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Recently I ran into a situation where I needed to convert some relatively obscure archive files (e.g. RAR) to the ZIP format. That’s easy enough if you only need to deal with a single file – just extract it using your favorite archiver and re-compress the extracted files as .zip. However, manually converting dozens of […]

There’s been some controversy about the ethics of using Adblock. Webmasters want advertising income, users want a better browsing experience. Yadda yadda yadda. I can certainly sympathize with both sides of the debate – on the one hand, I hate intrusive ads as much as anyone. On the other hand, this site is mainly ad-supported. […]

The Raw HTML plugin has been updated! In case you didn’t know, Raw HTML is my WordPress plugin that lets you use unfiltered HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc in your posts. You can download the update from the plugin’s page, or wait for the automatic update notification that should appear in a few hours. Version 1.1 […]

Take the top 100 blogs from Technorati, scrape some connectedness statistics from Yahoo! Site Explorer, mix in a bit of improvised PHP scripting and Processing magic, and we’ve got ourselves a map of the equatorial blogosphere 🙂 About The Map This graph shows the connectedness level of some (see rant below) of the most popular […]

I promised (in the Tree Link project) to post the “Trees For The Future” certificate when it arrives, so here it is 🙂 On an unrelated note, I’m having trouble with my wisdom tooth. Posting frequency will be diminished for a while.