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When Google Claimed all Search Results as Harmful

Published February 1, 2009 in Internet. 0 Comments

Yesterday around 11pm when I did a few Google searches, I was shocked with Google claiming LinuxJournal.com as: “This site may harm your computer”

“ha?? How could this be possible?” However, judging from logical mind, I copied and pasted the URL manually into browser, and continue browsing to a LinuxJournal.com article, with so-called “at my own risk” :p

Apparently, the problem was, Google has mistakenly tagged all sites in the world as harmful, including Google’s own site. You can see relevant screen shot at here.

As reported by Google, the issue began appearing between 6:27am and 6:40am (GMT-08:00) and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25am (GMT-08:00). In other words, for Malaysia, Singapore and China Internet users, you could have faced the same issue if you did any Google search between 10:27am and 11:25am.

Thankfully, it didn’t take long time for Google to realize and take immediate action to resolve this issue.

As explained by Google, it was a human error.

What happened? Very simply, human error. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.

We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. (more details at Google Blog)

While the technologically advanced infrastructure and highly optimized binaries are deriving reliable search results in fraction of a second, still, human error could ruin the process. When this issue happened, tons and tons of related tweets are flooding the Twitter-sphere.

If Google analyzes the search for “google” keyword during this time frame, I’m sure it hits the all time high, as many people were trying to verify if Google tags its own sites as harmful as well :)

要财非裁的己丑新春

Published January 25, 2009 in Life Log. 2 Comments

To my English-ed readers, sorry but I’ve decided to write this Chinese New Year post in Chinese language :)

呵呵，这可是我第一篇以中文表达的部落文章哦！今年的新春虽然没比往年来得热闹（说真的，还真没什么feel），但有个现象还挺特别的。正逢经济萧条，by right大家应该大喊“财源广进”才对啊。。

但是呢，碍于裁员风吹得盛，网络上也陆续地流传了一系列的牛年禁语 - 裁员滚滚财源滚滚，招裁禁饱招财进宝，裁员广尽财源广进，薪降四成心想事成。就连仙草密饮料也遭殃，被译为先炒me！

也许，是时候back to basic了吧。传统却不缺实际的“新年快乐”也OK嘛。再不然，来句“身体健康”也很好啊。有着健康的身体，才可以在工作岗位上全力以赴，更加专注地完成任务。付出多点，自然也能减低被裁的可能性，间接着生职加薪。

还记得五年前，新年贺语SMS全都在午夜12时涌进手机。同样的，大家都赶着在午夜时分炮轰式的发送贺语SMS，造成网络诸塞，有些朋友还complain收不到贺语，纷纷“靠北”(kao peh)通讯服务商。想当年，我也是其中一位等到半夜12时才ham pa lang一次过发送佳节SMS的 :p

近年来呢，大家也比较没那么在意SMS贺语是否于正日发送，有到好过没到嘛。所以呢，与其和通讯商过意不去，多数人也开始提早发送佳节贺语了。数一数，虽然还没进入正月初一，但现在我已收了22封新春SMS及MMS。

也许是因为好听吧，不管什么年，生肖大哥都被冠个“金”号 - 金牛，金猪，金龙，金鸡。。。（自己填吧），全都不缺个“金”字招牌。但实际上呢，不是每一年都是金年的。就好像这新年 - 己丑，“己”在五行学里，其实是土。所以勒。。这位新上任的牛大哥其实是属土的。难怪有时生肖大哥会不爽啦，连名都被叫错 :p

哪，跟你讲，明年才是如假包换的金虎（庚寅）年啦。

OK，写够了，我的中文也是有限公司的，不能现丑（一点点就好啦，哈哈哈）。在此祝贺大家：新年快乐，心想事成！

First Time Seeing Membership Card with Rewritable Visual Info

Published January 25, 2009 in Life Log and Tech Talk. 2 Comments

Everytime my brother comes back from Singapore, you know what I like to do??? Dig his bag :p Being a fashionable guy, his bag is always quite interesting - new clothes, or some very useful yet cheap goodies.

This time, he has a new Esprit bag again (yes, again~~) for me to examine.

Stack of membership cards

This card holder, with 15 plastic envelopes, was bought at SGD4. Each piece of the plastic envelope is of good quality and design too - the design allows every card to be easily pulled out from the envelopes.

Within the stack of membership cards with various popular brands, an ordinary looking card caught my attention. This is the Singapore Fashion Fast Forward (F3) membership card.

Singapore Fashion Fast Forward membership card

At first glance, nothing really too special. However, take a closer look at the information printed on the foil, and I started having a question.

Are the “points this visit” and “total points” printed with real figures? Which means, visual information on this foil is updated on every swipe??

Apparently, yes, the foil is made with rewritable thermal recording material, called Hot Foil Stamping technology, which allows visual information to be updated for as much as 500 times. hm… interesting… quite a cool membership card ;)

Which Levi’s Jeans suits You?

Published January 18, 2009 in Life Log and Web Applications. 0 Comments

Been telling myself to buy a new jeans, as I’ve not been buying one for years. And yes, this task was marked as “accomplished” this afternoon, bringing home a Levi’s Red Tab 505, with an additional RM249 in my upcoming credit card bill.

Out of so many varieties from the outlet, ranging from 501 to 505, 512, 550 and bla bla bla, I’ve picked a 505 (tight fit) and a 550 (relaxed fit). But, I’m just not standard-size enough la… relaxed fit doesn’t really look fitted on me haha, too loose for my liking. Very obviously, 505 is a lot better on me.

However, the tight fit is not labeled so for nothing. When I put on my typical size, W31, it was so fitted that I can’t even conveniently put in my SE P1 and wallet. So, tried an inch larger, and finally I satisfyingly settled for W32.

What Levi Thinks I Should Wear?

Fits suggested by whatsmylevis.com

Just out of curiosity, I went to whatsmylevis.com. This is a site solely dedicated to Levi’s fit guide. Simply put in some general information about yourself, and most importantly, your gender and vital stats - chest, waist & hips. Then, you will be presented with your body type, following by suggested fits.

Haha.. I was trying to find out what suits me best, and yet I’ve already bought :p

My body type is described as “lean and mean“:

With long arms, legs and torso, your trim shape means you can carry off those skinny jeans really well - good on you, because these are definitely the “it” jeans everyone wants to wear!

And…. dang dang dang dang~~~ I’ve got suggestion for Levi’s Red Tab 505 luxury heritage jeans. Bingo! I’ve bought an ideal one :p

Best Day to Start Work After Chinese New Year 2009

Published January 10, 2009 in Tips & Tricks. 9 Comments

Are you looking for advice on the best day to start work or commence your business in the year of Earth Ox (己丑) after Chinese New Year 2009?

I’ve received a tip from Joey Yap - the world renown Chinese astrology and feng shui master, with a quote as follows:

“If you look at the Tong Shu, the good days right after Chinese New Year is on the third day (28th Jan), but normally most Chinese will take the 1st week off. So, the most appropriate day to start work would be the fifth day (30th Jan) of Chinese New Year. It is actually a very good day on the horse hour (11am - 1pm) but the best day to start work is the 8th day of Chinese New Year (2nd Feb) at the dragon hour (辰時) on 7am to 9am. This day is actually a remove day but the remove day helps remove the old problems that you have on the year of rat. And in fact this day is good because this is a Dong Gong auspicious day and there are a lot of auspicious stars for the rest of the year.”

You may watch Joey Yap’s “Start Off on a Good Date in 2009″ video clip at http://www.masteryacademy.com/eb/lesson01/

In summary, these are the good dates to commence your work after Chinese New Year:

  • 28th Jan (Success, 成日)
  • 30th Jan (Open, 开日)
  • 2nd Feb (Remove, 除日)

Hehe.. good thing is, I actually plan to apply leave for the first week of CNY, and begin working on 2nd Feb :D To those working in KL, 2nd Feb is a public holiday though.

How Do You Tweet to Twitter?

Published January 8, 2009 in Phones and Web Applications. 0 Comments

TweetStats - Interface Used

Using TweetStas to generate statistics graphs for my Twitter account, I’ve managed to find out analysis of interfaces that I’ve used to tweet.

Out of the 831 tweets updated since May 2008:

  1. 371 tweets from TwitterFox (Firefox plugin)
  2. 258 tweets from mobile web (m.twitter.com)
  3. 69 tweets from TwitPic

Of all the interfaces I used, mobile web, TwitPic, txt (SMS) and Fring are from mobile. I actually tweet using SMS when I’m not in Malaysia. Check out my previous post on how to tweet from mobile.

As shown, I have quite a lot of text tweets twitted from phone (31%) using the mobile web, and never the less, about 8.3% of pictures posted from phone via TwitPic.

Personally, Twitter is meant to be a mobile companion for me, such as for the following events:

  1. simply want to let my friends know where I am or what I’m doing
  2. want to hao lian (show-off) the food that I’m eating
  3. a different way to express “I’m bored”
  4. vent out bosong-ness (grumble la hehe)
  5. thank someone

Most of the time, time factor is important in sharing a message. At a particular moment, when I’m in the mood to tell something, then instant mobile twitting is definitely more shiok :p

Even when I have nothing to twit, I’m also used to accessing m.twitter.com every now and then, just to check out latest tweets received. The law of kepo-ness kicks in.

But as similar to all other social networking goodies, there ought to be a community of yours, in order to enjoy the usage. And yes, most of my followers are active Twitter users, especially from the mobile interface.

So, how do you tweet?

The First and Most Personalized CNY Greeting

Published January 7, 2009 in Life Log. 0 Comments

CNY Greeting

As shown above, are 2 small notes of 28 Chinese words. I’m very surprise, and at the same time happy to receive this personalized Chinese New Year greeting.

The uniqueness is, the first row of each note begins with my Chinese name - 鈿順

Thanks for the greeting :)

Flickr Pro Account Gift Code at RM30 - 1/3 of Original Price

Published January 4, 2009 in Internet and Tips & Tricks. 1 Comment

—– Updated on 26th May 2009 —–

WARNING: Don’t Buy Flickr Pro Gift code From Third Party

After 5 months of sweet enjoyment with my Flickr Pro account at discounted rate, I have got the following mail message from Flickr:

Flickr Pro Gift codes cannot be resold or purchased from a third party. It’s been determined that the Flickr Pro Gift Code(s) you used had been purchased from a third party.

We’re very sorry sorry, but the Flickr Pro Gift Code that you redeemed on your account has been revoked.

That’s right, the tips written in this post DOESN’T WORK ANYMORE. So, lesson learned, only buy Flickr Pro from Flickr.

—– Original Post —–

When I realized that my Flickr Pro account is expiring in less than a month, I was Googling, hoping to try my luck to stumble upon any Flickr gift code offering some discounts.

Then, I found this catchy topic at Photokaki, and aparently, someone is selling Flickr Pro 1 year subscription at RM30, and 2 years for RM50!!!

Which also means, I only need to pay 1/3 of the original price (USD24.95)! I was trilled.

Flickr Gift Code

Then, seeing some positive replies of success stories, without second thought I PMed the author to confirm its availability. Then, bought a RM30 DiGi reload code (yes, the payment method is DiGi prepaid reload code) via Maybank2u, and yes, I received an email from Flickr, with a gift code of “LgS00Jke” (not valid anymore)

So, if you are renewing your Flickr account, why not give it a try? Please PM the author to confirm its availability.

Pictures of Our New Office at Plaza Glomac

Published January 4, 2009 in At Work. 6 Comments

The company of which I’ve been working with for 3 and half years (first job), has moved into a new office at Plaza Glomac Kelana Jaya.

GPS: +3° 5′ 58.56″, +101° 35′ 26.34″

12.12.08: Plaza Glomac

12.12.08: In the midst of assembling the furnitures 12.12.08: Chairs
12.12.08: In the midst of assembling the furnitures 12.12.08: Partitions and desks
12.12.08: Fixing the cables 12.12.08: Hammer and measuring tape

On the auspicious date of 12/12/2008 (Fri) at 11am, we’ve officially moved, even though the furnitures were still in the midst of being assembled. So, we practically went into the office at 11am, and left by 12pm :p Only started our work on coming Monday, while the Network Services department were struggling throughout weekend to fix hundreds of network cables and ports, and bring up racks of servers.

When what did we do during the auspicious hour? Continue reading ‘Pictures of Our New Office at Plaza Glomac’

Exporting and Importing WordPress Posts is Easy, with WordPress 2.7

Published January 4, 2009 in Tips & Tricks. 0 Comments

I’ve just tried a full cycle of WordPress 2.7 exporting and importing features, and I must say, it’s COOL! As easy as snapping your fingers (snapping fingers is not something everyone can do though :p).

Exporting Posts, Comments, Categories and Etc

In WordPress 2.7, there’s an Export utility under the Tools menu in admin panel. This tool allows us to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories and tags into a format (XML file) called eXtended RSS or WXR.

By selecting an author (or all authors), you’re ready to effortlessly export the above mentioned contents in your WordPress blog.

Even if you’re not migrating your blog, this utility is a very good and convenient backup tool too.

I’ve got an XML file of 1.08MB. Continue reading ‘Exporting and Importing WordPress Posts is Easy, with WordPress 2.7′

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