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Another 302 redirect trick
Show Google one page, but when someone searches and clicks on the first link (remove the “_”, I’m not feeding them free ad clicks) the browser is sent off to an adfarm adclick script and finally to another site.
Visit the above site using wget, links or lynx and it won’t redirect!
SSIA – taxing forms
I heard on the news at the weekend that a form will have to be filled out and signed at least 3 months prior to the SSIAs maturing. If not, then (I think) all the profit made on the account will be taxable(including the generous 25% top-up that made the scheme a must-have for every Irish resident!)
Revenue have published instructions on their site so go look at them.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to sign anything until at least 2006, and your bank should send you out the form!
Camerapedia.org
Lovely! Camerapedia.org is a Camera encylopedia! See their page on the Sony F717 (still being repaired – two weeks without a camera, how have I survived?)
Got there via photobloggies and Mark Hancock. BTW – Vote for him in the photojournalism section!
Tracking external links with AJAX
Is there no end to this guy’s talent? Kae came up with a way of tracking hits to external links that only requires you include some javascript, and that adds an onclick() event to each link on your page! I’ll be pumping that into WPMU as soon as I can!
This webmaster world thread discusses the effect lots of 302 redirects is having on Google. I’m trying to figure out if my 302 redirects is having the same affect. 🙁
Greycstoration : Fast Anisotropic Smoothing of Multi-Valued Images using Curvature-Preserving PDE's.
Basically, what Greycstoration algorithm does is describe how to do noise reduction and scaling of images very well. It also does a hell of a lot more and the demo page is very impressive!
There’s a GIMP plugin based on the work but I couldn’t get it to compile. He has another demo page too, which leads me to believe that I will spend some time trying to get this to work!
Later.. Note to self, install the development libraries before complaining!
# apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev
Things Republicans Believe
Here’s a short list of some of the things American Rebuplicans believe! (Irish Republicans have a very different set of beliefs!)
7. Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.
8. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won’t have sex.
9. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you’re a conservative radio host. Then it’s an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.
All About Ireland
The Uncyclopedia page on Ireland is a great read although the Nationmaster page may be more factually correct! (via ntk and dangerousmeta)
Camera Hacks
Camera Hacks – it’s a new WP powered site, but there’s a couple of good posts already.
(via Ryan)
Can you hear me? Ping? Linux, ALSA, Via 82xx and 7.1 Surround Sound
I’ve finally got some sort of surround sound going, but only by clicking a “duplicate front” button in alsamixer. There are still 3 speakers that I can’t hear a peep from!
It wasn’t plain sailing in Windows either! For an age I couldn’t hear anything from the back-speakers but after replacing the 3->4 cable that came with the speakers with an old 3->3 cable plus another, it worked. I’ll look at it later again.
Here’s some links for reference: