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WordPress Design and Hosting Tips

I do not claim to be an expert at the art of blogging. What I do know is that WordPress is most definitely the easiest and simplest – yet most manageable and configurable – blogging and content management system there is. I have built complete websites using WordPress and this blog itself is a simple [...]

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Further Ad Experiments

I have been doing plenty of ad experiments - and you know that. Over the last year, I have tried nearly every ad network that cares to accept my submissions. And I am getting close to my final goal of discovering the best-in-class ad network for low traffic sites.
So for this round of changes, I [...]

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Bing not so nice

Bing.com is, as you will know unless you have been completed cut off from this world for a long time, Microsoft’s latest attempt at wooing internet search users.
Bing has just started to become publicly available. And its first impressions are, well, not so good.
To begin with, the homepage doesn’t display properly on my browser. No, [...]

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WolframAlpha - Stunning when it can return results

There is a lot of buzz on the internet about Wolfram Alpha. It is an old concept with a stunning development: take knowledge and make it computable with computer algorithms. Difficult, but possible.
I do not intend to explain what Wolfram Alpha is - it is worth a look for anybody. What I need to point [...]

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Safari 4 vs Firefox 3.1 (aka 3.5) - Which will win?

First, the interesting part. As the web watching community knows, what was going to be Firefox 3.1 is now to be Firefox 3.5 as a better “representation of scope”. Of course, that is not what us users have to worry about.
What we have to worry about is that Firefox 3.5 and Apple’s Safari 4 are [...]

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