Top 30 Countries for Broadband Internet Access. Japan, Korea, Finland, Sweden & France have the fastest connexions. Interestingly, the fattest average bandwidth, the cheaper it gets: graphs for average bandwidth and average prices are almost exactly inverted.[...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more

1,783,977,871 pages on Yahoo (and their various subdomains). Couldn't find anything bigger :)[...] → Read more

I am a Generous Leader, they say. Sounds cool, I can buy this :) Besides those useless results, their quizz has a really enjoyable interface which make it slightly less boring than your regular endless list of radio buttons.[...] → Read more

Firefox Myths. A bit of controversy can do no harm.[...] → Read more

w00t ! A 3 figure Technorati rank was one of my meaningless goals for this year, and it just happened. Thanks everybody :)[...] → Read more

I thought, and had been told, that using constants instead of variables in PHP was mostly a matter of speed : at run time, the engine replaces every occurrence of a constant with its hard-coded value, making code presumably faster than using variables that must be evaluated each time they are encountered. Or something like […][...] → Read more

PHP5 Benchmarks: for vs while, count vs sizeof, md5 vs sha1 and other speed comparisons like these for those who really need an extra millisecond of optimisation. I like this.[...] → Read more

While playing a bit with Xdebug (a profiling tool for PHP), I've come across something I didn't know and that I frankly found a bit odd : how to use output buffering (PHP function ob_start()) to speed up some stuff. In a few words, just so you know if this is obvious noob stuff for […][...] → Read more

I'm sub 1500 (1,494 as of writing) in Technorati. Next level of ego-happiness : when my feed reader counter keeps above 200 :)[...] → Read more