Payperpost.com Approved my blog

What a good news! I just got approved by payperpost.com.
When I look back to few months ago when I started actively blogging here, reading articles from day to day, capturing every single moment of my life and getting them posted to my blog, and today I am approved by PayPerpost.com. That means I can start earning some extra money from blogging, what a good start. Blogging life seems to be very interesting to me. I started learning more knowledge by reading thru articles, see from people’s comments, and get to know friends from the other side of the world.

Just referring to the previous blog that I submitted my blog to Payperpost and I get to know that my blog is not meeting the criteria for blog and earn money when receive the Notification from Payperpost.com. I started working very closely with Payperpost.com’s terms of service and seek approval for my blog, finally I got it.

Nowaday, I always hang around in Payperpost's portal to get some daily updates and I know that if I want to make more opportunities available to myself, I need to improve my google’s ranking and also Alexa’s score. I've been working so close with google ranking and Alexa’s score since last few years, just because I am a web programmer and need to keep track on the latest technology. So, this is the time for me to apply it into my blog to get more extra income.

So, It good to have chance to earn extra money from Payperpost.com starting from today.

SQL Server Clustering vs Mirroring

Let’s be a bit techie today. Here go my findings on clustering failover and mirroring. Enjoy!!

If you have worked with SQL Server before, you should have heard of the terms mentioned in the topic today. Basically, clustering failover and mirroring both serves the purpose of reducing downtime of the SQL Server by automatically failover a database to a backup database. The difference is that clustering failover works at an instance level; while mirroring works at database level. And mirroring is something new in SQL Server 2005.

Clustering could protect you from hardware failures, but mirroring doesn’t only protect you from hardware failures, but also data failures. Besides, mirroring doesn’t require specially certified hardware, reacts much faster than clustering and requires less knowledge to set up.

In short, I think mirroring is a much better choice than failover clustering.

EPL will start soon

I almost fed up with having nothing to do during weekend. With the long wait to hang out with football (soccer) friends in pub or “Mamak” stall which served “Coti Canai” and “Teh Tarik”. And finally, English Premier League will start again soon.

This season's EPL is looking like it will be the best ever for me, with some huge signings taking place.

I am a big fan of Man Utd. This season Man Utd come in with big signings like Owen Hargreaves, Highly rated Portuguese winger Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha ("Nani"), Brazilian wonder kid Anderson.
And will Tevez join the force to create another Man Utd’s empire? Really can’t wait for witness the wonder of the signings and result of the Tevez saga.

Will Man Utd retain the title?
Will Chelsea come back and claim the EPL champions that lost to Man Utd last session?
Will Liverpool pose a threat for the EPL title? Will Torres flop? Will the signing of Torres really impact Liverpool to claim the first ever EPL Champions?

There are a lots of question marks to be answer for me in this coming session. But all will be answered soon!!!!

Catch up with the new season of the EPL.

11/8 is the date for us to see the starting of what is going to happen in next season.

Greening the world by Recycling

Nowadays, people have been talking about the recycling. Are we live in the bad situation of the world? Until we need to focus so much in recycling? I don’t think so, as recycling is part of our responsibility of let our world to be greenly and healthy.

Why recycling? Recycling is important for us to maintain natural environment and helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste.

One of the common recycling activities is collecting old newspaper. Almost every day, if you are staying at SS2, there will be some lorry past by and shouting old newspaper, this is the lorry that collecting old newspaper from us. In fact they also paying back money by giving them old news paper or used paper. As some parties understand that some individual won’t take recycling as a necessity if it is not profitable.

Hence, there are still lots of individual never understanding the importance of the recycling and even treat people who practice it like an alien.

Almost every Sunday, there are some charity party gather at specific station to collect the used clothes for poor. But some public treat it as funny activities by provided used under Garment.

Just my though, government can painstakingly fork out resources for recycling campaigns but they will all go down the drain when many individuals still feel recycling is not a necessity.

Please refer to the link for recycling info: http://www.kpkt.gov.my/kitarsemula/

What is Podcasting?

Technology is growing from day to day. Today, every individual can also posting their own movies or music to the website provided for public viewing. Almost every single day, internet user is posting to online video portal and let the public user to view their video.

There is a new technology to share their video nowaday, which is called Podcast.

A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. A "pod" refers to the iPod, and "cast" to the idea of broadcasting.

Syndication feeds is An RSS document, it can called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel", contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.

Podcasting can be used for publish and share Informational content provided by podcaster. Music also can be podcast promote clips and interviews. A lots of Talk Shows being podcasted by news, commentaries. Internet also can podcast their Training as Instructional informational materials. And to be famous in the world, internet user like to podcast their Story.

For those who interest in Podcasting, can look back at this posting History of podcasting that can briefly let us know the podcast history timeline.

finding a place we call home

It has been more than 2/3 dozen of years for me to be working in KL, a place that takes me more than 5 hours to reach my home town. I've been struggling in finding a way to settle myself down in this city. Once, I did think of leaving this place and go back somewhere near my home town for career enhancement, but ended up I was stuck with current situation.


At the same moment of trying to find my path, I've moved several times to find a place that can give me comfort like home. I have lost count of the places I have stayed in.

Now, I am staying with simple electrical appliances, DIY furniture, living hall with all the unused stuff, kitchen with “going-to-drop” cabinet, small TV that need to adjust antenna when change channel.

I always dream of buying a house. This month and finally, I got a node to buy my own house, a place I call it home. I bought an unit of condominium, somewhere near my rented house here. I bought just because I like this location, SS2. And it is very convenient to reaching my working place. Somehow I enjoy staying in condo and this is the main reason I decided to choose this unit after consideration of the location and environment.

Almost every week, I will pass by and take a look at the construction of my home, by seeing the skeleton of the house is built and ready. I am so excited and can’t wait until the home is ready to fit me in.

Thanks to my fiancée for working it out with me, and really looking forward for the house moving event, but I think house renovation event will come first :)

Label Cloud Created

Million Thanks to phydeaux3, I just created my label cloud for this blog.
From the Code for New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud, I got to put my own label cloud into my blog.
Although this is quite old post from phydeaux3.
but i find it very interesting info to share with my friends.
For those who really want to create a Label Cloud, you can visit http://phydeaux3.blogspot.com/ for more info about the Label Cloud creation.

Online videos play an important role in Internet Age

In where we are for this century, online videos play an important role.

Below are some popular portals which provide online videos:
Youtube.com
Video.google.com
Vids.myspace.com
Uncutvideo.oal.com
Soapbox.msn.com
Video.yahoo.com
Stupidvideo.com
Break.com
Ebaumsworld.com
Dailymotion.com

Video portals become a more and more serious business from day to day. They are trying to attract the whole world to post videos on their sites.
Recent news says, Youtube.com has become a vital part of the campaign for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Earlier, YouTube and CNN teamed up for video style presidential debates entitled The CNN-YouTube Debates. This is the sign that showing Online video portal been playing a vital part in all the activities in this world.

By referring to the YouTube role grows as U.S. election nears, there’s no doubt that online video portals play a vital role in our lifes. According to the Reuters, More than 2.5 million people have viewed "I've Got a Crush...On Obama" about Democratic Sen. 2.5 millions??!!!!
Gosh…

WoW!! Cheap Flights to Australia

It is mentioned in both The Star and Sinchew Daily that the AirAsia X is expected to start its first flight to Australia starting from 8th September this year. It was told that the one-way air fare is going down to as low as RM9.90 during promotional period!!

I think this is really good news to all the backpackers out there!! Cheers!!

(Will update more once I got the details)

Internet down for some stupid reasons

I am just back from hunting the solution to get the line back. Company's internet connection is down because we've not pay a single sen to TMNet for 5 months. TMNet have decided to suspend our internet service.

The internet connection was cutoff suddenly this morning when I was trying to search around for more information about the downtime of Digg. I was wondering if it was the hardware that is causing the downtime. After checking both the modem and firewall, everything were working fine. So I made a call to Streamyx's hunting line to check on the internet service, making sure there was no interruptions.

The customer service personnel actually found out that we didn’t pay our bills for the past 5 months. That was just like a punch in the face!!

Even though my company is no big boy like Microsoft or IBM, but still we are a financially stable local public listed company. Of course we are able to handle the few thousands easily. But the question is why is this happening? I am still very upset about the incident.

The connection was back up after the bill was paid. I don’t know when I can get my claim back; but what to do, I just can’t live without internet.

Digg (out of service)

For all time famous website like Digg, They become news for the world if there is anything happen to their website.


I just wanted to see my favorite list in the digg this morning, and I saw this Message :


We’ll be back shortly.Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes.

And My Digg icons at my blog also disappear, is this normal when Digg is down? So, I need to wait until Digg is up only will know this is normal or not.

Everyone is waiting to hear from Digg, and waiting for see the reason of the downtime, is that hacker attack? are they under go the upgrading service?
we need to wait until the service is up only we will know the main reason of this downtime.

The "Famous Claypot Loh See Fun" in TTDI

Erm… Let’s write about food today. There are a lot of food in PJ, but the one that I m going to write about today is located at Taman Tun Dr. Ismail (TTDI).

The restaurant is named “Famous Claypot Loh See Fun”. The best-seller here is definitely the Claypot Lou Shu Fun (you can tell from the restaurant name rite :p). You might be able to get claypot lou shu fun elsewhere, but the one selling here is definitely tasty. I think it is very much because of the minced pork that is put together with the lou shu fun. The lou shu fun is served with a thick layer of minced pork on top with an uncooked egg. It is nice to see, and nice to eat too!

The best-seller after Claypot Lou Shu Fun will be the ‘Siew Yoke (Roasted Pork) Mee’. The mee is special that it does not break easily. The dish uses a lot of garlic to bring out the taste of the roasted pork. (This is actually my favorite dish here :p)

Other than the 2 dishes mentioned above, the Yong Tau Fu is selling good as well. There are other variety of options here on fish, squid, lala, beef, vege and tofu.

I’ve personally tried on some other dishes, but my favourites still remain as Siew Yoke Mee and Claypot Lou Shu Fun. You may come and try it out yourselves too!

Location tip : Look for TTDI’s Pizza Hut on your right, go straight and you’ll see VADS building. Turn left from the traffic light, and immediately turn left again into the street of shops. The restaurant is located almost at the end of the shop row.

Comment Captcha of blogger.com for minimize comment spam

I am so lucky that I received my first piece of comment spam today here on Blogger.com. For the Post Protest held against AirAsia. There are 27 thousands word been added to my comment, this is weird. This is the Comments look like :

Comment spam example

Blogger.com already Strip links from comments, but spammers are so keen to do the comment spam just only to flood the comment of blogger. So, I got kind of announcement with titled Women's track & field throw teams. Interesting post yeah.

So, I go to the comment site of the post and delete it from the post. But I decided not to delete off fully the spam comment and keep as a memory in my blogging life.. hehehe….

Deleted Comment

Without wasting my time but I still considering to let Anonymous post some comment on my post, I enable the comment captcha at blog setting.
How to enable? Below are these steps.

1. Log in to your blogger.com account and click on the "Settings" tab. You'll see a top navigator menu like this:

2. Click on the Comments sub-menu; scroll down until you see this option.

3. Choose “Yes” and save the setting by click on “Save Settings” button at the end of the setting page.

After enabled, when there is a user want to post some comment on your posts. They will see this section to verify the post is from “Human”.

Word Verification Section

Digg.com also have the same function when want to add a new story, the screen is quite funny by stated: “Are You Human?” as this is part of method to minimize the Spamming.

Captcha for Digg.com

I am not sure this will block fully from attacked by the comment spam, but this surely can make these spammers have to work quite a bit harder to achieve their nefarious goals.

Buying Your House in 5 Steps

Finally, I’ve bought my own house last Saturday. I find that buying house is easy, but selecting the right one is hard. :P

You may refer to my previous post on Mortgage vs Conventional Housing Loan to discover more about housing loan.

Below is my sharing on the steps you will have to go through in buying new house. It is not complicated, don’t worry. Just be patient!!

Step 1 : Place your deposit/booking on the unit you like to the developer.

Step 2 : You may start contacting the bankers (some developers would get the panel bankers to contact you though) to check on the loan packages. You may submit the loan application to the banks that you are interested in. You may try on a few banks. The bank might need the Photostatted copies of the following documents from you:
• IC
• EA Form
• EPF statement
• Bank book statement/transactions in recent 3 months
• 3 recent month salary pay slip
• Booking receipt of the property

Step 3 : Sign the S&P (pay the legal fees, lawyer fees, water and electricity registration deposit, if applicable) with the developer within 7 days from the booking date.

Step 4 : Pay your balance of down payment within 21 working days after signing S&P.

Step 5 : Sign the Letter of Offer with your selected bank within 60 days after signing S&P.

Once the S&P (from developer) and Letter of Offer (from bank) are signed, the deal is considered done!! Yes, just that simple!!

Oh, last but not least, some advise on EPF withdrawal to purchase your house. You will need the S&P Agreement and Letter of Offer (from bank) in order to proceed with the withdrawal. And the process will take approximately 2 to 3 weeks. The amount eligible to withdraw is the difference between the price of the house and the housing loan with an additional 10% of the price of the house.

My NexStar External 2.5" HDD (USB 2.0)

Finally, I’ve got my external hard disk yesterday, which I’ve been wishing to get one since last year. I bought it from the Digital Mall, the latest ICT hang-out place in Section 14, PJ.

Yeah, I know that PC fair is around the corner, but I’d still prefer to shop here than to be trapped in the PC fair jam for 2 hours for only an external hard drive.

When I went shopping around for the external hard drive, I got stuck with this handy and nice-looking external HDD enclosure, NexStar External 2.5" HDD Enclosure (USB 2.0) NST-280U2-BK.

The enclosure is nice from the layout and it is manufactured by Vantec, which is a US brand. The product comes in 2 classic colors, Onyx Black and Metallic Silver. The NexStar-SX also utilizes USB 2.0, offering up to 480 Mbps, 40 Times and the Speed of the USB 1.1. It feels light when I carry it on hand. The enclosure itself costs me RM42. And the hard disk costs me RM185. So, the total cost for this nice looking hard disk is RM227. Is that Cheap? I am not so sure.

I’ve decided to go for the Black one, as I personally think it is cool. The whole package for the NexStar External 2.5" HDD Enclosure contains of 2.5" HDD enclosure, driver Disc, user manual, USB cable, leather carrying case, screws, and screwdriver.

This is how my external hard disk looks like:

NexStar External 2.5" HDD Enclosure

Full Package: NexStar External 2.5" HDD Enclosure

I tested on the hard disk right after the shopping. The speed is fast as in writing and reading data. The aluminum casing helps to cool down the hard drive, which I don’t really feel the heat even after 4 hours of usage.

I do think that this product is valued for money. Don’t you think so?

Protest held against AirAsia

I just came across this article on thestar.com.my, with title Protest held against AirAsia. It was reported that the airport facilities provided by LCCT are not good enough for the disabled and wheelchair-bound members.

I’ve been a fan of the low fare flights provided by AirAsia ever since they launched. I’d fly with AirAsia for a few vacations every year. And I’m sorry that I’ve never pay attention to the facilities that is provided for the disabled people.

When I try to recall my memories, I realize that it is true that LCCT doesn’t provide special assistance to the disabled ones for boarding. And they do not incorporate aerobridges, which allow easier access for passengers to board planes. Passengers are instead required to walk up a flight of boarding stairs, which is a daunting task for the disabled person.

But should AirAsia be blamed? Or should it be the LCCT? Maybe both.

I think what we (the Government) really have to do is to look into the welfare of the disabled ones as we are still looking forward to achieving Wawasan 2020. We must be able to take care of every community in our country before we actually claim ourselves as the "Developed Country".

Transformers

“Wow!! That’s what we call special effects.” That’s the first line that came across my mind when I was enjoying Transformers (my last movie was Fantastic 4 (which was quite a disaster), I guess that’s one of the factors that made me think that Transformers is really cool!! I know, I know, it is not fair to compare Transformers with Fantastic 4 (I mean it is not fair to Transformers. LOL)).

As I don’t recall much of the Transformers cartoons or comics, that make me easier to take the movie as it is, I guess. Though the film is a bit too sensational (well, you know, it is still Hollywood after all), especially the sentiment plot between Bumblebee and Ben; and all the sacrifices, but well, I still enjoy the movie very much. :)

I like the part where the Autobots transform into vehicles, and how they flip-flop and transform back into their original forms. I like the part where the Sensitive BumbleBee got upset and transform into a gorgeous Camaro. I like it when Barricade transform into a Saleen 5281 Mustang police car.

Autobots Rule!!!

Trip to Bukit Belimbing Firefly Park Resort, Kuala Selangor

Saturday night was a very interesting night for me, as it was my first time to witness the beautiful and amazing Firefly Park in Kuala Selangor.

We started off the journey at 4pm from PJ. It took us approximately 1 hour to reach Bukit Belimbing. You’d be able to see a lot of palm tree fields along the way. Just follow the Kuala Selangor road sign will do.

Roadsign Showing way to Kuala Selangor

There are 2 firefly parks, one of them is at Bukit Belimbing, and the other one is at Kg Kuantan. And we’ve decided to go for the one in Bukit Belimbing, named as Firefly Park Resort.

Ticket Counter

You'll have to purchase the boat trip tickets from the Ticket Counter. The boat trip (which could fit in 15 persons per boat) took us to the swamp, and there was where the amazing journey started. But too bad that we were not allowed to take photo during the boat trip. sad....

Signboard showing no photos allowed

Along the swamp, we could see thousands of fireflies stopping at the “berembang” trees and blinking at each other. The lights are small yet bright. Sometimes it looked almost like a Christmas tree, and sometimes it was just like the stars blinking in the sky ( and I started singing “Starry Starry night, paint your palette blue and grey ~~~” :P).

In the middle of the boat trip, we tried to ask for the permission to take photo on the fireflies, and the captain said can, but without flash.. I was so excited and took out the camera and took a snap on the natural Christmas trees. But.. my screen returned blank because of the darkness of the night.

So, I am sorry to not able to provide photos of the beautiful and amazing Firefly Park. No choice loo, you all need to go and witness yourselves.

The boat trip lasted not more than half and hour, but it was really value for money.

Some details of the park:

Boat Fare : RM 10 per person

Service Hours : 7.45pm – 10.30pm (everyday including public holidays)

Personal advise : Don’t fill your stomach at Firefly Park Seafood Restaurant. The food is ok but the service is really bad. When we had our seafood dinner there, the so called air-conditionered restaurant’s air –con was spoiled and the staffs never got us a fan or provide us with any other solutions. We were sweating all the while during dinner.

Notification from Payperpost.com

I got a notification from Payperpost.com today, saying that my blog is not meeting requirements yet. Well, this is how it looks like:

Notification Info: Thank you for your blog submission! I'm sorry, as per our terms of service, we do not accept blogs with a non-writing period of 30+ days in the past 90 days. Please re-submit when your blog meets all of our requirements. In the meantime, feel free to use PPP Direct and Affiliate tools while you work on meeting the requirements of our Marketplace! Thank you!

It directly flagged me to check about the term of service in order to participate in the Payperpost Market Place.
After going thru the whole terms of the service, I found that I’ve missed out some important conditions when I submit this blog.

Below are the Terms of service provided by Payperpost.com.

Item 5.3 BLOG ELIGIBILITY.
D. Minimum Blog Age. Blogs must be live for a minimum of 90 days, counted from the date of the Blog's first post, with at least 20 pre-existing posts prior to registration with the PayPerPost Marketplace. The majority of these posts may not be in a single month and there must not be a gap of more than 30 days between any posts during the 90 day period immediately preceding sign up for registration in the Marketplace.

Base on the terms, I need to post more than 20 Posts within 90 days in order to participate in Payperpost Market Place.
In fact, My blog is not even reaching 10 posts yet, muakhahahahaa…
So, what I have to do is to blog actively in order to make money and also to share with you my thoughts.
For those who are interested in joining the Market Place, please be aware of the terms as well ya :)

Mortgage vs Conventional Housing Loan

I was busy looking and comparing all the rates of housing loans lately as I’ve planned to get myself a house :) There are all kinds of loan out there; conventional, mortgage, Islamic and etc etc. I find myself in a dark hole when I first searching for loans cos I don’t even know what the difference is between conventional and mortgage loan. I was busy calling up banks. Some of them are very informative and helpful; some are really lame. And there’s one who only call me back after 3 weeks after my first call (it is even an international bank).

Basically mortgage is more flexible as you may choose to deposit in extra money monthly, and the bank will treat these extra money as a 2nd account that you may withdraw the money back at anytime (but please be aware that there will be no interest on these money that you deposit in). But anyway, it will still minus off your principal with those extra repayments, but once you withdraw them, they would revise the principal again. This is the only difference comparing to conventional housing loan that I managed to discover.

But of course the interest rate by applying mortgage would be slightly higher than the conventional ones as it is more flexible. You can’t actually say one is better than the other; it is very much depending on your needs. So enjoy choosing you housing loan :)

Broadband service

I got to know that some Local company has just introduced its mobile wireless broadband. I am quite sure a lot of people including me like to know efficiency of the service. I had been trying to browse for the new broadband service as some company needs a fixed line to get a broadband service.

I personally like to use Wireless Broadband as I can carry the modem and move around, as I don’t always sleep at my house. And no need to pay for the fixed line service fee. Access limit is not a concern as all service providers provide unlimited access for a fixed rate by monthly basis.

If I would choose a broadband service, reliability is the most important overall consideration, and follow by the value for money.

Broadband is revealed as a key enabler in flexible working from home, this is why people are concern about the surfing speed. I hope soon, when I am ready to leave my daily work, I will prefer to work from home. That time I hope I won’t be get headache by searching for a good broadband service.

So, I started to see around all the broadband services and survey as much as I can to get the best service with value for money.

Signed up for PayPerPost

As I mentioned that I started to make extra money with my blog. This is the first step I may need to do is register at Payperpost. Basically this website provides some Opportunity to let blogger towrite about some services provided in the internet by linking the blog’s post to advertiser’s website. The other words, Instead of displaying ads or affiliate programs payperpost puts ads on blogs as a simple news post, people read our news, and click the links in the news.
It’s a good start for me, as I don’t write much in my life.
Sign up now at PayPerPost, and try out a new way of monetizing your blog.

Blogging for money

Today, I started my blogging activities. I think like others on the blog, that is I want to make extra money and soon can quit my daily work. And focus on my own daily activities.

I been out of time since end of 2005 when I got to know that my mom infected by Hepatitis C. chasing for money from day to night. I know it’s not right to use up time to chase for money. But by that time, this is the only way I can go for.
To be surprise, I knew adsense and blogging stuff since early of 2005.
My only concern is I don’t even have time to blog and earn extra money.

Since last few weeks, I got to know I have a little time to catch up with my dream which earning money online and starting to quit my daily job. Actually company decided to hire extra headcount to help on my work as previously I am doing it alone. But I do like my work as this is part of my life. Maybe you will feel that I am crazy, but to be frank I am not stupid.

I work as a programmer in a local known factory, but day and night I need to standby for 7x24. Yes!! 7x24. I even need to come back during 2 am and also come back to work on 8:30 am every morning. This is my life for the past 2 years. And for the same time I am doing my study at local university, why am I still studying? Every one got their own dream, my dream is to fulfill my mom’s wish as a son. Stupid isn’t? Yeah I also think like you.

But end up that I need to tell u all that this is my life, my extraordinary life.
I think it’s time for me to arrange my time for build up the ranking of my blog. And start to earn money from blogging.