The Drupal Click Thru Tracking module has been updated to work with the upcoming 4.7 version of Drupal.Thanks for Patrick Nelson for the patch.

Arturo from Mexico writes to me:

I am visiting Egypt in January and plan to visit Alexandria and specially the Library and I want to know the procedure to donate two books of Mexican Industrial and Graphic Design edited by the Mexican Industrial and Graphic Design Association which I preside. 

This is of course a very nice gesture.It is also the fourth mixup I got confusing my site with the Library of Alexandria. Others are the university student, the secretary, and the offshore drilling company.

I get a lot of strange feedback from visitors to this site, most of it fall in the mistaken identity category.However, it strikes me how some people are just plain lazy. They want their homework done for them, and complain when they don't get their "entitlment". An example is someone with the email address: kkpepsipuppy, who did not like what I wrote on food Recipes From Ancient Egypt.

It is always a challenge to make software and computing in general do Arabic (and other languages that are Right to Left and uses variable shape letters). Regarding the internet, I wrote several articles about Arabic on the Internet with a lot of background information, technical challenges, state of the market, and more. As far as Drupal is concerned, you can read my article on the various possible approaches for the Arabization of Drupal.

The custom error module for Drupal has been upgraded for the new 4.7 Form API. Thanks to Markus Petrux for provided a patch.

The Drupal Adsense module has been updated to work with the upcoming 4.7 version of Drupal.

While you are here, make sure you check the Google Adsense resources for Drupal for tips, hints, and more

This update was sponsored by Scribendi.

The title should really read: "Distant relatives finding you via the internet" ...Running a web site is an experience that is full of surprises.One pleasant surprise is when someone reads your web site and discovers that they are a relative of you, and gets in touch with you for details.About a year ago, I had someone contact me after reading the paternal side of my ancestry. He is living in the village my father is from. After some emails, we discovered that my paternal grandfather and  his paternal grandfather are brothers.

In a comment on a previous post, Marco pointed out to a page on his site were he used Google searching to uncover Drupal sites on the web based on two criteria. In early November 2005, he found 54,700 Drupal sites based on this search. See his Drupal.org post on this. This same search today says that there are 60,700 sites. 

I got this in my inbox yesterday:

Dear Sir, We know you from Internet. We are one of the strongest oil paintings supplier in China. Following is the wholesale price for the paintings from our website url deleted. 20 x 24 inches on canvas ... US$4.95 for each 24 x 36 inches on canvas ... US$7.95 for each 36 x 48 inches on canvas ... US$14.95 for each All the paintings are reproduced and handmade on canvas by our artists. And also the custom painting is acceptable. If you have interest,please contact me. I will reply you as soon as possible! We hope hear from you soon! Yours sincerely, Shirley

A often repeated fallacy is that Windows is more prone to security vulnerabilities because it has the largest installed base among desktops and servers, both at home and in the corporate world. The fallacy says that if Linux and Apple had a similarly large installed base, they would also be found to be vulnerable.This claim seems to be widespread even among those who are technically savvy. The facts do contradict this claim. For example, Apache is the most widely used web server on the internet, with more web sites running it than all others combined. Apache is not found to be prone to attacks and security issues as much as Microsoft IIS for example.