Text-Link-Ads provide links on websites. It appears it has been hacked. Someone has logged in as me and placed a recurring ad on my behalf for a site I have never seen nor care about ( american.idolblog.com ) and then directs the landing page to a strange site which isn't even up yet ( www.brockblows.com ). It has chosen the keyword brock. The site doesn't appear to be registered using betterwhois. My password is pretty strong so I don't suspect the problem is because someone hacked into my account. I think either the hackers have found a backddor into text-link-ads or it is being perpetrated by an (ex) employee of the company gone bad.

I want to propose a simple set of requirements for Java framework authors to help make their framework easily understandable and widely accepted. He also gets all the fame and glory of Java world (wouldn't mind if he mentions my contribution) and in all likelyhood gets free passes to conferences.

I was browsing through Blogads order page (search "Simple Thoughts" to find ours) and was surprised to find the top blogs in terms of page views in BlogAds.

Alex has released his first ever wordpress theme - Alexified. The alexified theme looks beautiful and clean. It is one of the nicest three column wordpress themes I have seen. Moreover it is CSS based.

Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more.