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Recently I made a converter GUI for daa2iso. Now I’ve decided to follow up with another similar tool - the UIF to ISO converter GUI. It’s almost the same as the previous one, except that it operates on files with the UIF extension. You can use this simple tool for converting UIF files to the ISO format.

Google has a free keyword suggestion tool that is supposed find keywords related to a phrase or a website’s URL that you enter. I tried Google.com and got some weird suggestions, like “grave images”. I’m aware of the fact that Google’s bots see websites differently than humans do, but this was unexpected. So I went and tried entering some other popular websites - just for fun. Here are the results.

This is a simple graphical user interface for the DAA to ISO converter. The original converter tool requires that you know how to use command-line utilities - and many users do not. That is why I made a simple Windows interface for it. You can download it (and the converter) here.

A short and whimsical list of weird ways to lose some weight (mostly aimed at guys). It’s a semi-serious parody of the ubiquitous Top X lists.

Lately I’ve become a bit tired of all the plugin-making, new-feature-adding and programming in general, probably because I’m currently out of exciting and easy to implement ideas. This leads me to finding alternate modes of time-wasting, like obsessing over stats - the RSS subscriber count in particular. And somehow that activity gave me a new idea and made me enthusiastic enough to start work on yet another plugin.

Recently I needed to put some style definitions and a JavaScript function in a post on another blog that I have. I wasted several hours trying to do this, because WordPress insisted on putting backslashes in front of my apostrophes, inserting superfluous <p> or <br /> tags in place of newlines, and generally breaking my HTML in various horrible ways.

In the end I decided to just go and write a plugin that would let me put any code or script in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.

I just found out about the Wikipedia “scandal” recently (by reading a webcomic), and somehow my thoughts turned immediately to how this could be exploited. Monetary rewards are unlikely, but one could get a good bit of publicity/backlinks… if they found a way to attract the attention of the same people who voted the aforementioned “scandal” to the frontpage of Digg. Here are some ideas on how to do just that.

Over the last few days I’ve been tweaking my AdSense ads and trying to improve their relevance, with good results - last Sunday was the highest-earning day for this site since… well, since ever. There was no large increase in traffic, so it’s really because of the changes I made. Here are some tips that I figured out from my experimentation…

I recently blogged about my anti-spam experiment (which has been going great!). The one problem with the method I explained in that post is that it requires the user to modify WordPress core files. Editing the source code can be risky and may intimidate non-programmers. Turns out there is a good alternative though - the [...]

There are lots of search engine plugins for Firefox, and it’s easy to make a simple search plugin for your own site. That’s why it came as a bit of a surprise that I couldn’t find any search engine plugins for searching the currently open site. So I created one. Download it here.