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I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 today due to some major security issues (German link) and was reminded that one of my widgets was not working correctly. Nathan Oliphant wrote this widget to display bookmarks in the sort order of the users choosing. Unfortunately, it had two minor bugs which 1. caused changes not to be [...]

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Today, I wrote a simple MyBB plugin, Registration eMail Check (RMC). The plugin first verifies whether the email has a valid format, then compares the email host with a number of hosts which were explicitly disabled by the administrator (the plugin comes with a decent list of well-known one-time address providers), and finally tries to [...]

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I’ve been doing a bit XP at home lately.

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I saw the following advertisement on AutoScout24 today.

5300 EUR for a 2007 Audi A3 ragtop. This looked too good to be true, indeed, but still I couldn’t hesitate to contact the seller. The telephone number shown in the ad turned out to be a fax number, so I tried to get in touch by email. [...]

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I came across a funny side note in The Pragmatic Programmer:
In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth PI should have the value of “3″. The Bill was tabled indefinitely at its second reading when a mathematics professor pointed out that their powers did not quite extend to passing [...]

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Ooops, I didn’t write much lately since there wasn’t much to write about. I had great holidays and a fantastic New Years Eve, and I met some nice people in the past few days. I hope you all had a great time, too. A happy new year to everyone!
I digged through StudiVZ the other day [...]

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(Image courtesy of mybestdesktops.com)
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I have a BlackBerry 8800 for work which is generally a good thing. I can read and write email, notes and calendar entries from anywhere, surf the web, get a route calculated from my current position and so on and so on.

Still, it’s a work gadget, so it would be just half the fun if [...]

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I couldn’t resist buying Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare when I was en route for Christmas presents on Saturday. If you’d like to read my experiences with it, read on.

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Looks cool, doesn’t it? I believe the Wii version would be great fun.
More info at destructoid.com.
Update Here’s the official site.
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I tempered around with my Wordpress installation while I was waiting for DVW to compile (a full rebuild for all targets takes a considerably long time even on my dual core). I threw out Sidebar Modules (SBM) which is neither maintained any longer nor compatible with widgets and reactivated Wordpress Widgets instead. This was a [...]

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Apparently someone has leaked internal DVW data, possibly using an iPod or iPhone, as the evidence shows. If you know this bastard, tell him that we’ll segfault him.
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I have moved my blog to a new place; the new address is http://www.digitalbreed.com. Please update your bookmarks. All requests to the old URL should be forwarded over here. I have also added all book reviews I wrote so far, installed a gallery which is yet to be filled, and added a tutorials section which [...]

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Na, das nenne ich mal ein nettes Geburtstagsgeschenk. Die Pokes haben Hurrican released. Aber seht selbst:
http://www.hurrican-game.de/
Danke auch für den freundlichen Seitenhieb auf poke53280.de — wir geben Martin noch den Vorzug und releasen dann 2012 als letzte! So, und jetzt geh ich es mal anspielen.
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Did you ever think about why your mouse pointer becomes a hand if you hover a link but not if you hover a
? I don’t get the difference.
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Fellow #gamedev.ger channel resident Tim-Oliver “The_Fallen” Husser is currently residing in Cape Town, South Africa and has started a blog. I’m feeling the desperate need of a holiday when I look at the pictures…
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I just read a forum thread where someone complained that some MSDN pages don’t work with Firefox anymore. I checked this with FF 2.0 and can confirm that I cannot get the subsections e.g. on this page to open up by clicking on the cross symbol. This is really unfortunate, as I use Firefox as [...]

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Today, I found two things amazing. And the best is, you can watch the first thing while you download the second thing.
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I’m going to order new hardware soon (I can’t wait because the old board has occasional dropouts…). This is my current list:

AMD Athlon X2 4000+ processor
Seasonic S12 430 power supply unit
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe AM2 mainboard
Crucial 2GB DDR2-800 Kit
250GB Samsung SP2405C SATAII harddisk
Asus EN7600GT Silent 256MB graphics card

I’ll take the rest (like more harddisks, case etc.) [...]

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