How to view HTTP headers
on Jul 19, 2009 in Code HTTP headers are the part of the webpage you don't see in your browser (usually); the special data describing the page to your browser software. HTTP headers are wehere you'd put redirects, information about whether a file is a PNG / HTML page / RAR...

Breaking through Google's 1000 result limit
on Jun 20, 2009 in Code Sometimes we want to get a huge list of URLs from a search engine. For example, you might want to find all the pages linking back to you. However, Google won't return anything past 1000 results; see this search for "south"; we're on page 99, with 10...

Free links on Blogger
on Oct 25, 2008 in Freebies Blogger, like many other popular services, offers an option to post-by-email. This lets you post when you're out and about. You pick a special email address, and when you send something there, it appears on your blog; the subject is the blog title, a

Free eBooks
on Oct 25, 2008 in Freebies Yeah, it's been a while. There's a great archive of eBooks around - these ones are actually good, copies of published prints on computing. Grab the dir with: wget -np http://debian.yaako.org/ebook/...

Free links on Blogger
on Oct 25, 2008 in Freebies Blogger, like many other popular services, offers an option to post-by-email. This lets you post when you're out and about. You pick a special email address, and when you send something there, it appears on your blog; the subject is the blog title, a

Free eBooks
on Oct 25, 2008 in Freebies Yeah, it's been a while. There's a great archive of eBooks around - these ones are actually good, copies of published prints on computing. Grab the dir with:wget -np http://debian.yaako.org/ebook/...

How not to keyword spin
on Jun 6, 2008 in Bad SEO Unique content's a good thing, right? Not always.To get well written text, you need to invest some time, or pay someone skilled to do it for you. Both are expensive and slow exercises, so many SEOs choose to take a shortcut and "spin" artic

How not to keyword spin
on Jun 6, 2008 in Bad SEO Unique content's a good thing, right? Not always.To get well written text, you need to invest some time, or pay someone skilled to do it for you. Both are expensive and slow exercises, so many SEOs choose to take a shortcut and "spin" artic

No search engine traffic here please, and half you visitors can f*** off too
on Jun 3, 2008 in Bad SEO You gotta love sites that hate spiders as much as this. Open up IE (if you have it) and visit www.fdms.com. No problem, right? I mean, it's a pretty bad site, with some clear SEO problems, sucky design, lack of content, etc, but you can see something

No search engine traffic here please, and half you visitors can f*** off too
on Jun 3, 2008 in Bad SEO You gotta love sites that hate spiders as much as this. Open up IE (if you have it) and visit www.fdms.com. No problem, right? I mean, it's a pretty bad site, with some clear SEO problems, sucky design, lack of content, etc, but you can see something