Fancy way to describe a screw up
As you are aware, —— is working toward migrating services from its existing data center to a new data center facility. These changes will allow us to operate with an improved hardware infrastructure. During the originally scheduled date (—– –th), —— encountered some technical issues. Due to these issues, we made the decision to roll back all migration activities at that time. We have taken an extensive look at the issues that occurred, and are making every effort to prevent these going forward. We have rescheduled the migration activities, and are writing to inform you of the new date and time as well as the expected impacts.
Translation: We screwed up the first time, we think we fixed it, so we are going to try this again. 
Is your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No
Beware, this is NOT from Google, do not reply or respond if you receive this email.
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Page Not Found when WordPress Category Tag matches Page name
If you are using permalinks like ” /%postname%/” and you have a category base name that happens to match a page name, any sub-pages under that page will return “not found” 404 messages.
The solution is to either change the category base name to something else, or change the permalink name on that page to something different.
Adsense Ad Bad Practice
Look at the Ad’s below. They are Google Adsense ads, however where is the “Ads by Google” label that is required?
GoDaddy Certificate Seal Spam
I noticed a Go Daddy SSL Certificate seal on a website and below the seal it says “Fax to Email”, this seems odd.. The link is from GoDaddy trying to sell a fax thru email plan. That is one way to gain links… I suspect most users of these “seals” don’t even know they are really placing a links for GoDaddy all over their site. Read more »
How to noindex the https version of your pages
Your site has SSL enabled so each page can be http OR https.
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Twenty Ten Child Theme – Calming 2010
A nice and clean theme that works with the built-in WordPress theme Twenty Ten. Calming 2010 is a simple easy to read theme that will work will with many types of sites.
Example Site using Calming 2010 Child Theme
Google Hacker Page
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Check out the Google Hacker version of their pages!
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker
Solved: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
If you get an error similar to:
URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
on 1and1, create a blank file called php.ini, and place the following line in the file.
allow_url_fopen = ON
then upload the file to the root folder of the domain, and it should solve the problem.
Cuil Shuts Down?
It appears the one time rising search engine Cuil is offline and not coming back online.
The search engine was released on high hopes to overtake Google. But such an ambitious goal does not come by easily.
Cuil came across to many as overly arrogant immediately claiming they there were better than Google and would soon overtake them… a fool and his search engine are soon parted.
I remember checking them out after the “big” announcement, and maybe visited the site 2 more times since then, but never saw the value.
What are your thoughts on the end of Cuil?
Restore the WordPress Admin Menu
You are working in WordPress, suddenly you click and you menu on the left has shrunk! Ahh what happened. A small line with an arrow will shrink and expand this left hand menu when clicked. Simply click it again to restore the menu to its full size.
Redirect directory and contents using htaccess
How to redirect an entire directory and all internal files using the htaccess file.
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