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Programming Till The Cows Come Home

authored on Thursday, July 10th 2008

Oh wow, it has been a while since I blogged. I was just rumbling through my todo list and see what I can scratch off…

“Modify and globalize addlink

How interesting. You see, addlink is a program where you can add a link from your site to mine by adding mine to yours. That way your friends are mine as well mine yours.

The problem came about when I’ve to install this script onto each and every domain seperately. Plus, having to create database, user name and password, and numerous other things to get it all up and running.

2 years ago I had this script installed onto 5 of my sites. Things got hot! There’re people who actually found my page and started linking to me!

That totally excites me until I found gambling links, casino links, sex links… even rolex replicas!

So guess what? I’ve to login to each of the 5 sites, manually search and delete the links. Plus these buggers post multiple times! Esspecially the rolex idiot. 6 times!

Ahhhhhh, but it’s all different now. I came back with knowledge on PHP and MySql. What’s better, I learnt how to use classes!

It took me two days to modify the script (amidst yam cha and dota), and now it’s Super Addlink where you can post a link in any of my domain and I’ll know exactly what you post, when you post it, where you post it, if you are still linking back… all from just one interface!

Just one click on my cron job and fuhyoh! I’ll breeze through all the links making sure YOU are linking back or else….

Oh yea, and if someone puts a rel=’nofollow’ tag on my link. Good bye to them too.

Considering the power of it, two days is a small price to pay!

Next step is to make sure that the domain they want me to link to, must be indexed by Google.

If I can modify this product completely, I can call this my very own and $ell!

Wonder if there’s anyone interested in it. Hehe.

Have You Been Slaughtered While Computer Shopping?

authored on Friday, April 20th 2007

Have you been to a computer fair? I did. I stopped going once because I found out that the price there ain’t that much different from the everyday computer stores in Lau Yat. Yea, but this time I was very enthusiastic about going there because I was looking for a discount on a mouse I had set my eyes upon.

The Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser MouseƂ

Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse

Ahhh, my dream mouse. So while looking, I saw many stores such as SONY.

Okay, back to the topic. If there is a fair, one should see a price slash in all the products… At least that was the mentality I was brainwashed to be.

But alas, there were some products that I had got myself acquainted with and I know their prices like the the back of my hand. However these items were sold $50 above the normal price! I’m talking about an item that costs about $269, and they price it at $299, giving a it a cool ‘hot deal’ icon on their leaflet. Oh, someone save the pockets of those unsuspecting ones who will buy them.

Once again, this experience has now thought me to never buy at impluse but rather always do your research. One won’t die because one doesn’t get the latest iPod or laptop.

It has also strongly reminded me why I never go PC Fair for the past year. Until they come up with a better reason, they has very much lost a good customer.