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Sorry for the malware warning!
If you have tried to visit my blog recently, you might have to a warning like this from your webbrowser: Warning: Something’s Not Right Here! hype-free.blogspot.com contains content from randaclay.com , a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site. … The source of the warning is…
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Update to the Blogger Tag Cloud
A small PSE (Public Service Announcement): if you were using the Blogger Tag Cloud I’ve put together based on the WP-Cumulus plugin, you might have noticed that it stopped working some time ago (I’m not entirely sure when, since I didn’t notice it, until a reader commented and brought it to my attention – thanks…
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Pulling a Hanselman
User interface / interaction design 101: if you want something, the least you can do is to ask for it. So I decided to take a page out of Scot Hanselman’s book (a blog worth reading BTW if you are interested in programming – it has an emphasis on Microsoft specific technologies, but other topics…
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Tried to review RocketPost…
A reader of mine asked about my opinions about RocketPost, so I thought I’ll give it a try. Their interface seemed alright and there were some interesting features showcased in the tour. An other thing I’ve liked is that they offer a free version with no restrictions, other than the number of blogs limited to…
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Blogger tag cloud
Some time ago I experimented with the Cumulus plugin for Blogger, but concluded that I had so many tags (probably a sign of ADD :-)) that the only thing it did, was to transform your computer into a heater, by keeping the processor at 100%. So, I created a Yahoo Pipe which extracts the top…
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Blogger tag plugin
I wanted to install the the Cumulus plugin for Blogger, however I realized that I have too many tags :-), so here is a static snapshot instead. Blogumulus by Roy Tanck and Amanda Fazani Update: reduced the number of tags to avoid hogging the CPU. Update: the server hosting the javascript / flash files went…
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Update to the Top Commenters widget
Some time ago I created a "Top Commenters" widget for Blogger using Yahoo Pipes. Unfortunately my efforts to use the resulting RSS directly failed. The problem was that Blogger was displaying older entries, even though I tried a bunch of different things to convince it that the element were new (like setting the date, adding…
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Making sure that your favicon works with Blogger
My favicon stopped showing up some time ago on my blogger page, but until now I was just too lazy to investigate. Turns out that blogger adds the following line in the header: <link href=’http://www.blogger.com/favicon.ico’ rel=’icon’ type=’image/vnd.microsoft.icon’/> Which overrides my favicon setting. The solution? Put your favicon declaration after the following line in your template:…
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Creating your own top commenters widget for blogger
Some time ago I added a top commenter widget to the blog, based on a tip from Blogger Buster. However it started acting up, so I decided to roll my own using Yahoo Pipes!. Below you will find a short tutorial on how to do it, as well as the ready-made pipe, based on the…
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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…