Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 29th, 2008 in Miscellaneous
A user recently brought to my attention that Google was reporting my site as a malware site. I found that hard to believe, but I went and checked and he was right. Based on the report I see from Google, my site was acting as an intermediary for installing malware on people’s desktop. This was very distressing for me to find this out. Here is what Google displays:
I then went and checked some of my other sites and lo and behold, they were also tagged as malware sites.
It took some effort, but I eventually found the cause of the problem. I host all my domains at Dreamhost and in the home directory of my account, someone had installed a .htaccess file. It was actually a bit deceptive as they had about 80 blank lines and then the malware stuff so if you first bring it up in an editor, it looks empty. I deleted the file and all seems well. Before deleting it, I could see my browser grabbing “stuff” from some strange sites. Also, when I clicked on various links, I got strange browser window popups asking to install a virus checker. Once I remvoed the .htaccess file, that all went away.
Google has a process where I can submit my sites for review and I’ve done that so hopefully it’ll get cleared up in the next few days.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 28th, 2008 in Races
I am among the millions who watched Usain Bolt run the 100m and 200m Olympic races in world record time and I was extremely impressed. I’m from Trinidad & Tobago and being from another Caribbean island, I love seeing other people from the Caribbean succeed on the world stage. Not to be out done, we still managed to pick up a silver medal in the 100m 
Congratulations to Usain Bolt and I’m looking forward to seeing him run in the future as I know his current 100m world record will continue to drop!!
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 18th, 2008 in 100 Pushups, Fitness
Kim and I have now completed week 5. It as tough!! The hardest part was the last set where we had to do at least 40 pushups. We didn’t do the stress test before the start of the week, but we figured we could do the 40 pushups…which we could, so we went with the 3rd level. We did just barely manage to complete the week though. Here wass our schedule:
We then had to do another stress test before starting week 6. Kim and both did it. I did the minimum of 61 needed to continue on level 3 and Kim did 65 pushups.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 11th, 2008 in 100 Pushups, Fitness
Week 4 was a relatively easy week. I can say that as it was almost identical to week 3, but unlike the difficulty I had in week 3, I’m a little stronger so the effort seems much more manageable. Here is the schedule we had for the week:
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on August 3rd, 2008 in 100 Pushups, Fitness
Kim and I completed week 3 of the 6-week program. We are now half-way through the program. Based on our stress test at the end of week 2, we followed the 3rd column of the plan as follows:
I think is was by far the toughest week so far. On the second day I was just barely able to complete the 25 minimum pushups in the last set. Coincidentally, that was also the first day we crossed 100 push-ups for the day, albeit over 5 sets with rest periods.
