Finally I see Adsense Themed Ad Units on one of my site. Once in PC at my office and once in my notebook at home. Nice huh?

Today my colleague asked me “hey, you have change your website to an image or your website has been hacked?”. I thought he must be entered the wrong URL. Then I visit my own site. OMG, it shows me the following image:

Ouch .. who did that.. my site is not that popular what..

I tried to contact my webhosting provider (www.hostexcellence.com) using live chat but nobody is answering. The website is really slow. I tried to logon into my account manager site, the site is very slow too.

Finally, I’m able to logon to the account manager. I tried to investigate the problems. There were 2 files created by the “hacker”/”cracker”. My index.php was replaced and a new image file ownz.jpg was created. The owner (linux’s user) of the files is httpd. httpd is a apache web server. I really don’t know how the hacker can put the files into my folder via httpd. Maybe there was a security loopholes in httpd.

After that, I replaced the hacked with the original index.php and reported to hostexcellence.com. Hopefully they will solve the security problem as soon as possible else I have to move my files to other server.

Just got back from attending Vivian’s wedding dinner at Malacca. I gave my first time to Vivian … I mean my first time to sing in a public (at her wedding dinner) :) My colleagues put my name on the karaoke list without acknowledge me. So nervous for first time being called out for singing a song. Then I ask Felix to accompany with me (but so sorry my voice has already covered his voice … hehe). The song I had sang is Jacky Cheung’s “Oi Si Weng Hang” (Love is forever – cantonese version). Luckily nobody complaint my singing.

Two of my colleagues were drunk (you and you). Next time must control yourself … don’t drink too much alcohol not good for health!

I didn’t drink much alcohol because I’m one of the drivers. On the way back to KL from Malacca, it was a heavy raining. The view is not clear and the road is quite slippery. Luckily nothing happend.

Anyway, congratulations to Vivian and thanks Vivian for the dinner . Good night!

Today, when I logged in into my google adwords account, adwords site prompt me this message:

Welcome, [email protected]

Please take a moment to update your Adwords and Adsense login. To help make logging in to your account simpler and more secure, we’re requiring all ourr advertisers to update their account logins to a Google Account by January 15, 2006. Learn more

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Before this, we have Adsense’s Referral Program. Now, as an adsense publisher we have even more:

1. Firefox referrals are now available internationally!
You can earn up to USD1.00 when someone download and install google toolbar from your Firefox referral link.

2. Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up
It works like adbrite.com or adengage.com where advertiser can buy a ad space directly from you webpage using thier own Adwords account. To customize your own Onsite Advertiser Sign-up:

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