WordPress Compromised

I, accidentally, noticed that my WordPress instance was compromised. Of course, I would be the person to blame for this. It’s not a commercial thing, so I don’t nearly spend enough time looking under the hood. This cost me a couple of hours yesterday fixing and cleaning up the mess. I’ve taken some precautions to ensure I won’t need to look under the hood too frequently but also ensure I don’t sponsor some botnet or click-fraud elsewhere on the tubes....

<span title='2021-10-24 06:17:38 +0000 UTC'>October 24, 2021</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;6 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Sell baggage space on airlines?

I posted this as a problem in the “Ideaspace” platform here. I usually end up paying for 30KG baggage + 10KG cabin when all I carry is <8KG in my flight. Can I just sell the other 32KG and get back portion of my ticket cost? Will the airline buy this back? Can there be a middle man who will do this on both our behalves? This, as I note on the platform, is a regulatory nightmare....

<span title='2015-12-01 03:05:10 +0000 UTC'>December 1, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

‘Tax’ing

I had to file my taxes in India for the 1 month that I worked last FY. And my auditor wants a Form16 from the company. Dude, I quit the company about 1.5yrs back! Anyway, I am trying to reach out to them to see if I can get this sorted out quickly. I don’t know if there are other better tax services in India. I have heard of a few companies that claim to make it simple and straight forward....

<span title='2014-09-10 04:06:31 +0000 UTC'>September 10, 2014</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek