Note to people reading this through a feed reader : if you happen to be a happy GreatNews user, be sure to read the comments on my post about my using this software. The fine dev folks are giving away cool tips to fine-tune your GreatNews installation.

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Paris, 5 et 6 décembre : Les Blogs 2.0. Le programme comporte des trucs qui m'auraient bien intéressé, et ça m'aurait également plu d'entendre quelques personnalités marquantes : Scoble, le PDG de Technorati, Calacanis de Weblogs Inc., Matt 'WordPress' Mullenweg entre autres. Ca a également l'air d'être plein de personnalités qui aimeraient bien être marquantes :-P

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L33T Tiles is a replacement tile set for Scrabble that has been optimized for … l33t speak :) No more "wow Dad, your oxymoron is worth 93 points !" but "dude phear my OMGKTHXBYE taht's 133 points AH PWNED !!1″. Heh, I can't believe this kind of things still makes me laugh :) This makes a cool geek Christmas gift. I mean, "coo g33k xmas w4r3z". (also, check their funny l33t dictionary : pdf, txt)

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I have to admit I don't know exactly what is Ruby. Everybody say it's damn cool and powerful, I guess I should at least have a look at this one day. Anyway, here is something cool : Try Ruby, an online interactive Ruby shell, introducing Ruby and how it works.

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Using $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] instead of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] when it's empty : Mom be proud of me, my suggestion to the developpers is now part of WordPress code :) Now of course I would have to explain exactly to my Mom the impact of such a subtle tiny change :-Þ

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Pour un (petit) projet (inutile) à venir, j'avais besoin d'une liste de tous les mots français. J'ai trouvé notamment ceci et pour référence future voici donc une liste de 336 000 mots français (texte brut, 1 mot par ligne, 800 Ko)

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