argh!

I can only agree with argh! on that, the comment about Annett Louisan.

Blogs - the new money machine?

A plugin I certainly won't install:

BlogMine enables content targeted ads in both feeds and web pages, simplifies and increases revenue generation for bloggers. The service provides a universal way to monetize all blog related content, regardless of whether it is published to the web or as an RSS feed.

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools.

A whole bag full of tools around nameservers, reachability etc. Very practical when you want to quickly check whether the reverse resolution of the server address also works reliably from outside. Or when you want to test a whole set of RBLs against an IP (I found rbls.org for that recently). Email tests. Routing information. And more ...

ESA - Cassini-Huygens - First image from Titan

ESA - Cassini-Huygens - First image from Titan - there it is, the first image from Titan, captured from 16 kilometers altitude. I want more of it

And Heise has more of it. Great. The landing site - wow.

FBI versenkt 170 Mio Dollar Software Projekt - due to unexpected problems. Funny how problems in IT are still always unexpected...

Court stops advertising campaign by cancer doctor Rath

It's embarrassing that such a charlatan can only be stopped due to formal errors in the first place. You'd think you could shut down such nonsense much earlier.

Google receives patent on search term highlighting

Google Gets Patent on Search Term Highlighting - and this means my website violates exactly this patent. Thanks to the Search Highlight plugin for WordPress (which comes as standard), search terms are highlighted in color when visitors come to my pages from a search engine. Well, sue me then, Google ...

Patents are problematic enough as it is, but such trivial patents are just infuriating.

heise online - Huygens Countdown +8h: But a few drops of bitterness after all

Damn, the weather forecast is cancelled ...

heise online - Neue Zürcher Zeitung digitizes all volumes since 1780 - somehow cool. Even cooler if the results were made freely accessible, I could imagine it being a fascinating information pool for historians.

Murder Investigation: Fashion Designer Moshammer is Dead | tagesschau.de

Why do I keep constantly reading "fashion investigations" instead?

PECL :: Package :: APC - PHP caching system, Open Source (no weird stunts like phpAccelerator and not as dead as turck mmCache)

Raumsonde «Huygens» sendet Daten - Yeah!

The search term zeitgeist is back

I've recreated a search terms zeitgeist for this blog. Previously, this was created by the Community Server, but now I've written a Python script that generates this zeitgeist automatically. I then integrated the whole thing into Wordpress's template system so the layout is correct too.

Of course, I've excluded this page in my robots.txt for the search engines, so that these search terms and links back to the search engines aren't used by them again for PageRank calculation - otherwise users would eventually only load on my zeitgeist page. And that would be Google spamming.

I always find this type of search term analysis quite interesting (by the way, I evaluate a whole bunch of search engines for this), as it makes it much easier to see what the web is interested in than with the normal evaluations that log analysis tools offer.

SURBL -- Spam URI Realtime Blocklists - Real-time blocking list that can check hostnames from URLs.

VW payments: Federal parliamentarian resigns

Why are politicians basically so stupid to believe their lies won't come out? Or why do they try every time with things like side income, some Miles-and-More deals or whatever else is cooking in terms of petty corruption to get out of it with really banal lies?