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NaijaEcash – The Nigerian Entrepreneur Second Month Progress Report

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

This blog is two months old today. I started the blog on March 6th this year. My goal for starting the blog was stated clearly in my post The Nigerian Entreprenuer Seeking to Make Money Online.

My first month progress report can be found at NaijaEcash – First Month Progress Report
It is time again to take record and evaluate my performance so far.

My blog statistics for the first month showed the following:

  • Numbers of Visitors – 1,445 (Page Views 2,520)
  • Number of Posts – 14 (Comments – 43)
  • RSS Feed Subscriptions – 11
  • Alexa Rank – 437,823
  • Compete Rank – 826,662
  • Technorati – Rank 874,116, Authority 9
  • Google PR – n/a

The second month statistics is better 😉

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WordPress 2.5.1 – Something is Wrong!

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I am almost regretting that I upgraded from WordPress 2.5 to WordPress 2.5.1. Maybe I should have waited for the 2.5.2.

Initially, after the upgrade, everything seems to be working fine. But that is no longer the case. I am finding it difficult to publish my post. The save and publish buttons keeps flashing irrationally. Also, it gives message that it is saving drafts every 30seconds or thereabout! This is most depressing!

Moderating comments have become a herculean task as I struggle to do simple tasks from the administrative dashboard. I have not seen any benefit so far for this upgrage (maybe there are technically, I do not know). However, I just want my blog functioning normal. I do not want to be bogged down with technical issues. It is not the right time to learn scripts and what makes them to give error messages 🙁

Please, if you had read my previous mail encouraging you to update, reconsider. I am no longer sure that was a good idea. So many confused people are having similar problems http://wordpress.org/support/topic/171830 and posting questions at the support forum. The ironical thing is that some are not experiencing these issues, so it makes those of us having such problem look like we did something wrong that is why we are having problems 🙁

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How I Upgraded To WordPress 2.5.1 Manually!

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Praise God! I successfully upgraded at last. This morning, I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1 since I was advised by friends that it was necessary for security reason (that got me scared enough to change my prior decision. I do not want my blog hacked!).

Unfortunately, unlike my prior experience when upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to 2.5, the Automatic Upgrade Plug-in got stuck midway during the upgrading process ( I tried several time but got the same result). It gave the following error

“Could Not Initiate Maintenance Mode”

and then politely gave the following message

“Some problems did not allow us to upgrade your blog. You can email me the logs so that I can help debug your problem……”

That was it. I panicked and started Googling up and down to find possible solution to the error. Well, nothing positive turned up (it could be that I was entering wrong information into Google anyway, I was too tensed up). After wasting about 1hour 30minutes, I told myself it is time to try the manual upgrading that I have been dodging from. So I went back to wordpress.org and also read some posts by other bloggers on how to upgrade manually.

Eventually, I followed the following steps to upgrade manually.

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DADDY’S EMPTY CHAIR

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

A man’s daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows.
An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit.

‘I guess you were expecting me’, he said.

‘No, who are you?’ said the father.

The minister told him his name and then remarked, ‘I saw the empty chair and I figured you knew I was going to show up,’
‘Oh yeah, the chair,’ said the bedridden man. ‘Would you mind closing the door?’

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Naija Professor vs Englishman

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I got this funny joke by email from my friend, Dot2Power . If you are not a Nigerian, it might not sound so funny. The joke is about a non-English professor trying to show-off his mastery of English language by using difficult words in place of simple ones. Enjoy!

Caution – Please Look for a Dictionary Before Reading 😉
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