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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 #

My Life 2007/07/31 1 min read

Back (and Waiting for a Pagerank Update)

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 :Ãž 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 divers we've met there and…

My Life 2007/07/06 1 min read

Offline for a Month

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 to my site in the…

My Life 2007/07/05 1 min read

My Family Got Simpsonified

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! This is kind of resembling…

WordPress 2007/07/02 2 min read

Introducing the Ultimate Ad Management Plugin

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 is now a handy one-liner.…

Glossy WordPress Logos: crisp and glossy logos available in several colors. Very nice.

2007/07/01 23h10 #

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 ?

2007/06/30 23h53 #