Monday 17 March 2014

Pet Groomer/ Vet Business Card

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How can you resist this cute puppy design? Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it? Click to customize and personalize...


tagged with: dog, groomers, puppy, pets, animals, cute, puppies, bath, grooming, vet business card, cards, business, customize, service, businesses

Pet Groomer or veterinarian business card for anyone in the pet care business. Card has a cute puppy with a spot around his eye. Customize with your business details.

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A stunning experience

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A stunning experience
Feeling a little jaded, today being Monday? Get those creative juices flowing with this strangely immersive experience.
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Colossal originally shared:

Amazing Lighting Effects for the ‘Cavity’ Music Video Made with a Humble Flashlight

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/cavity-hundred-waters/

Self group hug for a worm!

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Self group hug for a worm!
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Colossal originally shared:

There are few people more influential in the world of animated gifs than Hungarian/German designer David Szakaly who has inspired legions of others to transform a digital image format into a form of artistic expression. See his pulsating, hypnotizing works on Colossal.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/the-hypnotic-animated-gifs-of-david-szakaly/

About time - realistic body-shaped female dolls

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About time - realistic body-shaped female dolls
Encourage a healthy aspiration in your kids, not an unachievable one!
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Robert Simpson originally shared:

#CrowdFunding  project for an average female Barbie doll.  It reached it's funding goal within 24 hours after it launched. There's still almost three weeks left to get one.  Target delivery date is November, which would make it in time for Christmas. #doll   #dolls

A Hack attack and a Service failure, not good ;)

Situation report for the last 3 weeks

What an interesting 3 weeks it's just been - interesting, that is, in the Scottish-curse sense of the word (although Wikipedia calls it "the Chinese curse")

First off, all of a sudden all my IFTTT recipes promoting Zazzle products stopped working, virtually overnight. At the same time as this disaster, a virtual webserver, hosted by Go-Daddy and shared between me and three other business colleagues, got hacked.

At first, it was just my websites. I thought I found and fixed the vulnerability but either it wasn't what I thought it was or they also managed to drop off a back door. Once I'd deleted and re-uploaded clean files (without the vulnerability), all was ok for a while and then it was re-hacked.

I thought I might have been careless and left something behind, so I made sure everything on the server was gone before re-uploading my sites (I never download and anyway, random sampling and the date and time stamps of my local files confirm they are ok).

Anyway, they got hacked again and this time web sites of my colleagues got hacked as well, with the same symptoms as mine. I'm not one of these computer-whizzes - I struggle a lot to achieve the small things I manage to get working ;)

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

So not understanding why all my IFTTT recipes suddenly stopped promoting my Zazzle gear, I appealed to their tech support - why all of a sudden on the 26th? Had they done anything? They showed a little willing but weren't of any help.

Sleeves rolled up and after 3 weeks of probing both Yahoo (I use their Pipes product to manipulate Zazzle RSS Feeds to make them sing and dance) and IFTTT, with Yahoo Customer Care on Twitter deaf to my pleas for help and IFTTT tech support being next to useless, I got to he bottom of it.

Long story short (and not to bore you with details of the hundreds of pipe and recipe manipulations that got me there) I worked out what they'd done. On the 26th they made a change to the way their Feed trigger channel works - maybe it was a bandwidth thing or an unintended side-effect of something else they were doing?

Whatever it was, the end result is that their mechanism automatically filters out feed items with a PubDate of earlier than 2014(exact date?). This combines with how Zazzle feeds are often used (and with the way I nearly always use them) to make it look like the recipes were broken - their action channels just weren't being triggered.

You see, I nearly always promote the most popular items in various niches and it just so happens that the most popular tend to have been around a long time - long enough to give them a date made / posted for sale in Zazzle (i.e. PubDate in the feed item) of earlier than 2014.

End result, IFTTT was ignoring everything in my feed and so never triggering the various recipes' action channels.

I've explained the above to IFTTT tech support but haven't yet heard back (since I sent the email it's only been half a working day for them so far).

So, I revisited my pipe and set the pubdate of every item in it to today's (ie when the pipe is run) date
Anyway, that solved the IFTTT problem.

One hack attack to go, please

Just have to liaise with my colleagues on the hack attack and see what we can do to disinfect ourselves and stop it happening again.

Happy days :)


comments, likes, +1s, tweets are always welcome! :)

Monogram Crab Nebula in Taurus outer space picture Lamp

A gorgeous outer space lamp design. Fill your room with these amazing colours! Click to fill in and see it with your monogram initials.


tagged with: messier 1, neutron stars, star ejecta, pulsars, supernovae explosions, supernova remnant, crbneb, astronomy pictures, outer space images, crab nebula, heavens, european southern observatory, eso, vista

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A great outer space picture featuring a three colour composite of the well-known Crab Nebula (also known as Messier 1), as observed with the FORS2 instrument in imaging mode in the morning of November 10, 1999.
It's the remnant of a supernova explosion at a distance of about 6,000 light-years, observed almost 1,000 years ago, in the year 1054. It contains a neutron star near its center that spins 30 times per second around its axis (see below).
In this picture, the green light is predominantly produced by hydrogen emission from material ejected by the star that exploded. The blue light is predominantly emitted by very high-energy ("relativistic") electrons that spiral in a large-scale magnetic field (so-called synchrotron emission). It's believed that these electrons are continuously accelerated and ejected by the rapidly spinning neutron star at the centre of the nebula and which is the remnant core of the exploded star.
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image code: crbneb

ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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Cute Personalized Pink Unicorn Necklace for Girls

A gorgeous design. What would it look like with your initials? Click to personalize it and customize it with the different available styles.


tagged with: personalized, girl, girls, cute, custom, unique, unicorn, unicorns, pink

Cute Personalized Unicorn Necklace for Girls.
This design includes original artwork created by artwork©delightful-doodles.com.

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Old Wooden Texas Flag;

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How cute a Samsung phone case design is this? Maybe you'd like to see your name / initials / monogram on it? Click to personalize and see!


tagged with: texas, flag, texan, texian, tejano, iphone, iphone 4, case, cases, cover, cute, gift, gifts, ideas, protective, covers, iphone 4s

Texas Flag; Texan; Texian; Tejano;

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The path is steepest...Congratulations on New Home Greeting Card

A gorgeous best-selling design. Click to personalize. How would it look with your name or monogram?


tagged with: new apartments, new home keys, new homes, house warming, moving in, inspirational, impressionists, autumn woodland paths, hrbstslr hrcol110, english scenes, fineart, uplifting, fine art, autumnal woods, artistic, trees, impressionism

Inspirational series A great card showing a view of the last of a dark, steeply inclined path, rising to a sunny glade beyond. Late afternoon sun is flooding through the trees ahead and dappling the last of the path, warmly inviting you to make the final effort.
This is a fine art image in the impressionist tradition, showing a typically English scene at the very start of Autumn.
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image code: hrcol110

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Mandelbrot Blue Double Spiral Fractal iPhone 5 Case

An amazing iPhone Case design featuring a beautiful fractal. Click to personalize / customize.


tagged with: fractals, mandelbrot-fractels, blue-fractels, black-fractels, spiral-patterns, swirls, geometric-patterns, abstract, patterns, yellow-fractels

A Mandelbrot satellite double spiral fractal pattern in blues, yellows and black.

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Highlighted Bronze Black Corporate Business Card

An impressive metallic-effect business card design. How will it look with your name and business details? Click to personalize and find out!


tagged with: business, corporate, elegant, modern, professional, bronze, metallic

Black with highlighted bronze lines-- professional design for any corporate position - personalize the text to suit your needs. Makes a great card for men in the corporate world.

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Desiderata on Flowing Water Weir Abstract Poster

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A gorgeous design. Click to customize and personalize. Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it?


tagged with: abstract, flowing water, weirs, desiderata, go placidly, noise and haste, purples and greens, hrbstslr hrcol135, hrfptraz, inspirational wallart

Inspirational Guidance series The full Desiderata by Max Ehrmann: Go placidly amidst the noise and haste... featuring an abstract presentation of water flowing over a weir and rendered in purples and greens. The three sections, reading from right to left, represent the stages of life. From the pre-life, pre-amniotic oblivion of formless void, through the exuberant rush to "be" - then finally on to the chaotic, bubbling frenzy of living.
The verses have inspired young, coming-of-age adults since the 1920's and is as popular today as it ever was. It's been given as a gift by loving parents, grandparents, godparents and aunts and uncles as essential life-wisdom ever since it was written.
They've found it to be one of the few ways for such wisdom to get past those raging hormones, giving support to the upcoming generation through their rebellious years and beyond...
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image code: hrcol135

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Cute Dogs Lined Stationery

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How can you resist this cute puppy design? Maybe you'd like to see your name or initials on it? Click to customize and personalize...


tagged with: dog, cute puppy, pet, dog cartoon, dog stationery, dog owner, animal stationery, paw prints, pets and vets, lined stationery

Customizable, Adorable line up of cartoon dogs on custom lined paper- for dog lovers and all animal lovers-

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Iced Donut tie

A fantastic tie design. Maybe you'd like to see your initials / monogram on it? Click to personalize and see what it looks like.


tagged with: iced, donut, tie, sweet, treat

originalartwork@delightful-doodles.com

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Monogram Crab Nebula in Taurus outer space picture Desk Lamps

A gorgeous outer space lamp design. Fill your room with these amazing colours! Click to fill in and see it with your monogram initials.


tagged with: messier 1, neutron stars, star ejecta, pulsars, supernovae explosions, supernova remnant, crbneb, astronomy pictures, outer space images, crab nebula, heavens, european southern observatory, eso, vista

Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A great outer space picture featuring a three colour composite of the well-known Crab Nebula (also known as Messier 1), as observed with the FORS2 instrument in imaging mode in the morning of November 10, 1999.
It's the remnant of a supernova explosion at a distance of about 6,000 light-years, observed almost 1,000 years ago, in the year 1054. It contains a neutron star near its center that spins 30 times per second around its axis (see below).
In this picture, the green light is predominantly produced by hydrogen emission from material ejected by the star that exploded. The blue light is predominantly emitted by very high-energy ("relativistic") electrons that spiral in a large-scale magnetic field (so-called synchrotron emission). It's believed that these electrons are continuously accelerated and ejected by the rapidly spinning neutron star at the centre of the nebula and which is the remnant core of the exploded star.
more items with this image
more items in the Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series

image code: crbneb

ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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Elegant Black Pink Damask Diamond Bow Monogram Samsung Galaxy S4 Cover

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How cute a Samsung phone case design is this? Maybe you'd like to see your name / initials / monogram on it? Click to personalize and see!


tagged with: damask, pink, black, elegant, glitter, diamond, bling, bow, cute, girly, monogram

Elegant pink damask pattern featuring a pink silk bow and a shining diamond. Customize it with your monogram or add your name using the orange "customize it button". Stylish, feminine, girly! The perfect gift for any chic woman! Please note that this case is photo printed. There is no actual diamond, satin bow or glitter. It won't shine or sparkle.

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