Terrorist-proof Volkswagen Polo
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Stopping referrer spam (or die trying)
Referrer spam, to some webmasters something unknown, to others a severe pain in the butt. People visiting your website while faking a refferer aren’t that bad, but people actually using webspiders to massively desecrate your website statistics are very annoying, these people need to be targeted. Since some people…
iddqd
I got bored yesterday night, so I started playing around with a domain I still had laying around: http://iddqd.nl It took me some time to find the correct audio files, Google did help of course, and it took me here :) For the people too young to remember this,…
Overriding PHP settings
You’re migrating your site to your brand new Plesk server and your site doesn’t behave like it should. This is probably because of the default PHP settings that Plesk enforces. Examples are safe_mode and magic_quotes_gpc. Here’s how to take care of that. First, you…
The Colour of Magic
The main characters are Rincewind, a failed wizard from Unseen University, he can’t keep any spells in his head as one of the eight Great Spells is in there and Twoflower the Disc’s first tourist where in his homeland he isn’t very rich at all but in…
books books books
Bought myself a few books last Friday, since I finished Stepen King‘s Insomnia (one of King’s best novels). My choice came down to these three books: J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion, Terry Pratchett * The Colour of Magic Douglas Adams - The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide I’…
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Wow, the next Harry Potter book – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – hasn’t even been released yet and it’s already the biggest seller over at Amazon. I loved reading the previous books, so I can’t wait to finally read this installment of this great series. It’s…
Fox Columnist on crack
After reading one of Cal Thomas’ columns on foxnews.com I could only come to the conclusion that the columnist in question had either undergone a lobotomy or is indeed on crack. Since there doesn’t seem to be any major scar tissue, let’s assume the latter, he’s…