impact that happened to him, which the last was about 4-5 years ago, leaving him [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry guys that I can&#8217;t get my butt down to Singapore but here is the thing, I am dead broke..and it&#8217;s over 400km away. Yes, my dad is in Changi General hospital Singapore for a suspected stroke. It&#8217;s the second impact that happened to him, which the last was about 4-5 years ago, leaving him quite weak and without sensory nerves on one side of the face, loss of motor skills and more.</p>
<p>I wish I can go..but I am broke. money is super tight&#8230;.and if I get back to Singapore&#8230; I may land myself in the same ward..as I am not that good of a condition myself.</p>
<p>Sorry guys. Unless God give me few thousand dollars to clear out to get down.</p>
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		<title>Mafia Wars BANGKOK is a full of Cock!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Codes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mafia Wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zynga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zynga let me to try out the Beta preview of Mafia Wars Bangkok in Facebook platform and of which the gameplay is similar, other than that alot of the jobs require you to PAY BAHT (not Bhat U silly coders) to do some stuff.
But of which, I really need to point to them that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zynga let me to try out the Beta preview of Mafia Wars Bangkok in Facebook platform and of which the gameplay is similar, other than that alot of the jobs require you to PAY BAHT (not Bhat U silly coders) to do some stuff.</p>
<p>But of which, I really need to point to them that the value of THAI BAHT is so small, and you expect to bribe a Thai Prison warden with B$500 to smuggle something? Come on, a liter of PETROL (GASOLINE) cost about right now B$40 (which 1 Baht / Koks as the southern locals have it is worth RM1 = US$0.25!) per liter and so, what on earth are they doing? Don&#8217;t they do some sort of research in the currency?? How much things are worth? 500 bath can&#8217;t even fill my gas tank up&#8230;let alone pay a bribe. Heck, my insurance premium to enter Thailand is 290B a day!</p>
<p>Graphics wise, sucks. They really wanna us to think that the Thais are all such a much of a gangster world with rival factions of Yakuza and Triads? THAT IS CHINA FOR HEAVEN SAKE. Here they fight between the Muslim South and the Buddhist North! Thais are of peace..and I believe they really need to get their heads in. If they are talking about Vietnam or Laos, I MAY BELIEVE, but yakuza? Please.. they have nothing to do in Thailand.</p>
<p>Please, the graphics depicting the people and acts need better artwork. Look and read the news and papers and what people photograph on the web. Thais are more Malay like, tanned and dark, not yellow like they have Jaundice or something.</p>
<p>I give the game play so far&#8230;a thumbs down!! </p>
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		<title>Google Tablet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google engineering team revealed today as a sneak to what they are doing with the Google Chome OS, which is a rival to the iPad featuring multi touch pull and drag feature, and just as how you look or see in the movies. Well, all I care is I want 15 inches, fully touch screen, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google engineering team revealed today as a sneak to what they are doing with the Google Chome OS, which is a rival to the iPad featuring multi touch pull and drag feature, and just as how you look or see in the movies. Well, all I care is I want 15 inches, fully touch screen, 320GB hard disk at least with 16GB ram and quad core cpu which can last the battery over 24 hours and yeah..I want full multiband 3.5G+ with 4G on unlicensed band so we can do WiMAX over peer to peer&#8230;.</p>
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<p>Eventually, the weight and other stuff is also a huge consideration&#8230; and price must be less than $500! With the Chinese doing the design, and cut throat prices, I will wait for the soft preview launch in June. That is what the insider is saying.</p>
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		<title>State of the alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Codes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zyraz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To the members of the Malaysian Scottish Alliance,
Hello everyone, time to get back to work eh from a long weekend for many in the city center&#8230; Happy Hari Wilayah&#8230; Happy Thaipusam to our hindu friends&#8230; and upcoming news&#8230; well, there are none yet.
Queen Miera don&#8217;t know if there is a gathering prior to the Lunar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To the members of the Malaysian Scottish Alliance,</p>
<p>Hello everyone, time to get back to work eh from a long weekend for many in the city center&#8230; Happy Hari Wilayah&#8230; Happy Thaipusam to our hindu friends&#8230; and upcoming news&#8230; well, there are none yet.</p>
<p>Queen Miera don&#8217;t know if there is a gathering prior to the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) and I&#8217;ve got no plans yet for the Valentines Day celebrations&#8230; due to family commitments and my doom waiting for me (Singapore Reservist Deployment).</p>
<p>But, either which, I am happy to report that the state of the group is good and looking forward to the New Moon&#8230; being that 2009 was a really crappy one which affected many people. Here are some highlights you need to keep in mind when making some financial planning this year:</p>
<p>Motor Insurance SKYROCKETED! Motorcycle 3rd party insurance premiums are as high as it can go, standard prices of about RM200++ and worse off if your vehicle is over 10 years old. However, if you can spare some time, the insurance companies require you to have your vehicle checked (puspakom) and it&#8217;s mandatory for MMIP. Glad news is that the inspection is doing free inspection during 8-13 Feb&#8230;</p>
<p>One thing is that Pos Malaysia has the Insurans Kelompok which is a quota allocated to each office,and you can get those low rates back. Motorbikes are going as low as RM68 as opposed to the standard Rm190++. Find the small under utilised offices to get it&#8230;</p>
<p>Another thing, change your title deed (grant) of your car or motorbike. It has been leaked that there will be a rationing of subsidised fuel in May, when the new mechanism kicks in. What happens is that only ONE PERSON CAN HAVE ONE VEHICLE. And to draw subsidised fuel, you need to swipe the owner&#8217;s MYKAD into the reader and verify, before the cheap fuel is dispensed. Like the fleet card subsidy thingy. Point is, the new fuel prices is said to be RM3.70! just like how in Singapore or Thailand. And they will give quota of about 20Liters a month or week&#8230;that details is not confirmed.</p>
<p>Just be well aware. And Gold prices will dip&#8230; so, liquidate the cash abit and for your info, Bank Negara is now going after FOREX market players, big or small.  If you don&#8217;t want to get into trouble, PAY YOUR INCOME TAX. Otherwise, go and pay your ZAKAT PENDAPATAN&#8230;which is an offset to them.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a heads up..of the state of the Malaysian Affairs, and in Scotland, VAT is back to 17.5%, Home Office just suspended issuing STUDENT VISA under the new 7 point scheme due to fraud, plus the visa class of investor, ancestry, UK graduants, artists, writers have been taken away due to much fraud&#8230;.or just that they got too much unemployment, of over 18% in UK in itself.</p>
<p>For those who wants to try out WINDOWS 7, I have the installer disc, and it&#8217;s NOT PIRATED. just that it gives U 30 days to feel and try&#8230;. let me know if you want to try them&#8230;and original prices &#8230;are at a cheap rate as I got OEM licenses.</p>
<p>Anyway, please do visit my blog @ http://www.azrin.info and follow me on the Network Blogs app ( <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/azrins_info_web/">http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/azrins_info_web/ </a>) as I wanna get more feedback from you.</p>
<p>Our resident Prosecutor Shamsul is now with private practice&#8230;. so ask him for legal affairs. And other than that, please post on the board if you have any items for sale or what not.</p>
<p>Have a nice week ahead.</p>
<p>Dr R Azrin</p>
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		<title>Giant Assholes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a supporter of the local domestic markets and of late..I really have seen that Giant Supermarket (Giant Retail) prices are not that especially great..with poor service and that they are slip shod and breaking almost every other law possible. One of them is fire safety. Pad Locked, Solex on the emergency stairwell? Come [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a supporter of the local domestic markets and of late..I really have seen that Giant Supermarket (Giant Retail) prices are not that especially great..with poor service and that they are slip shod and breaking almost every other law possible. One of them is fire safety. Pad Locked, Solex on the emergency stairwell? Come on, what excuse can you give for locking the emergency exit? &#8220;PERAGUT&#8221; or snatch thefts or that their employees stealing from them? In a fire..we head to the emergency exit..but then..if it&#8217;s locked..who has the key?</p>
<p>Another thing is getting motorcyclist to park in the hot open air carpark area..going AGAINST THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC. Being a motorcyclist, I asked why must we do that when they allocated parking bays inside the building, painted and all and can&#8217;t they see people who use the motorbikes are usually family people, not Mat Rempit as they claim? That because of one or two, they justify these poor safety hazards as reasons?</p>
<p>That I found out that their contracted security staff are NOT VETTED OR LICENSED by the Security Intellegence Agency? How can you vet a foreigner to guard the public premises when , for everyone knowing, Malaysia Boleh means they can fake any identity or what so ever. Come on, these jokers must be replaced by locals which we have AFIS records of.</p>
<p>Any complaints go to NO WHERE. Because , the building complex is owned by Giant Complex Marketing or something like that&#8230;and it&#8217;s not Giant&#8217;s problem. So WHOSE PROBLEM IS IT??</p>
<p>Better get their act together &#8230;until someone gets killed in the act. Then, it&#8217;s pointy finger time.</p>
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		<title>Change your Twitter Password</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read this from my Twitter, then PLEASE CHANGE THE PASSWORD! Some of the connections or applications may got hold of your password without you knowing and that poses alot of issues to many of users especially using the Free Twitter Train and other free followers applications.
I&#8217;m truly sorry but I did not see [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you read this from my Twitter, then <strong>PLEASE CHANGE THE PASSWORD</strong>! Some of the connections or applications may got hold of your password without you knowing and that poses alot of issues to many of users especially using the Free Twitter Train and other free followers applications.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m truly sorry but I did not see this even on my Tweetdeck or any other DM application manager..but someone did tell me off about a spam I supposingly sent&#8230;so I did some digging..and well, it&#8217;s true to their words&#8230;</p>
<p>So please..change your password&#8230;and install an antivirus software&#8230;</p>
<p>If you want one..let me know&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Drained of my life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently..things are really going to the dogs. Really bad and I feel it&#8217;s really getting worse..with work getting far less to the trickle and finances to the dead sea red&#8230;.. I just don&#8217;t know what else I can say..and how to carry on.
So I do apologise if the recent spate of events are really haphazard..especially [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently..things are really going to the dogs. Really bad and I feel it&#8217;s really getting worse..with work getting far less to the trickle and finances to the dead sea red&#8230;.. I just don&#8217;t know what else I can say..and how to carry on.</p>
<p>So I do apologise if the recent spate of events are really haphazard..especially if I ramble to about nonsense.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just plain depressed.</p>
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		<title>SingTEL + Streamyx Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many have complained about BAD INTERNET CONNECTIONS..and I do agree at times..it&#8217;s BAD. Seriously bad.
Here are some things YOU NEED TO DO before getting a heart attack with those call center gals and jerks in Cyberjaya or Melaka for SingTEL or VADS in TTDI KL for Streamyx&#8230;
Before doing,check on your router WHAT IS YOUR SPEED [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many have complained about BAD INTERNET CONNECTIONS..and I do agree at times..it&#8217;s BAD. Seriously bad.</p>
<p>Here are some things YOU NEED TO DO before getting a heart attack with those call center gals and jerks in Cyberjaya or Melaka for SingTEL or VADS in TTDI KL for Streamyx&#8230;</p>
<p>Before doing,check on your router WHAT IS YOUR SPEED to the port? is it at least 1500kbps with at least 10db signals coming in? To do so, check using your modem gateway router,usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 (password id is usually admin, root, tmadmin and admin or blank as password) where it will say the signal strength&#8230;. 3db upstream gives a good 512kbps upload and 20db is needed for a stable download of 1mbps.</p>
<p>Some things to do to get it up and powerful&#8230;.</p>
<p>1) CHECK YOUR FONE PORT.<br />
Many, without knowing, have oxidised cabling&#8230;or burnt out after 1 year of using on the web&#8230;.this is due to the high carrier loads on the cable&#8230;where it&#8217;s MTBF (mean time between failure) is about 1 year or so&#8230; Take an LED torch lamp..the one U find on the lighter etc, and see if it&#8217;s ORANGE COPPER / GOLD still on the connectors (or the plug where it&#8217;s connected to your RJ11 cable) as it&#8217;s the cause of issues..crackles all result from there. If it&#8217;s NOT SHINY&#8230;you need to change it..cost you a few ringgits/dollars (fiver or so)..and arm with a test pen. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s only 48v DC&#8230; </p>
<p>If the inner connectors (socket to the Telco Grey Wire) is also oxidised, cut and reconnect to the points back again. Snip the &#8216;burn out&#8217; cables with a scissors and strip abit of the insulator and connect to the loop connector again.  &#8212;-(@)=====[sockets]  so cut the &#8212;- thin cables&#8230;from the screws to the grey cable not to the connector. If possible..replace the darn thing.</p>
<p>2) Replace your POTS cables&#8230;.and the splitter..as it&#8217;s a cause ..usually&#8230;</p>
<p>3) Smell your modem (the free AzTech, Billion, Riger free telco one)&#8230;and if there are smell of burns&#8230;you are getting your line fried. I strongly recommend the Linksys modem as it comes with LIFETIME WARRANTY! And because it&#8217;s CISCO..you know you get good quality. I have one which is already 7 years old here..and the firmware supports 32mbps links&#8230;. ADSL2+ standards&#8230;. just upgrade the firmware once in a while&#8230;for better umph!</p>
<p>4) Use a good internet modem..not the chapalang one given for free&#8230;. But usually, with less than $30 spent above (over 1hour repair time) ..will resolve MOST of your issues&#8230;. and No..don&#8217;t use extension cables at all!!! Separate and isolate your fone cable from Power and Cellular signals like WiFi, DECT phones, Cellphones.</p>
<p>5) If you are in Singapore.. Starhub is a better stable connection..than SingTEL..and don&#8217;t get your hopes up on SINGTEL and their cost cutting techniques. </p>
<p>If these are done..and still crappy..then you need to get a wireman to check the POTS cable to your riser&#8230;as usually these are also fried. You can DIY if you wish..for usually it&#8217;s connected to a black box just near your TNB Power meter&#8230;.and depends on the punching of the nodes.. RJ45 cables are sometimes used by geeks to get powerful low noise connections to the risers.</p>
<p>These will save you time and money rather waste on an appointment that those clowns won&#8217;t be turning up.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</p>
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		<title>Gates broke Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were wondering why you had issues twittering, well BLAME IT ON BILL GATES.Apparently, Bill gates got onto twitter and with over 200,000 followers, no wonder the whale gave twitter a real whacking down..which tore the network apart.
Despite what NTT tried to do..the loads were too much and yes..I find out that Twitter is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you were wondering why you had issues twittering, well <strong>BLAME IT ON BILL GATES</strong>.Apparently, <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100004567/has-bill-gates-broken-twitter/">Bill gates</a> got onto twitter and with over 200,000 followers, no wonder the whale gave twitter a real whacking down..which tore the network apart.</p>
<p>Despite what NTT tried to do..the loads were too much and yes..I find out that Twitter is on ..errm&#8230;hosting on another provider..not of their own..so what gives&#8230;</p>
<p>Never mind&#8230; I don&#8217;t care much..but it is a bugger when the loads are too high.</p>
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		<title>Sultan Johor Mangkat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My deepest condolences to the Royal Family of the Sultanate of Johor. As a fellow Singaporean, my deepest regret for them.
Half mast for the Sultanate and that includes you Singaporeans&#8230; do have some respect.
Al-fatiha.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My deepest condolences to the Royal Family of the Sultanate of Johor. As a fellow Singaporean, my deepest regret for them.</p>
<p>Half mast for the Sultanate and that includes you Singaporeans&#8230; do have some respect.</p>
<p>Al-fatiha.</p>
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		<title>Homeless and hungry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helium has one of the many variety of topics that we can write about and of late, I have been looking and reading many articles and short stories&#8230;and poetry really gets to me, especially when it&#8217;s something I have felt in the recent years such as poverty, homeless and hunger.
Among which, the recent rates revealed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Helium has one of the many variety of topics that we can write about and of late, I have been looking and reading many articles and short stories&#8230;and poetry really gets to me, especially when it&#8217;s something I have felt in the recent years such as poverty, homeless and hunger.</p>
<p>Among which, the recent rates revealed the softer part of me which I am really angry about, as many of the writers whom write about homeless and hunger don&#8217;t even know what they are talking about, for they have a roof over the head and a home to go at the end of the day, security but many, don&#8217;t. Over a few million in the US and in the UK, almost touch a million people according the Shelter UK, a homeless charity.</p>
<p>I faced homelessness before. It&#8217;s not an easy task. Hunger and desperation kicks in and when that is in play, you tend to forget yourself and be humbled and on the begging knees to beg for some sort of charitable reprieve. And to be reminded that religion too have some sort of cushion for people in poverty, gives nothing unless it&#8217;s beneficial to the people running the organisation, for tithes and alms taken during congressional meets like prayers or the sort.</p>
<p>To think I was already on the street because of the economy was something I had myself thinking, why on earth this is happening to me? And when you are on the street for the first time, it&#8217;s really scary, for you do not know how to fend for yourself or how you will get food and the such. I was a victim of a bad landlord. All we know was our stuff were already on the streets despite paying on time and such, and because we are foreigners, they treated us worse than dirt. Of course, we managed to scavenge our stuff and left some in friends place for a while and then forth, money was tight, what was of value was sold. Terrible and such in ways that in the first few nights, we slept in crypts and in the cold open winter conditions, in cemeteries and if we were lucky, managed to get some sort of shelter by sleeping in a mosque or the waiting room in the train station. With only the clothes on our backs, it&#8217;s somewhat I really remind myself not to fall into again, and waking up with severe aches and pains to the body which to this day, my body shivers worse off than someone suffering from rheumatism .</p>
<p>I just don&#8217;t want to say much, but all I do ask is for many, before writing on a subject concerning real life situations, take a moment and look back, are they qualified to write on that subject in itself?? For me.. I just thank God for all the blessings that I have&#8230;.for even though I constantly be reminded of poverty, hunger and homelessness, I hope it&#8217;s a subject I do not have to bring up, for in many times in the recent months, hunger and the threat of homelessness is there again&#8230;and for I don&#8217;t need to call on other people&#8217;s charity.. for many..think we are just bums.. that we are actually not&#8230;for otherwise, we won&#8217;t be such.</p>
<p>So take a moment to think of it.</p>
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		<title>Networked blog invitation = more traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I installed Networked Blog which is an application that works like MyBlogLog (which runs properly if you have your Yahoo Messenger or Mail cookies on)  but it&#8217;s more or less facebook oriented.. so if you have a blog or something that needs tracking and fan clubbing..it&#8217;s for you&#8230; 
Why I look forward to that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I installed Networked Blog which is an application that works like MyBlogLog (which runs properly if you have your Yahoo Messenger or Mail cookies on)  but it&#8217;s more or less facebook oriented.. so if you have a blog or something that needs tracking and fan clubbing..it&#8217;s for you&#8230; </p>
<p>Why I look forward to that is the functionality of INVITE FRIENDS to your blog..which for me.. has over like 5000 friends and real people thanks to games like Mafia Wars and other links. And if I go back to my old tricks, by installing Linky plugin addon for Mozilla Firefox, then I can track visit over 50 blogs and pages and FAVORITE THEM or FOLLOW to get my traffic back to the levels I am comfortable, that read to about 5Million Pageviews a month at least&#8230;which is what Google Analytics is now imposing on me.</p>
<p>Anyway, MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) is announcing the SERVICE PACK UPDATE 1 for Windows 7. What? That&#8217;s just a month or so into the launch and they are already having the issues. Thus why I am still stuck in Vista for my laptop (errgh..should have installed the XP 64bit!) and that my new PCs are all installed with Windows XP Pro 2009&#8230;and yeah it works on MAK or manufacturers Activated Key ..meaning no need to activate&#8230;and despite it says Evaluation Copy&#8230;.and Windows Embedded POSREADY 2009, I don&#8217;t care as long it does not give me as much headache as before&#8230;auto install babes!</p>
<p>Another thing I like about MSDN, is that the events put up for us&#8230; but then, I want to go to MAK101 conference which is in LAS VEGAS&#8230; errm&#8230; it&#8217;s costly&#8230;so can I have a sponsor or donations??please?</p>
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		<title>Writing for Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haiti is besieged with disaster and although I am on the other side of the world, as a writer, Helium is providing us a chance to contribute a little bit for charity, under the writing contest section. Which I mean is just $2 per article but every little bit helps.
So,please write your memoirs etc now&#8230;and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haiti is besieged with disaster and although I am on the other side of the world, as a writer, <a href="http://www.helium.com/users/show/48866">Helium</a> is providing us a chance to contribute a little bit for charity, under the <a href="http://writing-contests.helium.com/">writing contest</a> section. Which I mean is just $2 per article but every little bit helps.</p>
<p>So,please write your memoirs etc now&#8230;and do your part.</p>
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		<title>Microsoft Encode</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a relief I managed to get the video CDs all merged up into one DVD now that I have my Cinderella Drama starring Haslinda Misbun and Ahmad Idham all merged in. One thing is that, there is no way to encode like subtitling or other features like in Roxio or somewhat similar..but I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a relief I managed to get the video CDs all merged up into one DVD now that I have my Cinderella Drama starring Haslinda Misbun and Ahmad Idham all merged in. One thing is that, there is no way to encode like subtitling or other features like in Roxio or somewhat similar..but I have yet to try out using flash based movies and one thing I do hate is that it takes ages to ENCODE.</p>
<p>Using a Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz still takes 94% of my CPU resource loads and to encode the 4.3GB of data which is nearly 7 hours of video (that&#8217;s 24 over episodes uncut) took more than 4 hours..which means one thing: a One to One system encoder..so I have yet to try out..so anyone has a Quad Core CPU to test?? Or must I use a Grid?</p>
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		<title>Delete Nuffnang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes&#8230;I find the system is really screwed up..and many been saying as much but dare not speak out as they have to gain something from them. Anyway.. I just don&#8217;t care anymore since Nuffnang don&#8217;t care much about the bloggers as they have too much&#8230; it&#8217;s like Kacang Lupakan Kulit&#8230;they forget without the bloggers there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes&#8230;I find the system is really screwed up..and many been saying as much but dare not speak out as they have to gain something from them. Anyway.. I just don&#8217;t care anymore since Nuffnang don&#8217;t care much about the bloggers as they have too much&#8230; it&#8217;s like Kacang Lupakan Kulit&#8230;they forget without the bloggers there is no medium to serve on..but then..who am I to say so huh???</p>
<p>As much as I value friendship with Timothy Tiah.. I just feel that because the company is too big now..it&#8217;s getting the basics wrong..interpersonal skills lacking their current staff.</p>
<p>Anyway..once I hit the next threshold..I will cash out&#8230;and rather move on&#8230; I am not that person who depends on handouts like the many on the web&#8230;and Honor before Anything.</p>
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		<title>Motor insurance woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia is really getting on many people nerves recently with the drastic increase in premiums for third party (damage to other people property) by over 50% citing many silly reasons other than to admit that they have been hurt badly due to the financial fiasco of the Lehman Brothers and that includes Berjaya General Insurance [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Malaysia is really getting on many people nerves recently with the drastic increase in premiums for third party (damage to other people property) by over 50% citing many silly reasons other than to admit that they have been hurt badly due to the financial fiasco of the Lehman Brothers and that includes Berjaya General Insurance BGI and even Kurnia from underwriting many types of vehicles such as motorcycles and heavy vehicles such as buses and trailers due to the number of deaths involved.</p>
<p>Like my trusty NAZA Symphony 124cc scooter which had minimal insurance (3rd party) last year at about RM62.40 had it&#8217;s premiums surged to RM320 for the same cover on typical insurance by the PIAM or Malaysian General Insurance Association and it&#8217;s comprehensive cover for RM1000 cost me a dear RM209.50 even with my 25% NCB. OUCH! It&#8217;s far too costly for me. In real effect, the cost of a monthly installment of a scooter cost about RM150 a month with the road tax of RM2 only and in real terms, the insurance cost more than the value of the motor vehicle itself&#8230;or at least 2 months worth of payments.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s bad that you can&#8217;t take your cover by installments&#8230;. and now it&#8217;s a bugger&#8230;and so many on the road are not insured because of this. A friend had an old banger, 1984 Volvo 240, 2356cc engine with minimum insurance costing over RM800 with full 55% No Claims Bonus&#8230;which works to about Rm1500++ for the insurance and RM450 for the tax. what utter nonsense is this??</p>
<p>A friend then told me of the MMIP from the Post Office which is the Malaysia Motor Insurance Pool,something like a group insurance and works back to my costs&#8230;which&#8230;guess what? RM96.40 with NCB of 25%!!! Haa Haa! The MMIP is the insurance coverage premium by the PIAM to cover under insured or uninsured riders and drivers alike, which is about RM25 per cover issued paid to the pool, something like the FDIC, FSA Savers protection premium&#8230;and so the cover is all dipped into there&#8230;</p>
<p>So, if you can&#8217;t afford to get cover&#8230;then head to the post office and get it done. Cheap.And if you are too lazy..send me the cover note of your last insurer and money..so I can get it done for you&#8230;the post office is below my office now anyway. For a small token fee&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tablet PCs are basically a more powerful laptop compared to a Netbook ,with full functionalities of a laptop or notebook computer but can be flipped and that the screen is a touch based screen with even a QWERTY on screen keyboard and normally do come with a stylus for that reason, as not to damage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tablet PCs are basically a more powerful laptop compared to a Netbook ,with full functionalities of a laptop or notebook computer but can be flipped and that the screen is a touch based screen with even a QWERTY on screen keyboard and normally do come with a stylus for that reason, as not to damage the screen.</p>
<p>That above is the one line statement in technical terms, what defines a Tablet PC, and at times do not even come with a keyboard or a touch pad as the whole LCD screen is integrated into the system, which is normally where the keyboard sits. In processing powers, a standard Tablet PC (normally called the Tablet) is powered with Intel or AMD x86 based CPU with flavors of Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 as a minimum as it does not loads up the standard windows operating system. As of this moment, Microsoft developed Windows 2009 Pos Ready for tablets and embedded PC which serves the same functionality along with Windows XP Tablet PC edition (not to be confused with Media Edition) as it will cause complications if the wrong version is set up. Windows Vista supports Tablet PC with extras added in to enhance the optical character recognition or OCR for human handwriting thanks to the developments of Palm and PDAs. These new features learn the users method of input, in terms of bad handwriting like doctors and alike to short forms or acronyms will be renamed and replaced with the proper terms in all Vista editions except Basic and Starter and further enhanced with Windows 7.</p>
<p>Coming back to hardware base, Tablets are sometimes HEAVY due to the compact weight distribution and usually comes with a 14 inch screen and in some editions, comes with a stand. I have come across a HP Tablet PC which weighs far over 9kg which sports a 21 inch screen and totally touch screen. While an Optical Drive is a need feature, to reduce the heat dissipation, manufacturers tend to supply these as an external feature and spots usually 250GB hard drive or more with 2GB ram at least and using standard SODIMM DDR2 800 Rams as opposed to DDR2 168PIN Rams in PCs. Of course, connectivity is a must and comes with at least RJ45 and Wireless LAN and 2 USB ports.</p>
<p>How a tablet works, is the SAME AS ANY OTHER NOTEBOOK except that the input are replaced by the screen for a mouse and a stylus and a virtual keyboard for the QWERTY. Doctor surgeries and clinics tend to use them now as it&#8217;s more space saving and in Singapore, school going kids are being supplied with them to do away with heavy bags of books.It is also the same that Apple develops their Tablet on, and as such, serves as an e-book reader and among other functionalities like Point of Sale machines.</p>
<p>To me, I would still prefer a notebook as I can easily tap into the keyboard as compared to writing on the screen, or type tapping as it&#8217;s not quick enough for me. those are part of the cons, but then, you can still look it up&#8230;and make your judgement.</p>
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		<title>Can we say this?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not going to say that much..because I got a frigging GAG ORDER enforced on me&#8230;.because under the Internal Security Acts and such but then.. since Herald is so silly to use ALLAH as their God in text..then maybe we could say&#8230;well (God Forbid) Siva=Holy Father=Buddha=a statue..given the movie Man from Earth. Just for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not going to say that much..because I got a frigging GAG ORDER enforced on me&#8230;.because under the Internal Security Acts and such but then.. since Herald is so silly to use ALLAH as their God in text..then maybe we could say&#8230;well (God Forbid) Siva=Holy Father=Buddha=a statue..given the movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth">Man from Earth</a>. Just for say that hah..because in the movie..that guy claim he is from space&#8230; who say he was Buddha too..and then mistaken for Jesus as a God.. so then in that case.. we can say that there is no other need for a Church or Temple as they are all in one place&#8230;</p>
<p>I am not citing any hate..but these morons&#8230; errgh..even Singapore don&#8217;t dare say these in public.. for fear of Racial or Religious riots. Anyway.. since these clowns say such..as such by an Archbishop..I really recall a conversation with Dr Drew Carey who was the Archbishop of Canterbury that being a padre in itself, that they have to learn about 10 years of their life into the Quran..and understanding of it&#8230; and that as such, that there can never and ever that Christians be calling the Holy Father, Allah or Holy Spirit in the context other than God or Trinity in any language for it is really blasphemous to do so..that it is the same as the effect of calling The Holy Father as Yah-hood.</p>
<p>Quoted as the faith of Judaism of the beliefs:</p>
<blockquote><p>13 Principles of Faith:<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the Creator and Guide of everything that has been created; He alone has made, does make, and will make all things.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is One, and that there is no unity in any manner like His, and that He alone is our God, who was, and is, and will be.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, has no body, and that He is free from all the properties of matter, and that there can be no (physical) comparison to Him whatsoever.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the first and the last.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that to the Creator, Blessed be His Name, and to Him alone, it is right to pray, and that it is not right to pray to any being besides Him.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that all the words of the prophets are true.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher, peace be upon him, was true, and that he was the chief of the prophets, both those who preceded him and those who followed him.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that is now in our possession is the same that was given to Moses our teacher, peace be upon him.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that this Torah will not be exchanged, and that there will never be any other Torah from the Creator, Blessed be His Name.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, knows all the deeds of human beings and all their thoughts, as it is written, &#8220;Who fashioned the hearts of them all, Who comprehends all their actions&#8221; (Psalms 33:15).<br />
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, rewards those who keep His commandments and punishes those that transgress them.<br />
I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.<br />
I believe with perfect faith that there will be a revival of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator, Blessed be His name, and His mention shall be exalted for ever and ever.
</p></blockquote>
<p>And I honestly think, that since Christianity is based on Judaism..this must never be associated than the names for God.</p>
<p>Anyway, that aside..as I don&#8217;t want to get into this since it&#8217;s already 5.17am &#8230;. I would like to put that to rest and talk about Windows 7 or Vista which some have the CD KEY or sticker but not the media.</p>
<p>Well people, first off, download the <strong><a href="http://transfers.ds.microsoft.com/ftm/default.aspx?target=install">File Transfer Manager</a></strong> from Microsoft, which acts like a multi-part breaker / booster using cloud transfer which U can pause, reconnect or such for your softwares.</p>
<p>What is serves is like Download Manager plug-ins for Firefox but this bugger works for IE only..and quoted:</p>
<blockquote><p>
The File Transfer Manager (FTM) is the download client if you are running Internet Explorer on Windows. Otherwise you will use the download manager included with your web browser.  MSDN Subscriber Downloads detects your browser automatically and offers you the appropriate experience.</p>
<p>The FTM is implemented as an ActiveX control and is a 32-bit application.  If you are running a 64-bit Operating System, you will need to run the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer to download products.</p>
<p>Depending on your Corporate Group Policy, you may need to be an Administrative User to install this ActiveX control.  If you experience problems with the installation, you can go to the Microsoft File Transfer Manager site and install the latest version using the MSI installer.</p>
<p>There is a known issue for Subscribers running Windows XP with Service Pack 2. You might receive an error stating &#8220;There was an error launching the file transfer manager. Please try again later or contact your help provider&#8221; when trying to download. Please go to the <a href="http://transfers.ds.microsoft.com/ftm/default.aspx?target=ts">instructions to fix the file transfer manager error</a>.</p>
<p>If you are running Vista or Windows Server 2008, you should check to make sure User Account Control (UAC) local policies are not preventing the ActiveX installation. In Windows Server 2008 there are 10 new UAC policies with 2 or 3 options each, and some users have found they needed to make adjustments in order to successfully install FTM. Specifically enabling &#8220;Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account&#8221; has allowed FTM to be installed for some users experiencing this problem.</p></blockquote>
<p>And when you already have that.. you can download a physical media from MSDN (URL please ask me directly) which you can install or upgrade from x86 to x64 for those with more than 3GB ram..or 32bit CPU.</p>
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		<title>Fear of Allah, and of riots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Muslim, I fear my God, Allah, the God of Abraham, Ismael, Moses and Muhammad. And for the fear and honor of God, the One God, that many wars and fights have convened in the Name of the Almighty and that reminds me of the racial riots that break the entire governance of a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a Muslim, I fear my God, Allah, the God of Abraham, Ismael, Moses and Muhammad. And for the fear and honor of God, the One God, that many wars and fights have convened in the Name of the Almighty and that reminds me of the racial riots that break the entire governance of a country or a sovereign nation. </p>
<p>Racial riots reminded of the fragility of the minds and hearts of the people&#8217;s faith which caused numerous and unneeded deaths to the city state of Singapore and in Kuala Lumpur. All caused by an ignorant person throwing a beer bottle at a Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s Birthday (Maulud Rasul) procession and the damaged caused to persons and personal property crippled the country.</p>
<p>Today in Malaysia, the courts of Malaysia have decided that it is OK to let Christians use the word ALLAH in their Bible and Publications as opposed just having the word GOD.That they did not understand the racial and religious harmony that is being cracked by that decision that even in Singapore, the imperialist Lee would not even try to associate anything to the word Allah as other than the God of the Muslims. It is ORDAINED and STATED IN THE CONSTITUTION. That once that kind of ruling takes place, that if the Christians can use Allah, which just literally mean ILLAH or God, then the Jewish community and even that maybe the Hindus will use that word as the supreme being.</p>
<p>So what can be next? Buddha is Allah? How can that be? There is no way out for Malaysia other than to take away the powers of the court and convene the powers of the rulers, to dissolve the Herald, which is a Christian Weekly, that they too are totally at fault for taking this matter to court. And that no other religion is official other than ISLAM which is like that in the Indonesia Constitution, or the Pancasila.</p>
<p>Which is seriously sad. I just hope that since the arson of the church in KL won&#8217;t be a trigger point by the politicians to cause the meltdown of the nation, being that there are so many conflicts now, with foreign nationals and Africans which are the cause of many ills of the society like scams, frauds, breaking and entering, trafficking in illicit drugs and sex , murders, rape  and the works and I for one can say that the Indonesians which are so many in the capital won&#8217;t stand up for their religion being trampled upon.</p>
<p>All I can say is , if there are no proper action taken to protect the religion by the politicians, then they are sure going to have a real sinker when come 2 years time when the ballot is casted. </p>
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		<title>Whack the bugger&#8230;. With Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am back in Kulim Kedah where the Internet is supposed to be ..errm well, not up to par with the requirements which partially promises 7.2M connection to Celcom broadband but then, given the facts and figures, the max I am supposed to get is about 300kbps, which equates to the factor of overheads to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am back in Kulim Kedah where the Internet is supposed to be ..errm well, not up to par with the requirements which partially promises 7.2M connection to Celcom broadband but then, given the facts and figures, the max I am supposed to get is about 300kbps, which equates to the factor of overheads to 28.8KBps and thats KILOBYTES not KILO BITS (1024 bits=1KB) which is supposed to be &#8216;Broadband&#8217; but I would say&#8230; I needed more..so I am now up to my old tricks again&#8230;.</p>
<p>For those who are itching for Windows 7.. I have a present for you. I have the ISO MEDIA for download direct from Microsoft, but then, it will take you about ..say 2 days of downloading since it&#8217;s 2.25GB big and you can&#8217;t cheat by using DownThemAll or DownloadManager boosters.</p>
<p>MSDN will kill me for this..but technically, you can install them, and test it..as you will need a real full key using MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE N version to activate it..or a KMS server cracked off somewhere&#8230; which I won&#8217;t tell.</p>
<p>
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<p><span id="more-115"></span> Once again, the SHA1 KEY (use HASH CAL or something ) for the x86 version is 3D923C8B81928B23EF27BCBF5AA99D8083B922B5 and the file is called en_windows_7_enterprise_n_x86_dvd_x16-11935.iso</p>
<p>What? You think I will put the real URL here? Of course not..as Microsoft will kill the link. I do have it somewhere on my servers which I will burn you a copy..if you donate some money to cover the cost of the media&#8230;and postage.</p>
<p>For the 64Bit version (over 4GB up to 32GB I think) it&#8217;s en_windows_7_enterprise_n_x64_dvd_x16-11943.iso  and the ISO/CRC: F5E0E6B2 with a SHA1: 041A07EFDA9B12EB55D557099475D84A22FC51D9 .</p>
<p>From the testing and stuff like that, a Home Starter key won&#8217;t work in a Enterprise, Volume License or other versions as they are built seperately unlike of Vista but if you hate Vista..and still love XP but with a kick, try Windows 2009 which is actually Windows XP SP3 but it&#8217;s labeled Windows Embedded PosReady 2009.</p>
<p>Anything else? Shhhh.. </p>
<p>Notes and disclaimer: I do not support piracy nor do I condone it. By downloading, you understand you have 3 days or up to 30days to feel and try..before you get locked out. For a key, you can buy a discounted version from me&#8230; and it&#8217;s based on PER ACTIVATION BASIS. So, no sharing etc which is now strongly enforced.</p>
<p>I personally liked the new Windows.. feel-ware &#8230;try..feel and then if U like..buy the key. More of a nagging Shareware and Copyright..and the new Windows 7 worked on my wife&#8217;s 4 yr old Acer 5570 laptop without any need of drivers or the sort&#8230;which I feel is very very good. I left it unattended for 40 mins..and it&#8217;s done. Loaded up without a CD MEDIA using V CD Virtual Control system driver from Microsoft (mount ISO/IMG as a virtual CD Drive over networks etc) and well&#8230; good thing is&#8230; no more media to burn. ISO check yes..CRC no error (over burn is sometimes OK!) and then..presto&#8230; autoboot.</p>
<p>Questions, TWEET Direct Message to me or Facebook Message OK?!</p>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year people and while I am busy updating the systems preparing for my Geeks Corner to be back on track with a vengeance, talking about more IT stuff unbarred, Windows 7 (All version, K, N, Enterprise, VLK, MSDN), Windows Vista (all cracked and development versions), Windows Embedded, Windows 2009 (didn&#8217;t know that exist [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy New Year people and while I am busy updating the systems preparing for my Geeks Corner to be back on track with a vengeance, talking about more IT stuff unbarred, Windows 7 (All version, K, N, Enterprise, VLK, MSDN), Windows Vista (all cracked and development versions), Windows Embedded, Windows 2009 (didn&#8217;t know that exist didn&#8217;t you..I did not till the other day looking into my MSDN subscription), Windows XP and it&#8217;s variants, Windows Servers variety including the BizSpark Home Server, SQL 2008 etc..and of course CentOS, Redhat, Mandrake, Debian and the flavors.</p>
<p>We are busy, I am actually with testing stuff on visualization helping people with their start ups and stuff like that.</p>
<p>So who wanna join in? U can follow me on twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/azrin619">@azrin619 </a> and drop me a DM (Direct Message) ok?</p>
<p>Cool enuff, take care</p>
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		<title>Letting everyone know you have died&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine popped this question to me that if either one should die..what can we do to let others know of the peril like of some of the bloggers and writers who knew that they are dying or going to end their life soon..and it ponders upon me that the dying always do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine popped this question to me that if either one should die..what can we do to let others know of the peril like of some of the bloggers and writers who knew that they are dying or going to end their life soon..and it ponders upon me that the dying always do that 40 days before they are bound to go home and meet their maker.</p>
<p>I personally placed and drafted my last will and testament online using my permanent blog which upon my death will be published automatically and synchronized to let my very own friends know.. that I have passed on. Somewhat it is like my own eulogy, to seek forgiveness or what not that have been done or unsettled and basically there are many ways to do it but you have to let someone know how to activate that feature.</p>
<p>Letting your spouse or partner know of your backup secure password so that if the unfortunate do happen, at least people can be informed of your demise or passing away. You should ensure that the password is not the same of your normal one, otherwise a conflict in the relationship may trigger that, if the spouse or partner have a grudge on you. Frankly, it is something that you should think about.</p>
<p>There are many websites that offer the same service for that reason, but it still depend on the human factor that if something do happen, it may be related or passed on. Some people even inform the international organisation Medic Alert that as an ICE or In Case of Emergency, their next of kin is informed and action be done should they pass away, like triggering their medical and life insurance policies.</p>
<p>For me, it&#8217;s quite worrying now that we are family men..unlike those days of carefree and serving the forces where we know we may not make it out alive, usually by means of a letter and something to go by, left either with someone close within the unit..or squad. Mine may just be &#8220;..sorry everyone, but I&#8217;ve died..due to reasons I have not known&#8230;but the person here may know it. I&#8217;m sorry to those who I hurt&#8230;including &#8230;.the long list of people that I may attach for whatever reasons&#8221; and that I may even embed a video testimony or last rites will for myself&#8230; that everyone will be fond of.</p>
<p>After all we are all still human and I was thinking of putting this to Helium but then, I might get it deleted..so whatever it is.. write up&#8230;you may earn a few dollars extra.</p>
<p>Mine does not even cover enough for my funeral. And if I die in Singapore.. I have to be reunited with the rest of my body parts at Block 8, Chua Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery , Unit 1024 under Azrin Abdul Majid or docketed as Son of Rohani Binte Ramlan.</p>
<p>Yeah..I have been declared dead&#8230;. technically I can commit murder and get away with it.</p>
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		<title>Single Sign On Completed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now then people &#8230; let me tell you something, you can now comment and log on to my pages and my sites and my blogs using either Yahoo! MSN Live, Facebook Connect, Blogger or Twitter and then it will recognize you and signs you on automatically without much ado.
Don&#8217;t you just hate to type forms [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now then people &#8230; let me tell you something, you can now comment and log on to my pages and my sites and my blogs using either Yahoo! MSN Live, Facebook Connect, Blogger or Twitter and then it will recognize you and signs you on automatically without much ado.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate to type forms and such? I do..and now it&#8217;s easier. Next is.. Voice Comment. </p>
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		<title>Testing some stuff that works into TWITTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[#zyraz and stuff like that.. Here we go..I&#8217;m testing the silly apps for Single Sign On Login where if you login at Yahoo,MSN,FaceBook,Twitter or Google..it will know who UR and don&#8217;t require you to enter your details here.
See if it works.
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<p>See if it works.</p>
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		<title>My personal reflection of Eid Adha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aidul Adha is here again, for the day where we will stand on this very day in the mount of Arafat, to be only with The One, The Only, The Creator. For it is the place where Adam and Eve are finally reunited after 40 years of repentance and of their removal from the Heavens. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aidul Adha is here again, for the day where we will stand on this very day in the mount of Arafat, to be only with The One, The Only, The Creator. For it is the place where Adam and Eve are finally reunited after 40 years of repentance and of their removal from the Heavens. It&#8217;s not just a festival, but something to reflect by. For what had happened and what is to become of we.</p>
<p>This year, I set forth something I really wanted to do. With all the burden of pain, misery and problems bestowed upon me, all I ask from Him is that He grant me the wish of accepting me to be His guest at His Blessing in the next year. I have said and placed the intent of such a request for many years now, to be derailed by financial ruins and many times of what people said that we must clear our debts and dues before we set sail on such a journey.</p>
<p>Yet, for me, many things happened to me in the month of Dzul-Hijjah, the month of the Hajj. Hijjah is also understood that we as men should travel from one city to another seeking better life or to run away from oppression as in the Quran : &#8220;Didn&#8217;t We provide you the Lands of Allah for you to seek refuge in?&#8221; . It is said that if we don&#8217;t succeed in one place, we must move on and seek out the other pastures for the world belongs to Allah as the sayings of the Prophet that we &#8220;should seek knowledge till the ends of China&#8221; which was about circa 610 AD and even in those days, the Arabs know of the Glory and Knowledge of the Chinese or in those days, the Mongols and Hans.</p>
<p>Reflecting back to what happened to me for the past many decades, all happen mysteriously in the holy month. That it is commanded that we forgo trade in anticipation of the Hajj. I even had near death experiences in the month of Dzul Hijjah. Maybe it is my own life I have to sacrifice to seek refuge and blessings from Him, that only by the faith of placing my own self preservation in pure belief of His Light.</p>
<p>It is the same Ordain that Ismael and Abraham was ordered to sacrifice of Ismael&#8217;s life by means of a dream of his father , Abraham. For Abraham is Qalam Allah or the Pen of Allah, for he is the only one who receive the commandments directly by Allah All Mighty as compared to the rest, who received theirs through Gabriel , the Arch Angel. For God created Man to read using the Qalam. </p>
<p>Many would have said that near death experience will bring wonders, and for me, it was twice, of different years apart in the same month, and reminder to me of the Teachings of the Light, for reading the Quran is insufficient but without the understanding of what is being said, and the events relating to that script being handed down from Him. Though as much as I can, maybe this is the last time I would have to wait to be His guest, for The Path of the Light is about being charitable and of being kind to others. A time to repent and time to seek Him as opposed to what I have always been, in the corporate rat race.</p>
<p>For me, I have to say it out, for You have called, and Here I come. Labbaik Kallahumma Labbaik, Labbaik Kala Syariqalabaiq as being chanted by the Pilgrims throughout, for Here You called my Lord and Here I have answered it, for there is no other worthy of worship but Allah, the One God. For He is the God of the Children of Israel , Followers of the Scriptures and Decedents of Adam.</p>
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		<title>Love is such a betrayal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honey, for many times I have been hurt
For the hurt still stays with me, 
Those years go by and it still aches me in my heart,
That those memories will always stick to me,
For it is said by the wise of the dead,
That the memories that I have buried, Shall not be exhumed
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Honey, for many times I have been hurt</p>
<p>For the hurt still stays with me, </p>
<p>Those years go by and it still aches me in my heart,</p>
<p>That those memories will always stick to me,</p>
<p>For it is said by the wise of the dead,</p>
<p>That the memories that I have buried, Shall not be exhumed</p>
<p>For they will haunt me dead, or me a walking zombie</p>
<p>For everyone has skeletons in their closet</p>
<p>For I am always in error</p>
<p>For my err now is that I love you too much</p>
<p>To loose you again.</p>
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		<title>Believing in God is about believing in what He gives and Repays. (Qadaq and Qadar)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honey, don&#8217;t blame me for what you asked for, for you wanted your own personal space, for I still remember I am still your husband and there is no such thing as personal space when you are married, but since U really want it and needed it, I decided it is to be. I let [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Honey, don&#8217;t blame me for what you asked for, for you wanted your own personal space, for I still remember I am still your husband and there is no such thing as personal space when you are married, but since U really want it and needed it, I decided it is to be. I let it be. I just give up on things and the way things are.</p>
<p>Sometimes I find it that no wonder that people want to get back to being locked up in detention, for the ache of the family members. I feel the same things when I was discharged from the Brig back nearly a decade ago..and now I am feeling it again&#8230;that I can&#8217;t work it out.</p>
<p>Nor do I like to be pushed into the corner nor I like how things are turning out. I don&#8217;t like things the way it is, and what it is, is something that annoys me. I gave up my life as such, same as how you made the vows. We already have a child, and as I said, I don&#8217;t like things the way it is&#8230;for I feel it is violated for what the things and way it is, feeling so dirty with the events, for I feel cheated.</p>
<p>I love you as much as I can, and care for you are my someone&#8230;and the thing is, these people have no sense or right to be between me and you, what more when I am your partner.As much as you say that divorce is the way to go, but are you just being a partner? For who dare calls you at 3am in the morning, friend or not, for it is such that their mother and father did not teach em a lesson in Islam, or are you an Infidel now?</p>
<p>I have reach ends wit, for you don&#8217;t want me anymore,for I can&#8217;t find enough money to feed you, to spend time with my own child, that you deny me of the right, which is not a privilege. I love you all, and I don&#8217;t know what else can I do&#8230; you pushed me to a corner which I can&#8217;t seem to get it out of my system. </p>
<p>Ramblings like this are not right, but then I have to let it out, for it is hurting me inside me, as my health is not getting any better,which I don&#8217;t need to tell you, but I do want to know what happens to you, for I am still responsible over you and you answerable to me. At least, a text message would do just fine, even at 4 am in the morning.Challenges are  part of life, and I am tripping, for I send you back home so I can catch up, and not for you to torment me, and to love me more, not to hate and make me hate you. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care what your friends say, for your friends is not a friend of mine,<br />
For that they do not feed me, nor they give something to me,<br />
For I am not their friend, and all I care is you, the baby and our parents.<br />
For it is what Rasul demand of me.</p>
<p>I realise now as I realise then, is that my love for you is still the same, but yours now is turning to hate. I really don&#8217;t want to make the mistake. I love U alot, a whole darn lot. I tried to give everything I could, even though I can&#8217;t and ill afford it. For I realise what my name is all about:</p>
<p>A Lilin, A candle, burning oneself for others, for Family and for I wasted my life away,<br />
For I will be rotting and burning my life away, For the love of family,<br />
For I miss God, For All I want now is to be in front of Kaa&#8217;bah&#8230;<br />
For All I pray for is that you be a very good and dedicated Muslimah<br />
A very hard working and loving Mother,<br />
For I prayed so much, that I forgot to ask from God<br />
To ask Him to make you a very Good and Dedicated Wife.</p>
<p>For now God I got what I asked, Now please take me now.<br />
And burn me away, and away with it is my very tainted soul,<br />
For I can&#8217;t bear to bear the brunt of your Wrath<br />
That I am ashamed that I failed your tasks,<br />
And for everything that you asked of me,<br />
For all I am, is now a failure.<br />
Please don&#8217;t resurrect me.</p>
<p>Three Strikes, now I am out!<br />
For I still love my child.</p>
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		<title>Things to avoid in a marketing program which will definitely blow your advertising budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major mistakes is to entask the wrong type of agency to handle your advertising needs like if you always deal with say Satchi &#038; Satchi for your billboard advertising and print media which they are especially good and creative at what they do, don&#8217;t normally do a brilliant job at penetrating the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the major mistakes is to entask the wrong type of agency to handle your advertising needs like if you always deal with say Satchi &#038; Satchi for your billboard advertising and print media which they are especially good and creative at what they do, don&#8217;t normally do a brilliant job at penetrating the New Age Media such as Blogs, Websites, Google Adsense or even those text messaging means and from my own experience in the field, they sub contract the job to another agency which does good at that medium but do not understand the need and locale restrictions of the business involved due to non disclosure agreements and such.</p>
<p>I am voted the worst blogger of all time outside the US for 3 years running by non conventional media ( Internet Based ) which my only competitor is only the likes of Perez Hilton and from my own experience in the media industry, having the wrong game plan cost dearly to the advertising budget.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s just point into Electronic Means Advertising which covers the Internet, SMS &#8211; Text Messaging and E-Mails where there are over 1.5 billion users with nearly 3 billion having a cell phone. A very harsh way to blow your Google Adsense or Yahoo Ads budget is overbidding your keywords. Keywords are what weigh in the relevancy of the article or webpage to show the respective ads. Just like in this article, advertising keywords formed may be like Advertising which is not that expensive in normal times but if you add &#8220;Computers&#8221; &#8220;Web Hosting&#8221; and other hot keywords such as CHEAP, FREE and alike will drive up a standard bid from 20 cents to over $100 for webhosting where the Earnings Per Click or EPC is double or triple of the keyword bid. Major brands and events like thanksgiving will drive the cost higher and by placing the wrong sets and subsets of keywords will blow your $100,000 budget within a day!</p>
<p>Another mistake done is incorrect demographic mapping where you misplace your targets to the wrong zones, say if you only want California, specifically Los Angeles visitors for your Congress Election campaign but you fail to properly research the ISP and ZIP CODE GeoIP zoning will display all your ads all over the US or worst still, whole world and getting crappy traffic which are not converting.</p>
<p>Mass Mailing are a thing of the past and it will be gobbled up as fast as you send it out as fraud and heuristic programs built in place at mail servers will kill off and inform the other servers of your spam pattern. It is also ILLEGAL in many states and countries with criminal penalties of over BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in the case of a Facebook Spammer.</p>
<p>Going into the Print Edition, wrong type proofing, incorrect details and such costs money and reprints are time consuming and not to say more money especially due to a small error  on a page of the magazine, you have to reprint the entire magazine which costs anything from US$1.20 onwards depending on your quantity and complexity. Typos and such must be compensated and those will eat into your budget too.</p>
<p>Whatever it is, plan for all contingencies as otherwise, you will cuss and swear at that tiny mistake which may even cost your business to belly up in these difficult times. I bear it all, as knowledge from events observed makes me mindful of those small tiny costly errors which we normally take it for granted.</p>
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		<title>What is a Notebook , Laptop or Tablet PC?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common misconception is a laptop is also known as a notebook computer which might be a little bit right other than that the weight, size and processing power but a simple question answers the vague question which is &#8220;how big is your lap and how small is your notebook?&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A common misconception is a laptop is also known as a notebook computer which might be a little bit right other than that the weight, size and processing power but a simple question answers the vague question which is &#8220;how big is your lap and how small is your notebook?&#8221;</p>
<p>A laptop is coined back in the 1980s when the computer sits on your lap, about the size of a mini AT chassis which is about two feet wide and that everything sits on your lap. Think as your desktop CPU sitting on your lap and that the size of the display is typically 14 inches wide. In terms of weight, anything over 2kg or about 5 pounds is also classed as a laptop computer and that the screen size is anything over 12 inches wide, which is just a little bit off the size of a bound stack of A4 paper. What students use in campus is normally the stack of A4 paper or &#8216;LEGAL&#8217; size paper. </p>
<p>One thing that brings back the history lessons is that in late 1990s circa 1997, a new era of computing arrived into the marketplace which is the tablet personal computer, which is similar to the laptop or notebook but the screen is either touch screen or being swiveled and the keyboard is replaced by a virtual keyboard by virtue of a tablet pen / mouse. The words Notebook Computer was commonly spoken then as it was targeted to students in campus where the flip screen will be a hindrance to the view of the lecturer in a seminar or lecture hall, while taking notes. Brands like ACER, DELL, HP, Compaq, Ranger was the players in the mini notebook sized  computer costing about US$2000 with color LCD screen as opposed to the standard RGB colors.</p>
<p>As computers evolve according to Moore&#8217;s Law, the computers get smaller and smaller with recently sizes as small as 8.9 inch 800Mhz C3 CPU spotted for the school kids under the One Computer for One Child program in the US and many Asian and African nations for less than $250. Now with China manufacturing the computers faster than we can buy then, prices are crashing and with ATOM CPU in these low powered computers, many are going into 10 to 12 inch notebooks and these are classified as notebook computers.</p>
<p>What about those Core2Duo or Dual Core CPUs? These are categorized as Laptop computers as they are normally bigger in terms of size and processing power and especially weight. A recent HP laptop was spotted with 21 inch screen weighing as much as 7kg and has a quad core CPU in it. Dell Inspiron and Latitude series too are a heavy weight and these are definitely not a notebook computer.</p>
<p>Whatever it is, you decide, but at least you know anything less than a notebook size or 12 inches diagonally are a laptop computer, or even a tablet. Don&#8217;t be surprised with even a 10.2 inch tablet computer, like fro Fujitsu.</p>
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		<title>Things to do while in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have arrived in Singapore and maybe you are on a stopover or will be here for the next few days. So what to do when you are in Singapore? Singapore is an island state with only about 25miles end to end and pretty much a bustling working city. But for less than $10 a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have arrived in Singapore and maybe you are on a stopover or will be here for the next few days. So what to do when you are in Singapore? Singapore is an island state with only about 25miles end to end and pretty much a bustling working city. But for less than $10 a day, you can travel in Singapore using the public transportation , namely the SMRT, SBS Transit and Trans Island Buses within normal service hours which is far cheaper than the London Underground travel card and works like an Oyster or Touch &#038; Go card in Malaysia where it is the integrated payment system.</p>
<p>Starting off from Changi Airport, the trip down the train downtown runs through many housing estates and the Singapore Expo Hall which is located at Tanah Merah station where you connect to the East West main line. Depending on the time of the year, the Singapore Expo hosts many shows and trade events such as the Broadcast Asia which recently utilized the entire 12 halls. But if you want to hit the beach, a good place to hang out and chill out is actually next to the airport, Changi Beach.A real sandy beach with the fishing cove at Telok Paku where great fishing grounds lurk within the cove overseeing Singapore&#8217;s neighbour, the state of Johor , Malaysia. With over 5 miles of clean sandy beach to sun tan and swim, it is a place for the family. To get there, a taxi ride from the airport costs about S$20 due to the airport surcharge, otherwise, it is accessible from the Tampines or Pasir Ris Bus Terminal / Train station taking the local bus there using your Tourist Pass. It is free and open to the public all day and night.</p>
<p>If you fancy more classy place to chill, Sentosa Island is the new place to hang tan. A bustling Genting Resort World &#038; Casino in Sentosa is there, opening in early 2010 with a Universal Studios theme park. Entry fees are about S$100 per adult. To get to Sentosa Island, take the train or bus to Harbor Front station. Many bus services run through downtown to this what was formerly the World Trade Center. If the theme park is too pricey, the entry fee to the island is just S$3 per person and you can either take the monorail or the bus from the Harbor Front terminal (North East MRT Line). It hosts many other small parks like the large underwater aquarium and a large scale sculpture of the Merlion which shoots out laser works every night at 8pm.</p>
<p>Of which, local foods are a must for the thrifty as Singaporeans are known to live to eat and getting Halal foods are quite easy, by hopping to the local food center or food courts. Avoid the tourist hot spot like Newton Circus and Bugis Street as touts and expensive prices will mar your memories. Local food fare costs from $3 onwards for a decent meal and you get many kind of foods adapted to the local taste. Do be warned that the foods may be spicy and drinking hot milk tea will cool the spicy after taste and alcohol especially beers will land you a short trip to the local A&#038;E.</p>
<p>A nice scenic food area to chill out at night is the Boat Quay and Clarke Quay area where night long entertainment with food and beverages served. Prices are within the ability of even the locals. Call it the local watering hole of the expatriates and locals alike. A short walk from Boat Quay is Lau Pa Sat which literally means old market which has been converted to a street food fare in the business district.</p>
<p>Another thing you must do is to go for the night safari which is in the Mandai Zoo. There, you can see the nocturnal animals living and going about their business which is not common in many zoos, unless you take a night trip to the tropical rain forests and getting bitten by the mosquitoes. Insect repellents are not a necessity during the trip.</p>
<p>Just don&#8217;t forget that if you are totally bored in Singapore, you can always hop over to Malaysia and get yourself worn down with more activities. One tip while in Singapore: Make sure you don&#8217;t bring many credit cards as you will regret it when you see the bill when you are back home. Prices are so cheap that it cannot compare to anywhere in the region. The shopping belt of Orchard Road stretches for over 7km with malls stacking up over 5 floors and more from Orchard Road to Suntec City to even Clarke Quay. Personally, a colleague of mine went there and bought numerous gold jewelery and ornaments on top of the consumer goods that it cost her more than 10 months of her paycheck. </p>
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		<title>What to avoid when designing an accessible website</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A website is the forefront of your presence to the web, and like many business tycoons always say &#8220;First Impressions Count&#8221; and they are spot on. Many business website designers made the greatest sin in the industry when they try to impress the untrained business managers by proposing a very splashy web page as a forefront to the visitors. However, the main importance is to being accessible is to be friendly to the human and robots alike and at the same time, being disabled friendly.</p>
<p>Core aspects are to follow the KISS method which is Keep It Short and Simple ( or Keep it simple silly ) and by placing a layout which is pleasant and being user and computer friendly pays good return. One of the major mistakes are embedding applications or plugins that are not just browser unfriendly but also spider robot nightmare. One of the problems also caused by poor formatting or Cascading Style Sheet errors ( CSS Format Errors) are that what they see is not what the user gets, when encoding in one format of HTML for a browser like Internet Explorer comes up like the blocks are all over the place in Navigator, Chrome or even Safari. A major fault lies that a format designed in Linux may not even be compatible in Windows or Mac based browsers as the formatting errors are incoherent to the robot.</p>
<p>One method is to try and test out the design by print format and then emulating the view in many browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari and even for the mobile like Blackberry and iPhone which will definitely draw more visitors and sales to your site when it&#8217;s accessible.It&#8217;s the same issue when you go visit a nice webpage of a company only to be drawn by irritating errors and pop-ups such as to the demise to even huge companies like Microsoft&#8217;s inner pages.</p>
<p>One thing to avoid is designing the wrong resolution of the webpage, since there are many IAB formats for webpages and typically, a webpage should be fitting a resolution of 600 x 800 being the leader board advertising standard is 768 x 90 pixels and a skyscraper (tall span of a webpage) must be able to fit a 160 x 600 pixel frame space. Many designers will try fit into a 1080 x 800 pixel page resolution resulting in the common type-over misalignment of the images and block spaces when viewed in a lower standard resolution.</p>
<p>Another aspect that is commonly made is illegal image and anchor linking, where the links and images are not described carefully to the the system, so when a visually impaired visitor comes in, the image is unavailable to them for description. One way is to describe the picture in the ALT tag of the image. Similarly if the ALT tag is properly described in the hyperlink, it will be weighed heavier than others in terms of Search Engine Optimisation or SEO and when it all gets calculated into the heuristics, it will be sent higher in terms of search returns when a certain key phrases are being looked into.</p>
<p>One thing you can do is use a simple web page design software and if it all fails, Wordpress is a fully optimized blog system where the look and feel can be made as if it&#8217;s a very posh website, just like a CMS based one. The ease of use is put forward with a WYSIWYG MICE editor so the need for a web editing software is eliminated. Plugins are all integrated into the web server and not pulled into the client except for Adobe Flash and Shockwave players and in recent updates, Microsoft integrated Silverlight which boasts sleek streaming of videos and feeds of the web through cloud computing.</p>
<p>If you are still in doubt, make sure your site is W3C compliant and there are plain tools to check it over the web. A screenshot can be viewed so that if any formatting errors crops up, it can be rectified.</p>
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		<title>What makes a company socially responsible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a business, is all about making money and becoming more socially responsible is all about getting more money into the coffers of the company. Charities too in the UK and many countries are registered as a company and while they go on with their mission and vision, and raising funds for their causes are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being a business, is all about making money and becoming more socially responsible is all about getting more money into the coffers of the company. Charities too in the UK and many countries are registered as a company and while they go on with their mission and vision, and raising funds for their causes are part and parcel of an incorporation.</p>
<p>Likewise, being socially responsible cuts a little bit into the community, and yet the returns far outweigh the cost involved in becoming socially responsible company as opposed to being a pariah by the local community.In a matter of fact, social responsibility is actually required in many religions, including Islam, Christianity and Judaism.</p>
<p>One of the aspects of social responsibility is waste reduction.&#8221; For a person who waste is a friend of the devil &#8221; as the words of wisdom goes is much true to the ethical conduct of any company and employee alike for if one waste resources, it will just equate to wasting money. In terms of resources may not just limit oneself to just material but also time and effort. In the new era of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, the karma of life kicks in as reducing the need to use or produce materials reduces your money wasted. One good example is the utilities and things like paper and items that can be reused for later on, like packaging materials. Recycling returns some sort of profit back to the employees such as contribution to the pantry or sports activities.</p>
<p>In other aspects of social responsibility is to support the local community for the local community are the ones who will stand up and fight for the survival of the company as somehow or rather, the liquidation of a company will somehow reflect into the community in terms of loss of income and jobs, disappointing the many families that rely on that account. So by contributing back into the local community, it also serves as a kind of advertising and endorsement for the operations and in many countries, localised grants are made available to companies within the community in the commonwealth states, even to aspects of advertising and business matching and grants for overseas market penetration.</p>
<p>On the company side, putting aside part of the operational expenses or savings into supporting the local charities or causes help alot in terms of public relations. Here we see in the UK, that banks and building societies actively engage in their local community activities and more acutely by the local credit unions with support to the local games such as football (soccer). Even big companies such as TESCO does support local activities and this in turn returns a far better exposure to their goodwill activities by the local press and even regional media. Even bloggers who are prominently critics of their normal stance such as the poor animal welfare will support the activities. Think of it as a right cancelling the many wrongs committed by the corporate governance. </p>
<p>Different companies in different countries takes different aspects of social responsibilities but basically, being charitable far outweighs the costs involved in comparison with the returns in sales and profits, not to mention these activities are tax deductible and in some nations, deductible against tax due. It all comes to the management of the company where they determine how responsible they are to the social aspects of the company. In many aspects, getting the workers to engage in the community breaks the daily mundane routine and helps the good well being of them by applying a healthy living way of life.</p>
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		<title>Deleted alot of my Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I removed many of the advertising spaces I put up on my site, namely TLA, Adbrite, Google Adsense and Nuffnang of late because mainly of the recent FTC ruling about paid sponsorships.
So I am chilling out while I get all my data and stuff in place&#8230;and well, doing what I need to do.
Take care [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I removed many of the advertising spaces I put up on my site, namely TLA, Adbrite, Google Adsense and Nuffnang of late because mainly of the recent FTC ruling about paid sponsorships.</p>
<p>So I am chilling out while I get all my data and stuff in place&#8230;and well, doing what I need to do.</p>
<p>Take care people.</p>
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		<title>For Crying Out Loud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darn, now I feel the brunt of why the average Malaysian hate and disgusted by the state of the Malaysian Broadband as what I wrote in the article in Helium last few weeks and now it&#8217;s really getting on my darn nerves. It&#8217;s really depressing that even getting a decent connection to Google or even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darn, now I feel the brunt of why the average Malaysian hate and disgusted by the state of the <a href="http://www.helium.com/items/1598814-the-state-of-malaysian-broadband">Malaysian Broadband</a> as what I wrote in the article in Helium last few weeks and now it&#8217;s really getting on my darn nerves. It&#8217;s really depressing that even getting a decent connection to Google or even Facebook is a drag here for me, far worse than being on dial up. Believe you me, it&#8217;s really a nag and if that is not bad enough, the cheapest Wireless broadband would be about RM8 a day or as cheap as RM20 a week (works to RM80+ a month) and that is far more expensive than STREAMYX which is about RM66 a month for 384kbps for what is people on CELCOM is paying. The Postpaid RM98 a month will be 7.2M link but technically,one would be lucky to get even a decent 1M link over the line of sight.</p>
<p>Being Malaysians who live in the metropolitan areas are all in either condominiums, flats or even landed properties, the wireless signals deteriorate and thus we will be lucky to get a single bar on the signal strength. Basically,the modem will need to send out more power and radiation to get their signals across. And if it rains, then the signal deteriorate further since water bounces off the signals like a ping pong ball.</p>
<p>Compare this RM80 for Celcom prepaid, RM100 for Hotlink and RM150 for Digi Prepaid with fair usage caps of about 1G,200Mb, 100Mb daily limits respectively. P1 Wimax, AMAX, WiNET and iZZy 4G are more expensive than these players.</p>
<p>I seriously giving up on these wireless and so I will have to stay near to my McDonalds for my downloads and proper connection. Hmmn.</p>
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		<title>Server moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I moved the service from Hostgator due to financial problems, and this is a single domain (top domain,unlimited sub-domains) cost me cheaper than the domain renewal!
Well, I&#8217;ll try to move off the photos and stuff, but it&#8217;s too much for the time being as I got alot on my place.
Chao!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I moved the service from Hostgator due to financial problems, and this is a single domain (top domain,unlimited sub-domains) cost me cheaper than the domain renewal!</p>
<p>Well, I&#8217;ll try to move off the photos and stuff, but it&#8217;s too much for the time being as I got alot on my place.<br />
Chao!</p>
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		<title>Network issues solved</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had encountered severe disruption to the network servers over the past weeks and due to the throttle overload of the network balancer (where we divert the traffic to the nearest and fastest service), took out a few of our network capacities across the US and Malaysia.
As a result, some of our ISPs have took [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We had encountered severe disruption to the network servers over the past weeks and due to the throttle overload of the network balancer (where we divert the traffic to the nearest and fastest service), took out a few of our network capacities across the US and Malaysia.</p>
<p>As a result, some of our ISPs have took out our services due to the breach in CPU loads and bandwidth, and as such, caused the network unavailable banner to come up.</p>
<p>I am looking for a better solution to cascade my servers and loads and due to Powweb (Endurance International Group) being an arse and caused me to loose files, I am hunting for a more reliable source of services.</p>
<p>As such, if you still see the errors, please&#8230;.mind the brickworks and that TM is slow. I am trying to fiddle the Blackberry Bold 9000 to work faster with the loads on the blackberry net APN,so that the files are moved forward.</p>
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		<title>Wordpress update issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress 2.7.1 update is up and now it&#8217;s causing many headaches to those on Shared Hosting packages due to the security issues imposed by many web hosts in their clusters.
Due to a few factors, many of the servers located on the East Coast (New York, Boston MA, New Jersey ) are timing out to those [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wordpress 2.7.1 update is up and now it&#8217;s causing many headaches to those on Shared Hosting packages due to the security issues imposed by many web hosts in their clusters.</p>
<p>Due to a few factors, many of the servers located on the East Coast (New York, Boston MA, New Jersey ) are timing out to those located in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and Thailand. This is NOT because of a link fault but due to some inconsistent issues by GCWW and AT&#038;T fiberclouds.</p>
<p>Our Proxy Servers link are also not available to MAXIS networks due to technical upgrades on their firewalls.</p>
<p>Also, our <a href="http://www.azrin.net/fb-games">Mafia Wars</a> Facebook hacks and cheats site are still about..and if you can&#8217;t access them, please use a text based browser like the one from Mippin or <a href="http://whois.sc/azrin.net">WHOIS Domain Tools</a> to read the updates.</p>
<p>In the mean time, I will look into alternatives to access the system and resolve this persisting problem.Thanks,</p>
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		<title>Vista to XP and it&#8217;s problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I got plagued with my cd licence keys being tampered and stolen by some people in my company and that really takes the piss out of me. Really with the Genuine Pack validation and stuff like that, I got blank black screens with my original stickers and well that is the start of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, I got plagued with my cd licence keys being tampered and stolen by some people in my company and that really takes the piss out of me. Really with the Genuine Pack validation and stuff like that, I got blank black screens with my original stickers and well that is the start of the problem.</p>
<p>Thing is, with so many XP Service pack versions of Windows in circulation and that I purchased them on seperate occasions and not all at the same time gives me the creeps. Knowingly, SP1 keys will not work on original XP CD.</p>
<p>Stupid keys for XP3 will not work on SP1 and likewise for the Home Editions. Which is taking the piss out of me. Now I really have to fall back onto upgrading Vista and then downgrading into XP Pro or Home using a pirated installer disc which is really bad. It&#8217;s a matter of Principles, when I have PAID for the original thing and I am hereby forced to utilise pirated versions of the installer to get to where I needed to get done.</p>
<p>Post notes:<br />
XP Won&#8217;t Allow you to DOWNGRADE from XP Pro to XP Home</p>
<p>Vista allow you to UPGRADE or Downgrade your VISTA VERSIONS (Home Basic to Ultimate etc) using just the update key function</p>
<p>Vista Won&#8217;t Let you downgrade your copy to XP Pro or XP Home.<br />
You will need to reinstall a new copy of windows. Microsoft made agreements with HP,DELL,IBM and ACER that if you get a PC or Laptop PREINSTALLED with WINDOWS VISTA, you can get XP Pro for your single use, PROVIDED YOUR CURRENT KEY IS NOT ACTIVATED.</p>
<p>Just use a pirated means to install and then call them, they will provide you a new key and installation certification code. Some of these codes MAY WORK, and are BLACKLISTED from activations:</p>
<p>QQHHK-T4DKG-74KG7-BQB9G-W47KG<br />
H73K7-6HD2V-X4WJQ-TWFQ3-BYXT3</p>
<p> Windows XP Home Edition  Full product<br />
JKTVX-HCRXC-J2YC9-MX3K4-G9X26</p>
<p>Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade<br />
C84VB-JYVFD-P7HF4-6KKRJ-7M6XH</p>
<p>Windows XP Professional Full product<br />
DR8GV-C8V6J-BYXHG-7PYJR-DB66Y</p>
<p>Windows XP Professional Upgrade<br />
FKTW8-Q7MJ7-JK6GW-9J9RV-HC3C2</p>
<p>Windows XP Home Edition System Builder (Full)<br />
KGVXT-F9HVW-XGW9X-QVYVX-HQ9RD</p>
<p>Windows XP Professional System Builder (Full)<br />
TTGHK-3RC33-BT9DR-3BVYV-BTQ98</p>
<p>These keys are BLACKLISTED and Provided by <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457096.aspx">Microsoft</a>  for TECHNET scripted Installs.</p>
<p>Mainly, you do a fresh Install. Disregard any updates available etc and just install the copy. Some SATA Drivers are not loaded (many aren&#8217;t) and then just run windows as normal. If you update, then you will need a genuine key. I can sell you the key for an exchange of your current Vista Key and the CD. It&#8217;s that I got a whole stash of devices which is sitting still.</p>
<p>For those who need the XP Disc for your own PERSONAL INSTALL, I have them in my download repository. It&#8217;s for PERSONAL ACCESS ONLY and since it&#8217;s flipping HUGE, I&#8217;ve break them up to smaller pieces. </p>
<p>I will add more to this soon&#8230;or once the data is up.</p>
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		<title>Music to most</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress 2.7 is finally here, code named COLTRANE and is a stable release from 2.6.x and with many months of hard work, finally, many have contributed to the success of 2.7 where you don&#8217;t need upgrades&#8230;. it will do for you.
Of course, many of you who are lazy will try to skip it for once [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/">Wordpress 2.7</a> is finally here, code named COLTRANE and is a stable release from 2.6.x and with many months of hard work, finally, many have contributed to the success of 2.7 where you don&#8217;t need upgrades&#8230;. it will do for you.</p>
<p>Of course, many of you who are lazy will try to skip it for once and I share the sentiments.Some plugins won&#8217;t work and this was raised in <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/27-release-candidate-two/">WP 2.7 RC2</a> and for those on Multi User (MU), please note that this upgrade will not affect MU. Some domain mapping issues are not available to shared hosted plans, mainly due to the DNS unable to pre-process the <SERVER ALIAS> tags.</p>
<p>Coltrane is a jazz musician and they dedicated the wordpress builds on musicians as they create life to the human form, in this case to the world of web. Without blogs, it&#8217;s tedious to update fresh content daily other than using CMS. For that, it&#8217;s a unanimous consensus among the community of developeres (WP-TESTERS) alike.</p>
<p>If you use CPANEL or Fantastico, please note that they have not updated the server databases yet and so forget about upgrading till it&#8217;s resolved, otherwise you will have your .install script crapping out on you.As normal, a wordpress database upgrade and reboot is required.</p>
<p>The new interface is more streamlined and you can install your plugins either from a download or upload a zip file totally without the FTP need. It&#8217;s just the begining&#8230;.but I let you explore on your own.</p>
<p>For those who host their own servers and resell services using AWBS, please note that there is a MAJOR UPGRADE to the versions, and current stack is now at 2.8.0 and if you have 2.7.5, please run a maintenance and upgrade your files. Make sure you keep your license files intact. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s it for most&#8230;.. have fun!</p>
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		<title>Malaysian died in Mumbai Terror attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest feed reports that Malaysian Lady, Hema Kasipillay was found dead in Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel last night. Reports indicate that her body was found partially charred remains on the six floor of the building. She left husband K. Sivakumaran and two children 18 and 19 who are studying Medicine in Russia.
Post Morten [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Latest feed reports that Malaysian Lady, Hema Kasipillay was found dead in Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel last night. Reports indicate that her body was found partially charred remains on the six floor of the building. She left husband K. Sivakumaran and two children 18 and 19 who are studying Medicine in Russia.</p>
<p>Post Morten indicates that she died of smoke inhalation as compared to the other victims. This made the news more harsh to bear when another lady, Singaporean lawyer <a href="http://www.singapura.eu/national/singaporean-lawyer-kill-in-mumbai-terror-attack.htm">Lo Hwei Yen</a> 28, was found to be gunned down to head and abdomen at The Oberoi Trident Hotel across Mumbai.</p>
<p>We pray for their souls and offer our condolences to the families and friends of the victims.</p>
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		<title>Micheal Jackson&#8217;s own way of public relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is astonishing when you see that Micheal Jackson or should I say Mikaeel publicly converts to Islam a few days ago and well, I have a few things to bug out on my Chat Server (see the network broadcast) which actually is somewhat to do with the major release of Wordpress 3.0 (fixed?)
I&#8217;ll update asap.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is astonishing when you see that Micheal Jackson or should I say Mikaeel publicly converts to Islam a few days ago and well, I have a few things to bug out on my Chat Server (see the <a href="http://network.chat.nu">network broadcast</a>) which actually is somewhat to do with the major release of Wordpress 3.0 (fixed?)</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll update asap.</p>
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		<title>Wordpress needs updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress is issuing a 2.6.3 update prior to their release of the 2.7 series (which is actually on 2.7 R2 SVN Beta) and if you update, there are some things you need not worry about. Though I am too lazy to do it , so I&#8217;ll sit this one out while the 2.7 is stablised [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wordpress is issuing a 2.6.3 update prior to their release of the 2.7 series (which is actually on 2.7 R2 SVN Beta) and if you update, there are some things you need not worry about. Though I am too lazy to do it , so I&#8217;ll sit this one out while the 2.7 is stablised and concentrate on the MU development on my <a href="http://chat.nu/wp-signup.php">Community Site</a>. While CBOX is cool, what is not cool is the restricted usage, and I do like the ALAMAK CHAT version, though I hate the C Prog behind it.</p>
<p>Anyway, do look out for those features and good luck.</p>
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		<title>How to get over 60,000 visitors a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is something that is crashing my servers for the last few weeks when I finally recovered one of the data stripes to rebuilt my Visit Kent website. One I am not proud to say I am the worst blogger of all time, non-us, but it&#8217;s something even Perez Hilton love : Visitors.
Topics to talk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is something that is crashing my servers for the last few weeks when I finally recovered one of the data stripes to rebuilt my Visit Kent website. One I am not proud to say I am the worst blogger of all time, non-us, but it&#8217;s something even Perez Hilton love : Visitors.</p>
<p>Topics to talk about normally must be of current events,like money politics, how to make more money, how to make money out of porn, free porn, free sex, kopi macho , men&#8217;s coffee and the works but in this case, it&#8217;s more or less nothing to do with me. </p>
<p><span id="more-71"></span><br />
I was digging up why these people kept on going to my <a href="http://www.singapura.eu/announcements/swift-card-singapore-banking-just-read-me.htm">Money Read me</a> for the sake of getting more money, like the free gold thingy I was talking about and that mainly, these people kept on Google me and Yahoo! me even after 3rd page just to show it&#8217;s worth the read.</p>
<p>Funny thing is that the keywords that is linked to the search are ASIAN BOOKIES, SWIFT CODE BANK, FOOTBALL, English Premier League, How to hack iTunes, Can I use POSB Debit Card for iTunes , using Paypal with Singapore account and the crap heap.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really lame when some are looking for Melayu Bogel on my Melayu.EU Ramblings of my Memoirs in Europe blog. Durgh, U won&#8217;t find the steamy pictures of Malaysian Minister Azzalina in bed with someone else, nor will you see Datuk K and someone else which may be tons of lies and video shopped, edited and things as such. To date, I am getting a steady stream of visitors and today, I have to say it, 60,000 unique hits loaded from my site, pointed off to MIPPIN and the quick loaders that allowed that to happen. </p>
<p>Even when Anuar Ibrahim comes to power or the PKR becomes the ruling party news won&#8217;t be that hot, because the hits are not mainly from Malaysia or Singapore but from US and Europe, which means if that is such, I&#8217;ll be receiving a fraud notice warning by Google, but Google Adsense seems to take it in stride and even praised me in an email to get that stream of traffic.</p>
<p>Honestly, who leaked my details off, only if I were to go on Oprah Winfrey or got an endorsement from Barrack Obama will I get that traffic because I am still blur, mainly because I am slacking behind with the updates, nor I post up any saucy videos of menteri melayu telanjang or Datin Sex or something.</p>
<p>Now then, I&#8217;m no celebrity, but I&#8217;m just sharing this so you too can get more hits. Every hit actually means about a cent to you, but in this case, where is my $6,000 daily income? Huh?</p>
<p>Or my servers playing up with me and someone using Chrome to mimic intelligence? What&#8217;s your maximum visitors a day and your earnings for that? I want to listen. Ping, trackback me&#8230;.</p>
<p>Oh ya.. Wordpress issued another emergency 2.6.2 release. Durgh! Just wait for 2.7 then ok?</p>
<p>System must be darn too screwed that Nuffnang ads are not showing up!</p>
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		<title>Windows Cheats Beware!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously Microsoft issued that they will be clamping hard on Windows users who like me abuse their licensing or using a totally pirated copy of the software. Now that Windows XP is no longer in the markets, Microsoft now is hitting another whammy, SHUTDOWN WINDOWS mode, where instead of the nagware, you will get a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previously Microsoft issued that they will be clamping hard on Windows users who like me abuse their licensing or using a totally pirated copy of the software. Now that Windows XP is no longer in the markets, Microsoft now is hitting another whammy, SHUTDOWN WINDOWS mode, where instead of the nagware, you will get a disabled Windows Vista like black screen with basic mobility and all the other bull crap.</p>
<p>Now that you know, what should you do? Firstly you must NOT install the update for Windows Genuine Advantage patch. That will mess it BIG TIME. If you did&#8230; then you are in for a shock. Backup your system *(run a Transfer wizard)  and wait for it to mess it up again. You will then need to reinstall or get a licensed copy.</p>
<p>If you use an ABUSED COPY of the windows, meaning you lend your copy over, then you need to call them for help. I won&#8217;t say more, but there are tricks to the registry which disables that.</p>
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		<title>$5 , Gears and Pings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While some of you opted that the fiver they offered were good enough, one should stop and pull a few steps back and see if the five dollars they offer you for the 300 word post is well worth it or not. Though may not be trivial for some,five dollars makes a huge difference in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While some of you opted that the fiver they offered were good enough, one should stop and pull a few steps back and see if the five dollars they offer you for the 300 word post is well worth it or not. Though may not be trivial for some,five dollars makes a huge difference in balancing the budget and it becomes more apparent to me with the shows like Deadliest Catch where the crab fisherman work with all sorts of danger to fish out $5 worth of Alaskan King Crab each way.</p>
<p>Well, the good thing about speed with the internet getting too cluttered is that Google came with GEARS, where speed is essence when loading up blogs and writing posts and such. It&#8217;s more or less using the WFW and ATOM publishing methods and pulling RSS and CSS directly instead, similar when we read a feed. Or some may monetize with FEEDSBURNER where Google is making another mess again with ancient accounts and linking with the new Adsense accounts.</p>
<p>Either way, it&#8217;s not doing me any favours as the pings on my backend is killing my post feed.Should have updated the feed systems earlier this month when I noticed it on the WP TRACT mailer but then I was too frigging lazy to change all my 82 blogs settings which makes me want to create another API where I can just XML call to the database to change my settings directly without this heavy graphic thingy.</p>
<p>Is it well worth it to sell my soul for $5 and risk my pageranks? Nope. I rather write for helium, though peanuts or $3 for the summer articles, but then I just do that more of a passion than of earning a living. Maybe I can later on develop these great writing skills to a book and really make good money like Salman Rushdie by slandering people and such, and get as many fatwas to make me a matyr or so.</p>
<p>What ever it is, finction or fact, blogging is slowly loosing it&#8217;s value and by writing great long articles nowadays makes it more worth than that five dollars from the paid post, because mainly Google will love you more and pay for the great feeds.</p>
<p>Heck, yeah, <a href="http://zackire.com">ZACKIRE</a>, my sister  has over 23000 feed reader which makes me darn wonder..or was it another hack again? I don&#8217;t know..as long she pays for the domain&#8230;heck it.</p>
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		<title>Aductions no more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aductions Inc US today made a statement to all the permanent and freelance affiliates based overseas.
That the Malaysia Office will be shut down due to restructuring and that all debts and liabilities of Aductions Malaysia be carried forward to Aductions US, and that the Malaysian Board will clear off the Bandar Utama office immediately.
In doing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aductions Inc US today made a statement to all the permanent and freelance affiliates based overseas.</p>
<p>That the Malaysia Office will be shut down due to restructuring and that all debts and liabilities of Aductions Malaysia be carried forward to Aductions US, and that the Malaysian Board will clear off the Bandar Utama office immediately.</p>
<p>In doing so, the Malaysian Board of Directors opted to sell off the company lock stock and barrel to another party to reduce the debts.</p>
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		<title>Labour Day Celebrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst Labour Day is celebrated in more than one place, we take this time to update the systems and whatever we can do, as we go into maintance to update the systems and all other bits and pieces to it.
Happy holidays
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whilst Labour Day is celebrated in more than one place, we take this time to update the systems and whatever we can do, as we go into maintance to update the systems and all other bits and pieces to it.</p>
<p>Happy holidays</p>
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		<title>Resource Overload</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just if you wonder what happened to my cluster of sites hosted on the East Coast Massachusetts, well, be frank to you, I exceeded my server resources.
Meaning, it will be down a bit till I sort out which site is taking up so much use or am I being leeched again. It&#8217;s right now suspended [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just if you wonder what happened to my cluster of sites hosted on the East Coast Massachusetts, well, be frank to you, I exceeded my server resources.</p>
<p>Meaning, it will be down a bit till I sort out which site is taking up so much use or am I being leeched again. It&#8217;s right now suspended for EXCEED BANDWIDTH, which is standing at 15,000,000,000 MB (that&#8217;s 15 TERRA BYTES) allocated to me for the month.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be pulling up the secondary server up which is on the low end, but please be patient, since it&#8217;s the weekend.</p>
<p>Thank You </p>
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		<title>Alternative means of advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think advertising on the web is really a great way to do things, well, you are right, except that the costs of advertising on the web is so expensive, especially with platforms that are already settled in like Google , AOL or even Yahoo hacking a 70% Premium of the entire advertising budget [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think advertising on the web is really a great way to do things, well, you are right, except that the costs of advertising on the web is so expensive, especially with platforms that are already settled in like Google , AOL or even Yahoo hacking a 70% Premium of the entire advertising budget from you.</p>
<p>The American market is totally a joke, because there are so many players in the market that they undercut each other and it&#8217;s tainted with terror and gangs the like, especially in New York. Many have died off taking the publisher revenue with it, even in the Asian Regions. Go Kita or formerly known as Nufflets is the latest casualty to the process with little financial backing and other problems caused them to lose their pool of publishers and without a pool of publishers, they can&#8217;t get any sales as there is no where to advertise.<br />
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Many remembered the Advertlets scandal many months back and triggered a crash with Nuffnang Malaysia and the huge outcry with the Malaysian Bloggers was something they can&#8217;t handle,and just as well, Kedah-Based (Alot Star) Grab My Ads are something you don&#8217;t hear anymore.It&#8217;s as if they have gone belly up, since they are just another enterprise.</p>
<p>Which I came to hear from XBRAIN that Aductions finally set up office in KL! Yes, they are based in Centerpoint Bandar Utama just off One Utama with Starbucks and McDonalds round the corner, which I find it typical of this team of expatriate professionals. Mamak, Starbucks with WiFi, McDonalds 24/7 ,what else is needed to run the international market other than to cut their costs and maximise their income. What I heard is that they landed in Malaysia after signing an exclusive deal with a huge media campaign which from what I hear, government linked.</p>
<p>Best part of this deal is that I don&#8217;t have to worry about the Paypal payouts as they are writing publishers Malaysian Ringgit Cheques so they will do the exchange and stuff,saving you the US$5 withdrawal fees each time and without any charges and immediate payouts.There are some CHINESE and ARABIAN advertisers too, so it&#8217;s time you get your stats up and prove to the market you are worth it. I would suggest small timers to take the CPD or Cost Per Day basis, similar of Text-Link-Ads to entice the advertisers, plus the hassle of fraud click checks are taken away immediately, unless you have no traffic at all each day.</p>
<p>Getting you friends to sign up will earn you Commission Credits which pushes your income up, which you can use to trade ads with other members, like LiewCF or XBRAIN.BIZ, driving your traffic up. Imagine 50,000 visitors a day? Yeah.</p>
<p>So,what are you waiting for , sign up at Aductions (from the logo) or better still, wait out for their official opening and have coffee on them. At least it&#8217;s far better than the Nuffnang office.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE: (July 4th 2008)<br />
<a href="http://www.azrin.info/?p=61">Aductions Malaysia have closed up</a>. However the team behind Team Aductions Malaysia is up to something else. Another network maybe? I don&#8217;t know. Nufflets are still up to their own same tricks.<br />
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		<title>Talk is cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, words says much more right but in this new era, I was always fascinated by Voice Recognition Software because I am a lazy bum. About in 1996, I came across this feature that was only compatible with IBM with less than perfect Artificial Intelligence AI because I had to speak very clearly and slowly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, words says much more right but in this new era, I was always fascinated by <a href="http://www.vecommerce.com" rel="me">Voice Recognition Software</a> because I am a lazy bum. About in 1996, I came across this feature that was only compatible with IBM with less than perfect Artificial Intelligence AI because I had to speak very clearly and slowly mainly they have a little bit on the dictionary in itself.</p>
<p>Now, the <a href="http://www.vecommerce.com/capabilities/applications.aspx">speech recognition software</a> is so far better that even huge companies utilize these <a href="http://www.vecommerce.com/capabilities/applications.aspx?ID=6">speech recognition system</a> in initial customer service interaction. Thought for those who are disabled or less than sensible, companies like BT and E-Trade used them to ask you to input your account number or social security number.</p>
<p>Which is good on paper but with idiots like me who can&#8217;t correctly pronounce all the &#8216;R&#8217; or some others, it&#8217;s a really painful way to do things as the human is the best way forward for that kind of people. Imagine me speaking 6543 1234 and the system thought I was saying 6853 1434!</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s a good way forward anyway, as once the fuzzy logic started to learn on your larynx, it will work to perfection so that you can dictate your thesis of 500,000 words and it will type it for you like what I did with my last projects. That&#8217;s why I am so interested into it.</p>
<p>Well, I did like to take short cuts..and this was written by a human&#8230;not by MS WORD! My gang who had to write their TESL dissertation will sure be angry with me especially when they had to explain phonetics and the sort.</p>
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		<title>Wondered why you don&#8217;t get any income?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alot of you will be fretting to why you don&#8217;t get even enough earnings from the web? Some even get less than $5 a month from advertising on their blogs that these don&#8217;t even cover the basic cost of Internet Hosting of $5.77 and the cost of a domain. Ever wonder why LiewCF and Jason [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alot of you will be fretting to why you don&#8217;t get even enough earnings from the web? Some even get less than $5 a month from advertising on their blogs that these don&#8217;t even cover the basic cost of Internet Hosting of<a href="http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1951493-10378887"> $5.77 </a>and the cost of a domain. Ever wonder why LiewCF and Jason Ooi made thousands a month when you can&#8217;t even hit that dollar? Don&#8217;t think of those cheap tricks, but it comes back to basics.</p>
<p>1) YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME.</p>
<p>Without it , you are basically sharing or not even getting any credit for your work and ideas. Each Domain has it&#8217;s own value, to it&#8217;s own keywords and it BELONGS TO YOU. Some are as low as $2 a year if they are on sale, and some are given free, if you sign up for some freebies or take up a hosting package.</p>
<p>2) Divide and Conquer.</p>
<p>Each domain can be sub divided to a sub domain to your own liking.A sub domain may talk about like <a href="http://www.mykitchendisasters.com">My Kitchen Disasters</a> (or do it directly as <a href="http://MYKITCHENDISASTERS.AZRIN.INFO">MYKITCHENDISASTERS.AZRIN.INFO</a>)</p>
<p>So each sub-domain has it&#8217;s own agenda to talk about. Don&#8217;t garble it all on one single site as it&#8217;s devaluing your site. Page Rank relevancy is as such.</p>
<p>3) Flow it, Smoothly  does it.</p>
<p>Content. Content. Content. It&#8217;s what drives your site to the masses. Information, up to date is best. As much as possible, as frequent as you can get it to be, not just chunking it all at one go. If you have some to lash out, throttle or schedule the dissemination by a few hours so the aggreators , RSS FEEDS managed to be delivered out, otherwise you may be spamming people.</p>
<p>Remember, bots are made by human, they don&#8217;t like to visit too often, usually once a day or 5 hours at max, so make it worth their while.</p>
<p>4) Costing and Pricing</p>
<p>If you use ad pricing system like Adbrite or Aductions, remember to set your pricing to be competitive. No Advertiser want to advertise without knowing that they will get value for their money, in terms of sales or clicks.</p>
<p>Competitively, set it to these limits:<br />
10c per click<br />
25c-$1 a day based on impressions (the norm is about $1 per 1000 visitors)<br />
70c per 100 directed views (targeted dermographics etc)</p>
<p>Put it too high you won&#8217;t get any advertiser traffic coming to your site(s), set it too low, they will think you are not worth it.</p>
<p>5) Check your stats.</p>
<p>Remember, a Hit does not mean a Visit. Use reliable stats like Google Analytics URCHIN.JS system and of your own to see if they visit long enough, they click something else, or who they are, if you use Yahoo&#8217;s MBL system. Always if possible visit their own pages so you build a rapport.</p>
<p>6) ANSWERABLE TO YOUR ACTIONS</p>
<p>Remember, every reply or comment , how nasty it is&#8230;is a positive feedback to yourself, in terms of content or even your style. Listen and if possible , reply.</p>
<p>Visitors like to see you reply to your actions.</p>
<p>7) Aesthetic Values.</p>
<p>Having too much ads is an eyesore. Too little means it bare..and it&#8217;s a balance of both to the eyes and to the pocket. Some pay nothing. Nuffnang Singapore pays only when you have ads running, so it is best to minimise or don&#8217;t show at all, as that will just slow down the loads.</p>
<p>Text Link Ads stay at the side or you can mod it to show horizontally if you write your own PHP MOD.</p>
<p>Right now, colorful and attractive 3 column themes are best, so you can place a leaderboard, skyscraper and a large square/ rectangle inside them</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.azrin.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Knowledge is Wealth</p>
<p>But so is sharing it. Sharing knowledge gets you better off, people mention about you and you get the traffic needed. Sharing it with places like Helium gets you paid. the more you share&#8230; the more you get. You get publicity and also some royalty. As much as $90 has been paid for an article which has demand. You never know when yours is mentioned in Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p>9) Community</p>
<p>Well, things happen when there is a crowd but bad crowds are something you should steer away from or being in a clan or something. If you love cars, it&#8217;s ok to talk about cars and be in car modding forum sharing your thoughts, but not becoming an illegal drag racer on the street, becoming a nuisance or cause harm to others.</p>
<p>10) Compliance.</p>
<p>By complying with the regulations, like censorship or so, you are acknowledged better and you have less of an issue with firewalls or Cyber Nanny. Listing in DMOZ and other directories helps alot too by building you back links and once you are on one, the rest will follow suit.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s my 2c , so enjoy the flow of traffic. It works, at least it pays the bills.</p>
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		<title>What to write&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money Money and More Money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One thing bloggers make mistake in the world of incentive Content Creation is in the writing itself. Many of you complain the lack of income surging to the site or even paying for the basic stuff like rent or even the cost of the domain itself. Many, in itself gets about $100 from Google Adsense [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing bloggers make mistake in the world of incentive Content Creation is in the writing itself. Many of you complain the lack of income surging to the site or even paying for the basic stuff like rent or even the cost of the domain itself. Many, in itself gets about $100 from Google Adsense after more than 18 months.</p>
<p>So how to make a decent return out of the investment? One thing is that to separate each theme or focus per subdomain or domain in itself, like if I say <a href="http://SNAPSHOTS.AZRIN.INFO">SNAPSHOTS.AZRIN.INFO</a> , it should show pictures or something talking about snapshots. One thing is also the focus of the Meta Tags and the Permalink to each side; if it talks about finance, it should have a slug entitled to the focus.</p>
<p>So how to bring the traffic in? Other than talking about in-depth and hoping for someone to drop by or a mention by a celebrity, you have to pull the traffic in. Some look for plain stuff which will get your blog censored..like pornography or the talk of the latest amateur porn artists. Others link bait or even buy traffic to drive the hordes in.</p>
<p>Will it work? Maybe. How much you want depends on what you have to offer&#8230;like the pictures you take (make sure you place the ALT of it) &#8230;or food recipes.</p>
<p>Oh well, that&#8217;s my 2 cents.</p>
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		<title>The End of Blogspot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress 101]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, Blogspot or Blogger is the common platform for alot of Spam Blogs or SPLOGS as they deem it and with the Malaysian General Election just days away, there has been alot of speculation, criticism among alot of independent and related Parties.
One off note is that I got a small buzz from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like it or not, Blogspot or Blogger is the common platform for alot of Spam Blogs or SPLOGS as they deem it and with the Malaysian General Election just days away, there has been alot of speculation, criticism among alot of independent and related Parties.</p>
<p>One off note is that I got a small buzz from someone in charge of Network Management and Control at the Government side and one particularly was that the suppression of Information and Censorship of Content by means of keywords and also domain names. One thing does stick out : BLOGSPOT.</p>
<p>I mean how on earth can you block the entire operandi of Google? With the Nameservers based in the US itself, they really mean that you have to block Google in itself. How could you do that?! It&#8217;s like putting the Great Fire Wall of Malaysia&#8230; which just sounds like the way Singapore is separated off, by a small Straits.</p>
<p>So, what does it mean to the Blogger who is trying to make money by means of BLOGSPOT?<br />
Well, you will eventually get slower packet transfers and means they will be throttling the bandwidth to those sites. Means that your ads and script will slowly load.</p>
<p>What can you do? One is that to have your own domain, and two import everything from your old blog to the new blog, and wordpress does it well!</p>
<p>How much? Domains are as low as $1.99 for some TLD plus hosting fees. I am a domain  registrar and reseller myself and many of them opt to pay a nominal setup fee for the basic blog with next to no limit on the bandwidth. More info will be at my <a href="http://www.gizmonet-intraweb.com">Domains Service</a>.</p>
<p>How does this affect you and what do you have to gain? Mainly the Page Rank will be worth more on your own domain and you have full control over what you want in there. You can even install galleries and subdomains to befit each theme or concept you focus on, but make sure that you don&#8217;t get too side track otherwise if your blog sucks.. you bear no traffic which literally means no money!</p>
<p>What does it mean to me&#8230;in monetary terms is that you can do link selling or advertising campaigns. Advertisers pay as low as $1 per day for your skyscraper a day to the unethical Sponsored Link Advertorials which can be as low as $100 for a PR 4 site *(I have one which is quite dormant&#8230;so let me know if you want free mention&#8230;terms apply ah) to as much as $2500 a review for some heavy traffic ones like <a href="http://xbrain.biz">XBRAIN</a> and the cronies.</p>
<p>So, just be prepared to be blocked off with Blogspot.. but before that, get yourself ready and avoid the rush.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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		<title>Fancy Page Rank 5?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was having some fun today when a fellow kaki working up at Pageranks in Google Development team back in the US and actually told me that I am eligible to get back my Page Rank Value of 5. I was honestly gob smacked but the requirements are not that easy to comply anyway for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was having some fun today when a fellow kaki working up at Pageranks in Google Development team back in the US and actually told me that I am eligible to get back my <strong>Page Rank Value of 5</strong>. I was honestly gob smacked but the requirements are not that easy to comply anyway for me.</p>
<p>1) Content.I must add in the next month or so about 500 + RELATED post! Gosh! It&#8217;s bad enough to churn up content but 500? That works to about a post for every hour or so, and they gave extra points for IMAGES!</p>
<p>Yikes! Where on earth will I find content related to SEO and Technology every hour unless I &#8230;..do a RSS SPAM. Nah&#8230;. I will try.. but it&#8217;s not hard because I can churn them out, especially talking about Linux Based, with PHP, ASP and Scripting</p>
<p>2) Related Links. I must be relating the links too. Getting people to link me about my post gives a good boost. Thanks to a list of friends, they do link me often even though it&#8217;s not that enough, but every little helps.</p>
<p>3) Traffic. I should be getting a driven profile of over 1000 unique US visitors every day! That is really hard unless I talk business. And making more money and of course, the traffic drive for Malaysia, Video Lucah Melayu 3GPP. That will surely boost me to over 35,000 daily in Malaysia alone. I might want to, but looking at pageranks, I may loose my page classification.</p>
<p>4) Link Community. Having linked in Blogrolls will greatly help, but internal reviews about me will do just as well. </p>
<p>5) Well, of course, my own domain. Without SEO tricks in use. So,there goes BLOGGER!</p>
<p>Will you do this for PR 5?</p>
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		<title>Credit Card Debt &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american express black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a relief it is to be rid of debt, plastic debt that is. Believe it or not, the actual Annual Percentage Rate of a daily rated credit card interest works out to 19.7% even when you pay your debt on time. That given the amount paid is more than the 5% minimum sum and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a relief it is to be rid of debt, plastic debt that is. Believe it or not, the actual Annual Percentage Rate of a daily rated credit card interest works out to 19.7% even when you pay your debt on time. That given the amount paid is more than the 5% minimum sum and if you take cash out from your credit card, it works to an almost whopping 43.9% APR! Sneaky but 43.9% even when you paid off your credit card cash advance as the way they settle your debt is as follows:<br />
{Given You pay $1500 a month like me}</p>
<p>The LOWEST INTEREST FIRST<br />
Means, the ZERO PERCENT Installment plan which you took to pay for that PC etc.</p>
<p>ie: The Monthly rate of say $190/mth is taken off first from your payment (your bonded with Maxis for 2 Years). The balance gets to pay these&#8230;</p>
<p>The Zero Percent Balance transfer which you paid 5% anyway upfront,<br />
(Whatever the balance is available due, means say I transfer $5000 for 6mths, it&#8217;s $833)</p>
<p>What is left is $877 paid for these.<br />
Then the Credit Card Annual Fees (included as 2.5% Exchange Fee)</p>
<p>Then it pays for your Lowest Rate Retail Purchases, if Any.<br />
Then the Finance Charges due last month and this month ($450 this month!!)<br />
Then it pays for your purchases ($427 )</p>
<p>Means, these will come back to haunt you:<br />
The Cash Advance FEE 5% a month<br />
The Overseas Transaction FEE 2.5% of the converted amount.</p>
<p>YIKES! You think paying $1500 of the $30000 owed will pay for your bills?<br />
NAH! It pays only for $427 of your purchases.</p>
<p>STUPID?! You bet your paycheck on it!<br />
TAKES YOU 73 months to pay off your debt!!<br />
73 Months or 6 years plus to clear off a debt that you take thinking you save money by paying the minimum sum. FORGET what they say behind the RHB Card statement&#8230; it&#8217;s bull crap. Not 24mths to clear off, but actually 73 months even without taking a balance transfer or even a cash advance!!</p>
<p>How to save yourself from it??</p>
<p>1) CUT IT UP!!<br />
2) CANCEL IT. There goes your credit line.<br />
3) Sell all your gold NOW (Pajak Gadai gives RM70/gram)<br />
4) Uplift all your Fixed Deposit (why save on 3.4% interest when you get charged 43%!!)<br />
5) Save your paycheck!! Spend on basic essentials only<br />
6) last resort&#8230;seek help from Bank Negara. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.akpk.org.my/">AKPK</a>. They will restructure your debt and cancel the debt. But no cards or loans for next 3 years.</p>
<p>If you malu..ask money from Ma and Pa before Chinese New Year!</p>
<p>What I did? Well, I canceled my problem with RHB. They were a pain in the ass. Now I owe only the base amount of RM3000 which is about my 2 weeks fuel money. I have to cut my travel expenses now.</p>
<p>What is left? I have to clear off what is owed to CIMB. Yes..it&#8217;s a roll over,but at least no more interest. They lowered my rate to about 7.5% as I reduced it to a term loan instead.</p>
<p>A fresh start. A relief. No more Ah-Longs calling.I&#8217;ll stick to my Debit ATM Card from AM Bank instead and earn more points.</p>
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		<title>Load of choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertiser]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, these days, I seem to be lost, in the choices that is made available to me and the other bloggers in the sense of what we have on the palette to advertise with. Off record, I had to pain painstaking time to sieve through the whole list of advertisers who wish to be on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, these days, I seem to be lost, in the choices that is made available to me and the other bloggers in the sense of what we have on the palette to advertise with. Off record, I had to pain painstaking time to sieve through the whole list of advertisers who wish to be on my network. How does 379 slots and advertisers to vouch through and another 700 to prioritize and place the appropriate keywords on their products, and giving them the weighting. Which means alot of work and alot of money.</p>
<p>One of the advertisers which is paying top value for money for ANY TRAFFIC is a FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET BASED. Also commonly heard as FOREX with CFD and PIPs etc as the jargon word, they are actually paying as low as US1 per visitor. You may see some inline ads here anyway about these FOREX, Markets and so, and tell you, they are really desperate for money. There are so many network based advertisers bidding for Forex Keywords like Dollars, Cents, Yen, Pounds Sterling, Kuwait Dinars, Malaysia Ringgit , all to get the visitor&#8217;s attraction.</p>
<p>In comparison, other networks like NUFFNANG has started to move to the groove. Darn right that 25sen is barely 8cents per click compared to me offering 1Penny Per View (see<a href="http://kedai.tv"> Kedai.TV</a>) which is about 2cents per paid view. It&#8217;s not much but getting 15% from your referrals is alot of moolah you can sit on. I got on one advertising run by Nuffnang with RM7.80 for ONE DAY!! That is because I had you to thank for visiting me. It&#8217;s nothing compared to a sale accomplished. Commission rate we are talking about ? How does £30 sounds which is about RM200 for just a single visitor!</p>
<p>YES, TWO HUNDRED RINGGIT FOR ONE VISITOR and for the member, there is an incentive of 10% (or about RM20) for that sign up. It&#8217;s also commonly called incentive driven promotion which normally works with great sales and traffic. What it means for the blogger is that they get a combination of PER CLICK BASIS and a PER EVENT COMMISSION with a long term cookie to get that sale to your pocket. Be it 10 visitors a day or a million, ratios don&#8217;t bother in this one. It&#8217;s the amount converted and the personal touch that is needed.</p>
<p>So, what you think, You want 50C per click or 10cents + a percentage of the sale?</p>
<p>I am asking for your opinion.</p>
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		<title>Painful as it is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I don&#8217;t like is parting company, be it with friends, relationships or affiliation to an organisation. Of the late, I had to choose or they make the decision and one thing that leaves a bitter after taste was with Pay Per Post, and to make things worse, being labeled the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things that I don&#8217;t like is parting company, be it with friends, relationships or affiliation to an organisation. Of the late, I had to choose or they make the decision and one thing that leaves a bitter after taste was with Pay Per Post, and to make things worse, being labeled the worst blogger of the year 2007 (NON-US).</p>
<p>It was a joke at first, and some, had their egoistic American sense of pride to it. So it was a dent to my side income, which is like my candy money.</p>
<p>Of late, Ming asked me to choose whether to stay with Nuffnang Singapore or Nuffnang Malaysia. I don&#8217;t recall the need to be so territorial with it, since Ming himself is a Malaysian working in Singapore, earning the sugar and honey from the island itself. Anyway, enough of politics and between us, I had to choose sides.</p>
<p>My Loyalty is to the Country and Beliefs, and be it so, but being faithful to the administration of where you are located is a must. Despite Nuffnang SG pays in Dollars and Malaysia Ringgit, it does not make much of a difference as the income is just petty compared to the sit about and watch income from Text Link Ads and other networks which are in US Dollars.</p>
<p>And so, I will be slowly removing my Singapore Nuffnang ads, because I don&#8217;t think I give enough value to my friends and readers alike. This is despite the SG Server granted me Glitterati status and the Malaysian one left me out.</p>
<p>Unless proven otherwise, I will take em out because I want to see variety of ads, not just some static place holder ads which brings an eyesore to me. Having said that.. my layout will look better and less of a clutter&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s just me.</p>
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		<title>6 Nations Ragby in Caerdydd,Cymru</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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Welsh love their Balls. I really Big HUGE GAELIC BALL. It&#8217;s call the Ragby aka Rugby ball or commonly called the rugger in the deeper sides of Wales ( I like to say it by their Official Name, CYMRU ) like Tenby or Llanelli  *(spoken as Glan Delli, locals say it as Klan Nack [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sixnations/wal_badge.gif" alt="Welsh Badge" /><br />
Welsh love their Balls. I really Big HUGE GAELIC BALL. It&#8217;s call the Ragby aka Rugby ball or commonly called the rugger in the deeper sides of Wales ( I like to say it by their Official Name, CYMRU ) like Tenby or Llanelli  *(spoken as Glan Delli, locals say it as Klan Nack Lee). But then Wales love to beat their neighbours with their pants down and hit them hard on the playing field. I don&#8217;t remember how many times, but only so far England only trashed the Welsh twice (if I can recall) in the RBS 6 Nations Rugby Tournament.<br />
<img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sixnations/eng_badge.gif" alt="England Badge" /><br />
England on the other hand played badly for the past few runs, and had been under performing in the recent events which were always plagued by some sort of scandal <a href="http://azrin.net/?p=672">&#8230;.. < more ....> </a></p>
<p>But them aside, I had my odds and bets taken down for the <a href="http://www.rbs6nations.com/">rugby dream team</a> actually, which punters predict this year, it would favour the Gaelic Brothers of either the Irish, Scottish or Welsh. My bet says it&#8217;s the Italian who will take the cup as they performed better than ever and it&#8217;s never going to be England as the boys are now filled with Winning Ego of Hot Air..delivering nothing.</p>
<p>I will be watching them straight from here though. And I will miss the atmosphere.</p>
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		<title>No More Alexa Cheats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Codes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Read Me!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember back last year, that heck of a lot of people were trying to boost their Alexa Rankings to get better Page Rank and Real Ranks in PPP? Well, seems that Alexa is placing a few nails into the paid blogging industry.
As of today, Alexa is not letting people mask the Alexa Pages to get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember back last year, that heck of a lot of people were trying to boost their Alexa Rankings to get better Page Rank and Real Ranks in PPP? Well, seems that Alexa is placing a few nails into the paid blogging industry.</p>
<p>As of today, Alexa is not letting people mask the Alexa Pages to get a boost on their traffic Ranks. Which means no more REDIRECT.ALEXA.COM/REDIRECT?The-url in the short cut of your BLOG Entries. </p>
<p>So, remove them now. it&#8217;s plain simple now actually. Go to your Index.PHP and find (WHILE HAVE POST) and it&#8217;s just off the < H2 > tags&#8230;</p>
<p>So in essence, Glitterati also requires your links to be straight forward and I read many other networks and seems they are all shying blogs with the PayPerPost links and logos and banners. Since Glitterati is 2 days away, you better remove them all. Leaving TLA and Adbrite is OK.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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		<title>Time to make some extra money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well people, This is the start of the new year and it&#8217;s time to let it go with a bang.
How do you fancy winning RM50? Feels nice right? Well, that is what Shoppers@Kedai.TV are doing. I am not putting up my own link down here, but the contest ends 15th January.
No Purchase Required.
FINE PRINT:
OPEN TO [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well people, This is the start of the new year and it&#8217;s time to let it go with a bang.</p>
<p>How do you fancy winning RM50? Feels nice right? Well, that is what <a href="http://www.kedai.tv">Shoppers@Kedai.TV</a> are doing. I am not putting up my own link down here, but the contest ends 15th January.</p>
<p>No Purchase Required.</p>
<p><font size="-10" >FINE PRINT:<br />
OPEN TO ANYONE WHERE ALLOWED. IF WINNER IS NOT FROM MALAYSIA, A VOUCHER OR PRODUCT WORTH TO THAT AMOUNT WILL BE PROVIDED IN LIEU. CASH VOUCHER. ALTERNATIVES POSSIBLE. PLAYERS MUST BE OVER 13. UNDER 21, PLEASE SEEK PARENTAL CONSENT.NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. EACH MEMBER IS ALLOWED ONLY ONE ENTRY. EMPLOYEES AND ASSOCIATES OF THE COMPANY IS ALLOWED TO PLAY AS IT&#8217;S ALL RANDOMLY SELECTED. POSTINGS MUST BE IN EITHER ENGLISH OR MALAY LANGUAGE,WITHOUT ANY VULGARITIES OR PORNOGRAPHY. </p>
<p>WINNERS OF THE AMEX USD25 GIFT CARD MAY RECEIVE AN ALTERNATIVE CASH VOUCHER IN LIEU. WINNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING. ALL WORKS AND POSTS MUST STAY THERE FOR AT LEAST 365 DAYS.More T&#038;C in the Site&#8217;s Pages<br />
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		<title>Tracking,Linking ..and Missing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nuffnang admittedly said that they can&#8217;t track 5% of the visits and clicks. Which is by far, a huge cry for those who needs every click or visit counted. Surprisingly, analytics can&#8217;t account for ads and clicks if they are fraudulent.
How can that happen? Well,some people love to SABOTAGE the blogger if they are popular [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nuffnang admittedly said that they can&#8217;t track 5% of the visits and clicks. Which is by far, a huge cry for those who needs every click or visit counted. Surprisingly, analytics can&#8217;t account for ads and clicks if they are fraudulent.</p>
<p>How can that happen? Well,some people love to SABOTAGE the blogger if they are popular enough or hated enough like me. However, Bots are something we have to dismiss against our server logs if you get my drift, but sometimes, it&#8217;s more to the ability of the viewer or reader to view the content itself.</p>
<p>Likewise, Nuffnang utilises Javascripts. I did point this error before to Timothy that the NUFFNANG_BID is not declared properly and mostly, users utilising Internet Explorer version 6 and above will show an Error and don&#8217;t load the ads at all due to the lack of P3P privacy policy missing within the domain. Another aspect is ICRA Rating,which rates the site as General or PG or R rated. To add salt to the wound, the drift from IE and Windows towards Linux and iMac is a serious issue. Linux don&#8217;t have Shockwave built in as the RPM and .DEB composite repository differs from each flavor whereas FLASH maybe easily plugged in using the Firefox (ICEWEASEL to some) addons. And since alot of the ads are in Shockwave, your user cannot see the ad and all they see is a broken link.</p>
<p>So, a tracker will show that if you are sabotaged by a MetaBot or a Crawler or even Google&#8217;s Spiders. A simple Tracker.js can show that or even a hidden pixel embedded inside the header will do a trick.Otherwise, a good AWSTATS will show that too.</p>
<p>So, how to make sure you get your 20c worth of click? Knowingly, a Global CPM Ad band works on a basis of how many clicks per thousand impressions. The higher the ratio, the better it works for your wallet. Remember that blogger who had RM93 for a week of ad? He has about 50 clicks per 1000 visitors. How to deliver that? Well, one way is to BEG for your Clicks. Another is to hot mention your advertiser should they paste a static one on your site. Ads like National Treasure 2 or Motorola Q2 cell phone or even the prominent Orang Oren (HAPPY.COM.MY) which is actually Digi doing it&#8217;s dirty tricks&#8230;. is one thing to entice your advertiser and reader to explore.</p>
<p>That way, it actually compensates your visitor and advertiser alike. Words like please visit or click my ad so I can get credit or 20c is not the way to go. That will get you kicked off any advertising network, be it Nuffnang,Advertlets or PayPerPost (oops). Blogsvertise,Blogitive and Smorty will love them though but definitely Google Adsense and Adbrite will terminate you without any payment at all in the first instance when you utilise PPC (Per Per Click) or PPV services;heck even mentioning it will get you the sack.Ask my sis, who lost $72 on Adsense because she paid 70c for 500 visitors..which surged and <a href="http://www.zackire.com/got-trashed-by-adsense.htm">killed her Adsense</a> and me, whom had a surge , overloaded my servers and got myself a kick in the behind because of the hardware failures. </p>
<p>So, in good faith, this will teach you to earn that big fat $1000 packets of gold from the advertising industry, and not to mention the fact of affiliate programs,which I will cover later on. As for me, this mention is to see if there is another bug on the Nuffnang system which has not been tracking my SEO Engineering 101 pageviews properly. So,every NANG will be a visit. Thanks for visiting, and for your time, I am giving you a FREE HOSTING for 2 mths, on me,and should you want more,I&#8217;ll let you in on the secret.</p>
<p>Best Regards</p>
<p>Merry Christmas and have a joyous New Year!</p>
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		<title>Twenty Points for your Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Nuffnang is the highest paying advertiser in South East Asia, well, Asia for that reason. Compared to Nuffnang Singapore, the Malaysia Head Office actually has a variety line up of  advertisers for your little great blogspace. How much? Well, TWENTY CENTS doesn&#8217;t mean much to you much to the Singapore [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that Nuffnang is the highest paying advertiser in South East Asia, well, Asia for that reason. Compared to Nuffnang Singapore, the Malaysia Head Office actually has a variety line up of  advertisers for your little great blogspace. How much? Well, TWENTY CENTS doesn&#8217;t mean much to you much to the Singapore Blogger.</p>
<p>Remember the options in <a href="http://www.nuffnang.com.my/blogger/manage">BLOG MANAGER</a> ?? Make sure it shows <strong>SHOW GLOBAL CPC ADS</strong>. Unfortunately, there are only TWO OPTIONS in the SINGAPORE version, which says SHOW DEFAULT ADS, which is a bummer. So if you want extra money Singaporean, place a NUFFNANG MALAYSIA AD into the adspace.</p>
<p>How to do so? Well, you can place a SINGAPORE address in your NUFFNANG Application, but it is up to you to decipher how to bank that cheque in. Opening a Bank Account is quite simple actually, commonly known as an EXTERNAL ACCOUNT. Common Options will be the RHB Bank Branch in Giant Plentong Hypermart in JB.</p>
<p>Of course,traffic counts. A typical CTR of more than 1% is best, but with a higher ratio of pageviews are also part of the criterion of getting placements.  A typical BAND 2 CPM ad by NNSG is $2.88 compared to RM3.58 on the same placement. Of course, you will need at least 50 visitors a day, so how can that make a huge difference?</p>
<p>Placements, Content and return visits.</p>
<p>One least utility used by Bloggers are the MyBlogLog service widget by Yahoo! Install that ALONGSIDE with your NUFFNANG SKYSCRAPER, setting the pixel width to 150px for Blogger.<br />
That will show WHO HAD VISITED your blog,and in turn, come to their profile and convey your thanks, and do the same. If the person has Adbrite Network Full Page Ads, he will be compensated about 0.3SEN / 0.2Cent. That will network yourself to their community, and in turn get better visits.</p>
<p>Placement wise, how and what is the effective method?</p>
<p>MY LEADERBOARD for TOP PLACEMENT<br />
MY SQUARE at the TOP CORNER<br />
MY SQUARE in between the post (or end of post ::refer to Theme codes::).</p>
<p>(try the style:&#8221;clear:both;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;&#8221; alongside the SQUARE)<br />
I just wish they just use a non-javascript IMG SRC so it can be embedded in Wordpress easier.</p>
<p>Add a SG Sidebar and a MY SIDEBAR on your sidebar<br />
Add the MyBloglog Widget under it. So you know who and where they came from.</p>
<p>(MY is denoted for Malaysia, SG for Singapore)</p>
<p>And so, within a month or so, you can drive great content, and yr friends drive you great cash, because each click is TWENTY MALAYSIAN SEN. It&#8217;s better than Advertlets or Auctionads. Even this surpass TEXT LINK ADS placements and forget Adsense, they pay less than .01cent! Takes ages to get a check from them.</p>
<p>So this is more than twenty points, but if you want more money for your blog, make sure you have a constant flow of traffic. INNIT is a good source to broadcast your topic. I just wish Tim have standard IAB Banners *(468*80) so we can embed more stuff in. This don&#8217;t get us demoted from Pagerank analytics. That includes REALRANK and SMARTRANK by Yahoo! OOps, did I mention that new ranking system?</p>
<p>That will be for another day.</p>
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		<title>Google Algorithms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you bash me on anything&#8230;take a few steps back and a long deep breath, while try to make some sense into these codes I am gonna blab about.
Google Page Rank 
Pagerank = % of Adsense + Traffic Dermographics
Traffic + Links + Keyword of Meta content = Pagerank Passed
Value of Keyword = % of Density [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before you bash me on anything&#8230;take a few steps back and a long deep breath, while try to make some sense into these codes I am gonna blab about.</p>
<p><strong>Google Page Rank </strong><br />
Pagerank = % of Adsense + Traffic Dermographics<br />
Traffic + Links + Keyword of Meta content = Pagerank Passed<br />
Value of Keyword = % of Density of Content / Total Value of Content (viscosity)</p>
<p>OK. This is the HUMAN Answer to the Smart Alec way of how the new algorithms are being derived. I analysed over 400 networks of websites and the blogs , with their pagerank value being tracked across the web with their cached files looked up thru major search engines.</p>
<p>One funny note: Google is also utilising not just THEIR SEARCH ENGINE but also mimicking third party Engines and Spiders <strong>IGNORING</strong> standardized robots exclusions. They have been found to mimic almost 30 variants of engine spiders to pre-determine the value and passing threshold of their so for called Page Rank.</p>
<p>Utilising the initial use of entries from the Google&#8217;s Blogger System, the spider link each blog with the relevancy of the keyword and it&#8217;s entry. It analyzed the link list of each post versus the static link disregarding the blog link roll and widgets as &#8217;spam karma&#8217; to it&#8217;s list. Highlighting the number of words repeated and keywords installed, their engine pre-determine the aspect ratio.</p>
<p>For Example: A blog has 50 page entries. It has 270 links individually linking it&#8217;s internal pages with over 100 outgoing. It has also 10 persons as it&#8217;s Blogroll. The Blogroll are given Brownie Points. It&#8217;s Widget Links loaded are given Demerit points. The Bot overall keyword for the site is checked against the MOST NUMBER of KEYWORDS MENTIONED, and it picks out the Most Common Number of Keywords mentioned in each post.</p>
<p>In this example is that THE blog talks about the theme of Motorbikes with Motor, bike, and the brands as standardised keywords.It will then compare each page post with the top 5 or 10 keywords bid using the Adsense algorithm and come up with a list, and from that list will see if the keywords have anything in common, known as the common numerator or value of the common keywords. That will predetermine the blogs VALUE of ADSENSE ADS and it&#8217;s Page Rank. The Higher the Total Value of Keyword Points, the Higher it gets on the Pagerank as it&#8217;s value for the Ranking of THAT CERTAIN PARTICULAR KEYWORD.</p>
<p>Then it is cross checked against the number of incoming links for the ANCHORS. Namely, it&#8217;s Site-Name, Author, Topic, Keywords with the Keywords in the Top 5 or 10 linked given a huge value. </p>
<p>Say I got 270 links, talking about SEO Hacks as the incoming Anchor and out of that, only 15 are the linking about my keyword of SEO, Hacks, Keywords etc (based from the Meta) and out of that 15, 9 are on the Top 10 list. So, it would give me a HUGE RANK for SEO and BUSINESS being the PR passed is 0.02 compared to a 0.0006 point per link.</p>
<p>Removing the number of people in the Round Robin Widgets (aka Tautons etc) is a good thing as you will loose the same number of point per spam karma link.</p>
<p>In regards to Adsense, they will see the dermographics and density view of YOUR PAGES against the number of pages available every day and the amount of content viewed. In other words, it&#8217;s PENETRATION.</p>
<p>The more fluid your content relevancy, the higher your rank, and the less you get smacked. In other words, don&#8217;t go off topic. Buying Links is a big NO! Ask for barter , with a discretion of HOW TO TALK ABOUT IT is better off. Let the responder have a choice. That gives you more brownie points.</p>
<p>I was analyzing the lot of domains from the top to the bottom,and my algorithms noticed this. And getting AUTOSURF is not good as the bot knows the HTTP_REFERRER unless you can tweak this. Using TinyURL is another issue.</p>
<p>Anyway, this is a preliminary review. If you have any thoughts..let me know and NAGG IT!</p>
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		<title>YouTube and Adsense</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you can install YouTube Widget advertising on top of your Google Adsense? Yes, you can make some extra money for showing up some targeted advertising video,like SEO, Webhosting, How to Make Money and the works. Just as how you target your keywords, the same can be done with YouTube.
I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that you can install YouTube Widget advertising on top of your Google Adsense? Yes, you can make some extra money for showing up some targeted advertising video,like SEO, Webhosting, How to Make Money and the works. Just as how you target your keywords, the same can be done with YouTube.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much they pay for viewing it, but I do notice my earnings are severely bumped up since I installed it on my sites. Average out to somewhat $15.94 for eCPM, which is about 72c a click or view. Which is better than just getting one cent per click or so. Yes, I believe Google muscled Adbrite from their BritePics method, where you insert the javascript over your images so if there is an advertiser who is interested in the ALT of the Image, it will show up over the image.</p>
<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s open to certain sites only, and I&#8217;m still in Beta. And what I believe is that it&#8217;s open to Publishers who have received payment and verified terms only. Which is great because they know these publishers are genuine and care about their traffic earnings.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see what gives, and you can insert this alongside with your Adsense Plugins.<br />
Great huh?? Let me know if this work out.Or it&#8217;s crapping out my style.<br />
<code></p>
<div id='_ytplayer_vjVQa1PpcFNnw4toVTWe-JKBxcWbkIrUPFK9QXY-ioo='><a href='http://www.youtube.com/browse'>Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com</a></div>
<p><script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFNnw4toVTWe-JKBxcWbkIrUPFK9QXY-ioo='></script><br />
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		<title>A kind note to those who are affected by Google.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(remember to leave a comment on my NuffNang!)
In view of the recent articles and activities by Google, it seems that ONLY PAYPERPOST blogs are affected in the recent killings.
How they detect your site is PAYPERPOST blogger?
Sinfully, they asked you to install the widget that tracks you down, on the dermographics and the fraud. And so, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(remember to <a href="http://innit.nuffnang.com/view.php?id=331">leave a comment</a> on my NuffNang!)</p>
<p>In view of the recent articles and activities by Google, it seems that ONLY PAYPERPOST blogs are affected in the recent killings.</p>
<p>How they detect your site is PAYPERPOST blogger?</p>
<p>Sinfully, they asked you to install the widget that tracks you down, on the dermographics and the fraud. And so, that is what killing you. You have to remove the HIRE ME icon and all other icons related to paid blogging. I had my site thankfully removed last june, and by grace of God, it hurt me&#8230; financially. It&#8217;s really simple. They K-Lined all the blogs, but not the networks it&#8217;s in. They also removed the cache pages of the advertisers. Which is why I am being PageRank NOT PASSED.</p>
<p>So, to remove the widgets are easy. But to NO FOLLOW THEM&#8230;is something else. You have to find the posts manually, or by a little trick.It&#8217;s a little bit tricky&#8230;but it works.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;ve put a link to how to do it&#8230; (full details later on) on my Geek Page on <a href="http://www.azrin.net/dont-drop-it.finance.html">how to mod yr Links</a></p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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		<title>They Stopped Buying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a very optimistic person by nature and even with the recent changes with Google and the way they align the Page Rank which affect alot of you, my trusty readers, I must say, the recent months are very challenging for the most of us.
I have noticed that the marketplace has been abit dry [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a very optimistic person by nature and even with the recent changes with Google and the way they align the Page Rank which affect alot of you, my trusty readers, I must say, the recent months are very challenging for the most of us.</p>
<p>I have noticed that the marketplace has been abit dry for everyone, be it the Asian Communities or even those Northern American people. I was analyzing the market for both the blogger and the advertiser, and the recent drop in earnings and conversion ratios on the Adsense or even Pay Per Click markets. People are even willing to come and pay your site a visit for less than one-tenth of a penny / cent. People stop linking each other in retrospective view, for the fear of PageRank wrath of Bad Karma and the works.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it, even businesses are worried of the slowdown in the Chinese Markets. What I mean is that the aftermath of the Beijing Olympics 2008 Post Construction Frenzy. Chinese stocks, like AliBaba and others are heavily over inflated, mostly 10-1 bias. Its a Dot Com bubble waiting to burst, and all works MUST COMPLETE before May 2008 and thus the rush to get things done, with slip shod work and cutting corners. May is the DEADLINE for major work to complete and handover must be done prior to July 2008 to welcome the visitors and tourists. Millions in fact. One of the reasons why Singapore Airlines won&#8217;t cancel their Airbus A380 Mega Jumbo all depending on the capability to shuttle the tourist dollar in.</p>
<p>China invested over a TRILLION DOLLARS within it&#8217;s internal economy to fuel the Olympic Bid. They want the world to know that they are no longer classed as the last ancient world of prehistoric times. China has risen, true to Prophet Muhammad SAW words, that we should head east to China to find knowledge and trade, but will this last.</p>
<p>We all know, majority of the businesses are targetting typical American markets, with exorbitant costs in the advertising alone with low conversion ratios and everything else, heavily inflated. Something worth 10 cents is sold for 10 Dollars with so many hands along the way. And since the American Sellers have stopped buying advertising space, because of the recent credit crunch, who do we have to look for? Knowingly that American and European markets are heavily dependent on volatile credit markets, depending on their ever trust credit cards of Visa, Diners, Mastercard or Amex , the Asian markets don&#8217;t. They all pay IN CASH. Hard Currencies like GOLD, Dollars or Euros.</p>
<p>So those in the Stock Markets have dumped their stocks for gold, in view of the Northern Rock scandal and Gold is ever going up, and up. So if you have been hit by the Google Evil Engines, then it&#8217;s time to fight back. And I know just the trick.</p>
<p>Till then.</p>
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		<title>Help! I&#8217;m lost!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garmin has a new wonder for you bloggers : GPS Device For SEO Bloggers. Never get lost again in the Cyberspace. Know where you are and what you would do next, telling you which ad to click, where to place your email address, who to visit so you get the most visiting revenue out of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Garmin has a new wonder for you bloggers : <a href="http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Navigator-StreetPilot-c340-GPS-Navigator">GPS Device For SEO Bloggers</a>. Never get lost again in the Cyberspace. Know where you are and what you would do next, telling you which ad to click, where to place your email address, who to visit so you get the most visiting revenue out of your site and tells you what to do so you can be a Google Adsense Billionaire!</p>
<p>Yeah, fat hope! This is just another hallucination of mine but would it be absolutely great to have a device like that? For now, we are just stuck with the <a href="http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Navigator-StreetPilot-c340-GPS-Navigator">C340 Street Pilot Navigator</a> which tells you which roads to avoid just in case there is a traffic jam / pileup / roadworks in your route. And if you are a truck driver, you won&#8217;t get stuck with small C-roads which are less than 2.1m wide so you can&#8217;t get stuck at those country roads and deep fords which the stupid GPS Maps won&#8217;t tell and let you get yourself and the car a free car wash! Or truckwash in this case.</p>
<p><img src="http://img.shopping.com/cctool/PrdImg/images/pr/177X150/00/01/9a/a0/0f/26910735.JPG" alt="Garmin T10" /></p>
<p>And so, you won&#8217;t need that nag from the wife if you missed the small side junction to get to your destination, as it will recalculate the route and provide the alternative almost immediately. And forget the Nokia N95 as that is not complicated an comprehensive enough to trajectory to get you out of that bumper to bumper traffic jam as it&#8217;s equipped with the FM TMC (traffic management control) signal encoded into your standard FM Radio. </p>
<p>I know this is great as it evens tells me where the static speed cameras are! I know cus I uses it, and as for now, I have to settle for this.</p>
<p>Any better ideas?</p>
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		<title>Something to write about</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To those who are desperate to get some dosh from paid blogging, there is a place called SMORTY which I have en tasked myself to write. Well, rather having nothing else to do, there are alot of opportunities coming up on their Task Bar.
You can also join their affiliate program thru ClixGalore and nab an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To those who are desperate to get some dosh from paid blogging, there is a place called <a href="http://www.smorty.com">SMORTY</a> which I have en tasked myself to write. Well, rather having nothing else to do, there are alot of opportunities coming up on their Task Bar.</p>
<p>You can also join their affiliate program thru ClixGalore and nab an additional 5% of all referrals to their way. Which is a great way ,compared to top guns like PayPerPost  who never compensate (properly) their customers that brought good business leads.</p>
<p>So, if you have a great traffic, you might want to write about SMORTY and their opportunities. But as norm, the competition is stiff, but at least, there is no Geo Target Demographics in place. So, what are you waiting for. Sign up or you&#8217;ll miss the boat. At least <a href="http://www.smorty.com">get paid for blogging</a>, right?</p>
<p>While I am not YET accepted to post for this task, I am quite happy to say that alot of jobs are coming in with this network, and despite the slowdown in the economic breakdown in the US and England, people are still advertising. Mainly because they need the sales to push thru and I was looking thru their marketplace as an advertiser, their rates are really comparative to what the others are doing. </p>
<p>As they are based down-under in Sydney Australia, they cater to more or less the niche markets. Recent advertisers includes major accounts in Australia and something that caught my eye was a supplier who wanted to promote their customized bedding. I&#8217;ll feature that in a bit over my wife&#8217;s blog later on. To some, it&#8217;s peanuts when they are paying $6, but six bucks is far better than having no work.</p>
<p>Anyway, like always, Christmas shopping frenzy is already started, and you better start your shopping for advertisers too! Best Wishes.</p>
<p>Brought to you by me as a partner blogger for SMORTY.COM. It&#8217;s time the market cater for your needs.At least with these people, you can <a href="http://www.smorty.com">get paid to blog</a>, even though it&#8217;s a small token amount.</p>
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		<title>A balance of both</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going thru my list of sites to visit after my month long trip from hell, and one thing I noticed that alot of my readers are cluttering their blogs etc with full of ads and irrelevant ones.
Meaning, when I load up, all I see the first frame is just ads, and it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was going thru my list of sites to visit after my month long trip from hell, and one thing I noticed that alot of my readers are cluttering their blogs etc with full of ads and irrelevant ones.</p>
<p>Meaning, when I load up, all I see the first frame is just ads, and it&#8217;s a put off. I want to see content and not just filled with ads popping over.</p>
<p>Ads pay the bills, but know a balance of both sense of cents and sensitivity. Target it properly.</p>
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		<title>Simplistic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I love is to shop, for anything. One thing I know less about is Wiki &#8230;which is a free knowledge contributed by everyone who knows about this. Someone forwarded me about Shop Wiki&#8217;s Electronics listings where it&#8217;s a list of stores just like EBAY.
Mainly, because ShopWiKi shops for the world&#8217;s best which I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing I love is to shop, for anything. One thing I know less about is Wiki &#8230;which is a free knowledge contributed by everyone who knows about this. Someone forwarded me about <a href="http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Electronics">Shop Wiki&#8217;s Electronics listings</a> where it&#8217;s a list of stores just like EBAY.</p>
<p>Mainly, because ShopWiKi shops for the world&#8217;s best which I was told that they search over <a href="http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Help:Why+Shopwiki">180,000 stores</a> . Which I must admit, they are a very good comparative internal site in relation to PriceRunner and even Tesco!</p>
<p>Which is why I was tempted to do a search for <a href="http://www.shopwiki.com/search?q=iPhone&#038;sb=1">iPhone</a> and read the reviews after the disgustable Ted Murphy&#8217;s comments about it and AT&#038;T on the PayPerPost community Blog,makes me wonder, if I should actually get it when I am in the US!</p>
<p>At least&#8230;it&#8217;s an online directory which is moderated! And I&#8217;m shopping for more stuff!</p>
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		<title>Tweaking the Dermographics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some arrogant advertising agencies are segregating alot of good advertising slots by separating the American , Canadian, Asian and European markets despite proof that these sort of old school advertising don&#8217;t pay great bucks. 
Yet,someone asked, how to trick the system.
I am registered as a BRITISH REGISTERED ENTITY, meaning with a UK Address and phone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some arrogant advertising agencies are segregating alot of good advertising slots by separating the American , Canadian, Asian and European markets despite proof that these sort of old school advertising don&#8217;t pay great bucks. </p>
<p>Yet,someone asked, how to trick the system.</p>
<p>I am registered as a BRITISH REGISTERED ENTITY, meaning with a UK Address and phone number.</p>
<p>It does not take a genius nowadays to have a local phone number and address, by just renting addresses like a post box or Mail Box and a VOIP Phone number like Skype for less than $40 a year! Heck I even have a toll free number for $2 a month. Get your Toll Free numbers at <a href="http://TollFreeNumbers.com">TollFreeNumbers.com</a> for $50, and up to $1000 for a vanity Number. Say you know the offer from me..and they will work something for you.</p>
<p>Typical cost for a pricey New York post box address cost about $120 a year plus $200 for mail redirection costs, and the phone number costs. Fax numbers cost free too thanks to EFAX or JFax.</p>
<p>What else&#8230; that one, and you must be able to get hold of the GEOLOC proxy server. That &#8230;in another issue.</p>
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		<title>Pick and Choose</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something came across me recently and this was compliments of some friends at the top, you mean Wealthy people.
If you do take paid posting, one thing to remember is demographics. Install some sort of internal tracking device to see where your visitors are from, what they are doing and seeing. One good way if thru [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something came across me recently and this was compliments of some friends at the top, you mean Wealthy people.</p>
<p>If you do take paid posting, one thing to remember is demographics. Install some sort of internal tracking device to see where your visitors are from, what they are doing and seeing. One good way if thru the MyBlogLog community, and seeing your member&#8217;s track actions.</p>
<p>One off the note, you must be able to CHOOSE your topic properly. Don&#8217;t just clutter your site with all sorts of internal advertising or external endorsements as they lose value for your customers. Visitors are your customers and advertisers are your cash cow. Good conversion ratios will always bring you the cream of advertising. I have so many to pick and choose.</p>
<p>So must you.</p>
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		<title>Open Structure Planning Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domain Hostile Take Overs are a real life tragedy, when your Web Host is hostile, and you can&#8217;t access your emails and what not. When the WHOIS DATA of the Domain Registrant is unaccessible, people who are with Mal Intent hack into the EMail Account and deliberately Transfer the Domain to another Registry without proper [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Domain Hostile Take Overs are a real life tragedy, when your Web Host is hostile, and you can&#8217;t access your emails and what not. When the WHOIS DATA of the Domain Registrant is unaccessible, people who are with Mal Intent hack into the EMail Account and deliberately Transfer the Domain to another Registry without proper authority. They then change the Domain Name Servers and put the site involved to a link mongering page.</p>
<p>One trouble we commonly hear, is that BACK ORDERING. Back Ordering is when you fail to renew your domain on time and it goes into REDEMPTION PERIOD where it can cost anything over $150 to redeem the domain and after 30 days, it&#8217;s released back to public domain. I have had a lot of my domains taken over many years ago when I was dead broke, and it was Network Solutions as the only registrar then. One of my cherished domain was Gizmo.NET  which is really a real deal. A hard way to get the domain back is to file for IDRP, or International Dispute Resolution Policy for infrigement of the patent or copyright. So, there is a sort of protection against CyberSquatters alike.</p>
<p>One good process is to RENEW THE DOMAIN UP TO THE MAXIMUM, normally for 10 Years (nine if it&#8217;s still live) and for domains like Tonga (Somewhere.TO), you can buy a TOnga domain and pay for a <a href="http://www.tonic.to/from?azrin@bbs.nu">.TO Domain</a> for US$25 a year for 100 years, compared to $50 a year. Only good thing about .TO domain is that it&#8217;s BUILT IN with WHOIS PRIVACY!</p>
<p>Talking about WHOIS PRIVACY and Domain Name Accuracy, GoDaddy has been known to DELETE DOMAIN NAMES that does not have accurate details.Meaning, if you use a fake or inaccurate / nonrespondent email address and/or mailing address and telephone number, and someone complains about it to GoDaddy or ICANN, the domain will be deleted.</p>
<p>So, now we have talked about Contingency Planning for DOMAIN NAME.</p>
<p>But what if we use LIVE SYSTEMS? How do we utilise a FLIP? And WHAT IS A FLIP?<br />
That is in Part 3</p>
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		<title>Server Synchronisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of what I preach, I am synchronising my Servers and Databases across the whole Network,  From London to Boston,Mass USA and another Synchronisation to my servers in Dallax,TX and Robins Nest FL, plus to Malaysia and Singapore.
So, don&#8217;t mind me&#8230;there will be some synching to be done..and hickups!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of what I preach, I am synchronising my Servers and Databases across the whole Network,  From London to Boston,Mass USA and another Synchronisation to my servers in Dallax,TX and Robins Nest FL, plus to Malaysia and Singapore.</p>
<p>So, don&#8217;t mind me&#8230;there will be some synching to be done..and hickups!</p>
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		<title>Open Structure Planning &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part one of the Series on Management and Proper contingency planning of your Websites.
Open Structure consists of you knowing where everything are, what they do, by the subdomains and such, and also main importantly, what to do in an emergency.
Emergencies can be classed as :
Deliberate Denial Of Service or DDOS Attacks (aka Hackers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is part one of the Series on Management and Proper contingency planning of your Websites.</p>
<p>Open Structure consists of you knowing where everything are, what they do, by the subdomains and such, and also main importantly, what to do in an emergency.</p>
<p>Emergencies can be classed as :<br />
Deliberate Denial Of Service or DDOS Attacks (aka Hackers Bombardment)<br />
Suspension of Domain Services<br />
Server / Service Provider Outage<br />
Natural Disasters<br />
Domain Hostile Take Over.</p>
<p>DDOS are normal, and like an example is Comment Spamming. A Good process is to remove the naming sequence for WP-COMMENTS-POST in your INDEX or PAGE.PHP to something else. It&#8217;s located in the <SUBMIT> form entity.</p>
<p><strong>Suspension of Services</strong> can occur when a rouge script, hacked or unintentional overloads the resources and takes over more than 30 seconds of Processor Time in each instance. This is a norm in any Hosting Environment. The Limit may also be 30% of the SINGLE CPU LOAD at any one time. If you utilize FEEDS or XML Calls, a delay in your uplink feed causes this issue predominantly. So, do a remote call as a CRON JOB instead.</p>
<p>Sometimes, it may be also our own fault, like internal ads showing some sort of Pornography. This will lead to suspension. Another mistake is PayPal auto payment system failed to debit the funds from our account or credit card due to Non Sufficient Funds (NSF) or Credit Card companies not authorising them for some stupid reason what so ever.</p>
<p><strong>Server Outage</strong> can occur as this relies on Network Attached Storage devices failing due to Corruption on the Data heads of Hard Drive Failures, as it will break down even a Raid-10 system. Powweb had this issue last year, and killed the entire network , even with Load Balancing in place, as a good load balancer,only distributes the load thru within the cluster of servers but they still dependent on the NAS, and as we all know it, NAS uses Hard Drives, and they are made of spinning moving discs and motors and rotors. To get a Raid rebooted or remounted back can take HOURS, depending on how much damage was the corruption, and with the provision of a proper snapshot of the data embedded within. What is made worse, that the Database Servers also rely on this, and any non-async of the data will kill the clusters.</p>
<p>Natural Disasters like Flood and Earthquake causes alot of damage. In California alone, a single shock can cost the population over $20Billion in damages. Even with a shock proof building and power generators backed up, the Power Grid and Telephone lines are in the ground, and a knockout at the Exchange will kill the feeds. It&#8217;s no good to hear that an ISP has 30 or 100 connectivity to the outside world when a 5.0 on the Richter Scale will kill the city Telecommunications Backbone.</p>
<p>Even a knock on the Far Eastern Plates, like what happened to Taiwan recently killed ALL the UPLINK UNDERSEA CABLES at that point of time. We know that most of the economy now depends on Asia , and without the Net Access to our clientele there, we are roasted!~ Some ISPs are better equipped with redundant systems and routes, and a tertiary communications layer is enabled. Though its very technical, but it&#8217;s quite simple to implement, but costly, at the rate of about $10,000 a minute.</p>
<p>Hostile Domain Takeover is when your nameservers are changed and sites removed , due to either NON PAYMENT of RENEWAL FEES or simply, being taken over.</p>
<p>Enough Nightmares already??</p>
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		<title>Blogger wave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know alot of you have heard about Bloggerwave , which is a new Paid Per Posting advertising company which is silimar to PayPerPost or Amazon&#8217;s Blogitive. So , this is another means of advertising for you, the marketer and a form of revenue to you, the small time blogger.
For now, I can only see [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know alot of you have heard about <a href="http://www.bloggerwave.com" onclick="submitIframeBlogId2198OppId4('1')" target="_blank">Bloggerwave</a> , which is a new Paid Per Posting advertising company which is silimar to PayPerPost or Amazon&#8217;s Blogitive. So , this is another means of advertising for you, the marketer and a form of revenue to you, the small time blogger.</p>
<p>For now, I can only see the top earners hitting a few hundred dollars being them promoting internal projects, but it&#8217;s a good start. Only downside to the place is that you can only place 5 blogs, which restricts you to what you can do. At least we know that alot of those leeches won&#8217;t spoil the market by flooding the Marketplace with nil traffic blogs, created on free sites only to earn advertising revenue.</p>
<p>For me, it&#8217;s just another cuppa coffee, especially with the latest deal I had with a client, investing $5000 upfront for the exclusive of their product being featured on the pagefronts, and any interstilial ads. Which is great. And that is just for ONE WEEK ONLY, Network Wide. Earnings Per Click? About $300! That&#8217;s alot of moolah, and someone&#8217;s paycheck in Malaysia!</p>
<p>Want in? Join in. I&#8217;ll be promoting that soon enough.Anyway, all are subjective to the standard disclosures and disclaimers. Errors and Omissions Excluded. (E&#038;OE)</p>
<p><script type="text/javascript">function submitIframeBlogId2198OppId4(linkId){document.getElementById("iframeBloggerwaveBlogId2198OppId4").src="http://www.bloggerwave.com/ClickTrack.aspx?OpportunityId=4&#038;BlogId=2198&#038;LinkId=" + linkId;}</script>
<div style=""><iframe id="iframeBloggerwaveBlogId2198OppId4" name="iframeBloggerwaveBlogId2198OppId4" src="http://www.bloggerwave.com/ViewTrack.aspx?OpportunityId=4&#038;BlogId=2198" scrolling="no" width="225" height="40" frameborder="no"></iframe></div>
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		<title>Pagerank update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems the Google Pagerank servers are early this time. And according to my monitors, a lot of the datacenters are either Offline or Unranked at these instances. Normally, they install new codes and run a new archive to monitor changes to the content of the webpages staticly stored.
So, what do you need to do?
Clean the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems the Google Pagerank servers are early this time. And according to my monitors, a lot of the datacenters are either Offline or Unranked at these instances. Normally, they install new codes and run a new archive to monitor changes to the content of the webpages staticly stored.</p>
<p>So, what do you need to do?</p>
<p>Clean the place up. Run a Keyword checker, weighing in the absolute heavy weights and place them into the META KEYWORD TAG. DomainTools can calculate the accuracy of your SEO Placed Tag and weigh them against the standard Stanford Whitepaper Criterion for SEO Accuracy and show you the percentage accuracy for that whole site, overall.</p>
<p>Releasing the karma from old links by doing a NO-FOLLOW for links over 6 months or so (120days is optimum) and adding the DO-FOLLOW for comment link after 60 days would do some tricks to it. Updating old static posts or so new fresh ideas or updates will make the Search Engines love you more.</p>
<p>So, my advise is, do a proper clean up before you get your rewards. They are in a &#8220;transition&#8221; period, so best is to game the system immediately.</p>
<p>This is Me,azrin for SEO Engineering 101.</p>
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		<title>Staking My Claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 20:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And So..I hereby claim this my Blog!
This is my Technorati Profile
You are requested to add this to your favorites on Technorati.
And a link back please..
Thanks!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And So..I hereby claim this my Blog!<br />
This is my <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/ihdh36yev" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a></p>
<p>You are requested to add this to your <a href="http://www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.azrin.info">favorites on Technorati</a>.<br />
And a link back please..</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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		<title>Incorporate me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 19:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone got me thinking, which is worth haggling over for having a company entity. Alot of places to incorporate and insert your talent to, but here is the thing that it grinds down too.
United Kingdom
Incorporating a Company in the United Kingdom is easy. You have to decide which Country you wish to incorporate the flag [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone got me thinking, which is worth haggling over for having a company entity. Alot of places to incorporate and insert your talent to, but here is the thing that it grinds down too.</p>
<p><strong>United Kingdom</strong></p>
<p>Incorporating a Company in the United Kingdom is easy. You have to decide which Country you wish to incorporate the flag under. There are 3 entity states you can flag it under, England and Wales , Scotland and Ulster (Northern Ireland)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s common that companies are registered under the England and Wales flag. They can do business just as where they seem to like it to be. They are denoted by XYZ Company Ltd/Limited or CYR for Private Limited or PLC or CCC for Public Limited Company. The former abbeviation are in WELSH/Cymru. The company needs a company secretary and a director and must be registered to a PHYSICAL ADDRESS and not a postbox. Royal Mail postcodes can easily show that.Companies House, which records the companies are located in CARDIFF,WALES. An Annual Return is required every year without fail.</p>
<p>If your core business is in Scotland, you will need to register the business in SCOTLAND. Scottish companies are denoted by their SC on their registration number. An example will be SC12345678. Normally it also being denoted with XYZ Company (Scotland) Limited. I&#8217;m not absolutely sure if GAELIC is allowed in these times.It&#8217;s like &#8220;BANK OF SCOTLAND&#8221; being written as &#8220;BANCA ALBA&#8221; or something like that. Companies House for Scotland is in Edinburgh. The initial address must be in Scotland.</p>
<p>For Northern Ireland, same thing as Scottish Companies.</p>
<p>These Companies can operate their business in ANYWHERE of the United Kingdom but limited to the Channel Islands of Manx,Jersey,Aldersey and Guernsey. They cannot also place the name as XYZ &#038; Company Inc unlike the US.</p>
<p>If they start employing people or other than the director, they are not just required to register with the HM Revenue and Customs for Corporation Tax but also PAYE or Pay as you earn, collecting National Insurance, Employment Tax,Pensions and Student Loans from the employee. Corporation tax is about 28% as of press (subject to the Chancellor Gordon Brown),whereas Employer&#8217;s Contribution for National Insurance (NIC) is 12% and 11% from the employee.</p>
<p>Employment Tax is in the bands of 10%,22% and 40% for income of under Â£2,000,Â£29,000 and exceed Â£29000 with allowances in the Tax Codes (Normally as of now is Â£5054) otherwise, a tax code of BR meaning Basic Rate of Income Tax at 22% and for non-resident worker or non-identifiable employees, X-Rated or Emergency Tax code of 40% imposed on their earnings. Refunds are made thru End of Year Tax Assessments.</p>
<p>If the Company turnover exceed Â£52,000 , then they are also required to collect sales tax or Value Added Tax *(VAT) on all sales except those listed. Utilities are rated at 5% and nil for medicines and food (excludes cooked food or takeaways). Fuel is 17.5% added tax on top of all tax imposed.</p>
<p>Setting a company for NON-RESIDENT is about Â£350, and setting up others, like mail redirection of about Â£100 plus Royal Mail fees of Â£62.80 per name, and PAYE and VAT costing much more as you require the person being a legal resident , who is held liable if anything cocks up! That can cost as much as Â£3000 plus getting you the work permits etc, about Â£5000!</p>
<p>You must be there to open a UK Company Bank Account.</p>
<p>There are alot of Tax Credits to boost your business. Ask the local Jobcenter and Council for more information. All they want is to help people get to work, thus getting you a better business, locally and globally.</p>
<p><strong>United States</strong></p>
<p>There are many states to choose from. Prices start from $400 onwards plus local fees. Mail redirection and alike cost about another $700 a year plus approx $25 per week in postage for redirecting your company mail. Note that alot of places and businesses like banks etc. Banks and services will still require a PHYSICAL HOME ADDRESS and A PHYSICAL PHONE NUMBER, and that is a hinderance, even when I was there.</p>
<p>Total cost: $5000+ other fees each year which works to about $900.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be fooled by cheap fees of Delaware and some states. Hidden agenda fees applies. US Banking has the highest service fees, plus checkbooks which they will only ship to the physical address on file.</p>
<p>A Toll-Free Number is best to make business in the US, so that customers think you are somebody especially if the number can spell your business name, like 1800-company etc.</p>
<p>US TAX REGIMES are what I dread most. Even having Quickbooks etc, still makes you stumble here and there. So consider that in your books.</p>
<p>Consider these before you start your affiliate program, as you will need either one for your checks. US Dollar checks can be deposited into the Pounds Sterling Bank Account, but not sterling into Dollar&#8217;s. They don&#8217;t like the English.</p>
<p>UK Cheques takes about a week to clear, at least, and even with a cheque guarantee card, it can still bounce! Card Processing fees are highest, so might as well use PAYPAL or NOCHEX.</p>
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		<title>Updated the backend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems my database went cuckoo again and that those scheduled post did not go as planned. Yes, I did not do a proper backup..so I lost my data somewhere..and it&#8217;s going to cost me alot. I will refresh those affiliate program reports that will be useful for your end soon enough.
And yes, coupons for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems my database went cuckoo again and that those scheduled post did not go as planned. Yes, I did not do a proper backup..so I lost my data somewhere..and it&#8217;s going to cost me alot. I will refresh those affiliate program reports that will be useful for your end soon enough.</p>
<p>And yes, coupons for the summer holidays. School holidays are here &#8230;so plan ahead.</p>
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		<title>OutGoing =! Incoming</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/outgoing-incoming.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 04:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is a complex terminology which I have found in the weighting of my Melayu.EU&#8217;s Post Mortem, where it dropped from PR5 to PR3. A HUGE DROP! Yikes!
Apparently, the internal links keep &#8230;.well to yourself. Even with a Do-follow, it actually causes more damage than ever, leaking your karma away.
One thing I do notice is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is a complex terminology which I have found in the weighting of my Melayu.EU&#8217;s Post Mortem, where it dropped from PR5 to PR3. A HUGE DROP! Yikes!</p>
<p>Apparently, the internal links keep &#8230;.well to yourself. Even with a Do-follow, it actually causes more damage than ever, leaking your karma away.</p>
<p>One thing I do notice is that Domain Tools stated something about SEO SCORE:</p>
<blockquote><p>     Links</p>
<p>        We factor in three types of links: On-domain links, Off-domain links, and No-Follow links. Each type of link is different and gives its own type of optimization to a pages it links to. We have derived our score to assume that the current domain wants to keep as much focused PR as possible so we mark down pages that link outbound more then a certain percent of the time.</p>
<p>        On-Domain links: These help PR and generally boast a score because links are flowing back to the domain where the webpage is located and the pages inside the domain are likely to flow back to the original page.</p>
<p>       <strong> Off-Domain links: They don&#8217;t hurt a page but they weaken the domain&#8217;s focusing PR power. We encourage people to link to good resources and it will not penalize a page if there are one or two links going off site. However if a page is 100% outbound links then at that point we drop the score a few points.</strong></p>
<p>        No-Follow links: We disregard these links and they are neutral. You can learn more about them by searching for &#8220;rel=nofollow&#8221; on your favorite search engine. We only want to see rel=nofollow links when third parties are adding the links. If you think the resource is quality then websites should not fear linking to it and giving them some PR. It actually shows search engines the site is a quality hub site. Another scenario for use would be if a link was to a third party and it was excessively used. This type of heavy linking to another site bleeds a site and we suggest it be sparingly use it in these cases. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I highlighted the part of OFF-DOMAIN LINKS. So I failed to score a 90% on most of the sites due to my paid post , and I found a tiny trick that my wife keeps on utilising, adding an internal link at all times in each post. That will boost the incoming links and lessen the outgoing leaks. </p>
<p>In essence, for every link you write, you place your OWN INTERNAL LINK at the same time,especially in relation to the post. Keyworded Links are important. A Joomla site will always score higher than a WordPress one due to the internal SEO Engines added with the Standford Whitepaper which PageRank is based on. I will have to research that more myself to engineer the pageranks.</p>
<p>Linkwise, <a href="http://www.azrin.info">SEO ENGINEERING 101</a> , the name of this site, scored 95% on the SEO Weighting with a 91% Meta Relevancy Links: 78 (Internal: 48, Outbound: 30)compared to the brother site which had a 90% SEO and 55% Meta Relevancy. (Links:141 (Internal: 74, Outbound: 67))</p>
<p>So , I should stop talking about rubbish and focus on the content itself.Like so, I will have to extradite my contents and split them up&#8230;.yikes! More work..anyone willing to help??</p>
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		<title>Things to avoid&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 18:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One, forget to play practical jokes on people. People hate liars and thus who believe liars? Right?
Two, follow by the rules. Forget those super slip shod shortcuts. Sometimes, some black hat SEO will cost you so dearly that you eventually take TWICE the time and money to do something so simple.
Three, Abide by the Laws. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One, forget to play practical jokes on people. People hate liars and thus who believe liars? Right?</p>
<p>Two, follow by the rules. Forget those super slip shod shortcuts. Sometimes, some black hat SEO will cost you so dearly that you eventually take TWICE the time and money to do something so simple.</p>
<p>Three, Abide by the Laws. Despite the heavy payouts for gaming services like casino, poker, bacarrat, roulette and so forth, they are ILLEGAL for promotion or participation in the United States, and countries OUTSIDE THE LEGAL ENTITY. You will be fined and handed long term jail sentences for that. Gaming acts in the US are strict.</p>
<p>Four, Seperate your accounts. Accounting is to be kept proper as you are required to declare ALL INCOME in ALL COUNTRIES,and despite what people say, income from the web are TAXABLE! So seperate accounts for &#8216;BUSINESS&#8217; and Pleasure *(ie your daily life) makes things cheaper, as you know which are deductables and which are liable.</p>
<p>Five, Do proper housekeeping. Books, Accounts, Receipts etc. Scan them, Back them up! Do what is needed for all that. Make Extra copies as you require 7 years of records. Computer Files too! If possible, upload all of that onto your webspace, in a directory outside the public domain (public_html or htdocs or www) so you have a secondary mirror. With Hosting nowadays cost about  $10 for 200GB, they offer larger space than your hard drive on the laptop!</p>
<p>Remember these five..and keep to it!</p>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. I am getting Older..and so I reflect on the projects that took off, and those that were pinched by others, whereas some&#8230; did make a killing and forget that I did&#8230;and past is the past.
Money is a honey&#8230;but so is much an honest living.
So these keywords are a pickup on the services..and hey&#8230; it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah. I am getting Older..and so I reflect on the projects that took off, and those that were pinched by others, whereas some&#8230; did make a killing and forget that I did&#8230;and past is the past.</p>
<p>Money is a honey&#8230;but so is much an honest living.</p>
<p>So these keywords are a pickup on the services..and hey&#8230; it might just work</p>
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		<title>Getting free press</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? There are means to get free links and traffic to get you started.
1) Use the Text Link Ads
You are given $100 in free links. So plan ahead what link you want to utilise and anchor text to be placed. Note that alot of affiliate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? There are means to get free links and traffic to get you started.</p>
<p>1) Use the Text Link Ads</p>
<p>You are given $100 in free links. So plan ahead what link you want to utilise and anchor text to be placed. Note that alot of affiliate programs don&#8217;t allow CPC bidding so you want people to come to YOUR SITE and keep on coming.Words like free and here etc are a NO-NO. Make sure your text fits into their theme and stand out, so people will venture there. A deep link is always appreciated.</p>
<p>$100 would set you off to be placed on about 8-12 spots.Some may be site wide, but avoid those blogspots and low traffic. What you want is to convert those clicks to sales. You have 30 days to get that done.</p>
<p>2) Bidvertiser</p>
<p>You can be their <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/bidvertiser/bdv_ref.dbm?Affiliate_ID=25&#038;Ref_Option=pub&#038;Ref_PID=15508">Publisher</a> to earn some extra cash first or their <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/bidvertiser/bdv_ref.dbm?Affiliate_ID=25&#038;Ref_Option=adv&#038;Ref_PID=15508">Advertiser</a>.</p>
<p>By being an Advertiser, you are given $20 in free clicks. Yep. FREE $20 in traffic. But it&#8217;s a hit and miss as their traffic is abit of undesirable. Set your dermographics properly to target programs you want to convert to the highest element, like Hosting.Or something they can get for free, compliments of you.</p>
<p>3) Yahoo!</p>
<p>Forget yahoo! They are a rip off and you get rubbish traffic!</p>
<p>4) Adbrite</p>
<p>I&#8217;m giving away some next to nothing text links.<br />
For ONE DOLLAR, I&#8217;m giving you the option to place ads on my <a href="http://www.azrin.net" rel="me">Geeks&#8217; Zone</a> Skyscraper for 31 days. That&#8217;s a members special and you need to enter the word &#8216;azrin&#8217; as your key. ONE DOLLAR. That&#8217;s all to it. </p>
<p>According to my last stats, 30 days will bring you about 92 visitors and if you wish, you can request to have a skyscraper banner instead. Ask for details.</p>
<p>Reason I don&#8217;t provide you with Adsense codes, mainly because there aren&#8217;t any! Nothing.</p>
<p>I could however provide you with the <a href="http://www.azrin.net/free-hosting-offer">PENNY SAVER</a> code for Hostgator which reduces the first month fee to one cent. I will even register your domain for you if you wish, with privacy.</p>
<p>More to come&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Foresight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a foresight is a bliss, especially if you can foretell what the business plan you have is going to work or not. However, having said that, statistics show that 98% of the business planned out does not work as it should and out of that, 0.001% gets a second chance and beat the crap [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having a foresight is a bliss, especially if you can foretell what the business plan you have is going to work or not. However, having said that, statistics show that 98% of the business planned out does not work as it should and out of that, 0.001% gets a second chance and beat the crap out of the entire business model and become like Bill Gates or Yahoo!</p>
<p>Being in affiliated programs, you have to bet on which is going to pay you well. Is it thru volume or thru the per sale basis, or on the per click basis. Some offer even per call or per action basis as like what some affiliate programs that are run by Commission Junction.</p>
<p>Yes, Gambling sites pays the best. Book Makers aka Bookie , sites like Labrokes, Coral , William Hill pays an average of Â£30+ per sign up plus a 1% fee on the bets placed. A fellow downline of mine took in over Â£192 Million over the 2 month period of the World Cup just from the Chinese Community in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China alone. Since the crackdown of Illegal Bookies by the countries involved, people turned to agents like him to take bets.</p>
<p>However,some would not go that way.Ever,due to religious or personal ethics. That is alot of money for just two months seasonal work. That simple you think? NOPE!</p>
<p>It takes alot of networking, knowing people, discreet advertising and not getting caught is the issue in these gaming communities. Gambling is prohibited in alot of states, as in countries, so it&#8217;s always been censored and what nots.</p>
<p>Another field that pays great on the EPC are like Foreign Exchange (FOREX) and Hedge Funding like CFD or Bet Spreading against the stock market indices.It&#8217;s very risky to the customer too, and these agents pay about Â£200 PER SIGN UP! Yes, these affiliate program pays Â£200 per customer who funds about $300 or so and plays on the markets. Similar payouts are given by stock broking companies too.</p>
<p>As such, you should plan ahead. And a great business gameplan it must. Till next issue.</p>
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		<title>DoFollow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some have not noticed, that Wordpress plugs all links from the Comments.They put a NO-FOLLOW on all the comments so it is plugged just to here and well, the search engines just ignores those comments.
I don&#8217;t find a way to disable it but I know its under the comments.php code.
I will push for it soon.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some have not noticed, that Wordpress plugs all links from the Comments.They put a NO-FOLLOW on all the comments so it is plugged just to here and well, the search engines just ignores those comments.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t find a way to disable it but I know its under the comments.php code.<br />
I will push for it soon.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine PageRank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, there has been alot of hype and this and that about PageRanks.
While I am hatching my plan up, there is an explaination needed for the common person.
Qn: How many links are needed to Boost my pagerank?
Depends on What level are you on.
A new site is normally PageRank ZERO.
You will need a SEO friendly Sitemap [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, there has been alot of hype and this and that about PageRanks.<br />
While I am hatching my plan up, there is an explaination needed for the common person.</p>
<p>Qn: How many links are needed to Boost my pagerank?<br />
Depends on What level are you on.</p>
<p>A new site is normally PageRank ZERO.<br />
You will need a SEO friendly Sitemap installed.</p>
<p>So how it works?This is based on <a href="http://www.allstarmakeovers.com/web-marketing/">ALLStar&#8217;s theory</a>.</p>
<p>From <strong>ZERO(or One normally)</strong> to PageRank Five (PR5)<br />
you will need 17,000 Reciprocal PR1 links,<br />
PR6:93,000 ; PR7 : 510,000 and 2.9Million for a PR8.<br />
At $5 a link, it costs a bomb!</p>
<p>From Base of <strong>Pagerank TWO</strong>:<br />
A PR2 Reciprocal link value to boost to 5;6;7;8.<br />
3,100 ;17,000 ;93,000;510,000 links</p>
<p>More of this are in the post by All Star.<br />
I will do a derivitive analysis later on.</p>
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		<title>Thanking your visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always a thing to do.
Find where yr visitor came from and thank them. Both the site who refered them and their own blog site.
What is best is if you have a Referer.ORG link , you get to know who link you and then do yourself that favour, return a link. Write a short thanks to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Always a thing to do.<br />
Find where yr visitor came from and thank them. Both the site who refered them and their own blog site.<br />
What is best is if you have a Referer.ORG link , you get to know who link you and then do yourself that favour, return a link. Write a short thanks to them. cURL them. Find an interesting page and post, back track them, link em.</p>
<p>Ask them to use the referer.org so they get a free publicity.<br />
You too get the free publicity.Both get a PR of 0.05 upped.<br />
And thank them on their bloglog page too!<br />
Don&#8217;t be lazy and join their personal community too!</p>
<p>Keep in touch, and then U get higher Alexa and Google Dermographics.<br />
Remember, Google knows what you do cos you install that Adsense.It&#8217;s a way for them to track the system down.</p>
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		<title>Little bit of exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/little-bit-of-exercise.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep. Do your mouse a favour.
Exercise it.
Go fetch a community with alot of users in the community itself.
Open it&#8217;s Members List
Check out every member&#8217;s profile. (Open in new tab will be best)
and then go to their site.
Pick a few ideas of theirs and think. Is their idea worth an eyelid to bat on? Yes, then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep. Do your mouse a favour.<br />
Exercise it.</p>
<p>Go fetch a community with alot of users in the community itself.<br />
Open it&#8217;s Members List<br />
Check out every member&#8217;s profile. (Open in new tab will be best)<br />
and then go to their site.</p>
<p>Pick a few ideas of theirs and think. Is their idea worth an eyelid to bat on? Yes, then leave a comment. No, close Tab.</p>
<p>Then you see these people will return the favour and see YOUR SITE.<br />
Even if they don&#8217;t, just looking at your profile will be fine. Leave them a THANK YOU note.<br />
Leave a URL with your message &#8230;like Thanks for popping by. Azrin @ http://www.azrin.net</p>
<p>Then see more people come in.<br />
Do this DAILY.<br />
See your rankings go up&#8230;.<br />
And your pool of friends get bigger.</p>
<p>Make sure YOU MAINTAIN THAT POOL OF RETURNING PEOPLE! I will teach you that later on.<br />
Do it on a regular basis and thus, you make more friends. Your SEO will now get much more precise!</p>
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		<title>Getting More Visitors</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/getting-more-visitors.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old trick I use to get more people to come visit my own blogs and not get caught out by the Spiders and Engineers (of Anti-Fraud Section) is basicly, getting more visitors to come into your own place.
Forget wasting hundreds of dollars on CPM Campaigns in Adbrite Terristrials and so forth, and link exchange [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An old trick I use to get more people to come visit my own blogs and not get caught out by the Spiders and Engineers (of Anti-Fraud Section) is basicly, getting more visitors to come into your own place.</p>
<p>Forget wasting hundreds of dollars on CPM Campaigns in Adbrite Terristrials and so forth, and link exchange won&#8217;t cut it. Simply put it, <strong>BlogWalking</strong>. A fellow friend coined this term for me for I love to walk about the web, for pages and pages to read. And get ideas.</p>
<p>One good easy way is to install the MyBlogLog Widget. There you see a whole list of who came by and on top of tracking yr clicks and so forth, you see who dropped by.</p>
<p>So, the good part is, you go back to the other geezer&#8217;s pages and drop a comment, thanking em for coming by, with a Tagline of your URL and site after the message.</p>
<p>Here come the best part, you go and get to that visitors pages *(open a new tab or something) and look deep in, click a few pages, and then, drop to his visitors page&#8217;s (Profiles then go to their webpage).  You deep link from A visitor and normally lands with 10-20 links deep.</p>
<p>So, that process reciprocate to you. So you get 20 new visitors each day. If you get eager beaver, you will spend more time, and make them into friends by offering some freebies or something. Remember, anyone can be your alliance.</p>
<p>But remember to thank your visitors. That brings good PR and Rankings.Just 20 new visitors a day gets you a good Alexa Ranking of -3,000 each month. Imagine they come back, and click more. The more PR comes to you and if you are think faced, write a memoir about them and they too will reciprocate, just like a fellow friend, <a href="http://www.tsldesigns.com/wordpress/2007/03/01/malay-friend-in-europe/">Diana</a> and wrote a nice article about me. Tit for that. Link for link, process never finish.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the Tip of the Week!</p>
<p>Enjoy the <a href="http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.singapura.eu/uncategorized/have-a-cheesecake">Cheesecake</a></p>
<p><img src="http://snapshots.azrin.info/data/525/medium/Siakap_Bakar_220.jpg" alt="Chocolate Cheese Cake" /> </p>
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		<title>Title &#8211; Postname format</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/title-postname-format.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Read Me!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working on the Walkabouts of a Singaporean in Europe when an idea struck me, why not have the POST NAME or PAGE NAME up on the title.
Surely someone must have thought of that&#8230;
so eventually, I have to RECODE the Header.php to look something like this:
&#60; !&#8211; if this is Home Page &#8212; &#62;
&#60; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was working on the <a href="http://www.SingaPura.EU">Walkabouts of a Singaporean in Europe</a> when an idea struck me, why not have the POST NAME or PAGE NAME up on the title.<br />
Surely someone must have thought of that&#8230;</p>
<p>so eventually, I have to RECODE the Header.php to look something like this:<br />
&lt; !&#8211; if this is Home Page &#8212; &gt;<br />
&lt; title &gt;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;name&#8217;); ? &gt;&lt; /title &gt;<br />
&lt; meta name=&#8221;Title&#8221; content=&#8221;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;name&#8217;); ? &gt;&#8221; / &gt;<br />
&lt; link rel=&#8221;alternate&#8221; type=&#8221;application/rss+xml&#8221; title=&#8221;RSS 2.0&#8243; href=&#8221;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;rss2_url&#8217;); ? &gt;&#8221; / &gt;<br />
&lt; link rel=&#8221;alternate&#8221; type=&#8221;application/rss+xml&#8221; title=&#8221;Comments RSS 2.0&#8243; href=&#8221;" / &gt;<br />
&lt; link rel=&#8221;alternate&#8221; type=&#8221;text/xml&#8221; title=&#8221;RSS 0.92&#8243; href=&#8221;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;rss_url&#8217;); ? &gt;&#8221; / &gt;<br />
&lt; link rel=&#8221;alternate&#8221; type=&#8221;application/atom+xml&#8221; title=&#8221;Atom 0.3&#8243; href=&#8221;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;atom_url&#8217;); ?&gt;&#8221; / &gt;<br />
&lt; link rel=&#8221;pingback&#8221; href=&#8221;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;pingback_url&#8217;); ? &gt;&#8221; / &gt;<br />
&lt; ?php } ?&gt;</p>
<p>&lt; !&#8211; Mod the above to see if title shows the blogname :: Title of Post  &#8211;&gt;</p>
<p><strong>And when its not HOME PAGE, we don&#8217;t need the rSS crap.<br />
</strong><br />
&lt; ?php if (is_page()); {	?&gt;</p>
<p>&lt; meta name=&#8221;Title&#8221; content=&#8221;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;name&#8217;); ? &gt; &#8211; &lt; ?php the_title();? &gt;&#8221; / &gt;<br />
&lt; title&gt;&lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8217;name&#8217;); ? &gt; : &lt; ?php the_title(); ? &gt;&lt; /title &gt;<br />
&lt; ?php }?&gt;</p>
<p>Remember to save your header.php and upload back.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m rating this <strong>Level 2 Techie</strong> as it does not need much modification.</p>
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		<title>Income Report : Pay Per Post</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/income-report-pay-per-post.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.azrin.info/income-report-pay-per-post.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pay Per Post gave me for the last 60 days a whopping $1300! That was just for a single blog for a month and 3 blogs in a month, average of TWO BLOGS in use, which can yield an income of $600, in relation, $350 a mth easy based on 25 working days, and $7 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pay Per Post gave me for the last 60 days a whopping $1300! That was just for a single blog for a month and 3 blogs in a month, average of TWO BLOGS in use, which can yield an income of $600, in relation, $350 a mth easy based on 25 working days, and $7 per paid post.</p>
<p>That is alot of money and from what I report, its a <a href="http://www.azrin.net/thanks-and-grace">good deal</a>! Thank you God!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.azrin.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/payperpost-feb-income.jpg" alt="2 Mths PPP" /></p>
<p>And did you notice for 28 days, with 5 Blogs, I managed to scrape thru $1500 alone. I am eager to see what Segregation will bring&#8230;more goodies for all I hope!</p>
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		<title>Hello Again</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/hello-again.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, finally I managed to move off alot of the domains from my list of Networked Sites.
So, With this, we kick off with the series with ALEXA and Google Page Ranking. As it concerns alot of SEO or Search Engine Optimisation, I&#8217;ll break the information down to your easy digestion
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, finally I managed to move off alot of the domains from my list of Networked Sites.<br />
So, With this, we kick off with the series with ALEXA and Google Page Ranking. As it concerns alot of SEO or Search Engine Optimisation, I&#8217;ll break the information down to your easy digestion</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Program Options</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/affiliate-program-options.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.azrin.info/affiliate-program-options.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Read Me!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress 101]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So with you site up and running, what options do you have to incorporate your income?
You can install the most common of them all, Google Adsense. Google adsense pays ALOT. Heck of alot of money if you know how to game it on. It will cost you a few thousands of dollars to learn how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So with you site up and running, what options do you have to incorporate your income?<br />
You can install the most common of them all, Google Adsense. Google adsense pays ALOT. Heck of alot of money if you know how to game it on. It will cost you a few thousands of dollars to learn how to do it and I will not condone such a scam. On average, you get nearly PEANUTS for that. So in a few mths and even in a year, you can&#8217;t touch $100!Especially if you are starting out.</p>
<p>So what other options? Adbrite uses a technology called TERRESTRIAL ADS which will come up as if it&#8217;s part of the page,just like a frameset, and allowing you as the visitor to scroll and visit thru the advertiser&#8217;s page. The advertiser gets his landing page under the bottom 600px high window. Some offer rubbish money and like me, I pick and choose, and as much as $500 CPM or click-views per miilenium (thousand).</p>
<p>Bidvertiser is another option, and so far, for past 1yr, I only gained $5 from my wife&#8217;s <a href="http://www.marlindaradzi.com">Cooking Pages</a> and my BBS <a href="http://www.bbs.nu">Community Photopages</a>. It&#8217;s BAD. But it&#8217;s cheap to advertise on.</p>
<p>Some of these programs show image ads instead of text links, so look for them. It&#8217;s dermographically set for the US mainly. So if you have great US visitors, then you are in for the kill. Or buy them in. That I will cover in another stage.</p>
<p>Beginner&#8217;s Luck 101!~</p>
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		<title>Maximising your income</title>
		<link>http://www.azrin.info/maximising-your-income.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are alot of programs on the web offering good remuneration for their affiliation. But ask again, what is the best balance to implement into your site.
One Key factor that you must consider is the esthetics of the advertisement onto your site. Is it intrusive. Does it have alot of graphics and does it attract [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are alot of programs on the web offering good remuneration for their affiliation. But ask again, what is the best balance to implement into your site.</p>
<p>One Key factor that you must consider is the esthetics of the advertisement onto your site. Is it intrusive. Does it have alot of graphics and does it attract enough clicks that will convert into a sale? Does it really fit into your theme?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy said than done, especially if you need the big bucks. Porn and Gambling takes the highest rake as much as $250 per signup. But will your visitor appreciate you bombard them with such? And legally speaking, you are not allowed to promote Gaming and Porn to under 21 and also anyone in the United States. If you do, you will be rated as ABOVE-18  only. Meaning in some places,your site may be banned or filtered by the proxy servers or routers.</p>
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