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Can see that lots of Malaysians have got their payments through Western Union without much problems. I just switch over to Western Union as well.

I did not expect the procedure is so simple. I could easily get it done in only a few clicks. But I had a too complicated mind.

The simple way

1. Go to My Accounts tab.
2. In Account Settings, click on the "edit" link beside Payment details.
3. Select Setup Western Union Cash.
4. Click continue.
5. Enter your payee name in the correct order.
6. Tick the checkbox at the bottom.
7. Click Save changes.

The hard way

There is a part that made me nervous:

In order to ensure that your Western Union payment is issued properly, please provide us with the proper ordering of your Current Payee Name, shown above. If needed, you may include your middle name or initial with your first name. The names you enter below must match the contents of your Current Payee Name. If you need to update your payee name, please contact us.

I was thinking that I need to enter my name correctly. Since I have always receive cheques with my surname at the back, I think I need to make sure I enter it correctly so that it will match exactly like what's in my identity card.

Original payee name: Eng Lee Teh
Surname: Teh
Given name: Eng Lee
Name in identity card: Teh Eng Lee

So, I manually requested Google to change my Payee name.

Changed payee name to: Teh Eng Lee

After a few hours, when I got the notification from Google telling me that my payee name has been changed. I get back to the Setup Western Union Cash page and enter my payee information. I entered "Eng Lee" as my given and "Teh" as my surname and finish the steps.

Then, I went back to Account setting page to reconfirm my payee information, I saw "Eng Lee Teh". I realised how silly I am.

Finally, I had no choice but to get back to the Setup Western Union Cash page and entered "Teh" as my first name and "Eng Lee" as my last name.

I know I'm silly, but when will the world learn that Chinese has their Surname at the front? Can't they just allow us to enter our payee names in a single box?

Microsoft Internet Explorer has the ability to view FTP site like a normal local folders. This is a feature that lots of people are not aware of or don't really use it. I have always been using some freeware FTP clients for a while and find them don't really improves anything. At times, I would use command line, but when transferring many files, command line is not very convenient.

As I begin using Internet Explorer not too long ago, I never use any other clients since then. It is convenient as it is pre-installed in every machine!

Recently, as I tried to use it on a different computer, I keep getting "Page not found" error. But the FTP server is working fine when I try to access using command line FTP.

After spending sometime to search for solution, I found a setting in Internet options that fixes it. Go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab > tick Enable folder view for FTP sites.

If you have never use IE for this purpose, I recommend you to try it.

Just type in address bar: ftp://www.yoursite.com

Unless you need some extraordinary functions, IE is good enough.

I did not check my Google Analytics statistics for a long time. I find some weird problems when I check it recently. It shows very little pageviews -- less than 5 a day, but I'm getting hundreds of pageviews a day in my Statcounter stats.

When I look in the content section, the whole list is filled with Google search cached pages. I don't see any normal pageloads. All the URLs listed look like something similar to this:

/search?q=cache:7NM1GxZ03YgJ:blog.enrii.com/2007/05/04/make-wordpress-blog-mobile-friendly...

Why Google Analytics is not showing stats correctly? What have I do wrong?

When I last checked months ago, the stats was shown properly. I'll just replace the tracking code with the newer version and check if it's OK tomorrow.

Let me know if you know what would cause that.

Update: The tracking code update did not work at all. As I read through the help page, it suggests that improper filter will cause data not properly loaded. Since there's only one "Main" default filter, I'll just remove it from the filter settings. Is there a default filter? Or is it something I added long time ago? Anyhow, I shall see if removing it will work.

Update: Removing the filter works! If you encounter something like I did, consider checking your filters.

It been a long time since YouTube introduced mobile version of its website. I remember I had some trouble opening the videos with my Dopod D810 when I first tried it. I did not put much effort to make it work at that time.

Today, I'll spend some time to make it work. After some trial-and-errors, with the help of Google search, here are my findings on why my Windows Mobile 6 can't play the videos on YouTube and how I finally managed to do it.

Situation
My PDA is connected to internet via wifi (not 3G or any other direct connection to internet). It has Streaming Media application preinstalled, that comes with HTC ROM.

Problem #1
After clicking on "Watch Video" in YouTube mobile, the Streaming Media program launched and instantly get rejected with "Failed to connect." error.

This can simply be fixed by selecting the right connection. It can be done by opening up the Streaming Media application, click on Menu > Options. Select the right connection at "Connect via". If you were to use wireless LAN connection like me, you should be choosing "The Internet".

Problem #2
After clicking on "Watch Video", the Streaming Media program launched and tries to connect, then it failed with "Failed to find network" error.

From xda-developer forum, I understand that to make the Streaming Media program work, we need to make the device directly connected to internet, and not connected to internet via a router. (So, I think those who connect to internet via 3G, EDGE or GPRS should not get this problem)

Option 1
This problem could be fixed by configuring my mobile device to be in DMZ zone, but this is not advisable due to security issues since you are exposing all ports of your device to the internet. However, it certainly worth a try to know whether it works this way. And, I did try to configure my Dlink router and get the YouTube videos playing properly in my PDA.

Option 2
I tried to reduce the number of UDP ports configured in Options of Streaming Media. I configured it range to become 1024 to 2048, allowing only 1024 ports. Then, I fix the IP of my device and port forwarding those ports to my PDA. And I got the videos playing properly. Again, please be reminded that there could also be security issues when you do this, but at least, you are not exposing all the port of your device to the internet.

I guess there is no other options. Please comment if you have any better ways.

At times, I was wondering why would an author link to an invalid site in their new article. It could be caused by typing mistakes but the author should always try to click on their own link before they publish the article.

I found one common mistake that lots of people would make. Google has a goodbad example on this.

At this What is Web History? help page, if you point to the link in the page (refer the following image), you will see a weird link at status bar.

What I saw in status bar:

If the author used the following code to link, he will get the problem.

<a href="www.enrii.com">enrii.blog</a>

The author should include "http://" to avoid the problem.

<a href="http://www.enrii.com">enrii.blog</a>

So, web programmers, take note about this!