iLEMONed

In the coming two and a half months, people in my country can register a .cn domain at only 1rmb. China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issues this sale in hope of seeing a bloom or something. Likewise, renewals for the next year will be at normal price. Attractive? Who gives a shit.

Perhaps you already know, that running a website in China is much more difficult than in any other countries on this planet. The Internet Censorship and the Realname System require your true identity when you order a webhost or sign up for a blog at any BSP. Your submitted infomation must be verified. The same goes for domain registrations. This certainly generates great dissatisfaction and negativities but the red devils won't care. They need to know your real info so that they can shut down your site or even put you in jail, if you say something bad about them online. So, I'm putting myself in danger now, you know. lol

However, I registered two earlier today, but I don't know if I'm gonna renew them next year. I may use one of them to start blogging in Chinese before long.

"Comment spam is a fact of life if you have a blog". That's true. Generally, the small toy bundled with WordPress is strong enough to fight spam. But are you tired of pulling innocent comments out of Akismet's stomach everyday? Raven's Antispam gets you laid.

The idea is that if you are a human being commenting using a web browser with JavaScript enabled, you will get through with no problem. If you disabled JS, you simply type some confirming characters. Since a spamming robot is believed not to have JS support and it can't type, this plugin can be 100% effective. Try it out!

But Raven's Antispam can NOT stay together with AJAX Comments plugin! I reported this to Kahi and he said he would work on it when he's free (I wonder when he'll be free). Any Robin Hood?

p.s. I don't like something contains chromium & neodymium and I don't behave bad.

This afternoon shit happened to my site. My webhost provider (perhaps actually just their system) refused to host my primary domain www.ilemoned.com on their server any longer. This may due to the recent intensity of China's Internet Realname System. I didn't register at that evil system and I will NEVER do so. Nevertheless, a customer service guy promised to help me with the issue tomorrow morning when he goes to work. Hopefully things are gonna settle down soon.

Update: No, things didn't settle down. My domain is banned forever.

Now I'm with SurpassHosting. In celebration of Valentine's Day, they've been running "The One Love Sale" in february, which is totally unbelievable - $1 for an entire year! Today is the last day, see with your own eyes and don't miss it!

I was helping Scavin with his WordPress migration to a new webhost when he told me about that $1 sale. The funny thing is, his new host is just the one which banned me (I recommended it to him)! After a very short discussion, we both ordered our own SurpassHosting. Why to hesitate? It takes only one dollar!