Some guy had a fun idea : modify his wp-comments.php so this file would write back 47 MB to spambots that try to POST something into it. Waste of bandwidth or ultimate answer ? Apparently he got completely rid of spam in a few days :)

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Last.fm Stream Ripper

I just found about last.fm-ripper, a Perl CPAN module that saves last.fm radio streams to individual mp3's. How cool does that sound ? The readme even says that with a proper MP3::Tag module, mp3 files are saved with correct ID3 tags, which I haven't tried yet. Usage is cake easy. Once the archive untarred, you just : < View plain…

Last.fm's player really badly needs an extra feature : a "ban this artist" button, right next to "ban this track". Like, it makes sense I have to click every time on this button every time I hear Moby in the "Similar to Metallica" station. Moby, damnit. What the hell does it have to do with Metallica ?

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Profiling PHP Scripts with Xdebug

I've started to play a bit with Xdebug, a PHP extension that's designed to provide profiling information for PHP scripts and script execution analysis, amongst other things. This is fun, this is interesting, and this is invaluable when you really want to optimize the last bits of a script or a function. My test install is running XAMPP on Windows,…

Nothing cool on TV ? Watch the whole Ali G collection on Youtube. Respect ! I is laughing so hard with me friends !

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State of Problogger Clean

A few months ago, Tim Yang and I released a 3 columns theme for WordPress, Problogger Clean. For the last two or three months, Tim Yang has been experiencing various host and ISP problems, and as of today, the theme is no longer available from its "official" location. I've been asked several times for a download link, which I don't…