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How to forward traffics from my blogger to the same post on my WordPress blog

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 5, 2007 in Web Design. 3 Comments

Before I moved all my blogs to my own WordPress blog platform (http://eblog.lichao.net), I was using blogger (http://lichaonet.blogspot.com) to write articles. I like my wordpress blogs now, but I still want to keep posting new articles on the blogspot site. First, I can use it as my backup or mirror blog sites. Second, I personall think that the blogger is better on Google search than wordPress blogs. But it is very difficult to manage multiple blogs on the same topic. One of these challenges is to centralize all the comments on only one blog site.

Since the wordpress one is my main blog site, I try to collect all blog comments on this blog. What I need to do is to 1) disable all comments feature on other mirror blog sites; 2) create a link to forward all visitors on mirror sites to my main blog for commenting.

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How to create a categories link sidebar in classic blogger

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on June 24, 2007 in Web Design. 0 Comments

Thanks to the new upgrade, blogger finally gets Category option to its bloggers in its both newer and classic versions. I know there are a lot of new features, including this Category one, in the newer blogger, but I still like the classic version because of my FTP setup. So how to create a sidebar with Categories Links is a task of my own instead of waiting for blogger to upgrade its classic version again.

First of all, I really do not want to spend too much digging into the code to put dynamic category sidebar like the new version of blogger. Fortunately I do not have many changing categories for my blog. So a very dumb, simple but effective sidebar was created with the following steps.

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The scam you need to be aware which is asking you to secure your .cn domain names

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on May 16, 2007 in Internet Adventure. 4 Comments

Internet_Scam Today I received an email forwarded by one of my co-workers. In this email, the sender said he is from a China-based domain name register company, and basically he asked for a confirmation whether they should dispute a registration of some domain names similar as our TLD name.

First of all, our Post master told me that it looks like a phish asking for the confirmation so that they can sell our email addresses. But I called the phone number listed in this email, surprised I got an answer and confirmed that this is a real company and doing real domain name business. Later on, with Google search, we found out this is an old scam on the INTERNET. So I post the original email here and hope it can help you if you receive the similar email too. (I edited some information with xxxx to protect the privacy)

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How to use Javascript to create a simple text validation bar in your web form quickly

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on May 15, 2007 in Web Design. 0 Comments

javascript_progRef.jpg I know there are a lot of good and working image validation scripts available now, and they have been used widely on the Internet already. But I just need a very simple and quick way to stop the SPAM robots from directly accessing to my web forms and then saving un-wanted information into the database or sending out emails from the web form.

Since I have ASP, ASP.NET and PHP web forms and I need to update them all with this new validation bar. A cross-programming language solution such as Javascript sounds pretty fit. So I decided to write my own Javascript to stop these bots on my web forms. As a result, a very simple, easy-to-implement validation bar solution was born for your free reference.

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How to jump directly to the rest of the post when you create expandable summaries in Blogger

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on May 13, 2007 in Web Design. 1 Comment

blogger.jpg A while ago I wrote a post to explain how to create expandable summaries in classic template and layouts. With this trick, you can choose to display an arbitrary amount of text from the beginning of each post, as a teaser for the whole thing. Then users who want to read the rest of the post can click a link to see the full text. This is handy if you have lots of long articles all on one page. Note that you’ll need to have post pages enabled in order to make this feature work.

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How to display different sidebar titles in blogger classic template

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on May 11, 2007 in Web Design. 0 Comments

blogger.jpgI am using the classic blogger template to write some of my Chinese blogs. Since I could not use the default English titles for my sidebar, I had to make translations. But sometimes the Chinese words could not represent the real meaning of English titles very well, especially the same title appears on Main or Archive and Item pages. For example, I had to use “最近文章” and “更早文章” for “Previous Posts” in different types of pages.

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I am home

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on October 21, 2006 in Overseas life. 0 Comments

Just got back to home from the 6-week vacation. I still feel jetlag… Maybe it will be better later.

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Phone scam

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on August 24, 2006 in Overseas life. 0 Comments

This afternoon my cellular phone rang with a stranger number (407)-362-5503. When I answered the other side was a very sweet female voice. She confirmed my name and told me she got my phone number from my friend (she got my friend name right) because my friend recommended me on the VIP list. The lady then congratulated me on a very special deal with 90% discount on the cruiser. I knew it was not true, then said I was busy and asked her to call me back. But she said this is a life time opportunity and only one call per household, then I thought what the hell and asked her to go on…

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Airport tower imploded

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on August 7, 2006 in Overseas life. 0 Comments

With a blast that could be heard in downtown offices nine miles away, the old air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is demolished.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/content/implosion.html 

View the controlled demolition of Hartsfield-Jackson’s former Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Control Tower. It is QuickTime format, and it will take a few minutes to load on your screen.

http://www.atlanta-airport.com/sublevels/news_room/videos.htm

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3 types of image saving and editing

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 17, 2006 in Graphics Design. 0 Comments

Just browsered PC World July issue and found out there are three different types of image saving. They are:

JPEG

TIFF

RAW Format.

I will add more detail about them later.

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July 4th Salute 2 America Parade

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on July 4, 2006 in Overseas life. 0 Comments

Today I attended the July 4th Parade in the downtown starting from Southern Company and ending the CNN center. Tired but had the fun. :-)
Parade Route

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Get married in USA as non-American citizen (1) Marriage license

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on June 30, 2006 in Overseas life. 1 Comment

It is exciting that one of family member has just set a date for their wedding! Considering that she is not the USA citizen and we don’t want the marriage license laws put a dent in their wedding plans,  I decided to help her find out what kind of documents she needs for the marriage license. Continue reading ‘Get married in USA as non-American citizen (1) Marriage license’

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Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on June 16, 2006 in IT News. 0 Comments

Working full time at Microsoft through June 2008, Gates then will continue as chairman and advisor while increasing Foundation efforts; Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie to assume expanded roles.

REDMOND, Wash. — June 15, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects.

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Joining a domain with Media Center Edition 2005 /2002

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on May 23, 2006 in Windows Tips. 6 Comments

Windows Media Center EditionI got a call from one of my friends who runs a small business office. He asked me to help him on joining his newly purchased computer to his office domain. He said on the phone he could not find any “Network ID” section in the computer properties window as I instructed him to do with other machines before. I spent a couple minutes on the phone and could not figure out why, so I decided to play him a visit.

When I came to his office, and turned on this problem computer. I surprisingly found out this Dell computer he just purchased came with a home entertainment-oriented OS - Microsoft Media Center Edition 2002. Well, according to the technical articles from Microsoft website, you can not join a computer with MCE OS into a business network domain by design. And we did not want to re-install his whole OS since he already installed a lot of applications on it.

Thankfully, I got the following useful information from other people’s blog. Just want to share with you here too.

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