Overwhelming Spam Comments on This Blog

Salam and hello everyone. I don’t know why and how to solve this problem. It seems this blog has received an overwhelming and uncontrolled spam comments in the last few weeks and its getting worse few days back. It is weird because before this Akismet plugin that I’ve installed did a good job in protecting this blog from spam comments, but lately it has passed a lot of spam comments and I need to manually erase all these spam comments. It seems either Akismet has problems with it servers or the plugin itself. Akisment’s servers are okay and connectivity is available, but I’m not sure what is the problem.

So, I need to ask you if you know anything regarding this matter. Any method that probably can solve this and to stop this from happening again. Please suggest it to me by commenting below. Thank you.

Quick Updates

Salam and hello everyone. After a quite long period of time I did not update this blog due to time constraint I had recently, I want to take this opportunity to wish all Muslim all over the world Happy Eid ul-Fitr and happy holiday to all of you who got long period of holiday due to this celebration. For Malaysian, I wish all of you Happy Merdeka Day and happy holiday. I’ve an advised to all of you who are going back to hometown by driving especially. Drive safely and get enough sleep and rest before you start you journey. For those who do not driving, please be alert to those who are driving. We need to remind each other, so that all of us can arrive safely to our destination. Last but not least, drive safely and ethically, you can make a different.

Congratulation to All DiGi WWWOW Award 2011 Winner!

Salam and hello everyone. Just a quick entry to share with you the result for yesterday DIGI WWWOW Award which has been awarded to several bloggers and individuals based on online voting system. Well, I didn’t take part in this as I know where is my level in this internet industry. Nothing much to comment about the result even I heard so many people are disagree with some result of the award. So, here is the full result for the first DIGI WWWOW Award 2011.

1. Best Internet For All Idea : A.F.O Radio
2. Best Internet Good Award : Petfinder.my
3. Blogger of the Year : Anwar Hadi
4. Fave Malaysian Female Online Celebrity : Stacy
5. Fave Malaysian Male Online Celebrity : Nicholas Teo!
6. Fave Person Over 40 : Brandjontan
7. Fave Person Under 15 : Let It Be
8. Fave Tech Head : The Techno Hut
9. Must-Follow Personality : Anwar Hadi
10. Online Shop Of The Year : Karysma Beads and Sequins
11. Online Story Of The Year : Suzuki AFF Cup
12. Picture Of The Year : Beautiful White Orchid
13. Top Kay Poh : Lee Zi Wen
14. Top LOL : BlogSerius
15. Top Makan-Makan Expert : OhMalaysia
16. Video of The Year : Anwar Hadi

Like other competitions or awards, the result are finalized. However, I believe with one thing; an award should be awarded to the one which deliver quality in his/her passion, regardless whether you know him/her or not before or after the competition or award. People can judge whether you’re qualified to get the award or not. Well, online voting doesn’t portray the true result though, hence for those who didn’t win for this year DIGI WWWOW Award, try again next year if you still interested to grab the award.

Anwar Ibrahim Sex Video – What Malaysian Bloggers Should Learn and React

Salam and hello everyone. I believe most Malaysian are aware about this issue. The video which has been uploaded to Youtube lately is claimed to be part of the video that has been uploaded and shared before. The previous video has been deleted from Youtube I believe, but not sure how about the latest one. However, I don’t really care to watch both of these videos shared on Youtube and don’t bother to search for it. I rather read others’ responses who have watched this video. However, if you expect you can find the link of the video here, I’m sorry I couldn’t fulfill your request.

Well, what I want to say actually is Malaysian bloggers should be careful in discussing this kind of sensitive issue. If you don’t know the true story, don’t make any speculations and false expectations.  The freedom of speech given to you in the internet has it’s boundary. You need to be aware about what you are going to write and what others may interpret from your writing. So, be careful. It is not the reason of being transparent or whatever, but you need be clear about whatever you are doing. Every facts must be supported with valid and reliable sources.

I know Malaysian bloggers want to express their opinion on the issue, but you must know where is your limit in expressing your opinion. Rohaizad has written a good entry regarding this issue and what Malaysian bloggers should aware when sharing this issue on their blogs. You can proceed here to read his entry. The entry is written in Bahasa, but I guess as a Malaysian you should easily understand what he is trying to deliver in his entry. I believe some people may agree with what I have written here and some people may disagree. I respect both of these people opinion, however, do share some of your thought on the issue.

Thank You and Sorry

Salam and hello everyone. First of all, thank you for dropping by here and read my blog posts. Without you as the readers, this blog means nothing. Well, thank you again for sharing some thoughts and comments on my posts in this blog. I know some of you might disagree in some issues written in this blog. Whatever it is, take it as my personal thought which may changes over time or maybe after I hear your arguments and read your comments. So, let me hear your thoughts.

I’m sorry for not being able to reply all your comments in this blog and updates this blog regularly. I know this is the first post for 2011. Even though I had planned to write something, and I actually had a lot of things to share with you before this, but because this is my last semester of my study, I need to give full focus on my final year project, thesis writing and few last subjects to complete my degree. However, I’ll try to keep this blog updated, as what I was doing now.

Last but not least, I hope I can keep this blog updated, at least one post in 2 weeks. Well, I’m just planning, I don’t know what will happen in the future. At the beginning of this semester, I thought this semester would be kind of free and easy for me, but it is otherwise. I have planned to do some changes for this blog and my other not-regularly-updated blogs since early this year, but none of it is started. Well, it is just a matter of time. I need to focus on more important thing first. Okay, that is all for now. Will keep updating this blog when I feel free. Thank you for visiting.

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