Telecom’s T-Stick under Mandriva Linux

Telecom New Zealand had an offer on last Thursday, for all fixed broadband customers. You could get a T-Stick including a prepaid SIM card for free, only thing you had to do is to pay 30 bucks to buy 500MB of traffic. I couldn’t resist, especially since I just got myself a Netbook a few weeks ago, perfect fit I’d say.

Dynadock / DisplayLink under Linux

I got one of those Toshiba Dynadock Docking Stations at work, and am quite impressed how easy it was to set it up. The only hard part is the DisplayLink graphics card, more to that later.

Singleton-aware Factory in PHP

I’m using a Factory (pattern) to load objects based on configuration. Explaining the reasoning is beyond the scope of this post, the link to Wikipedia might help here.
Here’s some code how it was:

Palm, Nokia, listen up!

I found this very interesting article about “The Business of Free“, which shows how much money and time the big companies could save by supporting existing Open Source Software that offers functionality which is much needed by them.

Social Marketers surprised – lying and fooling people might be illegal!

Sorry, just couldn’t resist on this one, I read this revealing post (well, I read the headline and the first few sentences) on SEOmoz.

So what exactly is Social (Search or Media) Marketing?

SEO Site of the Day

This is a real winner, SEO at its best!

Its the Goat SEO! Well, alright, its an Italian SEO, but they are using an english name (Go @ SEO).

On the other hand, it could be a stroke of genious, as they get more links this way… well, there’s mine at least.

YouTube is seriously broken for 64bit Linux, as is its service

[UPDATE] Seems YouTube found that uploader Javascript issue and fixed it the very next day! Thanks.

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So I got this video that I’d like to upload to Youtube… Its not the first time, I already uploaded a few videos, and lets face it, all thats needed is a html form and a submit button, no?

Well, seems its not that easy.

Why you should use Google Chrome

Sorry, can’t think of anything.

New spammer on the block – Technosnack

Not sure if I should be glad that the spammers think my blog’s good enough to spam, or rather be concerned how good this spam is this time. There’s lots of spam in blogs, most of the time you can’t even read it as it doesn’t make much sense. This one is quite good, and it doesn’t even sound too spammy.

Google’s blind love for Wikipedia

I found a great article about Google’s algorithmic failure when it comes to Wikipedia. According to Google most users like Wikipedia entries in the SERPs, so far so good. But Graywolf has some high-ranking (often #1) wikipedia results with nearly no content. He tested with Tour de France cities (Google really likes the Tour de France!), Lannemezan one is my favorite (if there is more content now than please check some older revisions of that article).

Now Google, tell us again that content is everything.

Glen, I know, there was no need for me to post today, but therefor I don’t have to post on the weekend, I leave that up to you!