Archive for the 'Misc' Category

WinAntiVirus Attack

My computer was attacked by WinAntiVirus, and I was able to remove it by using Windows XP’s System Restore function.

TopCat Blog

This blog is now re-branded as TopCat Blog.

Possible Phone Scam

Recently I have received several phone calls that appear to be scams. Read to find out the characteristics of these phone calls.

Adsense for Content now available in 4 additional languages

Google has announced that Adsense for content is now also available in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese.

Adsense testing with PHP

One advice people always give for webmasters in the Google Adsense program is to test ad placement, color scheme, etc. A common test is the A/B test. There are several articles talking about how to set up such a test using either Javascript or PHP, and they invariably involve the use of a random number […]

Hilarious post at Seoblackhat

QuadsZilla posted a hilarious piece on his blog at seoblackhat.com today titled I just got a Linux Car! It’s a funny post that everyone who has ever tried to build a kernal in Linux can identify with, and I sure got a good laugh out of it. Go check it out!

Study on best reward credit cards

I have just done a study on the reward credit cards. In conducting this study, I gathered the reward offers for these credit cards, made some assumptions on typical monthly charge amounts, and calculated the amount of spending needed to get the first $100 in rewards, as well as the second $100 in rewards. […]

Japanese Web Page Not Rendering in IE6

I had been working on some web pages in Japanese, and found some of the pages showed up blank in IE6. This was quite strange for a couple of reasons:
1. The same pages rendered ok in Firefox, Opera, and even IE7.
2. When I do a “view source”, I can see the full […]