How to keep your website safe

Everyone is talking about it. The recent news about Google's 'intention' to publicly denounce censorship sounded so unbelievable for me. Not just the accusation of the Chinese hackers of launching attacks that is the matter. A big company deciding to take on China in this manner is definitely not a bold move but a cheap way to get publicity in a short few days, in a few words.

Theft of intellectual property is absolutely a serious offence, I cannot tolerate such actions. Keeping up with the articles on the Internet for industry news about web hosting, I found one particularly interesting article on Web Hosting Fan called 'how to keep your website safe'. How many bloggers really consider about such issues such as what to do if your site is compromised? However, such things do happened when your blog or your website becomes absolutely popular with a lot of viewers.

I learnt that taking proactive measures with my website to guard against malicious software writers, con artists, hackers or identity thieves is important. The site also recommended making an investment in a secure hosting solution as there will be security mechanisms that allows you to arm yourself with knowledge about the latest security threats.

sunset

We love cheap cruises or round trips in countries that are affordable for us.

And Zannnie loves sunset.:) It has a special meaning to both of us for our story begins like this. I was in Bali, Indonesia, to be exact Kuta and I took a photo of its sunset. This particular one caught her eyes. 5898.14 miles away, we are exactly 9,491.88 km apart. However, the advancement of Internet technology and my personal interest in volunteerism for online community building brought us closer.

Budapest Daily Photo and Singapore Daily Photo facilitated endless exchanges between us. Being early volunteers of this online community with only 30-50 cities, makes commenting on each others site more meaningful too. I remember we used to have fellow community bloggers from Tokyo and Shanghai and commenting different continents of the world. A theme day which is on every 1st of the month had a maximum of 30 participating cities. But now, it is like thousand, so we view the other sites through a portal.

Through photography, we learned that there are many best places to see or capture a sunset. In Singapore the timing is essentially critical at 6:50-7:05pm, in Kuta, in Budapest . I have even made a video about the sunset in the old town at Stari Grad on Hvar in Croatia!

You can imagine why we had our honeymoon in Bali as I love the most natural beauties: sunset.

Japanese whaling vessel destroyed the boat of green activists

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's fast new trimaran, sitting dead in the water, appears to have been deliberately rammed and critically damaged by the much larger Japanese whaling ship (the Shonan Maru No. 2), despite claims from some that the Ady Gil rammed it. Here is the footage from the Japanese ship: judge for yourself.

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EVERY DAY - NEW PHOTO EFFECT

We like to take a lot of photos whenever there are photo opportunities especially ever since we bought the Canon camera. Recently I found a site for photo fun and decided to share.

Francine sent us an eCard, those that comes with sounds and music. The thing about that kind of ecard is quite standardized and you cannot customize it in a short few seconds. And as usual, Zannnie likes something unique, so she made a card with the Super Junior Siwon, the result was rather amazing! :)

So like this, in 3 seconds (really, it was just a breeze) we made this card and email it to her :)

What I like about photofun is not just because it is fast to create. Somehow, it has a funny humour, like a joke with photos. As we like photography very much, we have quite a lot of photos to play with :) Here's the 'famous' fashion shot by me of Zannnie when we were in Vatican City, Italy.

Of course, when I showed it to Zannnie about the photofunia :) She created the following, too...