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Google, we want another payment method in Venezuela!

Posted on March 10, 2008, under Internet.

Hi peeps,

Today I found out that as me many bloggers from my country are having difficulties to retrieve Adsense renevues due to some foolish restrictions stablished by Cadivi (a goverment’s agency) and venezuelan goverment’s bad economy strategies. It’s hard to explain so I’ll make it simple and short: they won’t let venezuelan people use more than $400 per year for electronic purchases. (more…)

Weird RSS Feed error on WordPress

Posted on March 10, 2008, under Web Development.

Hey all!

Today I spent a few hours googling about this weird error I kept getting with the WP RSS Feeds links:

Invalid xml declaration.
Line: 5 Character: 3< ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
This feed contains code errors.

I found a lot of people complaining about this and a few workarounds to fix the problem but none of them seemed to be effective. Also, the feeds worked fine on the default theme so the problem affected custom themes only. It turned out that somehow the functions.php of my theme had an extra newline at the end of it and somehow that was affecting the feed (I don’t know why but it did). The fix? (more…)

Free domain name contest!

Posted on March 9, 2008, under Internet.

Hi all,

My friend Swastik from skizon.com has come up with a very nice offer for all of you: post or comment on his blog about his Domain Giveaway contest and you’ll have a chance to be awarded with a free domain name! Obviously, I’m interested too!