Not long ago, I updated my antivirus software to a new version. I do that regularly, as it is so easy to keep track with new updates: The software does that for me! Every time a newer version of it was released, the software asked me if I wanted to update to that new version. [...]
Recently, I’m increasingly getting spam comments which refer to (yet another) “easy money from home” program. Interestingly, this time the name “Google” is involved. So I just thought I might jot down a bit of rant about it, but this turned out to be an analysis of the “easy money from home” scam pattern. I [...]
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After lots of struggling, planing, researching, and preparing, I managed to launch my professional WordPress services.
A brand new, neatly designed page is their home. Check it out, tell me what you think about it.
Originally, Google developed algorithms that were meant to reflect the relevance of a HTML page to a user seeking information. In times when people were not SEO-aware yet, a page that ranked high in search results did so because it’s content deserved it. Hence, page rank really meant that: A rank for that page’s content.
Things [...]
Yesterday, I read yet another quote that evangelizes “clean code”:
Code that only you can understand does not make you an advanced coder; code that your grandmother can understand does!
Jeremy Brown – Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary
Now WTF is that supposed to mean?
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After 24 hours I can tell that the new spam blocker is doing a fairly good job. There’ve been only 3 spam entries in my spam queue today, when it would have been perhaps 200 before. That’s a hell of an improvement, right?
The notion of “free” in FOSS – Free and Open Source Software – is commonly explained a “Free as in free speech, not as in free beer”. In practice, open source software is often provided literally for free – as I do with my plugins – and this is often referred to as “It’s free [...]
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Originally, Widget Voodoo wasn’t implemented with WordPress MU in mind. In response to an issue report in the forums, I’ve overhauled the way settings have been stored (the main cause of the issue on WPMU).
As a result, settings handling is more robust and more secure now. And, Widget Voodoo now works on WP and WPMU [...]
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The other day I started a System Recovery1 on my Vista. Surprisingly (or actually not so surprisingly), I’ve been prompted with the following initial message (translation from German, underlining mine):
In case you don’t know, since Windows XP the operating system creates recovery points before every installation. If something goes wrong during the installation or an [...]
There are many complicated explanations of the banking crisis, but it all comes down to some very simple patterns of human nature.
Here is one that’s actually quite plausible:
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