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Example: Changed The Way You Kiss Me

Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 04:17 pm

I?m late to this party as the song was #1 in the UK, but I?m loving the first single Changed The Way You Kiss Me from Example

According to an interview on the Graham Norton Show, he?s called Example because his initals are E.G. and it?s from when he was 12 years old.

Lyrics for sing along

I?ve never been afraid of the highest heights
Or afraid of flying now
I?ve never been afraid of the wildest fights
Not afraid of dying
But now I want off this ride cuz your scaring me and I don?t like where were going
I need a new fun fair cuz your scaring me and I don?t like where were going

And now you?re gonna miss me
I know your?re gonna miss me
I guarantee you?ll miss me cuz you changed the way you kiss me
cuz you changed the way you kiss me

We used to be so so soulful
Al green on the background vocals
T total were on the next high
We get by with a so called soul mate made for each other chit chat
But that dried up wise up to the cutting edge facts
Now I?m chilling on my jack Jones
looking for a way back home but i cant get back

Our love feels wrong please wind it back
our love feels wrong cant hide the cracks
I guarantee you?ll miss me cuz you changed the way you kiss me

I?ve never been afraid of the highest heights
Or afraid of flying now
I?ve never been afraid of the wildest fights
Not afraid of dying
I need a new fun fair cuz your scaring me and I don?t like where were going
I guarantee you?ll miss me cuz you changed the way you kiss me

Our love feels wrong please wind it back
our love feels wrong cant hide the cracks
I guarantee you?ll miss me cuz you changed the way you kiss me
I guarantee you?ll miss me cuz you changed the way you kiss me

Free Google Plus Invite

Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 04:12 pm

Update: 5 July 2015 This post received 217 comments before I migrated servers and a corruption lost my posts and comments. That means I sent out more than 200 invitations to the Field Trial! I don’t see much point in manually recreating the comments on this thread. So I’ll just post this…

217 responses to Free Google Plus Invite

Update: 21 September 2011?Google is out of Field Trial and now in Beta, therefore you no longer need an invitation to join. Thanks for stopping by.

I?ve got Google Plus Invites here for free. You do not need to have a gmail address to use Google Plus, but you will need to create a Google account for the email address you use.

To get an invitation, just comment below with the email address you want the invitation for and I?ll invite you. In the comment tell me how you found this page ? if via a search, what were the search terms?

I?d appreciate a like, +1 or tweet to the ZagZ.com home page afterwards. Extra karma for googling? Zagz.com and clicking the +1 there too.

Update 12 September 2011: Visits to this post have vanished, so I?ll keep sending invitations if you ask, but I?ll not be monitoring this post as closely.

Update 6 August 2011: Google has introduced URL invites but they have 150 invite limit. I?m sending out email invites which currently have no limits.

Update 1 August 2011: Please remember to like this page on Facebook as well.

Update 19 July 2011: I will edit this section if I ever stop sending invitations. If this is still here, I?m still sending them out.

Update 15 July 2011: You don?t have to put your addresss in the body of the comment. Just use the Email field, it will be hidden from spam lists. Put your name or nick in the Name field too.

What is Google Plus?

Google Plus launched last week and is Google?s third and most complete go at social media. They are making it easy to share with your circle, it?s designed that way from the ground up. Plus people are talking about it being Google?s version of Facebook. But I think it?s better.

WordPress Bad Behavior Plugin Conflicts

Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 04:06 pm

The Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress is great, it denies spambots even seeing your blog before they try to spam you. But there are four specific issues to be aware of with Bad Behavior 2.0.43.

4 conflicts when using the Bad Behavior plugin

1) On WordPress with WP-Super Cache plugin

Bad Behavior must be enabled in WP-Super Cache?s configuration in order to protect PHP Cached or Legacy Cached pages. Bad Behavior cannot protect mod_rewrite cached (Super Cached) pages.

mod-rewrite is the fastest and most efficient way to cache the pages. So if you Super Cache your pages make sure you?ve configured everything correctly or don?t bother using BB. Alternatively if you want both WPSC and BB you must select Advanced options to use PHP or Legacy caching. Then you must configure the WP Super Cache plugins options too.

2) On WordPress with Spam Karma 2 plugin

From the readme When using Bad Behavior in conjunction with SK2, you may see PHP warnings when Spam Karma 2 displays its internally generated CAPTCHA. This is a design problem in Spam Karma 2.

SK2 is old but will updated ?real soon now? by people who?ve taken over its development. The new version is called Spam Karma but ignore this advice if the new SK is not in http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins by Sep 2011. SK2 is still the #1 spam killer I?ve found. If I have to chose between SK and BB, SK2 wins.

3)Whitelisting

Whitelisting is done in a bad-behavios/whitelist.inc.php file that gets overwritten on upgrades. Whitelists should be either in the database or in an upgrade-proof config file. So if you need to whitelist something, copy the file to a backup like whitelist.inc.backup.php immediately.

4) Commission Junction users

I?ve read Commission Junction still needs to be white listed. The bot is failing the header test that?s trying to verify advertising banners.

400 Header ?Referer? is corrupt (45b35e30)
CJNetworkQuality; http://www.cj.com/networkquality
216.34.207.6

Bad Behavior?s Developer Michael Hampton?s response is ?that?s a problem with CJ?s bot; you need to report it to them? which I agree with. But if you have choose between CJ and BB, CJ wins. Hopefully CJ has fixed their bot

How to remove double newline in text files

Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 04:03 pm

As part of the hosting migration, I had some text files that had an extra empty line in them. This was caused by a newline followed by another newline.

On my pc I can search and replace for these using a good text editor. But it?s a bit harder to do on a linux command line.

The fix if it is just an empty new line is to use sed

sed '/^$/d'

as in

sed '/^$/d' < textfile.txt > newtextfile.txt

If the new lines have whitespace (a space or a tab) then use

sed '/^[ \t]*$/d'

You can also get information about the file with the file command

file textfile.txt
textfile.txt: ASCII English text

Beware if the output is

textfile.txt: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF, LF line terminators

as you?ll need to use

dos2unix textfile.txt

to convert it to a unix text file.

For people searching for the cause, most of these double new lines occured because a PHP script included another PHP script with require_once. The included PHP file had a whitespace at the end of the file after the

?>

close.

Hosting Migration Checklist

Last updated on July 4th, 2015 at 07:06 pm

I?ve migrated the server this site runs on. Let me know if anything has broken in the move either in a comment or by email to paulz at this domain.

Here is a top level checklist for managing such a move. I?ll expand it as the post migration testing continues.

Check dependencies for your application and site
1. PHP version & modules
2. Database versions
3. Apache modules
4. Application hard coded file system paths
Copy file system files
1. You can use SCP/FTP tools or rsync
Copy databases
1. If files are small (<50MB gzip?ed) you can use phpMyAdmin to export then import to your new host.
2. Larger sites will need to use FTP and command line tools.
Migrate email addresses, aliases/forwarders and any IMAP mail
1. IMAP email boxes can be manually moved via email client. This can be slow for mailboxes >100MB
2. Gmail is great for migrating mail and gives 7.5GB of storage assuming you don?t mind Google tracking everything.
Migrate mailing lists and mailing list application if any.
Note any domain name aliases on old host and replicate on new host
Migrate hosted stats package like awstats
Check cron jobs for any custom jobs/apps that need to be migrated
Update domain SPF records
SSH keys will change ? be aware of it
Change DNS name server delegation
Test
1. email addresses,
2. mailing lists,
3. mail forwarding
4. applications
Check for broken links