I searched for some instructions on how to easily find dead links on my blog. I found some plugins that do just that but instead of using a plugin to do it why not use this cool method that can also provide you with a custom 404 page ?

The WordPress Codex directory is way cool and it is maybe one of the best wordpress resources out there. Here’s the link that interests us in particular: Creating an Error 404 Page. You just need to create a 404.php file in your theme directory (in case you don’t already have one). Put the following code in it and customize aiding yourself with the comments:

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If you use Gtalk and you have set the status option  to “Show current music track” and use Winamp 5.xxx you will see that Gtalk has a hard time getting the information from Winamp. In order to solve this you will need to create a blank “winamp.m3u” using any kind of player that understands that format or simply by using Notepad and saving a blank file as “winamp.m3u”.

If you are using the well-known Streamripper with Winamp for ripping your favorite streams on Vista you might experience a problem when disabling Streamripper. I for one, don’t need Streamripper all the time so I disable it and re-enable it only when I go for a “tunes hunt”. The user credentials stuff will give you headaches on Vista (even if you are logged in as Administrator or another user with administrator privileges). Why ? Because when you enable/disable Streamripper plugin or other Winamp plugins they will edit their config files (mostly INI files). Vista won’t let them do that so you disable Streamripper, restart Winamp and Streamripper will pop right up again as nothing happened.

In order to get rid…

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For those of you who found themselves having problems configuring the media keys for the keyboard, don’t worry. The solution exists and you don’t need to think of changing your favorite player because of this issue. If you own this cool wireless set and you are a fan of Foobar2000 player you will proably want to get those media keys to work. As I don’t have time to write those instructions here, on my blog, I will give you the link to this wonderful, comprehensive post that will guide you through all the process. Here, Luckz posted this cool step-by-step guide. Don’t worry, the post may have been written in 2006 but I successfully used those instructions and got…

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Eleven days ago the server on which this blog is hosted went down. The server’s OS (RHEL 5) went into kernel panic. Reason is unknown and probably will remain that way unfortunately. For the last eleven days, I spent most of my time recovering what I could from the server. MySQL databases have been fully restored. Domains files, websites, e-mail accounts, pretty much everything we needed from the server was recovered. This has been a long and tiring task for me. It consumed me as a person. I definitely learned some new stuff from this, so I guess it was an educative experience. I want to use this occasion to officially thank the support staff from “The Planet” who…

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Antonio’s Handbook is like a present for all web designers out there.
The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork!
I strongly suggest you download (it’s free !) his book and have a look. It’s a great piece of reference.

In case you don’t know, Antonio is the writer on Woork; a blog about AJAX, CSS, Mootools, Scriptaculous and many others.

This is my way of saying “Thank you Antonio !”.

I’ve been using RescueTime for quite a while now. The main thing that I like about it is that after you launch it (in case it’s not on your startup list already) you can forget about it. Oh, and it’s free. Most of other time tracking software require you to push some kind of “record” and “stop” button. When I am working on a project for instance and a friend sends me an instant message or my boss needs to chat with me regarding something important I will more than surely forget to pause the time tracking program. So I will bill my client for the time I used to chat with someone else. That is not fair and…

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Wishing you a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !” This is my last post in 2008 so I just wanted to say I am grateful for everything that I accomplished so far. This year a lot of great things happened to me. Thanks everyone for being there for me when I needed you.

See you next year !

Some while ago I installed StatPress plugin on one of my blogs. I wanted to see how it worked and if it was indeed a good plugin. After a couple of days I decided that Google Analytics is way better and helps me keep a light load on my blog. Anyway, this plugin showed some interesting data, useful in many cases and it showed it in a pleasant way. However the amount of stress handled by my blog was too big for the purpose of recording some stats. At least Analytics was doing it almost seamless.

Of course that after a while I disabled the plugin without knowing what actually happened in my database. I don’t remember if the plugin…

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