I’m in the middle of finding my missing API key for my resto blog. It’s pretty confusing when you’ve got BLOGS and a number of API keys registered under different names sleeping somewhere in 5 different email accounts. How do I manage it? I don’t know. As long as no one touches my online stuff, I know where to find them. Today happens to be a special case.
Anyway, while I’m on it, Tita Susie forwarded me the latest update on MARCOMMASIA and I already spread it to a number of people on my address book. The big event opens on September 24th until 26th at the World Trade Center. If you guys have time, please drop by. It’s free admission. Please bring a paying friend for the conference.
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Connie forwarded me an email a few days ago. It was about MoreNiche and the ways you can earn in dollars. Yes, it’s in US dollars. As of this writing, US$1 already hit P47. I am not sure whether that is good or bad, but for me it does sound good.
MoreNiche is a UK-based networking company open to humans anywhere in the world. Here’s how you make money as an affiliate:
1. As an affiliate, you receive $20 and 5% for every referral for life. There is an email format you can use to invite your friends.
2. Make commissions out of product sales. Choose whichever featured product you’d like to carry in your website. Commissions vary depending on the type of product.
3. You earn from sending traffic to MoreNiche website. Write an article about MoreNiche and post links at Digg, MySpace or any forums you want.
Here’s what you need to get started:
1. Your information
2. Your bank details so they would know where to wire your money. If you’re from the Philippines, you need your bank’s swift code which you can get here.
3. Your website. If you don’t have a website, they will help you create one at no charge at all.
To learn more about MoreNiche’s affiliate program, simply visit their website.
The first thing I saw when I accessed my other website’s dashboard this morning are those nagging yellow banners telling me to upgrade my current WordPress version one level higher. It has been barely a month since my last upgrade from WordPress 2.6 to 2.6.1. These web savvy guys have just released WordPress 2.6.2 today. If you have that WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin with you, the shift would be just piece of cake. The news has not actually reached my other website yet, meaning this molten hot news just came out of the WP oven.
Here’s why WP asks you to upgrade. To quote:
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2. Read more here.
It’s all about your website’s security and providing a blanket to prevent attackers from hacking your accounts and a cure to persistent bugs.
