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 […][...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more

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 é and stuff instead of accented characters. I was expecting the solution to be something linuxish like read boring man pages till I finally decide […][...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more

I'm back online (yes, it's been slightly less than a month this time:), all tanned, all rested, and all depressed that I'm back to work :Þ Croatia was very nice, and our dive center Diving in Croatia was probably the finest and kindest group of people we've dived with. Now waiting from a few fellow […][...] → Read more

It's that time again. One month away from my computers and 99.8% offline. This year I'll be visiting Croatia, hoping to find great scuba dives. Our diving club looks quite promising and I'm looking forward to seeing some nice things and wrecks. See you in a month. Take care of my plugins and be nice […][...] → Read more

Oscar, my elder son (he recently turned 5) spent some time this afternoon on the Simpsons Movie site, where you can draw your own Simpsons characters. The interface was so simple to use that he decided on his own to recreate our little family :) From left to right, Ozh, Ariane, Oscar and Cyrus. D'oh! […][...] → Read more

If you're following the Plugin Competition you already know about it, I've released yesterday my latest plugin, codename Who Sees Ads. As far as I know, and to date, this is truly the most advanced and powerful ad management plugin, with the following features: Easy ad management: inline or in PHP templates, inserting your ads […][...] → Read more

Glossy WordPress Logos: crisp and glossy logos available in several colors. Very nice.[...] → Read more

According to Google's hot trends for today, keyword "iPhone" is used in more than 10% of all searches. How come then that nobody has some adwords on iPhone related searches, then? Is the keyword banned in AdWords ?[...] → Read more