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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
There are many RSS feeds that I've subscribed to, and some websites that I check often that don't have feeds, for example to read comics. With all the stuff in the feeds, there's also some things that I don't want to see, such as newsposts in some comic feeds that ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
This one has been hanging on my drafts list for a while. Kind of lost track of thought during writing this and I never got around to writing about all the points I intended to... but there's still some interesting thoughts here so I decided to post it anyway :)
While ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Quiz: How many browsers have their own magazines?
Answer: One!
I recently received my paperback copy of the first issue of the Opera Magazine, Opera's new lifestyle magazine.
I have mixed opinions about the first issue: while some parts were funny or interesting, the other parts were not, so I can't decide whether ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
"Windows Vista steals your information."
"Windows Vista does not work."
This is getting stupid and childish. I've seen many people complain how Vista is not usable, how it does not work, and now, how it steals all your information and gives it to Microsoft.
Can anyone actually think these days? Can anyone actually ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This is a question I sometimes hear, in one form or another:
Should I start blogging?
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Yahoo has been researching various different techniques for improving website performance. There are a lot of obvious ones, such as making sure images are optimized, JavaScript/CSS is minified and so on.
There are also a couple of less known tricks, such as putting JavaScript as the last in the document, and ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
You often hear that using PHP under Microsoft servers is a bad idea, because it doesn't work very well.
But is that even true? You guessed it... no. It is actually possible to get a PHP based database application working under IIS and MS SQL Server perfectly fine, it just may ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
I've installed an application called Enso on my laptop.
What is it? It's an application, which turns the caps lock key into a small command prompt, which you can use to run various commands, such as calculating, opening applications, controlling windows etc.
Enso is a product of a company called Humanized, which ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment in 4 easy steps, one of which is optional and one of which isn't really a step at all! ;)
These days I've been working on Linux servers for a long time, so when I had to install all the things necessary for ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I haven't had access to a computer or time to think about anything interesting to write lately, as I've been doing my civil service. Anyways, let's post something now!
As a long time computer user, I've used many different user interfaces, both software ...
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