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Today mediasushi: photos is no more. I've decided to can it for now.... More

Posted by ady at 23:02 in Web | Permalink

With the success I got at selling royalty-free photos on Fotolia, I've decided to branch out to iStockphoto this year. So far so good. Getting approved to be a contributor... More

Posted by ady at 00:57 in Web | Permalink

Busy upgrading the site so there may be some weirdness going on.... More

Posted by ady at 14:18 in Web | Permalink

Anyone know what this is? It's clogging up my server bandwidth and space with attempts to trackback spam. The annoying thing is that it's coming from all manner of IPs.... More

Posted by ady at 09:32 in Web | Permalink

So far the one way to make money online that has been really successful for me is to sell royalty-free photos on Fotolia. Within the first month of uploading photos... More

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There are many ways where you can make your own website self-sufficient. One way is to sign-up with Google AdSense. Once you're approved, you can start to include various types... More

Posted by ady at 12:38 in Web | Permalink

I guess someone at the China Railway Telecommunications Center is not watching the trains or yapping with the various stations on the grid because 61.234.149.52 has been busy referral spamming... More

Posted by ady at 10:35 in Web | Permalink

mediasushi is expanding! Today, mediasushi: videos is launched. It will be where I will be sharing videos of the things I've seen and places I've been. So, go take a... More

Posted by ady at 20:14 in Web | Permalink

Well, lately I've been trying to get my head round installing Gallery on the server and reading up on CVS. Apparently, CVS is a better way to get the latest... More

Posted by ady at 23:08 in Web | Permalink

Just integrated the Recent Tracks Played data feed onto my right sidebar here... go look! :-) Every so often it will update and you will be able to see the... More

Posted by ady at 14:25 in Web | Permalink

Well, today I finally hit the 60,000 mark in terms of hits on this site and it's not even the end of the month yet. I'm surprised... I did better.... More

Posted by ady at 11:46 in Web | Permalink

Wow. I checked my web stats today and looks like last October this site got the highest hits ever: 59,294!!! It's been going up significantly each month. Let's see if... More

Posted by ady at 01:04 in Web | Permalink

220.194.54.26, from China United Telecommunications Corporation, has hit every page I have on one of my sites. Urgh! It was also referral spamming at the same time for a site... More

Posted by ady at 06:16 in Web | Permalink

Been getting loads of Trackback spam attempts from 85.255.113.78 and 85.255.113.158. User agents for both are either "Net::Trackback/1.01" or "Mozilla/5.0." Again, both the IPs seem to be coming from the... More

Posted by ady at 08:38 in Web | Permalink | Comments (2)

Urgh! I've been getting just a little over a hundred comment spam hits from 195.225.176.155 from somewhere in the Ukraine. I'd put this IP in your .htaccess file if I... More

Posted by ady at 09:42 in Web | Permalink

After a long dry spell, I'm beginning to see a spam run on the site again. So whilst it seems to be coming from all manner of IP addresses, the... More

Posted by ady at 09:33 in Web | Permalink

Well, now that I've got this website up and running for about a year... I'm starting to look at ways to make it self-sufficient. Right now, I'm trying out AdBrite.... More

Posted by ady at 14:28 in Web | Permalink

I'm currently in the middle of upgrading my templates and stylesheet. So pardon the mess that you see around here. The site will be up and running properly in the... More

Posted by ady at 01:56 in Web | Permalink

It's been going on for a few weeks now. There's this spammer trying to trackback and comment spam from the following IP: 203.116.214.2 which can be traced back to the... More

Posted by ady at 19:44 in Web | Permalink

Seems like a comment and trackback spam run is starting. Interestingly, it seems to have started with a particular IP (66.227.14.106 aka virusfree.safemail.com from Grapevine, Texas) doing a search first... More

Posted by ady at 01:07 in Web | Permalink

I don't even think that this is a user (68.104.177.85 aka ip68-104-177-85.ph.ph.cox.net in Gilbert, Arizona). Possibly a bot? It's been downloading every single file and going through nearly every link... More

Posted by ady at 11:51 in Web | Permalink | Comments (2)

Checking my server logs from the last two days... and seems that there have been some attempts to try and abuse the formmail script on my site from: 156.63.251.21 aka... More

Posted by ady at 10:36 in Web | Permalink | Comments (1)

Not quite a spam run yet but got a few referrer spams from 203.199.92.158 and 148.244.150.58. Keyword to block is "ro7kalbe" ppl.... More

Posted by ady at 22:36 in Web | Permalink

I'm not sure what this IP is up to but it accessed two pages on the site. A quick whois check reveals that 62.193.231.243 is aka proxy3.checkflow.net. I don't know... More

Posted by ady at 22:22 in Web | Permalink

Checked the web stats today and had 122 referrers from that stupid IP 12.163.72.13. What the @$#%!... More

Posted by ady at 12:22 in Web | Permalink | Comments (2)

Yeah. That's the latest spam, guys. Latest keyword to look out for is "doobu." Phooey!... More

Posted by ady at 00:43 in Web | Permalink

Saw this Chinanet IP masquerading as IA Archiver: 219.133.55.45 - - [07/Feb/2005:13:47:14 +0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 13289 "-" "ia_archiver"... More

Posted by ady at 03:34 in Web | Permalink

Remember the all familiar referral/trackback spam UA - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322? Well, it seems to be evolving now to the following: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;... More

Posted by ady at 11:05 in Web | Permalink

Below is a new set of IPs that I've been getting referral spam from. I will be updating this list here as and when I get new IPs. For previous... More

Posted by ady at 01:36 in Web | Permalink

Nothing's been cooking in my server logs until recently. From mid-December of last year till today, I've been getting endless referral spam from the following IPs: 64.47.62.26 64.232.240.135 66.49.36.196 66.237.84.20... More

Posted by ady at 08:06 in Web | Permalink

Every now and then something interesting will pop up in the server logs. Today, it is the fake Googlebot again - requesting 3-4 pages at one go within a second... More

Posted by ady at 02:18 in Web | Permalink

In hopes of boosting readership of this site, I've decided to include an "Add-to-My-Yahoo!" button to the sidebar. Thanks again to Elise for this useful tip.... More

Posted by ady at 06:28 in Web | Permalink

Today, the mediasushi: photostore is officially launched. At the moment, it only offers greeting cards of select photos from the mediasushi: photos site. Not knowing what demand would be like... More

Posted by ady at 16:31 in Web | Permalink

After upgrading MT to the latest version, I spent a whole load of time reworking the layout of mediasushi: photos. With the help of Brandon Fuller's MT-PhotoGallery plug-in, I've been... More

Posted by ady at 15:34 in Web | Permalink

mediasushi: photos is finally open for viewing after a gruelling week of recoding the templates. This is where I will be posting photos from my collection - both digital... More

Posted by ady at 02:30 in Web | Permalink

This is funny. Network Solutions is now offering domain names for up to 100 years at USD9.99/year. Of course, who is to know whether they'll still be around as a... More

Posted by ady at 14:22 in Web | Permalink

Something else I discovered today - whilst running my site through the W3C MarkUp Validator, I kept getting errors for my img tags. Apparently, they weren't XHTML 1.0 Transitional or... More

Posted by ady at 17:01 in Web | Permalink

As I embark further into webmastering, I discover the evils of image hot linking. Now, it's nothing to do with porn but rather it's about people directly linking (we're talking... More

Posted by ady at 16:20 in Web | Permalink

I'm supposed to be working on an assignment but decided to take a break to see what else is going on in my server logs. Lately, since I've started up... More

Posted by ady at 03:05 in Web | Permalink