Well, this is not a complaint to the great plugin, but for some themes.
Themes like Intense, and AquaGreen does not have any wp_footer call so the tracking code will not show. How to fix it?
Open up themes/[themename]/footer.php and add <?php wp_footer(); ?> before </body> resulting in:
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>
Hope this helps. I discover this after 5 minutes of head scratching. 😉
For those working/studying or doing whatever in Cyberjaya, please be careful if you make the illegal U-turn after exiting The Street Mall. If you can, do a U-turn somewhere else where it’s safe.
Yesterday night after dinner at Street Mall, I heard a loud bang. It turns out a Satria from the MMU stretch ran directly into a Waja making a U-turn. That Waja has just minutes before passed by me as I get to my car at The Street Mall.
To people driving from MMU side, come on la… slowly and be alert of cars making the U-turn. I know it’s illegal, but what’s the use of defending that you’re right when your car is all messed up. The Satria was indeed very fast as I heard the tires screech for a long time before the bang!
Nobody died, I think. The Waja ended up on the roadside and the Satria totally lost the front engine part – just imagine how hard the collision was!
This is an unexpected news but comprehensible indeed for PPP. For me this is a very good news for bloggers as Perfomancing is generally a very good idea for Internet Marketing strategy. The official news can be read here.
According to PPP, by the acquisition they now gained a number of powerful blogger support tools such as Performancing Metrics, the free blog analytic service, and Performancing Exchange, the online “classifieds” for bloggers.
The PPP brand, however will not be used for two of Performancing assets – the Firefox blog editor and Performancing Partner Ads technology. According to PPP these two assets will be migrated to a new brand. Lets just wait and see.
Performancing Metrics is a service for bloggers to track visitor stats, with built-in AdSense auditing. The platform is now in beta and currently reports blog visitors, blog comments, ad clickthroughs, and a few other features.
Performancing Exchange is an online marketplace for companies, blog sites and others wishing to employ professional bloggers.
These FREE tools will surely enhance PPPs offering to bloggers and I would not understand why any blogger passionate about writing not joining PPP. I am amazed on the marketing strategy by them, and from the looks of it PPP will stay in the Internet community longer than what some people anticipated.
As for me, I am taking a personal strategy of my own – not too fast, and not too slow. Until I get my payments from PPP I will just take it slow, one step at a time. It’s a good idea to make money from blogging, without effecting the integrity of the things you write in your blog.
This post is sponsored by PPP, who else? 😉 
I am experiencing Internet slowness again. Can’t even upload any image to my blog server. This post was made after the 5th attempt. 🙁
Update 27-Dec-2006:
It turns out that an international link is down due to earthquake in Taiwan. Undersea cables are broken. Learned it the hard way at the office as global functions are degrading in performance.
I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Holidays. Be safe.
I will be away for the weekend, to a galaxy far far away. Just kidding. I am going to Pahang for my wife’s business. It’s not a vacation as I have to spend my time in the hotel room working on a development project. I promised to deliver it right after Christmas, so basically I have no choice or I will be shot if I don’t finish it.
I am unsure whether we’ll have Internet access at the hotels, as we will be staying in normal hotels – all 5 star hotels are fully booked for the weekend! 🙁
Enjoy your time.
Blogger is now out of Beta: www.blogger.com. However I tried my Blogger Beta Importer and it still works 🙂
I think this is because the importer depends on the RSS provided by the New Blogger. Perhaps I should change my importer’s name to New Blogger import?
My true wish is that to have that importer being able to integrate with WordPress importer control panel officially or unofficially but I just don’t have the time to look into WordPress code yet eventhough I periodically checks out the code from the subversion repository. One of my blogs run 2.1-alpha3 and there are many improvements I do like a lot such as the image push to editor and the visual and code editor on the same screen!
IMHO importing from RSS is much efficient than the legacy method of logging into Blogger, publishing the template and extracting from there. But of course, a simple change on the RSS output and the importer will not work 😉
For those who are still thinking whether or not to migrate from Blogger to WordPress, here’s a good insight by Anita Campbell. Although it was written more than a year ago, it’s still relevant.
Blogger (non-beta) users will be able to use the built-in import function and while you’re at that you might want to take a look at this best practices when moving from Blogger to WordPress, by Tom Sherman.
For Blogger Beta, you can use the script I wrote and still use the same technique described by Tom so that permalinks to your blogger pages will be redirected to your new WordPress site. I have not tried it yet, and since I am sleepy coming back from night shift I think I’ll let you try it and let me know 😉
See ya around.
Following the post Import Blogger Beta to WordPress, here is a working example after an import.
Before: homemakerdiary.blogspot.com (Blogger)
After: www.homemakerdiary.com (WordPress)
(Images are imported using the plugin mentioned earlier)
P/S – to my current one and only web development client, I am doing this as a hobby during breaks. Please be assured that the real work is progressing well and hopefully by Christmas we can launch it 🙂
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As I have not heard anything about the solution to this problem, I wrote a script. This script is a simple but powerful 😉 script which extracts the posts and comments from RSS feeds at blogger.com.
Instructions:
Copy the script to your main WordPress directory and run it (http://your.name/blogger-beta-import.php). The options are self-explanatory. This means you can customize the category and user before importing.
Warning:
This script represents a security hazard if left on the server. Once you are finished, delete it. Don’t even rename or save a copy on the server. The script does not honor WordPress authentication and checks, but utilizes some of WordPress’ functions.
Limitations:
As for images, they will stay in blogger.com but I suggest you download them at once to your server as Blogger does not allow hot-linking (images will be blocked). You don’t have to do it one by one, you can use this plugin by Notions: Blogger Image Import. I’ve tried it and it worked well. One thing is that it depends on CURL to download images – servers without this extension will not execute the script. Let me know as I have a workaround for this, provided that your PHP version is later than 4.3.0.
Mike Arrington of Techcrunch revealed on Saturday that PayPerPost will require bloggers to disclose that the post is a paid post. It can be done on the individual post, or site-wide using a disclosure policy.
In October when PayPerPost created DisclosurePolicy, Mike stated that he hopes not many bloggers will go along with PayPerPost. I understand his concerns about blogsphere and public trust, but if bloggers dont just jump to take every opportunity they see, we can still withhold the integrity of blogsphere.
Nevertheless, PayPerPost is a good form of blog advertising and helps many bloggers to earn an extra income, at least to cover the hosting expense while doing what they like – to write. Bloggers need to remember though, that they should write only on what they believe is true. I believe readers will be able to detect if the blogger is sincere or just writing for money!
This is a paid post.
As mentioned earlier I went to watch Casino Royale earlier tonight. The movie is alright, but can be better.
What I like:
What I don’t like:
My wife seems to think that I watch too much of the older movies and she actually enjoyed the new one more.
I’ll add up the list if I find anything else I left out. 😉
It’s movie time again after months being away from the cinemas. After being worked so hard and having no time for entertainment, I think I deserve a couple of hours for a movie. We are going to watch the not-so-new-anymore Casino Royale tonight! Made a reservation on TGV online for tonight. Never realized that the ticket price has increased to RM11.00? Or is the price only for online reservations? Never mind… as long the system works fine, I am happy.
One thing to warn you people out there is that TGV Online seating allocation applet crashed my Firefox and I had to start over with Internet Explorer. Maybe it’s only my computer, then again maybe not!
This interesting signboard was found on top of Gunung Mat Chincang after the 2.2km ride on the famous Langkawi Cable Car. Honestly I was terrified of the cable car ride, especially when the wind blows strongly while we were dangling in the middle of the air, inside the 80% clear gondola.
The thing actually swerves just like a boat when wind hit it, or people inside make big movements. The difference is that you don’t see anything except clear air between the bottom of the “boat” and the surface of the earth!
Nevertheless, the experience was precious and there’s 1% chance that I would go up there again. The ride costs RM25.00 per person, but MyKad carriers will enjoy a RM10.00 discount. I am not sure whether that’s the default or a promotion during year-end school holidays.
Just remember not to bring a kid shorter than 100cm as that is the minimum height required to be allowed to go up the cable car ride.
It seems that I can never stress this enough. The mass public needs to be educated on the difference between these 2 words. Mass media have been using this term incorrectly since forever.
Unfortunately, the bad side of things always seem to be emphasized and being exaggerated more than the good side. Hacker is big set, where Cracker is a smaller set inside. Simply put, a cracker is a hacker but a hacker is not necessarily a cracker. Crackers are termed as Black Hat Hackers.
Originally, there are 2 types of hackers – White Hat and Black Hat. White Hat Hackers are the good guys who breaks into computer systems just to make the owners realize the security flaws while Black Hat do malicious things for personal gains.
As time goes, there exists an intermediate hybrid – Grey Hat Hackers who sometimes act legally, sometimes in good will and sometimes not.
So… when a hacker turns bad, it is more accurate to call him/her a cracker rather than tainting the image of the whole hacker community. Too bad in Malay there’s only one word – penggodam which in general points to the word hacker.
I know, his real name is Peter Boyle. But I like his role the most as Frank Barone, the grumpy father of Raymond in one of my favorite TV series, Everybody Loves Raymond.
He died two days ago because of heart failure. Well, some newscast said he died of bone marrow cancer. I am unsure of which one is the right one. All I know he was a great actor. Rest in peace, old man.