It just installs a small php code that will allow your site to be backdoored and used as a redirect to an attack site.

Best practices for a WordPress blog – do not install plugins that you do not need, period. Other than being a security risk, even if you have legitimate WP plugins, having several of them which only offers minimal functionality will add up to your blog’s load time thereby slowing it down.

Maybe the WordPress guys can use security certificates to prevent the proliferation of useless/trojaned plugins.

WinFF is a GUI frontend to the powerful ffmpeg set of tools. Conversion is fast and easy. I needed to convert some .MP4 vids to .AVI and .MPG and it did without any issues.

Another good tool is DVDStyler. You can author your own DVDs with it with custom backgrounds. It can convert whatever format you have to native DVD .VOB format. It can directly burn to disc too.

Both are free under GPL.

A classic on investing and will remain so. Mostly he makes a good point on why to invest on the stock market vs. other conservative investment instruments (bonds, CDs, banks). He also points out that you don’t need an “expert advice” from experts on what companies to invest in because he outlines the techniques he used on how to look for companies to invest in — the same principle he used when he managed the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund. In this book Peter Lynch tells us that we too can beat the market and get a ten bagger — a term he coined for companies that will increase your investment ten-fold.

Still reading through it. What I found was that most people interviewed this book support long term investment vs. speculation. Personalities like Warren Buffet, Jim Cramer, Suze Orman and Steve Forbes were interviewed for this book. The author Liz Claman is a known CNBC business news anchor.

Good book. Had a lot of good vibes in it and it anchored you to the fundamentals of investment which is finding a good company and staying away from beating the market because trying to beat it is wrought with dire consequences.

These 2 groups of lines:

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<style type="text/css">
 body #s4-leftpanel {
 display:none;
 }
 .s4-ca {
 margin-left:0px;
 }
 </style>

and these:

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<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>

If you’re just editing one page then a CEWP with these CSS styles will do the trick:

<style>
.s4-recentchanges 
{ 
DISPLAY:none; 
} 
</style>

But if you’re editing it site-wide then edit the v4.master page and look for the line:

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server">

Just add this:

Visible="false"

So it should look like:

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server" Visible="false">

Don’t forget to check out the master page before reloading the site on your browser.

Created a “more fun in the Philippines” meme using Inkscape in my OpenBSD using the Harabara font found in this nice how-to.

Photo credit goes to a good photographer named Romeo M. Angeles. You can visit his Flickr gallery. He takes good pictures.

Contact me if you need the Inkscape .svg file.

National Geographic December 1969 Apollo 11 Mission

And now currently Sir Richard Branson is about to make a suborbital flight this year in Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two plane.

Quite excited with the future of space flight.

When you signed up for your Google account and you checked the option to save all web searches, then all your search history is saved.

If you had this option checked and you want to know what you searched for like in 2007, then log in to your Google account and go to http://www.google.com/history. On that page all your past searches should be displayed.

Don’t want that privacy data attached to your web personality? Then clean it up.

Our friends of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF always reminds me of the Phrack magazine back in the hacker glory days), have made a tutorial on how to clean up all your Google search history. Below are the links on how to do just that:

Clear Google Search History

Clear Youtube Search History

1. Open Firefox.
2. Type “about:config” on the address bar.
3. Enter “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” on the filter bar.
4. Double-click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add the url for your sharepoint site (can be comma delimited for multiple sites, eg: “mysharepoint.company.com,home.company.com”

5. Restart Firefox.