Ambimama - India

Ambimama.com has been severely hit by spam this month. I am guessing it is due to vulnerabilities in Wordpress blog application or Wordpress theme or maybe wordpress plugins.

My web hosting company sent me a report stating that bandwidth utilization in my wordpress based blog has increased by 300% month on month between April 2008 to May 2008. While traffic to my website has actually dropped by 30% during the same time frame.

How is this even possible?

I spent about 2 hours this morning investigating on Wordpress settings and other places. I finally figured out that the problem was due to someone inserting malicious pingback and other links in to my wordpress theme code.

Some one had edited my almost spring theme and had inserted more than 10,000 ping back links in to some porn website. Obviously, someone is trying to steal the page ranks away from my pages and possible redirecting traffic.

This could be due to my wordpress password getting cracked or maybe the theme I used was already modified with a malicious link back. Or maybe some of my wordpress plugins had vulnerabilities in them.

Anyways, I got it all figured out now and have fixed it. Hoping this doesn’t happen again. I have disabled comments altogether for the rest of my month at ambimama.com.

This has hit hard on my website bandwidth utilization for this month and am going to have to pay my webhosting company some money maybe toward for excess bandwidth usage. Wish internet was a better place. Hmmm, Anyways keeping my fingers crossed and hoping this doesn’t happen again.

Make sure you harden your wordpress control panel password, wordpress themes, wordpress plugins and keep a close watch on your theme PHPs.

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For some years I have been writing on a variety of topics. Initially I had to face comments that I waste my time on computer and writing unworthy articles. Now many want to know the ways of starting a blog and post and mail interesting facts and comments.

Some praise and want to know what I do. Some offer lip praise. And want to know what and How I am doing, How much I am earning and really do not want my help to start a blog. It’s easy to identify them. I say minimum words and ask them to visit my blog, where I have given tips to start a blog. Then they meet me after a year’s time and repeat the same bore!

To me Blog writing is all about a need to communicate the events, offer personal comments, do not hurt anyone. The topics are endless. Right form Videos to covering Local events with a photo, Special Spicy comments on Sports and Cricket sledging, Technical things, What to buy, Worst products in the market and some nice forwards. Overall the blog should be different from the normal newspapers, magazines and Media News.

But the friends and relatives keep on praising and think it’s easy to write and maintain. Now maintenance and optimization takes almost 60% of my time! And the traffic limit increases my Service provider fees exorbitantly. Still I continue as it keeps me occupied and happy.
I love the blog writing for my own sake. Sometimes I get rewarded monetarily. Google Ads support me. But the writing, spending time on things to know is more important to me.

I have some nice offers for Content Writing and Editing Jobs from Giants but I feel I must dedicate more time to them. May be I lose my freedom!

By now I have enough known and unknown readers. And daily there are more unique visitors. I can never afford to lose them.

I will have to deny the offer for Top Management team member for Blog, Content and Editing work for other blogs.

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Here’s the stats of scores above 200 and Chennai has done it twice:
Chennai 240/5 v Punjab
Chennai 208/5 v Mumbai
Kolkata 222/3 v Bangalore
Rajasthan 217/7 v Deccan
Deccan 214/5 v Rajasthan
Punjab 207/4 v Chennai
Mumbai 202/7 v Chennai

MS Dhoni, captain of Chennai Super Kings has hit 31 fours and 12 sixes.
Namma Peteru kandippa Rajasthan Royals teamku edhira dhool kalappi win pannuvar! On Saturday I am not going to pray for anything personal, cricket or health.
Just watch Chennai win!

Here’s the wicket takers:
M Gony, Chennai Super Kings has taken 13 wickets
L Balaji, Chennai Super Kings has taken 9 wickets from 5 matches and a hatrick! His best is 5/24. All those out were best players.
Morkel is doing very well and there is Joginder Sharma.
P.Amarnath has taken 7 wickets from 6 matches.

And SK Raina has taken maximum catches of 7. Of course Chennai misses Hayden and Hussey for fielding and explosive batting. But Chennai now has young stars in finest form.

Chennai has enough batting strength. The bowling is also good by Morkel, Balaji, Gony and Murali, Amarnath and lucky Joginder Sharma. So Chennai wins tomorrow against Rajasthan.

Years back I started playing Solitaire. Though I have enjoyed many PC games and still try, the young ones always beat me with their observation power and mind-hand co-ordination.

But the different types of card games have come to stay with me as a habit. I enjoy my working with PC for hours, but in between I play card games.

The Poker is difficult as I have to understand the mind and playing pattern of others. I have a record in Solitaire points and highest difficulty level in Spider Solitaire.

Recently I had been to a nice dinner with my family and friends. There was a very young magician and he entertained us specially. The card game trick he did was cool.

It resembled something like the following two videos:

We Indians are mad and do not have a crowd discipline at any ceremony. Be it a marriage, temple visit, buffet dinner or watching a Cricket match live at Stadium.

Everyone wants to watch the proceedings and wants to control others. The result is chaos, shouting and anger moments.

But all of us take this on a lighter side of Life and enjoy the match and shouting. The players around the world too enjoy all this.

One of the visitors to Chepauk had an opportunity to take a video of the match between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings. Watch the shouting “Utkaru” (Sit Down), “Aye” and the other tamil words.. Thank God I am old and enjoy the match on TV.