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.
• Advanced display rules: chose what conditions will trigger the ad displaying. Search engine visitor? On home page only? Just for American readers? You name it.
• Visual interface: a very intuitive and visual interface allows for easily creating ads and selecting display rules.
• Ad wizard: a wizard will create example rules as examples, allowing for quick grasping of how things works
• Adsense & YPN compliancy: per Terms Of Use, Adsense and Yahoo Publisher impose restrictions (maximum number of ads of a particular type, no ads on error pages, etc). Who Sees Ads fully complies to these restrictions.
• Admin Click Safety: Adsense and Yahoo ads can be replaced by placeholders when viewed by the blog admin, to prevent accidental clicks on their own ads.

If you're semi-serious or more about monetizing your blog, get Who Sees Ads now. You will love it, or your money back.

Latest time waster that made humanity's productivity plummet recently is the quite addictive Bloxorz, a puzzle game where you have to move a rectangular block through a maze into a hole. If you don't know it yet, and spare time is an issue for you, don't give it a try.

For those who are stuck at a particular level, you'll find practically the whole walkthrough on Youtube. I'm still resisting to checking how to clear level 2530, but it's getting tough :)

And for the really desperate ones, here is a list of all the Bloxorz cheat codes. Booh.

When the day slowly finishes, when kids have gone to bed and the dishwasher is purring, is my usual end-of-day routine is about reading my mails, answering some, and have a look at del.icio.us popular links.

And every few days, I just feel like I'm trapped in a space-time continuum distortion, and again comes that feeling of déjà-vu. Same 2¢ link & screenshot collection so many people feel compelled to post: yet another list of usable / gorgeous / flexible / scalable / unseen /whatever WordPress themes. (With, of course, 80% of themes you've already seen before in the 445 previous lists, mostly because they indeed are usable or gorgeous or whatever)

So if you are really desperate for traffic on your blog, there's no need to be original or actually produce content yourself, just recycle and post it too : your own "Top 20 Most Gorgeusabilistic WordPress Themes Ever" (don't forget the "Ever").

I have been using UltraEdit as my primary text editor over the last few years. I thought it had all the features I could expect from a text editor : tabbed interface, syntax highlighting for a number of languages, code block collapsing, regular expressions for searching and replacing, opening and closing brace matching, you name it.

Then, recently, I got more and more annoyed by the weaknesses of the code highlighting feature. For instance, UltraEdit gets it wrong if you use heredoc syntax (using something like <<<HERE and HERE; as delimiters for a string) and can't parse and highlight properly your code.

One night, someone in #wordpress mentioned they were using PSPad. I realized that, after all, I had been using the same text editor over the years simply because I had never looked if something better existed. So I loaded my gun and went for a little hunt, hoping to find the perfect text editor. UltraEdit, Notepad++, PSPad, EditPlus, EditPad Pro, Crimson Editor, GridinSoft Notepad, HTML-Kit, I tortured them all with my binary and merciless 10 seconds review tool: the Tricky Code Snippet From Hell.
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I've seen recently a lot of plugins for WordPress aimed at taking care of the duplicate content issue in search engines. Don't get me wrong, those plugins are doing well what they were created for : adding a meta tag in some pages so that Googlebot and its friends don't index them. The problem is that doing such a thing is, in my very humble opinion, a bad idea.
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This is pure awesomeness. Instant.js is an 8.5 kb javascript file (uncompressed, you can shrink it down to around 5 kb) which adds on the fly a "Polaroid Effect" to your pictures (white frame, light curl and a drop shadow). What I like about this is the unobstrusiveness (?) and the fact it does not use Flash. Too bad MSIE is not supported because of its lack of Canvas abilities.

With this script, it takes about 15 seconds to give your whole gallery a cool new look!