Project Petaling Street tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2008://1 2006-12-11T00:17:27Z a malaysian blog-tal Movable Type 3.2 Abusing PPS tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.321 2006-12-11T00:07:25Z 2006-12-11T00:17:27Z It has recently been brought to my attention that PPS has become a proxy battlefield of sorts with false pings generated in order to degrade or defame other blogs. This will not be tolerated, and all blogs which are involved... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi It has recently been brought to my attention that PPS has become a proxy battlefield of sorts with false pings generated in order to degrade or defame other blogs. This will not be tolerated, and all blogs which are involved will be banned. It is not my place to decide who is right or wrong, and i will not investigate who is innocent and who is guilty. This is my house, and the house of all bloggers. If you want to use your blog to stir up trouble, your ping will not be welcomed here.

I will lift bans if an email explaining your side of the story is sent to me, and if i find that explanation acceptable. Thanks all.

Thanks to Noor Hidayat for highlighting the latest problem. He is a long time support of PPS, and i would welcome any efforts such as his to keep this place clean and civil.

ps. As a general rule, i allow some multi-pings to slide, simply because i know the pings disappear very quickly, and it may not be the intention of the blogger to spam. But if i notice repeated behaviour of this sort, then a ban will be coming your way.

pps. Don't abuse the leniency i've showed towards content -- PPS has a non-censorship policy, but things like porn (artistic nudity is fine), incitement of violence, and overtly racist tones are BIG NO-NOs. Please exercise discretion.

]]> Asian Heroes tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.320 2006-11-23T00:08:32Z 2006-11-23T00:17:20Z I'm a very optimistic person, and despite what some people may say, i watch PPS very, very closely and i read a ton of blogs that send their pings here. From what i've seen, from what YOU can see yourself... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi I'm a very optimistic person, and despite what some people may say, i watch PPS very, very closely and i read a ton of blogs that send their pings here. From what i've seen, from what YOU can see yourself just by surfing PPS for a day or two, is that bloggers today will be leaders tomorrow. I am 100% certain of this fact -- there are bloggers here who are future Parliamentarians, Senators, Datuks, Tan Sris, CEOs, Presidents, Generals and Captains. There is no doubt, absolutely none.

Why i feel this way is perhaps best left to another entry, but what i would like all of you to understand is that there is a huge difference between a leader and a hero. Many of you will be leaders one day, how many of you will be heroes? And while some of you may take the humble road and say, "But i don't want to be a hero", you fail to realize what Asia needs (what Malaysia needs) is in fact heroes rather than simple leaders (we already have heaps of those).

Perhaps this article will help guide you (.jpg, 512kb). I found it inspirational, and for all the good it can do, i'm sure TIME will understand my need to bend the rules of copyright by publishing it verbatim.

]]> CINTA Winners tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.319 2006-10-20T00:57:46Z 2006-10-20T00:59:53Z The winners are: Adam Muhammad Kuzco Please watch this space for details about collecting your tickets for the screening. Congrats!... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi The winners are:

Adam Muhammad
Kuzco

Please watch this space for details about collecting your tickets for the screening. Congrats!

]]> CONTEST: Cinta, 10th Nov tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.318 2006-10-16T05:51:25Z 2006-10-20T00:59:48Z PPS has been granted several preview passes to the hottest Malaysian movie of the year, CINTA. Details are as follows: DATE : 10TH NOVEMBER 2006, FRIDAY TIME : 9 - 11PM VENUE : GSC, MID VALLEY (HALL 10) Synopsis: 'CINTA'... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi PPS has been granted several preview passes to the hottest Malaysian movie of the year, CINTA. Details are as follows:

DATE : 10TH NOVEMBER 2006, FRIDAY
TIME : 9 - 11PM
VENUE : GSC, MID VALLEY (HALL 10)

Synopsis:
'CINTA' - A film of five modern day love stories starring ten of Malaysia's leading actors and actresses: Fasha Sandha, Rita Rudaini, Nanu Baharudin, Sharifah Amani, Fatimah Abu Bakar, Eizlan Yusuff, Pierre Andre, Que Haidar, Rashidi Ishak and Dato' Rahim Razali. With 10 stars, 5 stories and all wrapped elegantly in one movie, CINTA is the must-see Malay movie of the year.please visit www.cintathemovie.com.

HERE IS THE DEAL: I have 2 pairs of tickers to give away, perhaps more depending on availability but definitely 2 pairs (4 tickets). The first 2 people who can correctly guess the number of unique vistors PPS receives in a day will receive the tickets. Limited to 3 guesses per person only. I will announce the winners in a separate post. Closest guesses win in the event of no accurate guesses.

Closing date of this competition is 19th October 2006, 12 noon.

]]> FEMALE Magazine Looking for Bloggers tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.317 2006-07-03T04:35:27Z 2006-07-03T04:37:40Z Audrey Vijaindren from FEMALE magazine Malaysia is looking to interview some female Malaysian bloggers. 1) The Single Woman 2) The Mom 3) The Malaysian Abroad 4) Just Married 5) The Working Blogger If you're interested to be interviewed (ladies only... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi Audrey Vijaindren from FEMALE magazine Malaysia is looking to interview some female Malaysian bloggers.

1) The Single Woman
2) The Mom
3) The Malaysian Abroad
4) Just Married
5) The Working Blogger

If you're interested to be interviewed (ladies only pls), please leave a comment here with a link to your blog (presumably your contact details can be found on your blog).

]]> Quickpoll: 800 or 1024? tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.315 2006-03-23T23:41:16Z 2006-03-24T02:43:23Z How many people view PPS with 800 x 600 resolution and how many people view PPS with 1024 or higher res? Pls leave your answer below. This will assist us in making some design choices for the new PPS.... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi How many people view PPS with 800 x 600 resolution and how many people view PPS with 1024 or higher res?

Pls leave your answer below. This will assist us in making some design choices for the new PPS.

]]> PPS Phase 2 Wishlist : UPDATE tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.313 2006-03-15T03:56:45Z 2006-03-17T08:23:36Z UPDATE 1: The design team brainstormed some very interesting ideas last night. Some pre-release screenshots of the new system may become available over the weekend. Development on PPS Phase 2 is underway. It will involve a COMPLETE revamp of the... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi UPDATE 1: The design team brainstormed some very interesting ideas last night. Some pre-release screenshots of the new system may become available over the weekend.

Development on PPS Phase 2 is underway. It will involve a COMPLETE revamp of the site, from the ground up. Bye-bye Movabletype, bye-bye to a lot of things that made PPS work up to now. The development team has got some great ideas to bring PPS forward with this revamp, but we would like to hear from you as well.

If you have any ideas how we can make PPS better, put it down below as a comment. Share with us your wishlist for PPS.

ps. if your idea is picked up, you will receive an exclusive invitation to be a BETA tester when the system is ready.

pps. yes, we hope to have things ready by June 13, 2006.

]]> PING ABUSE & BAN LIST tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2006://1.312 2006-02-20T01:08:59Z 2006-04-23T15:05:18Z Several people have been emailing me about violaters of the PPS Policies with regards to ping abuse e.g. ping flooding (multiple pings within a 7 minute period), ping spam, ping advertising, etc. Thank you to all those who care enough... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi Several people have been emailing me about violaters of the PPS Policies with regards to ping abuse e.g. ping flooding (multiple pings within a 7 minute period), ping spam, ping advertising, etc. Thank you to all those who care enough to write in to keep PPS clean.

I've decided to take a tougher stance on ping violaters -- sites that are obviously commercial in nature will be BANNED without warning, blogs that repeatedly ping flood (even if its accidental -- you are responsible for your blog!), will be BANNED.

I need your help to keep PPS clean as i dont monitor it 24/7. Pls leave a comment here with the offending pinger, provide the URL and blog/website name. I will investigate every case and take necessary action.

Thanks to all in advance. PPS2 will come online later this year and that should solve most of these problems, but till then, this is the best solution available.

UPDATE: This thread has received a lot of feedback lately, but not all comments received will be published below. Only the ones that i've taken action on will be published. Thank you all for caring about PPS.

UPDATE 2: The following is the PPS BAN LIST. You have been banned due to abuse of the PPS Policies.

http://www.putera.com
http://xialanxue.blogspot.com
http://www.themovieleague.com
http://www.3gpclip.com/
http://dublinskyklu.blogspot.com/
http://www.szehau.com/
http://www.toxicle.org/
http://health.cornerstone-team.com/
htp://techcenter.zonecircle.com/
http://asyraflee.blogspot.com/
http://chinesemusicblog.com/
http://transferfactormsia1.blogspot.com/
http://www.ustradebank.blogspot.com/
http://www.usetradebank.blogspot.com/
http://www.boredworkers.com/
http://momoti.blogspot.com/
http://holistic-aikido.blogspot.com/
http://www.2dayblog.com/
http://rouxified.blogspot.com/
http://finfredom.blogspot.com/
http://www.astronomynotes.net/
http://www.ebernie.net/
http://xingxiaxue.forumer.com/
http://www.jelas.org/
http://xingxiaxue.forumer.com/

UPDATE 3: For Wordpress users who are upgrading your software, pls be sure to remove the PPS ping URL from your autopinger before you upgrade -- failure to do so will result in a ping flood, and will get your blog banned. Also, any commercial blog will get an immediate ban.

UPDATE 4: Spammers are getting smart and trying several tricks to bypass the system. I'll be getting more aggressive, and banning certain key phrases that are being used. This may inadvertently block out some legitimate pings by mistake. Please bear with this temporary solution, the next version of PPS will resolve these issues.

]]> PPS is NOT a place for ads tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.302 2005-12-06T02:19:24Z 2005-12-06T02:25:14Z Perhaps its my fault for not being clear in the PPS Policies, but i hope everyone understand that PPS isn't the place to place ads for your blog/website. All links in PPS should go to a blog entry with some... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi Perhaps its my fault for not being clear in the PPS Policies, but i hope everyone understand that PPS isn't the place to place ads for your blog/website. All links in PPS should go to a blog entry with some genuine content -- if you site isn't a blog, don't bother pinging PPS because you dilute the experience for the rest of us. All pings of this nature will be deleted without further warning and the IPs/URLs of the offending websites will be banned.

]]> REMINDER: You are responsible for what you BLOG tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.296 2005-11-22T05:10:00Z 2005-11-22T05:17:46Z A quick reminder to all members of PPS. You are responsible for the content of your blogs. If bad stuff happens as a result of your writing, then you are liable to bear the responsibility for said bad stuff. Bloggers/Blogs... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi A quick reminder to all members of PPS. You are responsible for the content of your blogs. If bad stuff happens as a result of your writing, then you are liable to bear the responsibility for said bad stuff. Bloggers/Blogs do not exist in a vaccum. Furthermore, by submitting content to PPS you have also agreed to indemnify PPS of any legal liability from the content of your writing.

]]> Kahsoon has left PPS tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.294 2005-11-17T23:35:25Z 2005-11-17T23:37:39Z Received this email early this morning and have been asked to convey it to everyone. Generally speaking PPS wouldn't do this (members come and go all the time), but considering the amount of public interest Kahsoon the blogger has generated... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi Received this email early this morning and have been asked to convey it to everyone. Generally speaking PPS wouldn't do this (members come and go all the time), but considering the amount of public interest Kahsoon the blogger has generated over the months, i feel it appropriate.

Hello Aiz, i really need your help this time. Can you make an announcement saying that i've pulled the plug and therefore im no longer a member of PPS? I've remove the ping to PPS from all my blogs and will never come back. I don't mind people talk crap about me but this guy http://tiredsoon.blogspot.com use my gf picture is too much. Imagine someone use your family member's picture in this situation. Please tell them to stop all those childish act. Im no longer a PPS member therefore i hope this would make them stop.

Email from Kahsoon.

]]> PPS Accepting Members Again tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.276 2005-10-25T02:07:04Z 2005-10-25T02:11:26Z I'm reasonably satisfied that PPS is stable. Therefore, i've opened the membership registration for new members. The link can be found above in the "About PPS" section on the sidebar. ps. PPS is running a short survey. If you've got... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi I'm reasonably satisfied that PPS is stable. Therefore, i've opened the membership registration for new members. The link can be found above in the "About PPS" section on the sidebar.

ps. PPS is running a short survey. If you've got 1,000+ blog postings to your name, PPS would like to know about it.

]]> PPS Search 2! tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.264 2005-10-16T15:44:48Z 2005-10-16T15:50:27Z Thanks to the amazing talents of Chua Kuan Yong (he's got a really cool looking blog too -- didn't know you could make your Blogspot look so good!), PPS Search is looking remarkably tasty!! Really, an excellent job done over... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi Thanks to the amazing talents of Chua Kuan Yong (he's got a really cool looking blog too -- didn't know you could make your Blogspot look so good!), PPS Search is looking remarkably tasty!! Really, an excellent job done over the weekend. Check it out! Just a few more minor touches and the search engine will be 100% ready.

]]> Please help test PPS tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.261 2005-10-13T06:29:13Z 2005-10-13T06:32:54Z PPS is available for some ping testing. Earlier today, Suanie noticed a problem (all pings were returning "403 Throttled" errors) and i believe i've fixed it. Please try it out, feedback is welcomed. Only for existing PPS members.... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi PPS is available for some ping testing. Earlier today, Suanie noticed a problem (all pings were returning "403 Throttled" errors) and i believe i've fixed it. Please try it out, feedback is welcomed. Only for existing PPS members.

]]> PPS is not accepting pings yet tag:www.petalingstreet.org,2005://1.258 2005-10-12T08:09:53Z 2005-10-12T08:12:59Z Pls don't try to ping or look for a way to ping PPS. I am cleaning up everything else first, and the last thing i'll do is reactivate the pinger. I'm re-engineering the process PPS handles pings to make the... Aizuddin Danian http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi Pls don't try to ping or look for a way to ping PPS. I am cleaning up everything else first, and the last thing i'll do is reactivate the pinger. I'm re-engineering the process PPS handles pings to make the overall experience better for everyone, so please be patient. Thanks.

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