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Right! Back from being sick, tending to sick close one, crashed server and back in business on a new one. It’s been quite a busy time, but I think I managed to take care of all the emergencies that just kept popping up one after another (or sometimes simultaneously). By the way, Dreamhost is the slowest host I have ever been on, but even something with shell access is better then nothing when moving half-gig web sites…

We’re starting up a new project. It’s going to be about recruiters and job market recruiting, so if you are on a job market or recently been there - get your stories together, we’ll need them soon. Stay tuned.

Additionally, if any of the readers are interested in blogging about Russian food and any related topic - please get in touch. If not - bring somebody who might be interested.

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Looks like there is another vulnerability discovered in WordPress, that’s why I have to upload all 3.1MB of files again to all the accounts I have WP installed. After backing up the account and downloading backup.

Maybe I am being too quirky, but I would just post files that need to be updated - just like other PHP projects do - Joomla, Invision Power Board and so on.

On the other hand - maybe (just maybe) it’s time to move to SVN way of managing the multiple installations…

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Most of WordPress bloggers know that there are hundreds of themes to make your blog different from others. Some bloggers create lists, contests and other blog theme promotion events. Of course, the presentation is important, there is no doubt about it.

What is, actually, puzzles me is that while we, bloggers, spend tremendous amounts of time tweaking and twisting quite a number of themes - most of the people read blogs through subscriptions - RSS or e-mail. All the beauty of
tweaked theme with endless hours invested is lost on the most loyal part of the audience.

Most people aren’t attracted by the theme the blog is using. They aren’t here to watch how masterfully blogger managed to blend AdSense with content with couple of banners and with affiliate links. They are here for content. They see the blog for a minute or two, or maybe even five, to determine if the blog is worth subscribing for.Then they proceed to subscribe to the feed. That’s about all the time that the theme is watched.

Sometimes the blog’s theme is so cumbersome, overloaded with ads that the content is almost lost. Yet, we can see quite a number of subscribers. They read the blog through the RSS or e-mail. They have something to say.

Strange, isn’t it? Bloggers overall make a hefty sum (that includes those who makes six figures and those who make six cents) off of the ads and affiliate links posted in the blog itself. Maybe, subconsciously, we reward loyal bloggers with absence of ads-in-your-face. Just as a way of saying thank you.

So, if you already reading this blog via any kind of subscription - thank you

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