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Personal Development Books: The Structure Distilled

Personal development books seem to follow a well-defined structure. Knowing the structure is helpful when you want to distill practical nuggets. After all, that is the main reason you read such books in first place, no? You want to efficiently distill nuggets of effectiveness.

After reading quite a few books on personal development I have a feeling that these three follow the pattern:

The basic ingredients are failure story, credibility, problem/myth, solution approach, success story.

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150 Ways To Break Into Your Blog (Hacking For Dummies)

Few days ago my blog was hacked. It is up and running now with minimal losses. My hosting provider, www.bluehost.com, helped me quickly to recover by restoring recent back up of the system. I decided to put some time and energy to research the topic of threats and countermeasures related to WordPress. image
by Randy Son Of Robert
Let me state this upfront – there is no silver bullet. Very few can protect their blog to the max (99%). It requires significant investment. Most of the bloggers just cannot afford it. What you can do is apply simple, first line defense practices readily available to everyone. These practices can significantly reduce the chance of being hacked.

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Protect Your Blog Or Get Hacked Like PracticeThis.com Was

www.PracticeThis.com was recently defaced, hacked, hijacked, poisoned by hackers. Instead of usual content the site was exhibiting “Security Z3ro”.

How ironically, in my day job I am software security [and performance] engineer.

That taught me a lesson that I want to share with you.

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by ohsoabnormal 
Once I realized I have been hacked, these are the steps I have followed to get back on track with minimal losses.

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