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Category: blog

  • Getting full contents for partial feeds

    In my opinion partial feeds are not feeds. While I understand the need to get pageviews, I don’t like it. My time is valuable and I don’t want to hop between Google Reader and other browser windows to read the content. Disclaimer: this method might or might not be a violation of some laws, TOS,…

  • WordPressDirect reponds (in a spammy fashion :-))

    I received the following comment on my post about WordPressDirect by “Marty Rozmanith”: Hello, I am the creator of WordPressDirect. I want to set the record straight, since your blog is contributing to the disinformation about our service. Forget the content publishing for a second…We save people time and frustration in setting up a a…

  • A word about splogs

    I was listening to the WordPress podcast and they mentioned a service called WordPressDirect (don’t worry, that links is a nofollow one). From their marketing material: Create SEO-Optimized, Content-Stuffed Websites Instantly With WordPressDirect Basically they are an other method to “reuse” other people’s writing. Some thoughts: People feel instantly defensive and start pondering solutions like…

  • Everything old is new again – SMOG

    Warning! The site which the script uses to provide the service contains a malicious iframe. While most probably the site itself is not malicious, I don’t recommend using the script below until the issues have been cleared up. If you included it in your site, please disable it until the problems have been cleared up.…

  • Tweaking the design

    It seems that changing site-designs periodically isn’t a rare phenomenon. I’m not really a designer, however I like to tweak ready-made designs for usability/functionality reasons. For example recently I went from a two-monitor 19″ setup to a one-monitor 22″ (wide) setup. Comparing the two I arrived to the same conclusion I’ve heard from many sources…

  • Half a millenia of posts

    Here I am at the 500th post and I’m trying to write something intelligent, just to find out that I don’t have any noteworthy thoughts :-). Hope to see you after an other 500 posts.

  • Posting high-quality YouTube videos

    Via George Ou’s blog: How to embed high quality YouTube videos and more. The methods described there are a little cumbersome (except for installing the WordPress plugin – but I’m not using WordPress :-)), so I’ve simplified them a little. You can either paste the embed tag given by Youtube in the text-box below and…

  • Pimping my blog

    I’ve re-arranged my blog a little for it to be more usable (for both of my regular readers :-)). Here are some things I’ve done: Added my logo in the header Redirected the autodiscovery feeds through Feedburner. This should give a more accurate readership number (fortunately users don’t have to do anything for this to…

  • Technology microcosm – the reality distorsion field

    We like to think that what we do is cool, hip and so on, but also that it is somewhat known and accepted within our social group. This came to my mind because I’ve just remembered some conversations I’d had at the workplace. My colleagues are about the same age as me and have or…

  • Blogging from Gnome

    I’ve installed the Gnome Blog widget for some quick blogging, and so here it is – my first quick entry. Some updates: The HTML generated is pretty clean (probably mostly because it doesn’t have a whole lot of formatting features) It misplaced the title 🙁 (instead of making it the title of the post, it…