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Published at Sitepoint (typography article)

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-28

A few of you have already noticed a handsome new author over at Sitepoint.com. I wonder who he is … Anyhow, read his/my peice Rich Punctuation: How To Do It And Why You Should Bother.

I do, as always, love your feedback.

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Spammers passing as M2 users

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-27

I have noticed that I have been getting very much more spam than usual the last few weeks. Someone is apparently wanting a new bot-net very much. Anyhow, I have also noticed that much spam is sent with the following footer:

–
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Anyone using Opera M2 will recognise this default footer. Studying these emails' headers revels that the User-Agent: [is indeed] Opera Mail/9.50. The address formatting is, however, revealing that the messages are probably not sent using Opera.

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Delete Win XP wallpapers

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-14

A small tip for Windows XP users: Free up a few megabytes by removing the default desktop backgrounds in Windows. They are located in the following directories. Feel free to delete the contents, but not the directories them self.

• c:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures\Sample

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WordPress sucks

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-07-12

I saved a draft for a post on Gentoo in WordPress. Two days later it is just gone. Why does that happen? I even edited the draft a few times so I am sure that it was saved at least one time.

I am quite angry with WordPress right now.

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