The business adage that "money is in the list" (ie, mailing list) is untrue if such list includes email addresses which had already opted out, or have requested to opt-out or unsubscribe. By continuing to send commercial electronic messages to those who have already requested to opt-out is a breach of the Spam Act. The Act has established that the consent to receive further messages is considered withdrawn five days after such request is … [Read more...]
Get ready now for WordPress 2.9 and beyond
By August 3, 2009 Leave a Comment
Just when self-hosted bloggers are about to get warmed up to having WordPress version 2.5 - 2.7 (Yes, there are still those who are using version 2.5!), here comes the news that WordPress 2.0.x is already deprecated and retired. By "deprecated" is meant that WordPress 2.0 is no longer supported especially for the very important security aspect. In fact, according to Mark Jaquith in his post at the WordPress.org blogsite, it is the security … [Read more...]
When waiting for a hardware upgrade
By July 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
Some technical problems with our server during the last few weeks had distracted me from issuing my updates on this site. I could only find small gaps in my schedule which are just good enough to issue SMS-like updates in our Twitter account. The issue with the server was more related to upgrades than anything else. While waiting for the completion of this upgrade and in between email exchanges with our remote-based technical support, we … [Read more...]
Free WordPress Themes
By February 25, 2009 1 Comment
With more than a dozen of operational and experimental websites in our group, how do we manage to upgrade the websites' designs? These days when most of our websites are on the WordPress platform, we avail of themes that are available in the market. Some are premium themes (meaning we paid for the license to use them) and some are free themes, meaning, themes governed by licensing protocols which allow us to use the themes in whatever way we … [Read more...]
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