According to this non-authoritative poll, nearly 50% of Firefox3 users think that the “Awesome Bar” is a huge piece of crap. I must concur: this is a *huge* piece of crap. The sad thing is, there seem to be no way of reverting to a normal behavior. A few Firefox Addons or about:config hacks make things [...] → Read more

Funny: this post was aiming to be a collection of reasons why WordPress sucks. After a couple of comments pointing out more or less annoying bugs or features, the thread naturally evolved towards a lists of all the reasons why WordPress does not suck, to the consensus that it is the best blogging tool around, [...] → Read more

This tatoo doesn’t even validate, duh! (via the always entertaining pics.reddit) Share This Related posts Insightful Einstein ! (1) Worst Logos Ever (0) Top Ten Tricks to Optimize Wordpress (7) Sorry. Your screen name is already taken ! (2) Sony Digital Cameras Users Love Boobs (3) [...] → Read more

This is a truly scary story : David Airey got his domain stolen because of a GMail vulnerability. Short story: it was (seems it’s fixed) possible to create filters on Gmail just by visiting a link or, say, loading a hidden frame on a malicious website. Like, create a filter to forward to evilguy@evilhost.com any email [...] → Read more

What’s wrong with GMail these days? I seem to receive mails hours after they’ve been sent, and I’m pretty sure I’ve missed quite a few. Share This Related posts MSN Search Sucks (2) How to Send .exe files with Gmail (6) Yahoo! 360 Review. Sort of. (3) WordPress Sucks Because… Hmm… Well, In Fact, It Doesn’t. (0) Wordpress + GMail = Blog [...] → Read more

Christmas is approaching and I’m thinking a bit about what Santa could bring to me. One gadget I still miss because I’ve never found the perfect one is an MP3 player. Every time I read reviews, I just cannot understand why every single product seems to miss an essential feature or comes with a couple [...] → Read more

In the best case scenario, captchas annoy me. In most cases, I can’t even read them properly and they make me fill twice some registration form. In some too frequent cases, when I fail a couple of times I get fed up and don’t even register with the site they’re supposed to protect (And in [...] → Read more

Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don’t care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of referrer [...] → Read more

You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I’ve had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to Wordpress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit [...] → Read more

One of the things you have to pay attention to when you move your website to another host is correct redirection to pages, and ensuring you're not giving 404 errors to legitimate requests. This morning I was checking my error logs and noticed a lot of pathetic attempts from script kiddies looking for an easy [...] → Read more