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WP-Cache 2.0 – useful for surviving the digg/reddit effect for your WordPress blog
Found this useful plugin from this site while working on a site that was in the middle of getting dugg/reddited: WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly…
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Good article over on Bruce’s FastWallpapers.com site – 6 Sexy Sports Cars Big Oil Doesn’t Want You to Buy
Bruce spent a good amount of time researching the 6 best “green” sports cars. Some awesome pics there, including the Tesla Roadster. These are our favorite “green” sports cars. Some get awesome gas mileage while smoking the competition, and others use advanced bio-fuels to eek out ever higher performance over their gas-guzzling brethren. Big Oil…
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Some excellent WordPress plugins I found recently – Breadcrumbs and better Links page management
I’m working on a new site relating to Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act compliance (it will replace the useless site that is currently up at grammleachblileyact.com) and was looking for breadcrumb functionality and a better way to manage outputting links from the Blogroll on the links.php page. I had searched for a good WordPress breadcrumbs plugin a while…
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RSS2.com is fast again, thanks to a new and improved SQL database schema
For quite a while, RSS2.com has been slow. Ever since it hit, oh, around 1.4 million items in its database (now up over 2 million) the queries that were responsible for building the home page view had gotten slower and slower. The old design The problem was one of normalization, and the desire to not…
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Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq
More coverage of this here: President Bush’s Executive Order: Revoking the Right to Dissent? Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement 30 DAYS TO ABSOLUTE TYRANNY White House Kisses Goodbye to 5th Amendment Pissed Off About Iraq? Bush Will Seize Your Bank Account Broad New Exec. Order Targets Iraq-Related Finances This Executive Order, signed by…
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I’m going to Video Games Live show in Louisville, KY tomorrow!
I am totally looking forward to this. For years I have been looking for someone to do this exact show, and now someone has gone and done it. I’m very excited. And it’s scheduled to come to Columbia, MO later this year in October. So I may get to see it twice… w00t. Check it…
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A List Apart: Articles: Conflicting Absolute Positions
Nice article on ALA about how to create a layout using almost pure CSS where there is a fixed-width sidebar and a dynamically resizing right-hand main content area without using Javascript to dynamically resize the page. All right, class. Using CSS, kindly produce a liquid layout that contains a fixed-width, scrolling side panel and a…
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Web Devout
Some excellent articles here about good web building practices. Welcome to Web Devout! This site is aimed at promoting the health of the Web by providing web developers and the public with the knowledge and tools needed to help the Web move forward. Check it out: Web Devout Thanks for the pointer, Ben. Link to…
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Car Wallpapers
Bruce’s project is starting to really flesh out nicely. If you’re looking for some sexy exotic car wallpapers, check out FastWallpapers.com. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/07/02/car-wallpapers/
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Complete 55 Gallon Aquarium + Stand for sale (SOLD on Craigslist)
I’m selling my 55 gallon aquarium setup for $25. The only problem with it is that the bottom panel is cracked, which means that it doesn’t hold water. Other than that, it’s a great setup. Updated: Sold quickly through Craigslist. I love Craigslist. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/06/27/complete-55-gallon-aquarium-stand-for-sale/