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	<title>Programming Hell</title>
	<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell</link>
	<description>Just another Webmastering101.com weblog</description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t know what did it, but finally, I&#8217;m back in Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it was my email to Google a month ago or me finally being patient, but my links are back in Google. I still do not have a reply, but no reply was ever guaranteed. 
My only complaint is still with my posts not being indexed after I publish them. I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/dont-know-what-did-it-but-finally-im-back-in-google</link>
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		<title>Your host doesn&#8217;t support what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe that some hosts do not support MySQL. That&#8217;s absurd. However, every month, I speak to at least two new clients whose hosts do not offer MySQL support.
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		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/your-host-doesnt-support-what</link>
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		<title>Got my response from ADSDAQ already</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it may not have been the response that I wanted to hear, but at least they responded. It was less than 30 minutes. And, that&#8217;s just when I actually checked my email. I don&#8217;t know when I actually received the response. 
Anyway, now I&#8217;m waiting for a follow-up email. Hopefully, one that contains good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/got-my-response-from-adsdaq-already</link>
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		<title>I love contacting ADSDAQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just sent an email to ADSDAQ about a declined domain. I&#8217;m actually excited that I had to contact them. It&#8217;s strange. I guess it&#8217;s because I know that if it was another company &#60;cough&#62;AdSense&#60;/cough&#62; that I would have had to contact about the same issue, I would have received an automated response that had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/i-love-contacting-adsdaq</link>
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		<title>I may be stuck with a host that I don&#8217;t like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been testing a few domains on a host that I&#8217;ve never used before. I decided a long time ago that I wasn&#8217;t going to stay with this host, because we can&#8217;t host all of our sites there. I was going to cancel before the trial ended. Now, I think that I&#8217;ve missed that deadline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/i-may-be-stuck-with-a-host-that-i-dont-like</link>
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		<title>Still no word from Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sigh. It&#8217;s actually only been a week to the date that we sent a Reconsideration request to Google. We&#8217;re trying to find out why our site is disappearing from search engine results. We&#8217;ve already lost a third of our listings since this mishap. I just hope that we get a personal response from Google no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/still-no-word-from-google</link>
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		<title>IP privacy on blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you visited blogs that have a widget that shows the IP address and city of the latest visitors? What&#8217;s your take on this?
I think visitors should be warned beforehand that their IP address and city will be displayed publicly on the site. Whatever it takes-a popup-something to let the visitor know that before they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/ip-privacy-on-blogs</link>
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		<title>The hard to find Miracle Berry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a blog about a Miracle Fruit / Miracle Berry that makes sour or bitter foods taste sweet. It&#8217;s not grown in the U.S., so it&#8217;s hard to find. I searched around and could only find out that they can be purchased for $60. You&#8217;ll get 30 for that price. I don&#8217;t mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/the-hard-to-find-miracle-berry</link>
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		<title>Finally sent our site in for reconsideration through Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ve had enough. This morning, I finally sent a Reconsideration request to Google. I just hope that we&#8217;re one of the lucky few to get an actual reply, because I&#8217;d really like to know what&#8217;s been going on with Google and our site.
If you haven&#8217;t been keeping up with this saga, it all boils [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/finally-sent-our-site-in-for-reconsideration-through-google</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s another wishlist for you developers at WordPress&#8230; and WordPress MU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There may be plugins for these, but I don&#8217;t want plugins. I want something official (compatible, checked for bugs by the official WordPress team).
So, here&#8217;s what I want:
From the WordPress people&#8230;
In the Dashboard, I need to select multiple posts and change their categories. Or, at the very least, each post should have a field where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/heres-another-wishlist-for-you-developers-at-wordpress-and-wordpress-mu</link>
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		<title>ADSDAQ site still down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After at least a day of not being able to access ADSDAQ&#8217;s site to check my stats, I decided to drop them an email. I haven&#8217;t registered for their forum yet. So, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s been reported there. I&#8217;m sure it has. But, I don&#8217;t see why it would take more than a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/adsdaq-site-still-down</link>
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		<title>Does WidgetBucks care that their publishers are sploggers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate it when people steal my content. And, I especially hate it when the content that you stole from me and put on your site gets indexed in Google, but the original content from my site does not! That&#8217;s been happening at one of my sites. 
The thing that gets to me the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/does-widgetbucks-care-that-their-publishers-are-sploggers</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t get trackbacks to work in WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you say something, let me just remind you that I said I wasn&#8217;t going to use WordPress for my upcoming projects. I&#8217;m still using webmastering101.com because they let me promote my work on their site and this is actually my only blog. Now that that&#8217;s covered&#8230;
I can&#8217;t get trackbacks to work in WordPress. Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/cant-get-trackbacks-to-work-in-wordpress</link>
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		<title>Megan Meier just might get justice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember that psycho mom who was responsible for 13-year-old Megan Meier hanging herself? Well, yesterday a federal grand jury indicted her. 
I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s going to trial. The last I heard, the court said that there was no law to send her to trial for. I&#8217;m glad that they finally found something! This lady is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/megan-meier-just-might-get-justice</link>
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		<title>Any bloggers getting hits from Savvis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that they hit two of my blogs at the same time-literally. I found that odd. They&#8217;re completely unrelated, not linked in any way to one another, and are one separate domains. 
The IP addresses that hit the blogs are 64.41.145.90 and 64.41.145.100
And, who is Savvis?
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		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/any-bloggers-getting-hits-from-savvis</link>
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		<title>Time to start sucking up to Yahoo! and MSN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Google is showing me no love these days (deindexing 80% of my sites, only indexing at a rate of about 4% of what it used to each day, and sometimes just not showing up to my sites period), it&#8217;s time to suck up to the two search engines that most webmasters have ignored for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/time-to-start-sucking-up-to-yahoo-and-msn</link>
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		<title>Option to select image ads based on color scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish that advertisers like AdSense and Adbrite would offer that option to publishers. 
I like my ads to match my site&#8217;s color scheme. With text ads, I have no problem doing this, but with image ads that&#8217;s a different story. The only time I&#8217;m able to get the ads to match the site is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/option-to-select-image-ads-based-on-color-scheme</link>
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		<title>I think Googlebot might be bipolar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First it loves me, then it hates me. As you probably already know, I&#8217;ve lately Googlebot has had a love-hate relationship with my sites. First, my sites are being indexed left and right. Then, last week, Google decided to index just two or three pages a day from each of my sites. Now, today, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/i-think-googlebot-might-be-bipolar</link>
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		<title>Handy SSH command for my fellow impatient programmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My loyal readers know that I&#8217;m a bit impatient (surprise!!). I tend to play around with new scripts and sometimes just want to get rid of them; they&#8217;re not even worth the space on my server. 
Deleting through FTP takes waaaay too long. And, the other alternative is to log into my control panel, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/handy-ssh-command-for-my-fellow-impatient-programmers</link>
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		<title>Starting to reconsider WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only reason I ever considered using WordPress is because of its ability to have blog posts indexed like that *snaps fingers*. But, I&#8217;m not getting any consistency right now. 
I have a three new sites for clients that I will be starting on within the next few days and I was initially going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/starting-to-reconsider-wordpress</link>
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		<title>MySpace&#8217;s $230 million victory against spammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, MySpace was awarded the largest judgment since the introduction of the CAN-SPAM Act in 2003.
MySpace sued spammers Sanford Wallace and partner Walter Rines when it uncovered the partners&#8217; phishing scams that targeted MySpace users. 
According to the lawsuit, the pair illegally obtained MySpace usernames and passwords, then distributed 735,925 messages to those users contacts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/myspaces-230-million-victory-against-spammers</link>
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		<title>Why you need a host that has shell access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running the command below in your favorite SSH program will upload the latest version of WordPress to your site in 2 seconds. Can your FTP program do that?
wget wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
SSH can unwrap the whole thing in another 4 seconds when you run the following command
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
I ask again: Can your FTP program do that?
Of course, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/why-you-need-a-host-that-has-shell-access</link>
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		<title>Damn trackback spammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hosting Plan wrote an interesting&#8230;&#8221;
My username is not Hosting Plan. Can you people at least be clever? Okay, I will admit that you&#8217;re still fooling some people with this trackback spam. But, when you intentionally use a fake name in your post, you&#8217;re just admitting that you&#8217;re spamming.
To the real bloggers using WordPress, there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/damn-trackback-spammers</link>
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		<title>Google only included four of my blog posts this week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just don&#8217;t get it. The indexing stopped happening about a week ago. I just checked my results for this week and, yes, you read it right. There are only four blog posts from my site listed.
I&#8217;m not talking about posts from webmastering101.com. I&#8217;m talking about my site.
Google has had no problem indexing before. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/google-only-included-four-of-my-blog-posts-this-week</link>
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		<title>Are you serious?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this quote on the web.
Per Google Adsense TOS, you are not allowed to put adsense on parked domains.
How do the domain parking companies get away with this? Is it safe to add your adsense ID to your parked domains when using these companies?
Seriously?
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		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/are-you-serious</link>
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		<title>WordPress annoyances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, one of the things that bugs me about WordPress is their editor. I can&#8217;t remember exactly when this happens, but sometimes, when you are changing from lists to regular text by pressing the enter key, then  typing, the cursor will jump to the beginning of the post.  
I wish that they numbered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/wordpress-annoyances</link>
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		<title>Must-have features a host must provide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your list of must-have features that a host needs to provide to get your service? Here&#8217;s my list:

 Shell access-In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, I&#8217;m a tad bit impatient. So, the thought of manually transferring files through a control panel or ftp program. I&#8217;m getting agitated just thinking about it. So, yeah, shell access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/must-have-features-a-host-must-provide</link>
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		<title>If the domain update is done, why is my domain still parked with your ads on them???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I guess I answered my own question.
You know, sometimes I think the hold up the process just so they can get more eyes looking at their ads.
Would you say that this is as unethical as hosts placing their ads on their customers error pages? I&#8217;d like to hear what you think about this and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/if-the-domain-update-is-done-why-is-my-domain-still-parked-with-your-ads-on-them</link>
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		<title>How to make a favicon for your site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make your favicon, but remember that it has to be in the size of 16&#215;16. 
Name it favicon.ico and upload it to your site.
In your header, include this code

It may take a few days for it to work.
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		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/how-to-make-a-favicon-for-your-site</link>
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		<title>Looking for a good VPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can any programmers out there recommend a good VPS for my sites? 
If you&#8217;re hosting on one, you can list your site, but you have to list the length of time you&#8217;ve been hosted with them, what their contact options are, and their typical response time. I also need to know how many users are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/looking-for-a-good-vps</link>
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		<title>My WordPress MU wishlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish that at the very least, the primary blog administrator could edit the themes in the Dashboard. 
I&#8217;d also like to allow new blog creation registration, but at the same time, I&#8217;d like to not have those blogs activated until I activate them. Had a huge issue with spam and server overload because of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/my-wordpress-mu-wishlist</link>
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		<title>I officially hate HostGator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They now put third-party AdSense ads on error pages for their shared and reseller customers. I&#8217;m almost certain that it&#8217;s against AdSense TOS. Hmmm.  He he he.
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		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/i-officially-hate-hostgator</link>
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		<title>Considering parked domain ads for supplemental ad income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m bored and sleepy. I was waiting for a client&#8217;s domain to propagate and noticed the ads on the site. I was literally refreshing the screen, because, as I said, I&#8217;m sleepy and I do crazy things when I&#8217;m sleepy. 
I checked the site hosting the ads and thought I&#8217;d sign up. 
Before I signed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/considering-parked-domain-ads-for-supplemental-ad-income</link>
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		<title>I think I broke Google and/or Ping-O-Matic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m just too fast for Google. I think maybe they don&#8217;t like the rate at which I ping them.
Anyone else think that WordPress should beef up the admin panel and let us know how the pinging went? It would also be nice if they would actually let us know the rules for pinging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/i-think-i-broke-google-andor-ping-o-matic</link>
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		<title>The escrow scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The escrow that I&#8217;m referring to is the one that freelance sites use to persuade webmasters and programmers into believing that their freelance site is safe to use.
I&#8217;ve been on both ends of the escrow scam. Okay, maybe I shouldn&#8217;t call escrow a scam. Some of the sites are scams.
As a programmer, I am still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/the-escrow-scam</link>
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		<title>Save yourself loads of time while WordPress blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m being sarcastic, but if you&#8217;re lazy like me and don&#8217;t like selecting a category each time you write a new post, this is for you.
In your admin panel, go to Settings, then Writing. Now, just change the Default Post Category. Now, anytime you publish a new post and do not select a category, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/save-yourself-loads-of-time-while-wordpress-blogging</link>
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		<title>Best shared hosts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go ahead. Give your feedback on the best shared hosts out there. Tell me what you like most about the host/s you list.
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		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/best-shared-hosts</link>
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		<title>Can you speed up your order page???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You finally got me to purchase, now hurry up. 
I just spent way too much time waiting for an order page to move to the next page. I won&#8217;t say the host&#8217;s name. It was very frustrating. Anyway, the purchase went through. Now, I&#8217;m just waiting for the order to finalize.
And, yes, I&#8217;m that way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/can-you-speed-up-your-order-page</link>
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		<title>Hmm. I wonder how Ping-O-Matic treats pings from multi-blog sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, like WordPress MU? I wonder if domain.com/blog-1 and domain.com/blog-2 post at the same time or within a few minutes of each other if Ping-O-Matic will treat it as a multiple ping. I think I will test that out. 
If someone else wants to test it before I get a chance to, here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/hmm-i-wonder-how-ping-o-matic-treats-pings-from-multi-blog-sites</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be stupid! Don&#8217;t put your keyboard in the dishwasher - or the oven!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, seriously people. Don&#8217;t put your keyboard in the dishwasher, or the oven! I shouldn&#8217;t have to tell you this, but apparently some people have done this and are telling the world that it worked. While putting your keyboard in the dishwasher may actually clean that bad boy, you&#8217;re damaging the keyboard. And, while putting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/dont-be-stupid-dont-put-your-keyboard-in-the-dishwasher-or-the-oven</link>
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		<title>How today went</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was good. 
I only had to meet with one client for about three hours today and basically spent the rest of the day taking care of personal errands. Usually, I hate doing that. I used to love driving, but for about a year, hated the thought of getting in my car to drive even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/how-today-went</link>
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		<title>When to kick that client to the curb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like making money. That&#8217;s why I freelance. But, I also freelance, because I don&#8217;t like taking crap from other people (bosses). I&#8217;m not going to take it from a client, either. But, clients fail to realize that. They think that you&#8217;ll bend over backwards not to lose their account. Not me. I have my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webmastering101.com/blogs/programminghell/when-to-kick-that-client-to-the-curb</link>
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