Last month, this blog was hacked and had top page chaged to some hackers' message.
I got that fixed in no time, but then when I tested for new entries, I kept on getting this problem where HTML files' permission setting goes back to 666, which caused error 500.
I searched for some clues, and thanks for google, there were people with same problems.
So I fixed some lines on mt-config.cgi and now it works. Great.
Just this morning I noticed that this blog has been hacked by hackers in turkey.
The top page was changed to page where it just has a message "this page has been hacked" and had some names of hackers. That was the only damage. All other pages were left as they were. I guess hackers are like that. They meant no harm.
So I deleted the top page, rebuild my blog, and chaged the permission setting on this blog folder... and now I get a "internal server error"... weird...
I redid the permission setting on the files with 666 to 755 and now it works. Good...
So after working on Safari in Kenya in the wallpaper section, I decided to do make some pages of Pictures in Vietnam. I photographed them in 1997.
I may take a while before Google index the new pages.
I wanna keep on working with the wallpaper section of this site, but I'm not sure if I'll have enough time from now on. Hopefully, I can go on to work with pictures of Malaysia or Banff, Canada soon.
As always, I've had my website sleeping for a long time now. I used to think that I have to update my pages so often or no one will ever come to see it. But this has changed over past two or three years. I mean, it's obviously better to update your web site everyday and have new contents for everyone to see, but it just isn't possible for me, with all things going on in my daily life.
But it's OK. It seems like there are about 200 to 300 visits to my site, eventhough I don't update them too often. Most of the people are visiting my site to see the pictures.
So, I figured, when I do update the pages, I should work on the wallpaper section. I gives visitors something to use for the computer, or maybe some people are checking them out to get the image of where to go for vacation. So far, I've only posted a collection of Bali, Indonesia, and couple of shots from some places in Japan, but there's a lot more I can do with this wallpaper section.
Last night, I put up a wallpaper page on Kenya. I visited there ten years ago and went on safari. It used to take so much time to scan my printed photographs, re-do the colors so they look right, and actually make the pages. Now I got most of my pictures scanned from films by a DPE service in my neighborhood, it's so much easier, and more fun.
There's a lot more work to do on this Kenya section, but I think I got the idea about how I want them done. Hopefully, I can get some more pages up soon.
Google finally indexed my new page about pictures of Bali, Indonesia. But only in text, and not the image search. I wonder what makes the difference between those two. It must have something to do with two different robot coming to crawl my page.
There are always two kinds of robots that crawl my pages -- googlebot and Mediapartner. It seems like Mediapartner would have some relation with image search, but I'm not sure.
OK, so I'm still waiting for my pages to be indexed...
In the meantime, I decided to make a Japanese version of "pictures of Bali". Since my Japanese pages seem to get indexed a lot sooner than English pages. I'll see how this works out.
The reason I made English pages first is simple. There are far more English speaking internet users compared to Japanese. But since my English pages merely exist until Google index them, I thought I should give the Japanese version a chance... sooner than I had planned to.
Anyway, I guess it is going to take much more patience than I expected. That's for sure.
I really haven't been checking the access logs to my web sites until recently, but now that I am updating the blogs and making new photo pages, I'm checking visitors at least once a day, just so I know what is going on. This is how I found some people hot-linking to my photos.
I realize that after I started to write the weblogs again, robots from all kinds of search engines are coming to crawl my web site. Which is good. The one that comes most often is Yahoo!, followed by msn bot and some others.
After I made the sitemap for Google Sitemap, Google does crawl my pages once a day. What is strange is that my weblongs in Japanese language is already indexed, but not the English version. This is much the same with Yahoo!. Many Japanese people are coming to see my pages in alpha-random talk through Yahoo! 's search result now, but not my english pages.
So what could be the difference? Both of my Japanese pages and English pages are being crawled at pretty much the same -- once a day for Google, couple times a day for Yahoo! . Maybe because there's far more informations in English than in Japanese and search engines can't get through to my site yet? This one, I will probably never figure out.
Anyway, I hope my Bali page get indexed soon so people can see it.