i.justrealized

SingNet doesn’t like Slicehost too much. I’ve been having some troubles connecting to the host. There’s a 20% chance that the request would time out. It’s like 1/5 of SingNet systems aren’t working.

Other Singaporeans like pkchukiss and Jeremy encounter similar problems with we earlier discussed in Slicehost forums. Both of them mentioned they mailed the technical support so I guess I’ll just wait and see.

Basically, there’s some problems with the internet backbone (probably the C6 cervical vertebrae or something). After randomly tracerouting and pinging here and there, it appears SingNet’s machines aren’t properly configured to a SingTel node.

When with Media Temple, this blog takes ages to load, but at least it loads. With Slicehost, this blog loads quickly and that is if it actually loads.

Are there any other Slicehost users in Singapore?

[The problem appears to be resolved.]

Well, if you’re seeing this post, the move is sort of completed. Host switching sucks. I hope I never had to do this type of things for the next few years.

There’s name server changes, migration of files and databases and blah blah. My plugins did not work out of the box too.

It’s been a love-hate relationship with Media Temple. I’ll move this blog to another host. Blogging is a chore here with all the wait. Things aren’t really reliable here. My new host is slightly better though not a lot better. It’s VPS now. The whole Grid Service thingy? Just marketing.

Been kinda busy too, I’ll probably blog more when I clear up my work.

I prefer to place my uploads into /media/ instead of the default /wp-content/uploads/

So I changed it, but the link is always incorrect for some strange reason:

WordPress uploads files to wrong folders

WordPress uploads file to /media/ but continues to link my images to /wp-content/uploads/. To resolve this issue, specify the folder path manually like I did. Somehow the problem is gone. I wonder if it’s a bug or what.

Before the WordPress 2.6 upgrade, WordPress 2.5 was handling this just fine. Meanwhile, you can learn more about a WordPress 2.6 easter egg.

version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

Get it now!

If you have Google Gears:

Enable Google Gears in your WordPress blog

Google Gears saves some JavaScript in your local computer so that you don’t have to download them again and again when you launch your editing interface. The great advantage to it? You basically can click on the Insert Link button and the dialog box appears with no wait no fuss.

The above, in my opinion, is my favorite new feature of WordPress 2.6. That said, Uzyn, hello Uzyn, time to migrate back to WordPress, haha5…

Thirty cents. Better than nothing. I’m literally using the money earned by another blog to pay for the existence of this blog. It’s sad that I spend more effort in this blog but I don’t get the visitors.

Some notes on ad revenue

Thoughtful posts don’t gain you visitors.

To get visitors, you need, I repeat, you need to blog silly things.

No one wants to know your opinion unless you’re a celebrity and have some say in things.

If part of your reason of blogging is to earn some pennies, never start a personal blog.

Start a link blog or something. Put up music for people to download (and violate from ahem ahem stuff), put lots of pictures that are either funny or cute. (Cute pictures like dogs, cats and rabbits are a winner.)

Don’t bother posting those male-female analysis, boy-girl relationship that could have been passed off as dissertation from some academic institution.

Blog with what’s trendy. Bill Gates retire? Blog about it, link it to another blog. iPhone released? Post pictures, and write a bunch of useless iPhone specifications.

Conclusion

Just don’t model your income generator after this blog.

At the end of 4 months, you will just earn thirty cents. That’s just my two cents. Okay, now I’m left with 28 cents, great.

This is long overdue work, just one line, okay two lines of code, but it took me two months to get this done. I always wanted to redirect justrealized.com to i.justrealized.com because some people prefer to type ‘justrealized’ and hit CTRL+Enter on their browsers.

Anyway, this is more of a personal note. To do a permanent redirect using htaccess, you create a file called ‘.htaccess’ with the dot in front and upload it to your Apache web server. Make sure you have the modrewrite enabled. Put the following lines into your .htaccess file and change i.justrealized.com to your new domain.

301 means permanent redirect. There are lots of ways to do permanent redirects but .htaccess is the most straight forward method if you have the mod_rewrite working for you.

This redirects all your old URLs to your new domain.