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 […][...] → Read more

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 […][...] → Read more

One of the things you have to pay attention to when you move your website to another host is correct redirection to pages, and ensuring you're not giving 404 errors to legitimate requests. This morning I was checking my error logs and noticed a lot of pathetic attempts from script kiddies looking for an easy […][...] → Read more

Sorry for the frequent down time these past few days. The apache and mysql daemons are randomly dying, my sysadmin suspects that someone is triggering some bug or exploit somewhere but he cannot hunt this sucker down. As soon as I find an ounce of courage and a few spare hours, I think I'll eventually […][...] → Read more

Quel âge a le Grand Canyon ? A cette simple question, les employés du Parc National du Grand Canyon ne sont plus autorisés à répondre. Pour ne pas heurter les théories créationnistes qui racontent que le Grand Canyon a été créé par le Déluge (Noé, tout ça…), l'administration Bush a ordonné d'adopter une attitude "géologiquement […][...] → Read more

I'm not sure about what could heaven be, but I'm pretty sure about hell now. Right now, the closest thing to hell has to be : being on sick days that stick you at home while your wife's parents are at your home for the same week What a greaaat week.[...] → Read more

Oops ! Sorry for the downtime of my blog (and subsequent interruption of service for planet WordPress). I have a nice sysadmin who just forgot to reboot hardware after doing some maintenance and then left for an extended week-end :)[...] → Read more

Gasp. I wanted to get vers.us a few hours earlier when it became available, but some lucky bastard got it first. Too bad. Back to my offline stuff.[...] → Read more

Arrrrrgh. There's two thing I hate when registering with a new website or service. First one is when they ask for logins longer than 3 letters. When I'd like to keep things simple and use the same 'Ozh' as a login across a thousand websites, I end up registering (and forgetting) gazillions of ozhy, ozhozh, […][...] → Read more

Last.fm's player really badly needs an extra feature : a "ban this artist" button, right next to "ban this track". Like, it makes sense I have to click every time on this button every time I hear Moby in the "Similar to Metallica" station. Moby, damnit. What the hell does it have to do with […][...] → Read more