Remember Site Glamour Contest? Well, the voting is here! If you think this site is interesting, please vote for Mira of jefflion.net. (Or any other site that you find glamorous). But remember, you have only one vote

Vote for Mira of jefflion.net

We (the contestants, I mean) still have to write a short article on one of the four topics. I already chose the subject; it’s not the most interesting or demanding one, but it’s the only one I can write about. Two of the topics are very interesting, but I know very little (if anything) about the subjects, and the third one could get too personal, which I hate (don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad thing to write about personal stuff, it’s just not my style). So I opted for the fourth one.

PS-”Eclipse” rant coming soon, I promise. I just have to read the book first. It’s really boring and I’m reading about 3 pages a day. Nothing happens in that novel, except for a few “lolwutz” moments that are worth mentioning. But I’ll be there, I promise.

A little more than two years ago, I found this page, and the rest is… Well, history.

Ok, I know it’s lame. I know. Still, nothing makes me laugh more than absurd, and I find this one – no matter how stupid and random and pointless and, well, lame it may be – irresistible. To the point I’ve decided to name my website after it.

Jefflion.net was born (well, registered) on September 12th 2007. I honestly don’t remember if I created an actual website right away, or a few weeks later. In any case:

Happy birthday jefflion.net!
(May the hair on your footer never fall out)

PS- Instead of a cake:

If you encounter a nasty warning like this one:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ”’ (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/yourwebsite/public_html/index.php on line 17

instead of your lovely blog, don’t despair. Your website has been hacked and a malicious iframe has been placed all over your files.

Ok, that didn’t sound comforting. But fear not, it’s not as bad as it sounds. It happened to me tonight, and I freaked out. Luckily, I managed to fix things pretty quickly, becuase, basically, all you need to do is delete the malicious iframe and replace it with the healthy lines.

Here’s a first aid tutorial on how to fix things. It should work. The example I’m working on is a Wordpress- powered blog.

1. First, run your antivirus/antimalware checker. Chances are that your computer is infected, so detect all the malicious programs and remove them. Clean your computer as much as you can.

2. Log on to your account (Control Panel) and change your password. Immediately.

3. Ok, and now we should fix your site. The worm has found all of your crucial files and changed them by adding a malicious iframe at the bottom of the documents. The iframe is placed instead of the real last lines in your documents, so you should be able to delete it and replace it with the original lines (that’s why you always need a backup).

Basically, you need a backup of the Wordpress (the version you were using) and all the websites hosted on the infected domain. If you don’t have a backup of the Wordpress, download one from the official website (here’s the release archive page if you’re not using the latest version of the script).

The worm doesn’t infect all the files, only the specific ones, usually index.php files. Chances are that all of your index.php files on the domain are infected. Furthermore, the worm has infected files in several directories (example for Wordpress 2.8.4):
- public_html: index.php
- wp-admin: index-extra.php, index.php
- wp-content: index.php
– plugins: index.php
– themes: index.php and the index files in all of your themes
- wp-includes: default-filters.php and default-widgets.php

To find which of the files are infected, take a look at the last modified date. All the infected files were last modified on the same date, probably very recently, so those are the files you have to replace with the backup ones.

4. Once you have your backup files, it’s easy. Just replace infected files (or simply the infected lines) with the original ones. It should fix the problem.

5. Change your Wordpress password if you were unable to do so earlier. Hey, change all the passwords you can think of. Prevent programs (such as ftp clients) from remembering your username and password. I know it’s boring to type your login info anytime you need to update a file, but it is safer. It’s a lesson I learned tonight.

I’ve decided to try something different. While I’m usually not interested in submitting my site to be reviewed or entering contests, this one seems really interesting. So, I’m going to give it a try. Not that I consider my site glamorous. But I have a little free time on my hands (finally!) and I want to have some fun with jefflion.net. After all, this domain is soon to be 2 years old, and I never did anything to promote it (shame on me). Consider this a beginners step in the site promoting direction.

PS-Voting starts on October 1st.

Mmm…. I’m back. I guess nobody realized, but I was away for a few weeks. Mentally, I mean. So, no vacations or fun, but the opposite. Well, when you’re a student, you must make some sacrifices, and naturally, Internet is the first one.

I miss my website and my online friends. I do know this sounds lame (a bit?), but it’s the fact. Sure, I miss my offline (real life) friends and family, that goes without saying. And it’s, well, normal. The Internet thing is a bit weird, I guess. I think I might be addicted to Internet, just a little bit.

So, I miss:
Facebook. Yes, Facebook. I miss silly games which (occasionally) make your computer freeze, block and restart (examples: YoVille, FarmVille, MyFarm). I miss the silly game that originally made me a Facebook fan: (fluff)Friends. There’s a new art competition. I might send a few of my works. I miss the people. I miss sending Gary silly Oldman.

My friends’ websites. And I do mean on Invisible-Movement.net here, though I’d love Iva to make something about her personal website. And her collective. Yes, you know what I mean. I want ****shittes. I want them now! And I love visiting other people’s sites, too.

Go.info forum. I miss the ladies, and I miss the Oldman news (see above). I miss playing “character of the day” game, or whatever is called. I miss getting Norman Stansfield as my result. And Dracula. And oh, Drexl. One mustn’t forget about him.

My websites. I have so many ideas, I want to work on my new layout. And to finally put a layout for my fanlisting collective!

Internet in general. Especially all the pointless, silly, weird websites you can find out there. Here. You get the idea.

Ok, I guess all this doesn’t really make much sense… It’s more of a “real” diary entry than a blog post… I guess it didn’t make sense to most of the readers (if there are some), sorry about that. I do my best to avoid confusing entries, but sometimes I fail miserably.

PS- I’ve just heard the news… R.I.P. Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovi?). He was 97.