Archive for November, 2005

I guess i can’t -not- post about it

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Google Base: for all your ehmmm… stuff appearently. A solution without a problem or a very literal interpretation of their stated goal to organize all the worlds information (or ’stuff’ in Google speak)?

David Lynch has gone mad too!

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

David Lynch and Vedic “Science” (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog): What do they put in the water in hollywood? Read the comments too b.t.w. crazed followers make for great entertainment.

Update: Pentagon admits using chemical weapons

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

But ofcourse immediately start playing down the seriousness of this fact: CNN.com - U.S. admits using white phosphorous as weapon - Nov 16, 2005.

If it’s not as bad as we think (a war crime in international law, but that never bothered the US before) then why did they lie about it?

(via Vincent)

update 2: more on BBC about this. (via ochblog)

Google Analytics

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Google Analytics:

Want to know more about your site or blog? Want to know which keywords work and which ones don’t? Want to know how visitors to your site found you and what they visited in your site?

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tip: if you have a wordpress blog just paste the code in your header.php file and all your pages will be tracked…

(via ifcc)

Americans used chemical weapons in Iraq

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Afbeelding 3

Through ochblog i found an italian documentary that seems to show proof of american use of chemical weapons in the war in Iraq. The documentary titled: “Fallujah: The hidden massacre” is the same one that is discussed in this news report from The Independent and shows images of bodies affected by ‘white phosphorus’ (a type of napalm appearently), american troops using it and interviews with soldiers who where there.
The following link leads to a bittorrent download of the documentary: .torrent (disclaimer: the video contains explicit imagery)

Kill Bill’s Browser - Switch to Firefox

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Kill Bills Background

Comments working again, but for how long

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Commenting should be working again, an empty entry in the user table seemed to have been the culprit. Akismet is turned on again so if you -do- have any more trouble please feel free to contact me.

Plazes (Google) Map Wordpress plugin released

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Oh my. I just released my Plazes meets GoogleMaps plugin which takes your plazes location and displays the nice little Google map you can see here at the top of this blog. Disclaimer: Like the Last.fm plugin it’s very beta so it could very well make your server explode if you install it. Both the Last.fm plugin and this plugin are now available through the source repository over at wp-plugins.org.

Installation instructions:

  1. Download the plazesmap zip archive (version 0.4).
  2. Unzip it and copy the plazesmap directory over to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Get a Google Maps API key for your weblog.
  4. Edit plazesmap.php and fill in you API key (mine won’t work on your site).
  5. Turn on the plugin in your Wordpress admin interface.
  6. Call the plugin with your Plazes username and password from somewhere within your templates like so:

<?php current_location('username','password'); ?>

And that’s it!

Todo:

  • Add caching of the plazes data

Changelog:

  • version 0.4: switched to google maps version 2 (more data & images!)
  • version 0.3: fixed Internet Explorer Javascript bug (thnx Andoni)
  • version 0.2: added offline and error handling
  • version 0.1: initial release

Branches:

Some background on the paris riots

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Not much info out there but i found this on one of my regular reads. riots & blogging in the banlieue:

“i will fuck la france until she loves me”

No more comment spam?

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

The Wordpress crew has launched a server based solution to solve the ever growing blog spam problem with Akismet. A Wordpress plugin that sends comment data to a server for comparison with other spam and bases it’s conclusions on that test. To use it you have to have a Wordpress.com API key which you already have if you have ever signed up for the Wordpress.com service in the past but which is now only available after you download the new Flock browser it would seem. Luckily you can also just follow this signup link, sign up and get your key. If it works i’ll tell you about it later. It should at least be better than spam karma which is just a big pile of useless filters that in my case has only managed to ‘catch’ legitimate posts and allow spam.