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A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.

Why email clients block sender images

This is a feature of email clients that all of you out there must have stumbled on. Emails sent with images embedded in them (not as attachments but in the body of the message) often appear as blocked from your email client (outlook, thunderbird, yahoo mail, hotmail,...

The (X)HTML strict way to open a new window

There has been a fuss on websites that don't go through validation simply because they have a wrong way of opening a link on a new window. The old conventional way of opening a link on a new window was simply by adding an attribute like: My new window link This was...

Automating WordPress

I recently thought about creating a small website where I would post all the apps that I try and like for the iPhone/ iPod. But then again, I knew, that if it was hard to post and maintain it then I'll probably end up deleting the whole thing after a few months at...

Twitter’s RT vs everything else

Well here is my little dime on the subject. As you all must have noticed, Twitter adopted the RT trend. This actually originally started as a need of the community to share tweets that they like without removing the attribute from the original poster, instead...

The magic of Posterous and FunnyInbox.net

I know i am late in discovering this service but Posterous,simply put, rocks your socks! I love the way these guys implemented post by mail. I mean i know our beloved WordPress does it, for a long time now actually, but in my humble opinion not quite well. So i...

The “European Knowledge” experiment

I have just started a very small poll that is part of a small experiment i am conducting. If you're interested please check it out and vote here. Please do not lookup the answer online. It will only take a minute to complete. The results of the experiment will be...

Stop joining spam meaningless Facebook groups

I've seen this trend taking off the last year or so. Every spammer out there has included Facebook in their plans. Here is how it works: I have a stupid site i want to promote or a stupid product or anything that you wouldn't actually even pay attention to. I go to...

How to use bindings in the backing beans in ADF 10g

This is a follow up to the original post about acquiring a bindings object in backing beans in ADF. Some have had the question, how to use the bindings for standard operations in the backing beans. Hence this post! The answer is - easy. As soon as you've got the...