alriyadh.com new servers arrived, we are upgrading from 4 Sun Solaris machines to 3 HP machines with FreeBSD, the machines specification as follow:

• Dual Xeon 3.40GHz
• 1GB RAM
• 4 x 36GB Hard disk

The servers should be in production next week, you should notice significant performance improvements Insha Allah.
Other website enhancements will follow that wasn’t possible with the old hardware.

Finally my website http://rayed.com/ became the first result in Google when searching for “Rayed”:
http://www.google.com/search?q=rayed

For years and years when you search for my name you will get X-Ray related sites, because the past of the verb “ray” is “rayed”.

I signed up with Google AdSense, and you can find Google Ads in sidebar, I am still learning about the AdDense program.
But basically it allow content providers (i.e. owner of Internet websites) to earn money by displaying google ads, and each time a person click on an add it add more credit to him.
To learn more here are some links from Wikipedia links:
AdSense
AdWords
Mediabot

Long time ago I built a PHP script that fetch and parse Arabic BBC news and format them in Javscript format, this can be used by adding few HTML code in your website.

The script located at: http://rayed.com/bbcjs.php3

I stopped the script more than 5 years ago, but until now I found many entries in my log asking for that file, so I decide to take an action, I put the file back but I put a warning message to notify the user that the script is no longer working.

I chaned the default image that comes with the default WordPress theme, what do you think about it.

My ranking from:
1,603,040
To:
1,052,170
In less than 10 days.

UPDATE: My ranking jumped to 629,132, I am starting to enjoy this 😉
UPDATE: Day 17 my ranking is now 473,585.
UPDATE: Day 20 my ranking is now 388,412.
UPDATE: Day 23 my ranking is now 360,154, I guess it starting to slow down.
UPDATE: Day 28 my ranking is now 322,116.

Few days ago while browsing my favourite websites, a pop-up showed asking me to install Firefox 1.5.0.1 … WOW, I didn’t have to re-download 4.5MB for Firefox again, this really nice feature.

It also appears to me that the new version 1.5.0.1 much better than the old one, at least in memory consumption, I like it.

Everyone who know me knows that I love Subway subs, but recently I switched to Quiznos mainly because they toast the sandwiches, yummy my mouth start watering 🙂

But two days ago I got tired from Quiznos so I went back to Subway and I tried the “Cheese Steak”, oh my god, it is really delicious!

The worst thing about Subway that you need to know which topping and sauce is good with what, and of course if you get something wrong it could ruin your sandwich.

It is still 10:54 pm and until now we have around 1200 comments:

• 923 Viewed.
• 65 Pending.
• 207 Rejected.

and I complain when I get 3 spam messages.

الله يعينكم والله

alriyadh.com introduced new service called “Alriyadh eBook”, basically they collected articles of selected writers and group them in one downloadable PDF file.
We used to get hundreds of request for some writers, specaially “فهد عامر الأحمد” who write very informative and in the same time amusing articles.
http://www.alriyadh.com/static/ebooks/