The US show underwent a three night special where the two must successful human players were put against an IBM computer. The one player has won the most successive shows and the other has won the most money. However, the computer beat them both and won the $1m prize that was on offer.

It was felt that the show would be a challenge for a computer because it is fast and the questions are often quite subtle, with clues it was felt, woudl not be easy for a computer to answer. It was felt that this was something that humans were much better at.

There were a lot of criticisms of the program, stating that all contestants tended to know the answer but the computer was just quicker. There is also the fact that the computer woudl never doubt itself in the same way that a human brain woudl and that would put it at a distinct advantage which could in fact lead to it future applications being very important.

The computer was designed to analyse information very quickly and is actually going to be used to help doctors diagnose patients quickly.  It means that it will be able to use the list of symptoms to quickly come up with the most likely causes of the problem. This my be something which doctors are not only slower at, but it may that the patient could have a rare condition that they may never have seen before.

It has been estimated that the Central Office of Information (COI) provided over two fifths, (£40 million) of I-Level’s revenue until earlier this year. Despite their best efforts, teaming up with top media agency, Starcom, the COI awarded the renewed, premium contract to WPP’s GroupM.

Andrew Walmsley, co-founder of I-Level, and group chief executive, Stephen Rust, have called in the help of Zolfo Cooper as administrator following a severe cash flow crisis as a result of losing out on the government contract.

Zolfo Cooper’s, spokesman Alastair Beveridge, released a statement saying that, ‘the joint administrators will be assessing the business, before gauging and evaluating the interest in the company, with their main priority being with the companies’ creditors.’

Created in the late 1990s by Charlie Dobres and Andrew Walmsley, the founders have expanded the marketing agency by taking on a further 120 employees. Furthermore, in early 2008, the firm sold a 60 per cent stake to private equity group, ECI, in a £45 million deal.

I-Level have won numerous awards and have an impressive roster of clients including: Sky, Procter & Gamble, The Sun, Macmillan, Samsung and Renault. Their marketing activities include: social media and mobile marketing, display ads and search marketing.

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It merely finds and replaces text where files have been attached. Run it through phpMyAdmin or whatever you use for a quick fix. Obvisously change the path to reflect your website!

Cheers and special thanks to Alex Morrision for bringing this to my attention.

If your interested in wordpress and SEO check out this UK SEO video.

All the important ones are already included, I will slowly continue and complete the document though.

Cheers,

I’ve really enjoyed writing for wordpress so expect to see some more. I’d highly recommend learning some of it, I would also recommend

You can download the WordPress RSS Aggregator here.

Please feedback if you like/dislike my plugin so I can make further improvements.

I’ve added it to my sidebar, check it out. Its ideal for personal blogs since writing a post isn’t always practical or neccersary.

Incase your wondering what Twitter is, its a social networking site that allows its users to send updates to followers using no more than 140 characters (much like a text message). You can sign up at www.twitter.com.

Cheers,

1. Ensure that its fast loading. We all have fast paced lives, none of us are willing to wait long or you’ll lose our attention.
2. Target your Market, this needs to be reflected in your advertising, your copy, your imagery, layout, everything.
3. Focus your website, make your e-book, Product or Service the focus of the whole site, otherwise its diluted and confusing.
4. Credibility, you’ve got to convince me your trust worthy, if your not I’ll look elsewhere.
5. Ease of Navigation is also crucial, if I can find exactly what I’m looking for, I will lose interest and go on to something else.
6. Give your website consistency, without this the novice user will wonder if they’re still on the same website.
7. Give interaction, we need lots of ways to get in touch. Everyone is different so the more options you give us the better. However do it in a structured way so its easy to find.
8. Does your Content sell your product? If not then how am I going to know its what I’m looking for

Plug-ins are also great, you can install them without even having to reload the browser, that is the kind of thing that usually gets right on my nerves.

It doesn’t have countless toolbars, meaning most of the screen is for your web page which is again an awesome. I suspect this will rip through the Mozzila FireFox userbase.

You can download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome

The only unfortunate thing is availability only for Windows XP & Vista at the momment, No Mac!

All you need is a computer running and a list of proxies in the file “good-list.txt”. Put it in a directory (I would keep it private). The source code is as follows:

The code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>HTTP Referrer Spoofing</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTTP Referrer Spoofing</h1>
<p>This will spoof referals in the logs meaning your website will show up as a referrer in the target website statistics.
   It does by using random proxies from a supplied list, to ensure each request is unique.
</p><p>
   To allow for large requests (in the thousands) I’ve added the “Amount before refresh” option, this will meta refresh the page ensuring
   the tool does not timeout.</p>
 
</p>
<form method=”post” action=”index.php”>
 <fieldset>
  <label>Website to appear as referrer:</label>
   <input type=”text” name=”yoursite” value=”<? echo $_REQUEST['yoursite']; ?>”/>
  <label>Target Website:</label>
   <input type=”text” name=”target” value=”<? echo $_REQUEST['target']; ?>”/>
  <label>Times to Refer</label>
   <input type=”text” name=”amount” value=”<? echo $_REQUEST['amount']; ?>”/>
  <label>Amount before refresh</label>
   <?php
   if(empty($_REQUEST['refresh']))
   {
    $refresh = 10;
   }
   ?>
   <input type=”text” name=”refresh” value=”<? echo $refresh; ?>”/>
 </fieldset>
 <input type=”Submit” name=”Submit” value=”Submit”/>
</form>

 <?php
 /*
 
  Random Proxy Selector
 
 */
  function pc_randomint($max = 1)
  { 
   $m = 1000000;
  
  return ((mt_rand(1,$m * $max)-1)/$m);
  }
  function random_proxy()
  {
   $line_number = 0;

   $fh = fopen(‘good-list.txt’,'r’) or die($php_errormsg);
   while (! feof($fh))
   {
    if ($s = fgets($fh,1048576))
    {
     $line_number++;
     if (pc_randomint($line_number) < 1)
     {
        
      $line = $s;
     
     }
    }  
   }
 
   fclose($fh) or die($php_errormsg);
  
   return $line;
  
  }
  
  /*
  
   The fake referral.
  
  */
  function do_fake_referer($yoursite,$target,$amount,$refresh,$done)
  {
   // The site to appear in the stats is $yoursite
   // The target site is $target
   // Amount is the total times the referral should be carried out
   // How often to refresh
   // How many have been done
   echo “<ol>”;
   $counter_refresh = 0;
   while($refresh > $counter_refresh)
   {
    $counter_refresh++;
    $random_proxy = random_proxy();
    
    // create a new cURL resource
    $ch = curl_init();

    // set URL and other appropriate options
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,7);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $yoursite);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $random_proxy);
    
    $data = curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);
    
    if(empty($data))
    {

     print “<li>Error, didn’t work this time. Using proxy “.$random_proxy.”.</li>”;
    
     flush();

     
    } else {
     $done++;
     print “<li>Referred “.$done.” times. Using “.$random_proxy.”.</li>”;
     flush();
    }
   }
   echo “</ol>”;
   if($amount > $done)
   {
   echo “<meta http-equiv=\”refresh\” content=\”5;url=index.php?yoursite=”.$yoursite.”&target=”.$target.”&amount=”.$amount.”&refresh=”.$refresh.”&done=”.$done.”&Submit=Submit\”/>”;
   echo “<p>Refreshing in 5 Seconds</p>”; 
   }
   else
   {
   echo “<p>Completed “.$done.” spoofs made.”;
   }
  }
  if($_REQUEST['Submit'])
  {
   if($amount > $done)
   {
    do_fake_referer($_REQUEST['yoursite'],$_REQUEST['target'],$_REQUEST['amount'],$_REQUEST['refresh'],$_REQUEST['done']);
   }
  }
?>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps, no complaining please.

My advice is to be very careful though because I got caught out with something similar last year buying them on GoDaddy. I bought a lot of domains they then whacked me with a enormous auto renewal the following year.

I know from experience that the 123-reg.co.uk auto renewal is easy to cancel, but it can get very expensive if you forget.