*Sigh*

My guestbook is being bombarded by form spammers who seem to have about a gazillion proxy IPs so banning them is a futile effort. I'll be researching on how to add an image recognition system to the guestbook form prior to submission in order to reduce the amount of spam I have to delete on a daily basis.

Coming soon!

My personal "at work" website, complementing my current personal "at play" website, CornBip.com. It will house my white papers on the subject of Search Engine Optimization (discussing several theories on major search engines' algorithms and manipulations), personal work portfolio, and more.

"Just the Girl At Work" Personal Website Extraordinaire

Visit ADster Booth # 6352 April 26-28, 2006

Las Vegas Touch Domain Name For Sale!

A domain name with that unique touch of Vegas, Sin City and Entertainment Capital of the World.

One of my domain names, LasVegasTouch.com, is currently for up for sale! The Las Vegas Touch domain name is now up for bid on a 7-day auction at TheDomainNameAfterMarket.com (TDNAM) site, the world's leading domain name auction marketplace with an ultra-low starting price of only $100 US Dollars!

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If you're a TDNAM member and would like to place a bid on this domain name, simply look for it under Featured Listing or under the Entertainment & Leisure category.

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Imagine -- such a high quality domain name like LasVegasTouch.com with a low starting bid price of only $100 US Dollars!

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The non-standard, cool and wacky fonts you see on this website are courtesy of FontFreak, where you can easily browse through and download free fonts.

If it's your first time on the FontFreak website, you may get lost in a never-ending circle of links that open up in a new browser, so to guide you, here's the fastest way to navigate through their site and get to those free fonts:

1. Once you're on FontFreak, click "Enter Here".
2. The next page will ask you, "Do you know you can download all fonts and dingbats from this site in one single file?". If you click Tell Me More, you'll be brought to a place where you can pay to be able to download them all in one file. But you won't really need this because you can just select what you want for free, so be sure to click on "No thanks, I will download them one by one."
3. On the next section, click on the "PC FONTS" button on the left-hand menu under NAVIGATION. This button will bring you to the start page for the free PC Fonts.
4. Simply browse through the fonts by clicking on the hyper links up at the top of the page: "# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z New".
5. Most of these sections will have more than one page, as notated by the following sub-links: "[Page 2][Page 3]". Be sure to check this out as well!

Found the perfect font and want to download it? Here's how!

Ever since Friendster's format allowed HTML/CSS, I've had some annoying bandwidth theft from people linking to some files on my server.

You can prevent remote linking to your files on your server using an .htaccess file with the following info:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.yourdomainname.com/" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.yourdomainname.com$" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://yourdomainname.com/" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://yourdomainname.com$" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^$" locally_linked=1
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|png|jpe?g)$">
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from env=locally_linked
</FilesMatch>

Replace the yourdomainname.com with the name of your own website domain and place this .htaccess file within the directory you want to keep people from remote linking.

Incidentally, you may change the <FilesMatch "\.(gif|png|jpe?g)$"> line to whatever file extension you do not want people to remotely link to, such as your music files .mp3, .wav, etc.

This method requires your site to be hosted on a machine using the Apache web server and that your web host allows you to override the server's configuration using an .htaccess file.

Works like a charm for me!

Good luck!

I've been porting stuff over from my desktop to my laptop, and today I found out you couldn't just simply import .iaf files into Outlook 2002. It'll keep giving you an error message.

Here's a workaround to it:

First import the .iaf files into Microsoft Outlook Express (Tools > Accounts > Import). Then close Outlook Express. Open up Microsoft Outlook and import from Outlook Express to Outlook using File > Import.

This should also work if you're trying to import .iaf files from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2003. Worked like a charm for me.

Good luck!

What is "continuous partial attention"?

Linda Stone, formerly of those great companies Apple and Microsoft, coined the term "continuous partial attention" to describe life in the today's modern era of e-mail, instant messaging, cellphones, and other distractions.

Donald Knuth, a Computer Programming professor at the Stanford University writes, "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. "

I must admit that I am guilty of having this "continuous partial attention".

I'm a self-confessed e-mail addict. I like pressing that 'Send/Receive' icon on my Outlook. I have sound alerts set up on my personal e-mail for incoming mail. I'm obsessed with setting up rules and message filters, and creating file folders in my Inbox.

I use Instant Messengers to communicate with co-workers, friends, family, other loved ones, and acquaintances -- AOL's, Yahoo!'s, and MIRC's.

I have two cellphones, a Verizon line on a Motorola V710 and a pre-paid Cingular line on a Nokia Hello Kitty cellphone. I have text messaging, picture messaging, enabled alerts, and Internet browsing set up on both. I have two landlines at home, a residential one and one for work. I have a bluetooth headset so I can talk to people and move around freely while doing so. Speakers are also a must and I often use this feature while I'm listening to on-hold music as I proceed to do other things while waiting to connect.

All this technology in my fingertips are supposed to keep me on top of things. Several things.

CONTINUOUS
I multi-task throughout the day and I'm pretty damn good at it. I can be doing several million things at once (ok, an exagerration, maybe not quite a million but I can do several things all at the same time). This is pretty much non-stop from the moment I wake up till I hit the sack.

PARTIAL
I suppose with me doing several things at once, there's not much I can do about being able to dedicate my full, complete attention on any one activity while I'm in the multi-task mode. I get interrupted several times by incoming e-mails that need to be read, questions from co-workers that need to be answered, phone calls that need to be attended to.

ATTENTION
Many things and people demand my attention on a given day. Errands to run, people to take care of, businesses to settle, deadlines to meet. Sometimes 24 hours just isn't enough, and neither is one of me. It's a crazy, hectic such an adult world we live in. I never thought I'd live in it but here I am.

So come on, how many other people out there are guilty of "continuous partial attention"? Please don't say I'm a rare breed, and that the normal, sane, fully functional human being actually focuses his whole attention on only one thing at a time. Please say it's the other way around, that we who are guilty of "continuous partial attention" are the norm and they I'm-busy-working-on-this-go-away-while-I-finish-it ones are not.

Right?

If you're an Internet junkie like I am, looking for ways to maximize make your online time -- making the Web work for you instead of the other way around becomes second nature.

This website is a great playground for me to enhance my PHP programming knowledge, and study the behavior of web servers.

So far, I've been able to fully customize and implement 2 PHP-based server applications on this website -- the Blog and the Guestbook.

While I seem to have the basics installed for the online Photo Gallery, I'm still not satisfied with its look and feel. Don't get me wrong, the functionality is awesome, and for those of you interested in automating your site's photo gallery, Coppermine simply rocks.

Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.

Some of my fave features:

password-protected albums;

And much, much more.

I don't take pictures too often simply because I tend to take them lopsided, out of focus, or blurred. However, every now and then I do go on a digicam rampage and start taking pictures of everything and everyone. My immediate goal though is to get my existing photos organized on this website for the audience's pleasure.

And once I get Coppermine down pat, I should have no problem!