Machine learning has evolved to a point where we can use its capabilities to provide some extra benefit to our business.
According to research , our client and ideal customer have two separate identity. One is the physical persona and another is digital persona. To understand its impact, let’s compare this two client:

1. One experienced worker earned 10K a month, but rarely used social media, owned an Android phone.

2. One newly graduate worker earned about 3k a month, and highly engaged in social media, own an IphoneX.

Between those two, if you were to target for new product lunch which one would be more higher success rate ? provided your product would be useful to someone who would spend more money on trivial stuff.

Clearly the first one would be harder to impress and convincing them to pay for our product would be taking extra resource.
Targeting the 2nd type of people would require similar effort but with better success rate and if you’re able to make them happy enough you may get exposure that you need in most of social media.

And guess what, this is where the machine learning come into play.

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My website got loaded with google analytic and google ads javascript library hosted elsewhere in google server.
It will attempt to download and re-write some part of the content with the relevant ads. (yes, I got paid for that traffic . )

Recently with some optimisation done on the theme, it found out only the above javascript got WARNING, and it tried to perform document.write while the javascript file been deferred until all content being downloaded.

I was wondering how to make it work again.
Then I found this page at google support which provide guideline how to change it to async call instead of blocking call in previous version.

Here is how to do it.

For Google Ads:

Before:

<script type="text/javascript">
    google_ad_client = "ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    google_ad_slot = "1234567890";
    google_ad_width = 728;
    google_ad_height = 90;
</script>
<!-- leaderboard -->
<script type="text/javascript"
src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/
pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

After:

 
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/
pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- leaderboard -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
    style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px"
    data-ad-client="ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    data-ad-slot="1234567890"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>

note : please edit the client-ad and slot id with yours.

For Google Analytic :

Change to:

 
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script>
window.ga=window.ga||function(){(ga.q=ga.q||[]).push(arguments)};ga.l=+new Date;
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
<script async src='https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js'></script>
<!-- End Google Analytics -->

and that’s it, it is now being deferred and making async call while loading the ads content.

Nice !!

Reference:
1. Adsense Support
2. Google Analytic

Have you ever wonder how many time wasted on loading time while browsing a website ?
I think may be not an issue in the past few years if we are not digesting new information every single day like today.

Like it or not we tend to browse and getting the information as fast as we can. Yes, you can blame the extra information overload or whatever.

But what really bug me is all those wasted time can be reduced to minimal possible with some few step taken before hand by the website developer or its system administrator.

I’ve happened to maintain the same wordpress theme for a few years now.
Some of the thing been obsolete and things are broken when we tried to load some specific features.

So, I’ve decided to take some step to fix and reducing error during loading this blog.

I came across the parallel download method using content delivery network.
Most of browser now capable to make async request to different set of servers simultaneously while waiting for previous is downloaded.
This could save a lot of waiting time just to download the content.

The step to accomplish this is not as hard as it seem.

I use the following plugin/ support.

1. WP-Rocket
2. Cloudflare
3. Linux shared hosting with cpanel

Content Delivery Network setup:

and here is the result:

Before and After:

And after few round of minor tweaks on the themes codes:

What else can you do as website administrator to help improve user experience while browsing your website?

There is one story being spinning in my mind since past few days. I can’t remember getting this story from which source, either book or somewhere online but here is the story.

One day, in a small village, there is a father and his two sons, they have farm with goat.
Everyday they’re selling goat to the villager or whoever is willing to buy its product including milk and meat.

The business is good and growing fast.
His sons are both involve in the company as worker.
Both of them has been helping him since the beginning, and both are capable of running the business.
Until one day, he his health is failing, and he need to pass over the business to his son.

He decide to pass this company to his second son.
So, he called his elder son.

“Son, I have decided to give control of this company to your younger brother.”

The elder brother was furious and ask “Ok, but I want to know why you decided to give to him instead of me.”
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I bought this book about 2-months ago, and it took me a while to finish reading it.

Here is my take on the content presented by Simon in his book “Leaders eat last”.

There are 4 main chemicals highlighted in defining what have crucial impact on our social behavior and emotional state.

According to Simon, there are four primary chemicals in our body that contribute to all our positive feelings that we generically known as “happy”:

1. endorphins
2. dopamine
3. serotonin
4. oxytoxin

At which endorphins and Dopamine make us to perseverance, find food foods, build shelters, invent tools, drive forward and get thing done.

While Serotonin allow us to work together, develop the feeling of trust and loyalty, help strengthen our social bond, work together and cooperates.

All four are essential to be balanced, so that we can ultimately SURVIVE and ENSURE our legacy will LIVE on beyond us.

Have you ever experience of the feeling that feels good when you had put in a lot of effort to accomplish something.
That is the proof that there is no biological incentive to do nothing.

Simon went on explaining all above chemicals and its effect in very great details in this book.
And also put into readers perspective why it is important to us as leaders, as a father or mother of growing kids.
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Last few week I’ve been wondering how to achieve thing faster than before.
So, I enrolled into Lazada Affiliate Program with the goal to get some passive income stream outside of may daily work.

I managed to get myself invited to the launch of Lazada Online Revolution campaign at Pullman Hotel.

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If there is only one thing I can learn from Richard Branson.

It would be “Always cover the bottom line”.
It is a pre-planned exit being put in place,
or at least being thought of earlier,
should the ideal plan goes south for whatever reason.

In his example, should his first flight booking is not able to secure enough passenger to fit the first aircraft he is about to rent.
The deal is OFF, and would NOT need be paying anything at all.

So,no matter how ambitious you’re..
If you’re not able to cover the bottom line you’re pretty much screwed up. If anything, there is always risk, what matters is how do we plan to mitigate them.

The bottom line is what I need to be able to at least fulfil its requirement regardless of how bad the situation turn out to be.

The example is pretty much as simple as being able to pay for the monthly expense for the family while you’re chasing your own dream.

Having said that, I was somehow ended up in a situation where I was stuck between getting enough of traction for business growth and withdrawing enough money from it to support my own monthly expense.

Then at some point, being me, plan and sequencing things maybe not my best trait after all.
I’ve met with multiple occasions of chicken and eggs problem.

For example:

1. in order to get the government sponsored education fund:”MyBrain” to pay for my master degree course.
   At first I needed to get in and enrolled the course first.
   However, to get enrolled into the course successfully,
   I need to pay the entrance fee for certain minimum amount.

So, being stuck in that situation, I call for a help from my friend and get it solved pretty much quickly.
It can be put as just one call away.
Simple? yes. would I like to do it again? no.
Why on earth did I get myself into such situation in the first place?
still pondering upon this. haha

1. To get the business network up and running.
   First you have to gain some reputation before it can provide return with some meaningful output.
   In order to do that, you’ll have to burn some resource to get into the position where it command the right amount of “influence” to buy whatever you’re selling.
   And that require some resource be ready to be spent at first.

However, the tricky part is getting to that level without first being burn-out too quickly. Or avoid being getting too depth of debt while doing it.

again.. “always cover the bottom line” also useful when you’re trying to venture into the new opportunities. Where it might not claim as easy as it seem. You also need to know when to stop and when it is time to keep on going.

As long as the bottom line is covered, you’re will have ONE less thing to worry about. And I think that alone will be able keep you from a LOT of sleepless night away.

p/s : try re-reading this again in next few years to understand why am writing this.

Let’s say you have some server running around the world.
I bet most of it doesn’t really need an GUI to be running all the time.

The least you may need is only a terminal access to it.
Which is sufficient if it is running at runlevel 3.

Here is how you can specify the default runlevel on the CentOS server.
It may save some resource during runtime.

In CentOS default runlevel can be set by editing /etc/inittab
The list of runlevel is as below:

 
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:

Just ensure not to set it to runlevel 6 or 0. Otherwise it would be in rebooting or just halt endlessly.

Once done editing.

kill -HUP 1

that’s it.

Selamat menyambut Awal Muharram 1439H.
Mulakan lembaran baru dibuku baru.

Insya-Allah , ianya kearah yang lebih baik dari tahun lalu.

semoga anda juga terus istiqamah menghadapi apa jua ujian yang melanda.

Salam Maal Hijrah 1439H.

When there is 99 things goes wrong, we tend to think we’re doomed. Haha. That’s what happened most of the time.

#AnakAnakMalaysia

However, my recent event regarding the above make me think otherwise. Eventhough things seem to be upside down, there are all with different priorities. As long as it’s not the most crucial or possibly fatal if fail. it’s gonna be alright anyway. Why?

Let me tell you an example.

let’s say here is the list of things that goes wrong for the day :

1. house messed up
2. laundry not done
3. dishwasher not working
4. washing machine cable got eatean by mice.
5. train having technical problem
6. late to arrive to the office.
7. kids throwing tantrums
8. car cannot even start
9. servers are having error codes that yet to be solved

..

and compared to one thing got right:

1. baby sitter called said baby is doing OK.

so, perspective wise , our perception of things goes wrong may have been thrown out of balance if the above is reversed.

That’s being said, I guess there are way too many reasons to be grateful instead of being the opposite.

thanks for everything.