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Writing large programs in assembly language is almost impossible – they always turn out to be small!

Fall

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Hacked back by WordPress.com?

I’ve blogged 3 days ago about WordPress.com blog being hacked and rogue post appearing in the feed.

The post contained screenshot from my Google Reader page showing that rogue post.

Today I find this screenshot missing on my blog:

I do have a backup of the original screenshot, of course. But the the question is why it is missing?
Did WordPress delete it? Do not know, I’ve sent email to support and will post if I receive reply!

WordPress.com Blog – hacked?

Just opened my Google Reader and what do I see as WordPress.com Blog post?

Seems like someone posted spam entry there… Was it hacked? Or just an accident?

Here is the footer of the post, if anyone is interested:

Blogging here

Spent time today trying to cleanup this blog a bit.

I love wordpress, but there are some usability issues. handling templates is one of them. No preview available. No conformation when selecting new template.

As a result – screwed blog by accident. Of course did not have any notes on how it was formatted – had to reinvent the wheel.

Would be nice to be able to define couple customized layouts – one default for example, and test one – to try different templates, colors and widgets. Oh, well.

So much for tags – love that idea, but it does not translate to Categories logically all the time. Example – I had “Computers and Internet” category. All good, but this name is too long for a tag, which should be simple one-work label. Converted to just “computers”.

Another issue is a layout. That’s more my personal quest for the best.  I’d like to use full width of the screen – to be able to post wider items. On another hand – wide text is hard to read, better to limit the width. But with 3-column design, middle column isn’t too wide. On the other hand – 3-column layout may look too cluttered (and it probably does!).

Decided to keep current layout anyway…

In the search for better headphones cord management

Using some interesting solutions:

Digital Innovations

Zip Wraps – not very compact but really practical.

Available in BestBuy

Belkin

TuneTie – very simple, compact, but not the easiest in use.

Internet Explorer for 7

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2

Source: Download details: Windows Internet Explorer for 7 Windows XP SP2

Looks like IE 7 is out.

Original download page title with original typo: “Download details: Windows Internet Explorer for 7 Windows XP SP2″

Test picture post

Testing1

Thunderbird

I like Thunderbird – better then Outlook Express in may ways (not in everything, unfortunately).

I also like IMAP.

Now, I’m looking at big email over IMAP – about 4MB – with 2 pictures attached. It took some time for TB to download pictures locally and show them. Great! Let me save pictures… Wait… Why are we downloading images again?

Stupid, if you ask me… 

From Slashdot: How to Deal w/ Dubious ‘Contracts’?

It seems that for almost every service out there nowadays businesses want to fix customers into a contract.

Slashdot | How to Deal w/ Dubious ‘Contracts’?.

 I thought, I better save this discussion

The Flow

What would be posted here, I will call “The Flow” – the flow of life and information crossed on Internet intersections…

This may include some personal stuff, information found on the Internet (digg, as an example) or real life(photos).