I’ve found their web hosting (in the past) to be clunky - ok, maybe I am not a big fan of graphical hosting interfaces à la cPanel and WHM , but I digress.

They have a pretty hot sale on .US domain name registration for .US domains at $2.99 per year.

Apparently, the price is said to be in the $200M range…. and is within 2 weeks of being announced.

I’m surprised a bit at the dollar number and I think it isn’t so much for the intellectual property (err, Digg algorithms) but for the huge user base and very sticky audience that Digg enjoys.

Will Kevin Rose be moving to the GooglePlex?

Comme on dit en français: à suivre.

It’s important to note that this has nothing to do with the copyright removal, which requires payment to IPS.

While there are ways to remove the dynamic title variable from the IPB ACP, this is *not* recommended as having a static title tag will hurt your SEO efforts.

To remove the “Powered by Invision Power Board” text in IPB 2.3.x (and most earlier versions) you need to edit the /forums/sources/action_public/boards.php file.

At around line 190 in that file, there is the following bit of code:

190: $cp = " (Powered by Invision Power Board)";

Do not delete that line! Instead you could change it to:

190: $cp = "";

Dear Customer,

As part of our strict commitment to online security, we automatically terminate your secure
online session after an extended period of inactivity. This prevents unauthorized users from
accessing your account information,It’s just one of the many ways we strive to protect you
and your personal information online.

To return to your online session normally we are necessitating a verification process on your account
as an added measure to ensuring adequate security on your access online. Log in your access to complete
the verification process and ensure you fill in the required information. Sign-On to Scotia OnLine .

We are indeed sorry for the inconveniencies we have caused you, but also remember
that as a Scotiabank customer, your security remains our greatest priority.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Account Security Dept.
ScotiaBank.
________________________________________

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement,& Scotia Bank will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

The “Sign-On to Scotia OnLine” is a hyperlink to http://sp2lancut.scholaris.pl/mambots/editors/scotiaonline.htm

The sad part is that there still plenty of people being taken in by these phishing scams…

More specifically, the bug will be something along the lines of :

PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function: ctype_digit() in /wordpress/wp-includes/link-template.php …

This is a known bug in WP 2.5, and obviously the most relevant solution is to upgrade to WordPress 2.6 which at this point is the latest stable release.

If you can’t upgrade for whatever reason (laziness doesn’t count) then you should be able to fix the image or photo upload issue by downloading a fresh copy of the link-template.php file which contains the bug fix for the ctype_digit() error. That preceding link, by the way, is to the file from the official WordPress file download link … that being said, always make sure you have a full backup available!

I’m hitting post on this article and then doing the upgrade on a few machines here at work… yeah, at work. :/

Well, Tom Dickson of Blendtec must have been amongst those waiting in line for the iPhone 3G as they’ve pulled off another one of their “Will it blend?” campaigns, only this time it’s with an iPhone 3G. Yes, the point is to display how powerful the somewhat pricey Blendtec blenders are.

This is a classic example of Web 2.0 mashed-up with Marketing 2.0 … brilliant strategy.

Check out the Blendtec iPhone 3G blending video:

As with the first Blendtec iPhone (1.0) that was turned into dust, the iPhone remains and blender are being auctioned off on eBay with proceeds going to the children’s charity Primary Children’s Medical Center.

I guess you could call this the ultimate “unlocked” iphone hehe.

The news was somewhat buried in a GoDaddy press release announcing their sponsorship of Ron Fellows in the #5 GoDaddy NASCAR race vehicle…

I like verbatim quotes, so here goes:

The Go Daddy Group, Inc. is leveraging the sponsorship to officially announce entry into the Canadian market with its new subsidiary, Go Daddy Domains Canada. While Go Daddy already counts some of its 5.5 million customers in Canada, it’s working to serve even more. Go Daddy Domains Canada recently opened its office in Ontario, Canada. It is a certified .CA registrar and by race time, hopes to be offering customers .CA domain names.

So, what does this mean? Well, GoDaddy is now CIRA-certified and you will soon see a non-stop stream of email and web promotions announcing their ubiquitous 10-15-25% coupon code promotions for .ca domains.

I’m intrigued how much influence Adam Dicker, who is VP of the GoDaddy TDNAM domain name aftermarket division had in this foray into the burgeoning Canadian domaining marketplace. Adam is highly respected Canadian domainer most well-known for his DNForum.com domainer site. He was also recently involved in a pretty well-publicized scandal when he bid on domains listed in the TDNAM marketplace.

Is this good for .ca domain holders? I think so – GoDaddy will add some serious exposure for .ca domains and provide for some additional registrar competition.

The Canadian in me wants to support the real Canadian registrars though; MyID.ca, Namespro.ca and the others…

Revolution News is one of the most popular (and rightfully so) themes for WordPress sites - it’s not free, with the theme selling at $79.99 for a Revolution News single-use license - good for use on one domain or site.

They also have a “multiple use” license which allows you use Revolution News on multiple sites for $199.99 …

Brian suggests that sites wishing to go to the latest Revolution News 3.0 version do so from scratch as there are many code changes that would benefit from a so-called clean install.

A few of the new features include:

• All of the 3 sidebar zones now support widgets
• There is a theme options page within the WP admin page
• The comments section now supports Gravatars
• For those of you monetizing (or trying to monetize ) your blog with Google AdSense, Revolution News 3 now supports AdSense code integration between posts and comments
• There are distinct templates for the “archive” and “blog” page areas of your site

I will be most likely deploying (and customizing) Revolution News 3.0 here in the next few days.

See a live trial version of Revolution News 3.0 here.

This is breaking news so the theme should be available for download in the 24 hours or so.

I’m a bit surprised there wasn’t more security for the head of one of the biggest companies in the world…

I like Steve’s look of shock during, and recovery after, the guy throws the eggs…