This is my 168th post on this blog and I feel lucky because I had won the 2nd special prize from Redmummy for this contest. So when I read that there’s a contest to win a Blackberry Torch 9800 – I just got to make a confession:

The Torch has lit a fire of passion and love in me towards that hot.. sexy.. Blackberry…

Seriously, it turns me on to look at that Blackberry. Sleek body, smooth and shiny skins, multi-functional, and no defects like the dropped calls if you hold it like this or that… urghhhh that’s so arousing!!

I got to admit that I do not own a smartphone. Never in my life. It looks dull and kinda stupid that you need to touch a screen to answer calls. Smartphone, ironically – looks very, very NOT smart. It always comes in the shape of bulky bar; and the functionalities for me seems quite bored. Until the recent burst of Facebook and the social media hype, phone is nothing much for me but for SMS, MMS, calls, and occasional music player.

But, with Blackberry Torch 9800 – it is a revolution. Comes with keyboard and full 3.2 touch screen in a slider phone type; it enables emails, web browsing, social media network, instant messaging, and cameras in a smart way! No more smudges or scratches due to your finger actions to the screen. Slide it open like The Matrix baby!

What’s more? Check these out:

• 8GB of memory (expandable to 32GB with microSD card) for your multimedia storage
• Blacberry OS 6 – zoom effect by a pinch of finger? Cool!!
• 5MP camera with flash – perfect to snap that sexy girl pics across the street!
• Integrated social feeds – no more clutter of different applications for different networks.
• Faster browser with tab and customized bookmark (shit, now I can put custom icon on my bookmark? Niceee..)

Sure, it has some perks like no openGL support for 3D rendering or small resolution of video (it is said to have only 640 by 480 for video), but I won’t go into much technical details for this since the CrackBerry.com has already reviewed it here. Enough for me to conclude – the pro overwhelm the cons.

See, even the guys at Crackberry felt impressed by this slider baby! Watch this video of Blackberry Torch 9800 Review by Crackberry.com if you want to be impressed by this awesome gadget.

Okay, enough about the techie geek part. Here’s an announcement – Celcom, Malaysia’s #1 Blackberry provider is going to launch the Blackberry Torch 9800 Postpaid Plan on 29th of October. The first 100 customers to pre-register at this link and purchase the new Blackberry Torch 9800 will enjoy the early bird promotion of the Celcom Exec Postpaid plan – you can also received below items at the launching event:

• FREE Jabra Bluetooth Headset worth RM125
• FREE 8GB MicroSD card worth RM68
• FREE Energizer portable worth RM58

Well, only the best from the fastest, widest, and clearest mobile network company. That’s not some useless crap that you can find in normal goodie bag. And the Celcom Exec 50 plan also has advantages like..

• 15sen call rate to any number. Nothing complicated; just a simple rate to all numbers
• Automatic discounts every month.
• Talk more, save more. The more you use, the more discounts of up to 30% every month
• Low monthly commitment of only RM50.
• FREE Celcom Broadband Basic Plan for 1 month with speeds of up to 384 Kbps

Combined this with the arousing passions for Blackberry baby slider like this Torch – urghhh!! I might get this myself if I have the money! *pray pray that money falls from the sky *

Damn this is interesting it might make me cum!

P/s: On a serious note, if I got this Torch, I’m gonna called it Fireberry. And yeah kinda sick using Maxis now, so Celcom is really in consideration now

Why don’t you try to play Cashflow Online Games created by the best-selling author of Rich Dad and Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki? I guess while we are in the mood of independence and freedom, playing a financial games like this might free you from the burden of the financial illiteracy as well:

If you ever read any of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series, you know that one of Robert Kiyosaki business is the educational program that he called Cashflow, where people learned about personal finance by playing a board game. Ever since I read that book last five years or so, I’ve been itching to play the games and I pray that the game will be available online for free.

It is now available, and yes, it is FREE.

All you need to do is register with the website: Cashflow Online Games, verified your email address and boom! Play the game. Your objective is to exit the rat-race as soon as possible and jump into the fast-lane to richness; whoever that reach the goal first will win. You can play this game by yourself, or versus the computer, or versus the other online player as well.

Warning: This game is a Flash-based game and it consumes quite a high volume of bandwidth. Ensure that your network is stable and fast enough. Dial-up users are not recommended to play this game. Broadband users can still play this game, but I’m not recommending you to play with other player (since your side will be too slow to load other person’s action).

Playing this game will not make you rich overnight, but if you’re looking for a fun way to learn all those dreaded financial statements, or personal financial issues, or how to be rich and stay rich the capitalist way; this is the game for you. It teaches you about income versus expenses, assets versus liabilities, good deals, bad deals, real estates deals, business deals, as well as the stock market.

It has two version: Casflow 101 for beginner and Cashflow 202 for intermediate to advance level. I always play the 101 (since the 202 has some major bugs e.g when the stock market rises, your game can hang WTF! ) and I always play by myself or versus the computer due to the slow network that I have at home. I am now a level #9 Employee trying to break into the Self-Employed level. Heh heh heh

Have fun playing and happy holiday!

Alamak.. *bertukar kepada tutor mode*

Definition and Explanation:

Pagerank is a ranking given by Google to all websites that is being indexed in Google. The more important a website is, then a higher ranking (out of 10)  will be given. E.g Facebook – the largest social networking websites that is being indexed in Google as #1 sites with the most users: have a pagerank (PR) of 10.

The exact way Google determined whether a page is important or not is unknown. It is believed that the algorithm calculated the pagerank based on 500 millions variable and 2 million terms and the algorithm changed over time – quote from Wikipedia.

So, since this is Google’s way of determining the importance of your page, usually PR is used to determine whether a site is a hoax, a scam, or not. That’s one of the use. Also, it gives an indication whether that sites (and it’s owner) is popular or not.

So, the simple way of understanding it is..

1. The higher the pagerank, the easier Google put the page in it’s search engine result.
2. The more search engine result given, the more users visiting the page.
3. The way to increase your pagerank is to publish something useful for your keyword that you wanted to target, so that many links will share your sites and make it popular plus useful — maybe this is the easiest concept in increasing your pageranks.

Having said that, usually it is hard for a niche blog / personal blog to achieve more than 5 or 6 pageranks nowadays. It is hard but it is not impossible. Seth Godin blog has a PR7. Mine? I got 2. Obefiend’s and Redmummy got 3.

How to check my pagerank?

Two ways:

1. Go to this web service that offers you to check the pagerank of any sites: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
2. Install Google Toolbar and enable the Pagerank features. See video below.

Google has already put a short video explaining how to enable the pagerank feature from the Google Toolbar. Personally, I use this since it is integrated into Firefox directly:

So, was that helpful? Does it give you an idea to get your web ranked better?

I’m going technical today.

Remember the Y2K bug? The one where the date of 1st January 2000 appears to be translated by the computer as 1-1-1900? It happened because of the memory limitation where computer programmers previously only specify the range of date to be up until year 1999. They don’t expect their system to be available until year 2000.

Or so they thought.

Now, this problem might repeat itself on the year 2038. While not jumping into the calculation (you can read more of it on Wikipedia), basically it happened due to the memory limitation of 32-bit. The 32-bit memory calculated the time up until 19th January 2038, then it will reset the value to be a negative number. Picture below explains how it goes (courtesy of Wikipedia – click the picture to see the picture animation):

Solution? Upgrade your system to use 64-bit so that this kind of data can be calculated correctly. That’s the way to do it. This will effect quite a whole lot of applications that is date-sensitive; INCLUDING blogs, forums, and Web 2.0.

If you’re running your own self-hosted WordPress or any websites that capitalize PHP technology, try to run this piece of codes to see if your system is affected. Although most of web hosting is now using 64-bit Linux, well — you’ll never know. I am not sure if this will affect the Windows 32-bit system as well or not (maybe not, since the bug itself is called Unix Millenium Bug).

<?php
$date = ’2040-02-01′;
$format = ‘l d F Y H:i’;
$mydate1 = strtotime($date);
echo ‘<p>’, date($format, $mydate1), ‘</p>’;
?>

Code is courtesy of Tech Times newsletter from Sitepoint.com. Cool stuff. I’ve been reading their newsletters and webpages for so long now, and I’ve learned so much about web programming and other stuffs as well when visiting their sites.

So, are you affected? I’m not, luckily

1- Hosting is now using ServerFreak

As stated in the previous EMO post, my previous hosting gives me problems a lot from the uptime, accessibility, and server stability. So no more cheap hosting without the proper functionality!

The matter was made worst when they revert my files prior to posting the Inception post below. Suddenly the post was reverted and lost in just 5 minutes of posting, just because I ping it to Twitter and Facebook? WTF!

So that’s about it. I moved to ServerFreak now. Better client support, better performance, better functionality, a bit expensive from previous hosting but very worth it. And it’s not that expensive either way, only RM140 per year for both domain name and hosting.

2 – Use 1-click Retweet/Share/Like plugin, remove the Random Quote plugin, more Nuffnang.

See the sidebar? No more random quotes like before. I decided to remove that plugins because I lost the tables of it. Damn! Even though I can rebuilt and search for new quotes, I just don’t feel like it for now. So… sorry!

But I added the 1-click retweet/share/like plugin. See the bottom of the post? If you want to like or share the post now, it’s easy! Yeay! (and the plugin produces a good looking buttons too. Nice! )

And I decided to use the poll plugins from Nuffnang. See the new polls in the sidebar now? The orange one? PLEASE feel free to click it. At least I know better what are the things you guys like and wanted me to post moar

Added the top header ads, sidebar ads, and square ads. The square ads only visible if you see the comments, so I don’t think its too much intrusive. Just worried about the header ads though; please give me feedback of how it looks likes once it appear.

(Oh. Feel free to click the ads too. HEHEHEHE )

Pending Task:

1) Add more banner ads on the sidebar. Need to tweak the theme since it only gives four pre-defined template and left a lot of space below. Sigh.Not only that, need to select proper affiliate ads or banner that is useful. Don’t want to put those cialis/viagra type of ads. Acai berry pun cannot!!!

2) Target of adding another one follower in NetworkedBlog. Now I got 19 follower, if can add another 1, additional functionality and statistics will be available from NetworkedBlog. Dying to see how good (or bad) it is.

3) Auto-publish to other social networks. Need to register for additional API and configuration stuffs. Still thinking whether to do it or not since my article and posts are not… that good to be shared. HAHA

4) Figure out if I can monetize the blog in more ways without having to annoy my current readers. Most prolly won’t be able to figure out though. HAHAHAHAH

Okay, the better term is defaced. Not hack. Alright, not even defaced too much anyway. What he did (assuming that Rapcik0 is a man; not sure if this Turkish guy is a woman – I doubt that but hey, Trinity was being thought as a man. Okay stop thinking!) was changed my title post to HTML code that redirect to his site.

And the way he got to edit my title post is caused by the reset password vulnerability. Looks like he injected some SQL into the password reset function, and it give access to him. Then he changed the password of my WordPress account.

Damn.

I thought this hole was fixed prior to WordPress 2.8.6!

Okay fine. I went to cPanel, checked if he got that access, and apparently not. Reset all my password, and then changed the database. Got my access back, so I upgrade again to the latest WordPress. Then I undo his change. At first I thought he put the redirection on the index.php, but apparently not. That’s when I realized it was at the post title.

Done!

P/s: Lesson learn – a good precaution is always use strong password, upgrade the security and apply the fixes, yada yada yada. Thank you for this reminder, Rapcik0.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

Changes. One thing that scared most people. Being in a comfort zone can be lulling; making you numb, slow, and unable to see more than what you’re capable off. Yet this lulling sensation is what we all clinging for, and what we can’t bear to let go.

Or at least you. Not me. See? I can change my theme just like that when I feel like it!

(Ok. Drama tak jadik. I can see that you’re not even laughing. Bad joke).

Anyway, as you can see, there’s been some changes in the blog theme again. Changelog:

1. Theme being used now is: GreenPark2 by Cordobo.
2. Advertisement by Nuffnang is back on the sidebar.
3. Google Adsense is back for individual post.
4. Imported all the content from my old blog (re-arrange.blogspot.com) to here. Now I have 100 posts! Yeay!
5. Added plugins for navigation. See the numbers at the bottom of the page?
6. Added plugins to transform the emoticons to Yahoo! Messenger emoticons.

Woo hoo! I wasted my weekends doing this!

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(geek)

Anyway, I just gotta try the emoticons. So here goes…

And this emoticons also worked for the comments. Yeay!

That’s it. I’m done. My blog is combined with Facebook and Twitter, and I controlled both network to only people that I know only. So.. yep, that’s good enough. Performance-wise should be good too, have evaluated all the plugins and ads, and shouldn’t give any problem (if you find anything, or if its slow suddenly.. let me know!)

P/s: I decided not to put the chatbox again. Too many spam I can’t stand it. I know my friends know how to reach me.

Methink I’m lucky enough to be someone who involved in the computer technical work, so this kind of question is just at a flick of my finger. However, watching this video makes me wonder whether this is ignorance at best, or is it just a success of Google marketing?

Just six facts to get things right:

1) Google is a company. It’s most popular product is Google Search Engine.

2) Google Search Engine is a web application – a big database of information being indexed at the back, and a simple portal-like interface in front. This is where you can input your keywords to search, and it will spit out all kind of information it has.

3) These information were crawled by Google “spider” / “crawler” / “indexer”. These are agents which go to websites, and then indexed the content in the website for certain keywords. So, these are what controls your SERP.

4) SERP is Search Engine Result Page.

5) Google Search Engine is not a browser. But you can run / execute / open Google Search Engine in a browser.

6) A browser is a software application to be used to open / run / execute web application. Examples of browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome.