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Well, I had the issue with having to upgrade the files of my blog manually. I placed a wishlist with the 2.5 Dev Team in the wish list to have it auto update as Fantastico is a bit slow in updating it’s files and stuff like that and by the time they updated, you have been hacked.

So, what to do unless you want to upload everything? They have this little plugin that does auto updates. It is a small set of files and if you have many blogs like me (about 72 as of today), updating them manually is a hassle. This plugin auto updates it all for you, your files and stuff like that and backs everything up.

Oh yeah. Pre 2.0 to 2.3.x needs a new database-table called Post2Cat so it does the auto updates , which is somewhat an addon to the Tags and auto save function. You will need to add that table in manually thru your SQL.

Anyway, it’s a cool feature to have in your back end, saves alot of hassle of over writing files and stuff like that. Making sure you don’t accidentally delete the wrong one is a nightmare. So, use it..it’s plain simple.

Chao! (and let me know how U find it)
PS: download the plugin, decompress and upload everything to your wp-content/plugins folder. The need of an FTP software (or even in Explorer) is needed.

I know I don’t get that much traffic and I get personal at times. But then, THIS IS MY PERSONAL WEB LOG, and I don’t give a piss about what others think. It’s My Diary, what I think , do or even plan. Just like a filofax but personal and public. It’s just like anyone stopping by a house on the roadside, it’s THAT PERSONS’ HOME. You don’t go about telling him how to live his life, or what color to paint, and where he can park his car. It’s his personal space.

So to think I have to sell my own creature comfort just to accomodate some people, and that I have some ads I want to promote they don’t like, I say to em, F**K IT! Darn lucky I was not like some Ah-Lian middle aged mom who wanna get her time famous and cuss and swear in any language she likes. I don’t say P*K*-M** or cuss your mom. It’s just not right. There is a level of decency here , how crude I am or rude I was in the Army.

Yes, I was looking thru my written log of my life in the Army. We swear is a Standard Operating Procedure.A way of life when we don our uniform, but not when we took it off and wear a PT-KIT or Half-U. We are human then, Men with Brains. A creed over others. Civilian Discipline kicks in, and even with our Lt-Col of a useless CO, we become friends. Human nature. Yes our boss yet a friend when not in Green. Otherwise, he is our Enermy.

So coming back to the point of allowing advertiser to twist my tongue and allow myself to be bent that way, I saw HELL NO. You ain’t paying me enough to contravene my basic Human Rights and I am darn contemplating on taking a class Criminal Action for being Biased and Discriminant. Take against the company that pays your paycheck and you as a person. It’s a human thing. Irregardless of how I write down here, my ads has nothing to do with you. MY PERSONAL SPACE. You are just paying me for 200 words TOPS! That’s a 300px by 15 collumn advertising.

You don’t go to a paper placing a classified ad and tell them after it is published that you don’t want to be listed next to the obituaries. You tell them BEFORE placing it. Same as how I place my ads. I place my Google and Adbrite Contextual ads on the side of my post so it comes as a premium, and when you give me the full attention to reply to my ramblings, you see the more targetted ever colorful, dermographically specified advert relating to that kind of service, which pays me more. It’s a relevancy thingy.

Just like if any O’ Advertiser wanna tell Wal-Mart that they don’t want their Snickers to be placed next to the Marlboro Ads near the Tills. That is a PREMIUM SPACE for product awareness, and just like any o shopper, they will see that product for a good 30-60 secs before paying for their shopping, and most likely to buy it!

Same concept applies in any Textual Advertising. The prime spot is my post itself. A good mention plus any other images. But if you think the advertiser beside you (google) is a competitor, I can just shut it off, if you SPECIFY BEFORE HAND! Not by any other cranny nookie!~

I spend most of my time tweaking the PHP codes and PHP takes alot of effort. I want the best for any advertiser so their SEO ranks go up and along with their backlink, I am taking a cruise.

So, it’s a matter of trying to kill that walking salesman BEFORE ASKING HIM TO PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCT. How silly is that? I had over 300 odd posts within the last 90 days and NO ONE COMPLAINED. I even got praises and recommendations by them as a TESTIMONIAL to their great job (and I get a good link back too thus the PR 7 on a site) so events says otherwise.

Yeah, so I am a small fry, and I am full of ideas. To hell what you think.I thought so.

Just wondering, will you take off your GOOGLE and ADBRITE ADS if PPP says so?Will you still be a postie?

My video here is too short to describe why we should use steel buildings instead of conventional ones.

What I feel is that steel buildings are easier and far better than traditional concrete premix as they are less likely to be suspectable to the Elements.Metal Buildings are less likely to crumble under due stress like what the Japanese did in 1984, where an earthquake shook Tokyo and that particular building was not even affected one bit.

As cold snaps of weather comes in, the building goes to life, contracting as needed, to a +/- 5mm per rod, and thus makes it easier to maintain. Building one is cheaper too as you don’t have to precast the moulds for the building instead of having to pour premix cement, which is all too messy.Alot of buildings are now more eco friendly with Metal Buildings and it’s the trend to go forth.Adjustments to the facia doesn’t need hacking or breaking down walls, merely a small redesign of the partitioning.

If the Twin Towers are made of Metal totally, it would have withstand the impact and alot more people will be alive right now. That is the new incorporated designs in place with places like Canary Wharf in London.

Sorry, my video is not at Par, I’ll do a new one later on.
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I’m dead poofed! Should have planned a better strategy for the migration.
38 Domains from IRRP, 18 on GoDaddy, 16 on others, why did I not make an API for ALL DOMAINS to be controlled easily???

That excludes 50+ Subdomains …and 18 CMS Mambo myself calling my friends to JoomLa me! Joom L help!

I’m dead hungry too… dinner was over, and I’m still hungry!

Darn. Sorry….

That excludes all the posts from the blogs, and this and that…Errgh!
And then I got the migration off PW! WTF!

Anyway, with Powweb now giving 300GB, I’ll have to run 3 sites only….so I don’t have to do a run a marathon.Depends on how fast things are..I might as well let things stay.

Hate to rewrite the .htaccess

Yes, it’s the time of the year where the Grammys are handed out, and yes ,that’s why we are getting those good movies out….like Ghost Rider, SpiderMan, X-Men what ever, you know what I mean, but I do want to know what those artiste are wearing too, thongs, G-strings and any sexy lacy stuff so I can place the ideaology up for posts.

So, I give a warm welcome for the Intimate Guide Academy Awards coverage for 2007 and we at Geeks Corner will be watching what is in, and what is out? And did we hear that Latex is out of this year? Hmmn…how facinating…

I got what I am due….at least now I get my 4-Tacks which I feel I really deserve. Cos mainly, I work hard to get these products the advertisers sponsor to be purchased. While it hurts me to say a lie, I will not mislead, but just…’fail to disclose’ the facts in some of them.I can get into HUGE trouble with the ASA *(Like the visit they made the other time) about my non-disclosure of information.

12 Bans still there.34 Votes….I’m still happy.

What about yours???
Tell me!Now…get that Alexa fixed…or shall I go tweak it…and fake the results?

Vodafone seems can’t get their hands off on the emerging markets, and now they seem to take over the stake in Hutchison Whampoa’s Essar Telecom in India for heck of a lot of money.

Can’t beat them…U join em eh???

Quoted:

British mobile phone giant Vodafone, grappling with intense competition in Europe, has tapped into the booming Indian economy after winning control of Hutchison Essar for US$11.1 billion.

Buying assets in emerging markets has become a priority for Vodafone as it struggles with a dramatic slowdown and saturated markets in western Europe, sector analysts said Monday.

In a move which signalled growing enthusiasm for investing in Asian economies, Vodafone said on Sunday that it would pay the equivalent of 8.5 billion euros to buy Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa’s 67-percent stake in Hutchison Essar.

Vodafone has more than 200 million customers around the globe and is the world’s second-biggest mobile phone group after China Mobile in terms of users and stock market capitalisation.

“This deal helps Vodafone on a couple of fronts; finally bringing it significant emerging market growth as well as providing a balance sheet catalyst,” said Merril Lynch analysts in a note to clients.

The news was also welcomed by investors who sent Vodafone’s shares jumping 2.51 percent to 153 pence in mid-afternoon London trade. The British capital’s FTSE 100 index showed a fall of 0.26 percent at 6,366.10 points.

Merrill Lynch repeated its ‘buy’ recommendation the stock and kept a 165 pence target, arguing that although the deal “looks pricey”, the quick result will be taken as good news.

Including about two billion dollars’ worth of debt that Vodafone is to assume, the agreement values Hutchison Essar, India’s fourth-biggest mobile phone operator, at about US$18.8 billion.

According to Vodafone, Hutchison Essar has about 23.3 million customers nationwide in India at the end of December 2006, which was equivalent to about 16.4 percent of the country’s total mobile phone market.

Vodafone said on Sunday that it was targeting an increase of Indian market share to between 20 and 25 percent in five years.

India currently has about 150 million mobile phone users and a total population of approximately 1.1 billion people.

Fierce competition in its core European markets has put Vodafone on the back foot in recent years.

Vodafone has also struggled to cope with the write-down of assets bought at the height of the telecoms bubble - particularly related to the acquisition of German telecoms group Mannesmann in 2000.

Vodafone sold its 25-percent stake in Swisscom Mobile to Swisscom for 4.25 billion Swiss francs (US$3.49 billion, 2.65 billion euros) last year.

The group also sold struggling Japanese unit Vodafone K.K. to Japanese Internet group Softbank Corp for about 8.9 billion pounds.

At the same time, Vodafone snapped up Telsim, the second-biggest Turkish mobile telephone operator for US$4.55 billion, giving it an additional 11.7 million customers.

Broker JP Morgan cited the Telsim acquisition as evidence of its ability to absorb emerging market companies.

“Although the forecasts Vodafone is using to justify the (Hutchison Essar) bid price may be regarded as punchy, its track record at Telsim lends credibility when it comes to squeezing performance from emerging market assets,” JP Morgan analysts said. - AFP/de