Yeah… Today must be my lucky day. I received a free RM100 Google AdWords coupon from Google Analytics. I have been a Google Analytics user for years but I have not use Google AdWords before. I do not know what should I publish for Jayce Ooi’s Paradise and SP Blogger. However, I do have interest to try it for Pretty Girl 2u.

Google AdWords

Why should you advertise on Google AdWords?

• Reach a massive worldwide audience: Google’s advertising network reaches more than 73%* of Internet users in Asia Pacific
• Only pay for results: Your ads appear for free, and you only pay when interested users click on your ads and go to your website
• Control your advertising costs: There’s no minimum spending requirement, and you can change your daily budget at any time
• Adapt your advertising to changing business needs: Change ads for new products and promotions, and start or stop your campaigns anytime

Above statements were taken from the email. Hmm… It is good if we can attract more people to come to your website especially a new website. So will I try it? Sure, why not?

By the way, people don’t like to read fine print. Here is the fine print of the email…

Terms and Conditions
Promotional credit must be applied to a new AdWords account within 15 days of creating the AdWords account and is valid only for new Google AdWords customers with self-managed signup accounts. Advertisers will be charged for advertising that exceeds the promotional credit. Advertisers will need to suspend their ads if they do not wish to receive additional charges beyond the free credit amount. Subject to ad approval, valid registration and acceptance of the Google AdWords Program standard terms and conditions. The promotional credit is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered. Offer may be revoked at any time for any reason by Google Inc. One promotional credit per customer. Advertisers with self-managed signup accounts are subject to a RM20 activation fee. Offer void where prohibited by law. Offer expires July 17, 2009. Please note: After the promotional credit has been exhausted, your campaigns will continue to accrue clicks for which the costs will be charged to your credit card. If you don’t want to be charged for additional clicks, you can pause your campaigns at any time.

Remember to pause your ad campaign if you don’t want to be charged when over RM100 limit. It’s time to give Google money back after getting so much from Google AdSense.

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226 Output truncated to 2000 matches… This was what I got when I was trying to backup my blogs files before upgrade to WordPress 2.8. I have a folder that contains more than 2000 files. And the HostMonster hosting that I am using seem does not allow me to download all the file that I want. So I search ‘226 Output truncated to 2000 matches hostmonster’ at Google. Hopefully, I can find a way to solve it.

Here is the solution that I found…

Use the backup feature in cPanel. It will gzip your specified directory and files into a single file, and you can download everything in a compressed format.

There seem like a server limitation to allow 2000 files upload/download only. Besides using the backup feature in cPanel, any other way to fix it? I failed to download the backup due to large backup file size (around 1 GB) and slow Streamyx Internet connection speed.

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Yeah… It’s time to update WordPress engine to the latest one ~ version 2.8. There is lot of improvements since version 2.7. And it is faster to use it too. I updated my testing blog site to version 2.8 with automatically upgrade. It took only 5 seconds to complete the entire process. For your information, my testing blog only has 2 posts on it. Not sure how long will it take on blog with lot of posts.

Download WordPress 2.8

I love WordPress. It is the best blogging engine that I use so far. Using it on 3 of my blogs – Jayce Ooi’s Paradise, Pretty Girl 2u and SP Blogger of course.

So what are you waiting for? Head to WordPress to download it or use upgrade automatically function and install.

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I have been using phpBB forum engine at Forum at JayceOoi.com for quite sometime. However, it did not behave well lately. A lot of spam user registered and left message. Why did this happen?

I was going to update the register function to a better one. And I discovered that there was a new patch for phpBB – version 3.0.5. This version fixed my problems.

# Added and refined CAPTCHA options to better protect against new version of CAPTCHA crackers.
# Added an option to the registration screen to allow users to refresh the displayed CAPTCHA.

There are others new added features too. But none of them really matter me. Anyway, my phpBB engine was updated to the latest one. How about yours?

By the way, no more auto bot register users and messages since phpBB 3.0.5 installation.

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Have you heard about Gravatar before? I knew this for quite some time. But I am too lazy to upload my photo there. Hehe… Finally, I put my photo at Gravatar in the end. Don’t tell others… I just uploaded it after blogging for 2 years.

Above is the photo that you will see when you left a comment on Gravatar enabled blog. Currently, I did not enable Gravatar on my theme that I am using right now due to slow Streamyx Internet connection. Will turn in on when connection is back to normal. When will be? Don’t ask me. Ask TM Net Streamyx. Haha…

So what is the benefit? Other will know that it is you that comment. And make sure that you use an attractive photo to catch others’ eyes.

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