This morning I saw these strange strings (!$title$! & $!text$!) in the RSS feeds of popular sites like TechCrunch and Inside CBC. Just a wild guess but I think this...
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Errors in WordPress RSS Feeds Related to the iPhone App ?
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ID theft driven by account takeovers
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Sam Trendall, CRN, Wednesday 23 July 2008 at 16:55:00 Life assistance firm encourages vigilance as fraudsters move with the times Cases of identity theft have more than...
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Drug Scams on Google Sites
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Google Sites, a free service that allows anyone to create a wiki style website in seconds, may be the new hunting ground for scammers for one simple reason - all web...
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How do I monitor a file directory for added/deleted/ changed files?
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Event Gateways: Directory Watcher Open the ColdFusion Administrator and go to "EVENT GATEWAYS/Gateway Types". ColdFusion comes with a few predefined Gateway Types one of...
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[OSCON 2008] Caching and Performance: Lessons from Facebook by Lucas Nealan
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Facebook is not just a Social Networking Site, they're a "Social Utility". They have the 4th most trafficked site in the world and over 90 million active users. Of those...
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Domaining
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"Domaining" means buying and selling domains for profit. It's only tangentially related to affiliate marketing in some instances, but in other instances it's extremely...
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Inspiration from RailsConf
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RailsConf 2008 is over, and it was by far better than last year. I'm not one for drawn-out conference wrap-up posts so here's a summary of my most inspiring moments and...
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OSGi running on Amazon EC2
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Server side OSGi applications now can also be easily deployed on computing clouds implemented by Amazon (EC2). With several mouse clicks your exported bundles can be...
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State of Dynamic Infrastructure
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Well, I just returned from a much needed vacation, and thought it would be nice to capture where I think we are with our Dynamic Infrastructure project. Prior to...
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MobileMe Updater Available (Sort Of)
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In delving into the XML file that Software Update uses to check for available updates, edibiase found that a MobileMe Updater is online. Forum member, FreeState...
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Making The Call: PSL's, A Necessary Evil
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Sports fans are by nature traditionalists. Some older baseball fans still bemoan the day that the American League abandoned convention and invented the designated...
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Quake Arena trailer shakes up web games
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Filed under: Mac, PC, First Person Shooters, Online, Video First it was Quake Zero, then it became Quake Live, and now we have a fresh new look at Quake Arena,...
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A Week At Home…
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My wife and a couple of the kids are in Peru this week for a short visit with her father. They spent a couple of days in Lima and are heading to Cusco today. Her dad...
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Rob Campbell: The Correct Term is “Firebuggist”
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After the Firefox 3 Release Week excitement, I kind of zoned-out for a bit and forgot about my blog. In an attempt to re-invigorate it, I’ve updated the theme to...
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Meeting Summary 7th July
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The group reviewed the current status of its publications. The DR and Grouping doc have both been updated recently and the Formal Semantics document has been published...
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"Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct
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Geoffrey.landis writes "A Purdue University panel investigated allegations against nuclear engineering professor Rusi Taleyarkhan, finding that he had in fact committed...
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Library & LibraryManager
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Here’s and example of our Library & LibraryManager classes that we use in some of our Flex and AS 3.0 projects to manage our external assets stored in...
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Is UML on the way out?
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One of the presenters at QCon (I think it was John Davies) asked the audience whether they used UML 2.0 and only a couple of people raised their hands. I wasn't one of...
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ABBRacadabra
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In Chapter 8 of the DOM Scripting book I’ve got a little script that looks through the contents of an HTML document, finds any instances of the abbr element and then...
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Windows' Genuine Disadvantage
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Recently it emerged that Microsoft is removing the "kill switch" from Vista. When you install Vista, Microsoft claims that you consent to being spied upon, through the...