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Facebook has new clothes

August 14, 2008 – 9:38 pm

Facebook is testing a new layout with a number of random users. Here are some screenshots:
New_Facebook_%7C_Home-20080814-213014 Facebook has new clothes

The most notable change is the right column, obviously a better choice when dealing ads(clicks happen more frequently on the right side, because of the…

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Phishing Church of the Day

August 10, 2008 – 11:28 am

Se da un mail de phishing:
paypal phishing email

… se da linkul la care duce (atentie, evident e un fals, nu va bagati nici o data personala acolo):
phishing site

…ne uitam curiosi la situl parinte al acestui minunat phishing. Carevasazica o biserica. Hmm… asa da…

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Suing people for calling him a Spammer

May 29, 2008 – 8:13 am

Flickr SpamThis guy has been threatening with a lawsuit about every Romanian blogger who dared tell people that Urban and Associates have been fined for spam by ANRCTI, the Romanian authority in the field of Communications and Information Technology. To show he means…

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Dreamhost and mod_rails for your tiny Rails application

May 29, 2008 – 6:48 am

To my shame as a rubyist, it was only a couple of hours ago that I found out, while reading Ruby Inside about mod_rails and the wonders it does for the Rails community.

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Don’t use G-Archiver - it’s spyware

March 9, 2008 – 10:23 am

For those few of you who aren’t subscribed to Coding Horror blog, here’s a creepy piece of news:
a reader of the aforementioned blog discovered that the shareware program G-Archiver which claims to be a “Gmail backup solution” is actually a trojan spyware…

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How to import Ultimate Warrior Tags into Wordpress 2.3+ and how to easily backup your Wordpress database

February 25, 2008 – 9:48 am

dandy-logo How to import Ultimate Warrior Tags into Wordpress 2.3+ and how to easily backup your Wordpress database
If, like me, you had been using Ultimate Warrior Tags (UTW) to assign Technorati-compatible tags to your article, then you must have been as annoyed as I was when upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.2 or Wordpress 2.3.3. All of the sudden, Wordpress…

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Digg changes voting… again

January 24, 2008 – 10:15 am

digglogon Digg changes voting... again
According to Techcrunch, Digg’s founder just announced new changes to the rating algorithm - namely, it becomes very difficult to promote a story to the homepage with the help of your friends: a diverse, unique group of diggers is needed for this.
kevin Digg changes voting... againSo… this…

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Italy prohibits Internet free speech

October 23, 2007 – 12:36 pm

Again, an article in English, because I want this to be read by non-Romanians as well. I just heard an unbelievable and frightening piece of news, on the blog of an italian Flash coder, Emanuelle Feronato, who says it’s the…

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One man’s fight kneeling Amazon down

October 17, 2007 – 10:55 am

Who said one man can’t change the world?

image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/67611702@N00/416627805/
Today is a great day for everyone with an interest in free speech, free software, software, freedom and.. well.. for everyone:

The infamous one-click patent owned by Amazon has finally been proven invalid. This was…

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geo.yahoo.com and del.icio.us?

October 28, 2006 – 1:15 am

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The 100 million dollars giveaway

August 26, 2006 – 11:41 am

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