Category: General

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Merry Christmas to my christian friends. Unlike previous years, I’ve spared my friends from tne notorious prank call this year, so enjoy the holiday… and happy new year :)

Following the success (or downfall?) of Studiotraffic and 12DailyPro (is it?), I’ve seen an increasing trend of people setting up autosurf website to make quick bucks out of it. IMHO, these autosurf program made a flawed assumption that there will always be new members that join their program to sponsors the current members.

There’s no doubt that people are making money with it, but the question is for how long? OK, just leave that matter someplace else, lets assume that autosurf program is really a money making machine, when put on the web.

But if they are really making quick bucks, then why did they rented a shared hosting space?? Autosurf program hogs the server, and deprive others from enjoying their hosting service. In the end there always be consequences to the webhosting company, whether their users will end up migrating to another provider with greater credibility or kick out the these “quick buck entrepreneur” out from their host.

So please save yourself from the embarrassment. If your “autosurf credit” worth something, go and get a colocation or even a dedicated server for your quick buck program. Or better yet, get a real job instead of ending up like Studiotraffic, bullshitting everybody about their solid and strong autosurf program.

The confusion between United Kingdom, Great Britain, England and Ireland

I’ve always pondered myself with this questions, what’s the different between United Kingdom, Britain, Great Britain, England and Ireland? While the last two may be easily distinguished as separate entity, the former are a bit confusing to an average non-brit like me.

Britain is usually a term used to refer United Kingdom and Great Britain, and if the word Britain can be use for both, why do we often heard people refer “the british islands” as United Kingdom and sometimes Great Britain? Is there any differences? Hmm, actually it is. United Kingdom is not the same as the Great Britain.

So what does United Kingdom means? I’ve put in my wild guess that “United Kingdom” means the “united kingdom” of England and Ireland, since they occasionally had the same king but are different countries. To prove it, I’ve dig up some references, I found out that the full name of United Kingdom is “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, yeah, am I right!? bzztt.. damn, I was partly right, Ireland wasnt part of the “United Kingdom”, Ireland has its own government and sovereignty even with an elected female president. Only 1/6 of the Ireland is part of United Kingdom.

So United Kingdom consist of England and part of Ireland, but uh-oh not quite, the term Great Britain does not refer only to England, but also Scotland… yeah, grab Braveheart DVD and you’ll understand. Uh oh not quite, Great Britain also includes Wales (wth?),.

To sumarise it,

United Kingdom = England  +  Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland
               = (Great Britain)  +  Northern Ireland

The source of confusion often lead by media that always refer “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island” as just Britain, and of course the sports event, where we can see that United Kingdom “isn’t so united” at all, when the participants of Northern Ireland would compete under the flag the Republic of Ireland instead of under the UK flag, and of course the usual England vs Scotland stuff, and even where there’s a reference to Great Britain in sports even, Scotland often compete independently.

Heh, I guess they deliberately compete as separate entities to ensure the odd of bringing the trophy home to UK increases.

lol.

OK that’s enough, end of the story.

Source :
The United Kingdom or Great Britain?
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
British Isles

I’ve an announcement to make. You may experience slowdown issues accessing my websites in this coming 4-5 days. This is due to high shared hosting traffic. The issue will be solved once I’ve completely moved out into a new datacenter, so in the mean time, please bear with me :(

p/s : it is estimated that this issue will be solve by this incoming Friday