My good ole friend Arma, busy lawyer during the day, has opened another blog and now writes about random things he likes on My Review. Bon Jovi's fans will like his preview of their upcoming album, Lost Highway.
Overkill Method to Kill Spam #71
Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don't care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of referrer domains and, unsurprisingly, about…
My Blog Now Has a Voice !
I'm currently giving a new plugin a try: Odiogo's Listen Button converts your posts to an audio file, ready to be downloaded, podcasted, or just played from within the page while you're reading it. A few years ago I had tried something similar, but it sort of sucked: you needed to register first in order to play audio files. Hopefuly…
WordPress Troubles ? Clean the Cache !
You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I've had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to WordPress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit was… WordPress' Cache. Apparently, there…
One-Click CSS Tidy Cleaning
I've been using CSSTidy lately, and I like it a lot. This is a pretty cool software that optimizes CSS files so that they are smaller and cleaner. It comes with a bunch of options and is available in Linux, OSX and Windows flavors. I'm running Windows on my test computer, and I made a convenient right click context menu…
Hilarious Ebay Feedback. A few sellers must have gone ôO when reading their feedback on sold item :)
Basic Instructions: I love this cartoonish site. Really funny and often smart at once. Me digs mucho.
Plugin of the Month : Better Comments
Edit: this plugin had several bugs that made me write my own take on this. Absolute Comments is in my opinion far better, go try it :) I guess every WordPress user in the world have dreamt about it : the ability to reply to a comment from within the admin area, and without visiting the post page itself first.…
1,783,977,871 pages on Yahoo (and their various subdomains). Couldn't find anything bigger :)
Checking a few WordPress Feeds
Today I felt like tidying a bit Planet WordPress, an unofficial aggregation of feeds about WordPress I've been maintaining for about 2 years now. The thing was fetching about 80 feeds, of which about a half were… dead, missing in action, or just inactive. It quickly appeared to me than manually reviewing 80 feeds would be tedious. And it quickly…