Author: Ozh
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Pick your Phobia

One of my favorite blog ever, Colour Lovers, has a very interesting entry: The Scariest Colors Imaginable, matching color palettes and phobias. Man, I didn't even suspected there were so many phobias around! Pick yours, the list is amazingly and unexpectedly creative: Chromatophobia: The fear of colors, and more specifically: Phodophobia: Fear of the Color Red Chrysophobia: Fear of the…

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Replying to Comments Has Never Been So Enjoyable: Introducing Absolute Comments

I'm extremely pleased and excited to (finally!) release my latest plugin, Absolute Comments, which is probably the most useful plugin I've written to date. I love it. Absolute Comments adds something that everybody misses: the ability to reply to comments from within your regular "Manage Comments" page, without having to load the post page first. It also adds to each…

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Design Vitality is running a WordPress Theme Competition. Deadline: November 30th. Prizes: $1000, Wii, iPhone. Rules and details: here. (via)

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"How much does Google hate Text Links Ads ?" This question seems to have a simple answer: google it. TLA doesn't even appear in the first 100 results (while it is obviously #1 result in other major search engines)

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WordPress 2 min read

WordPress Upgrade Script

If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!/bin/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http://yoursite.com/blog" echo Updating Wordpress in $CURDIR echo…

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Looking for Translators

My next plugin is ready for shipping, but I like it so much already that I want to give it some special treatment: a polyglot release. I'm looking for a few kind translators willing to spend 3 minutes to take care of about 20 words or short sentences, and translate these in their mother tongue. I'm doing the English and…

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Trynt: those folks provide free-to-use REST APIs for a big bunch of stuff. Google or del.icio.us or Flickr related, Whois data, tag suggesting, Captchas, credit card validation, you name it. This looks like a really excellent stuff. Bookmarked.

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Spam 1 min read

Anti Spam Tip of the Day : Complain !

For the past few days, I've received a decent amount of spam from the same machine and domain, hosted on Hostgator. Deciding that enough was enough and that I had a minute of my life to waste, I sent an email to abuse@hostgator with some details from my Akismet screen. I wasn't really expecting much… till I received a reply…

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Who Sees Ads Trivial Update #1337

Yet another slight update to Who Sees Ads. This release, stamped 1.3.3, fixes a small glitch that would make the "Help Intro and Wizard" always show, and also fixes a bug in the way custom search engines can be defined in your my_options.php. On the prospective side of things, I'm currently searching (if there is) a way to make Who…

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