As you might have noticed if you updated your WordPress plugins today, WordPress Stats has been added to the Jetpack plugin package and all future updates to WordPress Stats will now be done through Jetpack. Once Jetpack is installed it is safe to deactivate your old WordPress Stats plugin before authorizing Jetpack's connection with wordpress.com. If you're using multi site you will need to authorize Jetpack to connect to wordpress.com on a site-by-site basis. Glorious Errors Jetpack might hit you with a couple of errors when you try to connect it with wordpress.com. You might get the … [Read more...]
Scam Alert: US Department of State Visa Lottery Winner Email
Posted on July 15, 2011 · 194 Comments
Woohooo today is my lucky day: I won the Green Card Lottery despite being ineligible!!!! Below is a duplication of the textual content of the very official looking email I received today from gov.travel@usa.com (gov.travel@diplomats.com) telling me that all my dreams had come true and I have won a visa to live in the good ol' US of A. My email spam detector wrote the email off as "Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419)". I completely agree with its assessment. The email states "You are one of the 50,000 winners selected by the computer random draw from the 12.1 million entries … [Read more...]
Why, Oh Why Is the Royal Mail So Difficult to Contact?
Posted on April 18, 2011 · 5 Comments
And I don't mean through post offices. I'm just venting here because I'm annoyed. Maybe I woke up on the wrong-side-of-the-bed, I don't know but what I do know is that Royal Mail's idea of customer service has royally pissed me off. It really does not do justice to the wonderful people who deliver mail or those who work in post office branches up and down the country. I've just spent over an hour of my time trying to track a parcel that was posted a few weeks ago but which was returned to a sorting office (or delivery center). One hour! A lesser man might have given up but I have … [Read more...]
Is Google Screwing Up?
No one can escape Google's relentless tweaks to catch spam and build search result accuracy. No one! Not even WPMU and JournalXtra. Panda, Penguin, Parrot... Okay, I made the last one up but the point is that Google is screwing up. When Penguin was released, WPMU's traffic dropped from over 8,000 daily visits to under 2,000 daily visits. At around the same time, JournalXtra's traffic dropped from over 1,000 daily visits to around 500 daily visits (still getting around 7000 daily page views though ;) WPMU uses white hat SEO techniques. JournalXtra is white hat. So what is going … [Read more...]