CNN kicked off 2014 with an epic fail.
The American news channel flashed a caption suggesting that Auckland is a city in Australia while showing highlights from New Year’s celebrations around the world.
Eagle-eyed viewers quickly pounced on the error and shared screenshots on social media, with a number of annoyed Kiwi’s urging the broadcaster to “check their facts”.
CNN hasn’t commented about the embarrassing mix-up.

Awkward moment when TV thinks Auckland is in Australia. #cnn #oops #prettymuchis #partiallytrue pic.twitter.com/jhUiYR3LAW

— Fil (@Snowfreq) January 1, 2014

@CNN Seriously? Auckland, Australia?!? Peter Jackson and Middle Earth are very disappointed! On behalf of US, my apologies to NZ! #CNNNYE

— Leilani Munter (@LeilaniMunter) January 1, 2014

Geography is not the strong suit of @cnn – happy new year from Auckland Australia? #cnnfail pic.twitter.com/FjrIwgKj6P

— Richard David Jordan (@richarddjordan) January 1, 2014

BREAKING NEWS! @cnn has moved Auckland to Australia for 2014! pic.twitter.com/6piMrSOjUW

— Toph Miller (@tophmiller2) January 1, 2014

Wow @CNN you're such a global company #CNNNYE #Auckland #Australia #InTouchWithTheWorld pic.twitter.com/Yj9fLc8rhq

— Josh Lindsay (@joshlindsay) January 1, 2014

It’s not the first time CNN has been a little confused about Australia, most notably during its coverage of Cyclone Yasi. And it’s also not alone. American network NBC published a map showing the whole of Australia on fire, despite them being confined largely to New South Wales.

Dear bloggie (again…)

I’m back in Brisbane! 😀

Anyways, didn’t take any pics…

So i’m waiting to find pics to upload… :S

So yeah…

Dear bloggie…?
(You may have seen me using this before…?)

I was asked by a client to send them a daily email (more like spam? :p) and thought cron job would be easiest?
I was planning on using

0 12 * * */home/username/public_html/filename.php

to run the cron job, but ended up with this error

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell: /home/username/public_html/filename.php: Permission
denied

I read somewhere that i needed to type my username in, so that became attempt 2…?

0 12 * * * username /home/username/public_html/filename.php

And because this post hasn’t finished yet, you guessed it, another error…

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jailshell: username: command not found

So, back to the drawing board, how do we get the script to run from jailshell?
Let’s try a different approach? Since the script runs using the mail() function, we just need to call the page?

So, our last attempt…

0 12 * * * /usr/bin/wget http://www.client.tld/filename.php

And to test it?

–2013-12-11 10:36:01–  http://www.client.tld/filename.php
Resolving www.client.tld… 127.0.0.1
Connecting to www.client.tld|127.0.01|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 270
Saving to: “filename.php”

0K                                                       100% 34.7M=0s

2013-12-11 10:36:03 (34.7 MB/s) – “filename.php” saved [270/270]

As for a normal cron job, i’ll still need to look how to work around jailshell… :S

Okays, i’ve been giving away free apps codes for iOS via the Apple store and most people claim the link i sent them requires them to pay for the app? (I guess they missed the redeem code? :S)

Anyways, let’s redeem an app via an iPhone?
(Will do one for iTunes later…)

Launch the App Store!

You could be on the Top Charts, Genius, Search or Updates tab, but let’s tap on the Featured tab?

Welcome to the Feature tab! 😀

Let’s scroll down to Redeem?