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WordPress 2.8 “Baker” Released

Got it on WordPress’ Twitter status: WordPress 2.8 “Baker” is now live to the world! http://bit.ly/wordpress28 (spread the good word) Yup. It is here, and you can read more about the new features here. To upgrade to the latest version using subversion while Automattic haven&rsqu...

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Scott Ya...ayground — June 11

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Top 500 Sites in Australia According to Alexa

Need to analyse a list of top sites in Australia, and the following Python scripts helped me to get the site name + domain name off from Alexa with minimum effort: #!/usr/bin/env python import re, urllib r = r'(.*?)'; for i in range(25): u = 'http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries;%d/AU' % ...

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Scott Ya...ayground — May 28

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Tour de Googleplex, Sydney

Saw this on Sydney Morning Herald yesterday — Google named Australia’s best place to work: After its outstandingly successful parent company topped a 100 Best Places To Work survey conducted by the US magazine Fortune, Google Australia has claimed the No.1 spot in a similar Australia...

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Scott Ya...ayground — April 29

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Last.fm Streaming Ceased to be Free

Last.fm radio announcement — international radio listeners will require paid subscription, at €3 per month (although you also get 30 track free trial). The only part of the world that can continue to get free streaming are United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Darn. That means no...

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Scott Ya...ayground — March 26

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Internet Explorer 8 Released, Still no Animated GIF

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 released to the public as of this morning, thanks to Nick for notifying me. Much better if you are a developer that needs to support the IE platform, or want gimmicks such as web slices. Too bad the animated GIFs is still not working, which I think would probably br...

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Scott Ya...ayground — March 19

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Undo Send Available on Gmail

Undo Send — new in Gmail Labs, via Twitter. One feature that I wished that I have over the last 14 years of emailing. Back in the Thunderbird days, way too often press [Ctrl]-[Enter] instead of [Enter], which sent off an unfinished email. Too bad you only have 5 seconds to recall your mista...

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Scott Ya...ayground — March 19