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Maciej Ceglowski invites you to become an Idlewords macropatron by donating $300,000. Only cheques. No Paypal. And smaller amounts won’t be accepted.

Pirate Bay has been receiving threats from various firms, like Microsoft, EA, SEGA, etc. Their response has been straightforward. via Dhar

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven’t, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you’re in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(.

Please don’t sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he’s found and doesn’t have a huge hangover…

Create a permanent paging file in Windows XP. It speeds up the system when you have lots of applications running.

Ovid catches his credit card thieves.

This morning, I found out that thousands of dollars of charges had been made on two of my credit cards in the past two days. Now, the identity thieves are sitting in jail. This is how it happened. It involves identity theft, a careless thief, one pissed-off Ovid and lots of luck.

Droogle. Drink recipes.

code.google.com

Spammer ploys. From the Scientific American.

I have introduced a “Search” box near the top. It searches for posts that contain the string (regular expression) you type in that box.

OpenSearch. “We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content.” It’s an RSS interface to search, and is an extremely powerful concept.

Google Local Business Center.

Fill in the address of your business. Google matches with its database, and edit the category, hours, payment terms, etc…. of course it’s not going to do this without some kind of validation. After you’ve submitted your listing Google will send you a letter within two weeks with a PIN and activation instructions for making your edits “live” on Google Local. Your listing won’t be included on the site until this process is gone through.