While trying to send an email out, I encountered this problem. It’s been quite awhile since I had a problem with Gmail.

If you remember the previous Gmail outage, that was pretty long ago and I wasn’t affected due to the different time zone we operate on.

Problem solved

I actually didn’t even bother to Google and check the problem. What I did was:

1. Save the current email that I was going to send as a draft, left it open, in case there’s really a problem and my email could be gone.
2. Opened a new tab in my browser and went to Gmail (Custom domain/Google Apps).
3. Opened up the email I saved in draft.
4. SEND! TA DA! It’s out.

I guess somewhere there was a fault, probably the connection to the servers or some javascript problems. If using the above method doesn’t help, copy and paste the email any application such as Word or notepad, switch to Gmail basic and you’ll be fine.

It’s been some time since I last wrote something here. Time flies but I totally cannot recall what I did in the past month. Maybe playing a MMPORG (Tibia), going for classes, spending time making my student pass and maybe sleeping. Ok, back to the topic.

I have advertisements above almost every entry on this blog and they’re making money for me every month. I may not receive a cheque every month, but its still sufficient for my hosting fees.

After giving some thought, I’ve decided to use part of my earnings to sponsor a child with World Vision. World Vision will help a child on my behalf. Wonderful, isn’t it?

When?

As soon as I receive my next cheque (should arrive somewhere early September), I will deposit it into my bank account and start doing something!

Future

As soon as I find myself earning more (receiving a bigger cheque amount) from my advertising partners (Currently Google Adsense and Advertlets), I will consider sponsoring more children.

Well, that’s what I foresee.

Updates

I will be posting updates about this under “Sponsor a Child” category. Check back some time soon!

I had quite a hard time trying thinking of the categories I should have.

Online

1. Started felixker.com as a blog writing about everything that caught my attention; topics include news, technology, love, media, money, tips & tricks, web links & many more. (Yea, alittle about SEX too.)
2. Modified & made 2 WordPress themes – Widgets-enabled Three Columns Kubrick Theme and Curved 3-Columns WordPress Theme
3. Got myself 2 Virtual private servers (VPS). One in Singapore, for SGBloggers & Modish Media and another in New York (Named after a gorgeous lady I met – Melissa) for Web & DNS Hosting.
4. Decided that I should provide WordPress Blog Hosting (So gossipy). Yet to do any marketing for that site yet.
5. Sponsored blogs – Edwin’s Blog, Anna’s Blog (ritzily Stylish)
6. (Almost) Daily Twittering became my habit – twitter.com/felixker
7. Switched to use felix[@]ker[dot]sg as my main contact email and MSN. Old emails are still checked, but just less often.
8. Formally using Internet Explorer 7 to read news/blog/web feeds, recently I upgraded to using Google Reader. (May consider trying Bloglines next year!)
9. Joined Ping.SG and started pinging my blog for attention!

Can’t think of anything else. Do you know something I did in 2007 that’s worth mentioning? What have you done in 2007 that u think is worth sharing?

I’m sick of emailing Advertlets (or adding a support ticket) and waiting more than a week for a reply. This is not the way to run business, Josh.

Where is my cheque?

2 months ago or to be exact, on 11th September 2007 (Remember the September 11 bombing?), I checked out an amount of money. Hey, that was my first checkout with Advertlets and I haven’t got it yet. It’s been more than 70 days. Seriously, I don’t think Advertlets has that many clients that checkout monthly that my cheque cannot be processed in time. Compare with Google’s Adsense? Does that explain why Adsense is doing so well?

Server downtime/Lag!

I noticed that almost everyday Advertlets’ server is lagging and causing my page to load slowly. Worse of all, when the server is down, my ads don’t get loaded and my page remains dead. Fine. I’ll just accept this quietly.

I saw a bug!

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Is that a bug? Why did today appear twice? (Figured censored as respect to Advertlets)

Dear Advertlets

Please do something about this. I’m sure there are others who will give you the support to improve!

Have you encountered any problems with Advertlets that you’ll like to share with me? Bug for you too? Yet to receive your cash-out?

P.S I’m still using and supporting Advertlets!

I started calling myself Felix Ker few years back. I think was in 2002 or 2003. I saw a name called Felix on TV and I thought the name was cool. Thats how I started calling myself.

I was random, so I googled “felix ker”.

Personalized Results 1 – 100 of about 403,000 for felix ker. (0.29 seconds)

I’m amazed. I remember that there was only around 400 search results years back when I only had a little website at geocities!

Google grown alot. I’ve grown too. =)