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Widgets are going to be so popular. Typepad is trying to promote the widget concept to the blog engine, Typepad itself. In the past, bloggers have to modify template or manually add each html snippet generated by the service providers to a block. If you don’t know what service providers are, the very basic ones are counter services, FeedBurner, Flickr, Technorati and many more. Typepad’s blog widgets are the best solution for newbies who want to add pieces of codes to their blog without know-how.

It’s a week since ajaxLaunch released ajaxWrite, now it is the time for ajaxSketh to be launched to the wild. Comparing to ajaxWrite, ajaxSketch was loaded faster than ajaxWrite (I guess there are less buttons in ajaxSketch). Anyway, the overall performance of ajaxSketch is not quite as good as I expect. You will get some slow-motion while dragging an object using your mouse pointer. In addition, I don’t like some behavior, e.g., I have to select an object before dragging, otherwise, the object will be resized.

FTP may not be as secure as SFTP but it is very fast. SFTP is best for personal usage. If you are sharing non-critical files among group of users, FTP seems to be better choice. Note that there is no shell access for those users. For example, a set of users are sharing a server space placed at a high-speed data center. Everyone placed requests to download new files everyday. In other words, all users download files to temporarily store in the server and then get them back home through FTP.

Something terrible happened to me (my network). I have just tried to read an article fetched by  in original view at Slashdot. Unfortunately, I got banned.

Either your network or ip address has been banned from Slashdot
...due to script flooding that originated from your network or ipaddress -- or this IP might have been used to post comments designedto break web browser rendering. Or you crawled us with a rude robot,especially one that doesn’t understand RFCs very well.
If you feel that this is unwarranted,feel free to include your IP address(203.144.143.3) in the subject of an email, and we will examine whythere is a ban. If you fail to include the IP address (again, inthe subject!), then your message will be deleted and ignored. Imean come on, we’re good, we’re not psychic.

Hello sugree, I was fiddling with the drupal ping module that comes with the install and I could not get it to work at all. I get the "fsockopen(): unable to connect to rpc.pingomatic.com:80 in C:\Programme\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\Drupal\includes\common.inc on line 322." error along with "Failed to notify pingomatic.com (site)" in my logs. I saw your posting saying that technorati does not recommend pingomatic anymore because of downtime. Then I saw your patch for 4.7 at http://drupal.org/node/11148. Does this solve the problem? Does this allow the drupal ping module to work?

Some might say a good password must consist of alphabets, numeric, and special characters. That is not true for all case. Special characters means ~!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}\|;’:",./<>?. It’s good to include these characters in your password to make it more secure. However, some softwares don’t accept some special characters. If the software is good enough, you will see an error message to notify "invalid character(s)" during changing your password. By the way, some softwares can’t show you any error message because they don’t maintain the password database by themselves. I found some issues according to this problem.