Archive for October, 2008

bd-things and netcraft, 700000 positions in one month!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

29 days after the inclusion of the new domain in Netcraft's most visited web sites, my site made a jump of more than 700k positions, hitting position 111506. I'm very happy with these results and hope that I'll reach the old result of top 30k with the old domain name in less than 6 months :)

The RiskRating is at "green" status, too!

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Testing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) beta on a Macbook (updated!)

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

It's a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros.
I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha 6 yesterday, I fell into problems with it and a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade brought me Ubuntu 8.10 beta, correcting some of them :-)
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A valid xhtml strict version of extending text plugin for wordpress

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I began today to check my theme pages for passing W3C's Validator test against XHTML 1.0 Strict. There is still some work to be done before it will be ready but I would like to share with you a modified version of the very useful Expanding Text Plugin for Wordpress, which lets you to create blocks of text in posts or which either expand or collapse when clicked on. I really like the plugin, but I noticed that it does not produce valid XHTML tags. Here is a light modification of the plugin which outputs valid XHTML blocks: dd-expanding-text-valid-xhtml

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