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Google 2007/08/13 3 min read

16 Online Tools to Check Your Pagerank

Half of the planet (or so) is actually suffering from "Pagerank Update Disorder", which make them check every minute if, finally, the long awaited Google Pagerank update occurred and what PR their various websites now have. If you belong to them, or if you just happen to wonder from time to time "What PR this site has?", here is a…

Ahah 2007/08/11 1 min read

Spam Gets Unreadable

A common spammer's trick to escape mail filters is to sort-of cypher words so that they remain human-readable. You've received gazillions of them: vi@gr@, v-i-a-g-r-a, [v][i][a][g][r][a] and so on. A mail got through GMail's filter this morning, and I actually spent a few minutes trying to read it because I thought this time they pushed it a little too far.…

Code 2007/08/03 1 min read

How To Display UTF8 in your Putty Bash Shell

I was having a few reading problems on a server I've recently got my hands on: the locale is set to something like French UTF8, but Putty was displaying annoying ÃƒÂ© and stuff instead of accented characters. I was expecting the solution to be something linuxish like read boring man pages till I finally decide it's not worth the hassle…

A few weeks ago, when I had some bad times with WordPress spewing Errors 500 all the time, I decided that, if my site was going to be broken and unusable, at least I'd try to make it a bit less boring. So I made sort of "funny" custom error pages (see the 404 for example). Nothing uberhilarious nor super genius, but at least there's some humor and service in it. And you know what? Someone actually thanked me for it :) My pleasure, Becca.

2007/08/03 19h52 #