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It is indeed free, and when you bother to set up the conversion goals and link to Adsense then it's as good as many paid solutions in many situations. The people ready to dismiss Google Analytics are the ones who haven't been shown how to get the most from it.

I agree. To me the email looks spammy enough already - adding in a request for information right in the email would make it sound even worse.

There was a similar site in the UK relatively recently, advertised quite heavily on TV I recall. It was named something like My Single Friend. I no longer have a TV so I don't know if they're still advertising.

As hackers we're always coming up with new ideas for dating sites like these. They frequently fail though, mostly due to the inability to pull in a large enough number of users. I've been hired to work on dating sites before, they've all failed due to lack of users. I'm now quite wary of working with anybody who has an idea for the next big dating site. I have ideas of my own, but not confident ones I'd actually risk spending time/money on.

If I were Bing I'd be showing how Google Toolbar does exactly the same thing as the Bing one right now.

It is fairly simple to check for obviously malicious JS or PHP code in a theme, but it's not so easy to find themes which are badly written and thus insecure. Can you always spot a XSS or SQL injection vulnerability?

You mean like the exploit scanner as linked to from the source article? Make that part of core WordPress and scan for other obfuscation techniques too and you're well on the way to improving things.

That's largely not going to make a difference. You can already mostly trust themes and plugins listed on the WordPress.org website. The themes with the bad code are the ones available elsewhere, and quite often are pirated versions of commercially available themes.

The key here isn't a screening process for themes and plugins available through a WordPress website. The themes which have the back doors are typically pirated versions of paid-for themes which are never going to get into a WordPress app store. People are always going to pirate themes, people are always going to install themes from dodgy sources when they are free.

The site's slow loading and keeps segfaulting Google Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 for me. I like the idea though.

My body quite likes biphasic rather than monophasic sleep patterns, and I spent around a year on this schedule. It worked well for me, but only because I wasn't forcing my body to do something it didn't want and I could fit it around my work. It can be hard to limit the length of your sleeping phases, and my tip here is to never go to sleep without something you need to do as soon as you wake up.

In general it's far more healthy to hack your schedule to fit your body clock than the other way round. Outsource your admin work so you don't need to be awake at specific times, schedule any remaining meetings to happen during your most awake hours.

I've found that it's mostly about being well connected through social media and attending other events/meetups. You'll still miss things, but even sites such as Lanyrd won't list everything.

As somebody who is getting more and more involved in organising local tech events in my area I'm interested in this myself. I'm running a Google calendar and Twitter account to highlight the best local events (mostly non-tech based) but feel I could be doing better.

To use the addons in a standalone setup you need to create an account at the provider's website. I assumed that Heroku had some agreement with the providers which lets them bypass this and instead passes on the user's Heroku details transparently

Sure but the integration of the addons is tightly done, and there'll be a commercial contract with these companies. You'd probably need a similar contract with those addon providers which they may not be willing to provide if they've an exclusive contract with Heroku.

And don't forget the number of free applications running on Heroku, these aren't making them any profit at all and are using up a lot of resources.

New Years Resolutions are overrated, with failure rates pretty high. Instead last year I opted for 101 Things in 1001 days or Day Zero Project. The idea being that you create a list of 101 things you want to do and then spend the next 1001 days doing them. You're far more likely to get a great number of them done because you don't have to start immediately. There used to be a good website for keeping track of yours and other people's 101 things, but it seems to have been down for a while.

I've pretty much given up on my list after a year working on it, but in that time I've achieved quite a lot and got so much benefits from the things I've forced myself to do.

The year before my resolution was to say Yes more. I'm still saying Yes more than I was, which is leading to a lot of fun and worthwhile achievements but is taking up a lot of time.

I'm toying with doing Rejection Therapy this new year, since shyness stops me from going out and selling myself. I'm rather scared to commit to a whole month of it though.

If the point of the sign was simply to abstract the thought of "please stop eating my yogurt" then you needn't put any thought into it at all and leave the default font of Times New Roman. What they've done is actively choose to use another font for some reason.

If it is unimportant which font we use most of the time then why have you set the font family in your website? What made you choose Georgia over Comic Sans?

Fonts and typefaces are important, and Comic Sans is misused frequently.

That doesn't work for newer accounts linked to a Yahoo account. In fact it's a real pain getting your data out in xml format from such an account.

That looks pretty good, but it appears to have no concept of users. In which case when you start replicating with somebody you end up with the same editable list of bookmarks. That may be what you want, but I'd quite like to be able to separate mine and theirs.

There are a few decentralized social networks around. I was considering the use of status.net as a base since it's got a load of the right features in there already (tagging, groups, federation, etc); though it may be best to just start from scratch using new and exciting technologies.

Well how about an open and federated system - all alternative suggestions so far have been single sites owned by somebody else. If we could build a system which stores our data on our own server with the ability to connect to others then it would be far more sustainable - like status.net is to Twitter.

Exactly! The rule is for that commands of two letters in length (cp, ln, mv) the file on the end is the one that gets created. For commands of three letters in length (tar, zip) the file that gets created is the first one. And then there's the exceptions that prove the rule like scp and ssh.

And people say Linux isn't user-friendly! :)

I want a registrar to sell domains, not be a platform for marketing other services to me. I want one registrar which will sell me any tld, many of the nice-looking registrars don't support .uk or .dk domains. I want there to be a well-documented API for setting up dns, and this may be a partnership with Zerigo. I want their website to not make me think. I want to have sub-accounts for my clients to handle their own domains, white-labeled if possible. I want one-click setups to point to Google Apps, Heroku, etc. And whilst I'll pay a premium for this, I don't want it to be so expensive I can't afford it.

So the idea is to get people to install extra software on their computer which restricts their ability to do their jobs? Sure, that's going to become a big hit.

The file they have for download is close enough to a standard PDF that the standard Ubuntu PDF document viewer will happily open it and allow you to print. So nothing to worry about here in terms of accessibility in Linux, though I'm guessing it'll annoy Windows users who'll have to rename file extensions.

I'm using Tumblr for my personal blog, have been for years, but am starting to become very unhappy with their stability problems. I'm using Wordpress (self hosted and Wordpress.com) for a number of other sites and I'm very happy with it. There's loads of themes and plugins for Wordpress, many of which are free, and it's fairly easy to customise.

I went with one who is also on the board of a local networking group for digital/creative industries. I figured I can't really go wrong with somebody like that and so far I seem justified, she's invited me to local events I didn't know about and all her advice seems really sound.

On the other hand my coworker picked the guy two doors down because he's local. So he technically does have an accountant, but they've never met except to agree they'll do paperwork together once a year. Now ordinarily I'm all for picking the local provider, but I know which of these two I'd recommend.

I quite often use http://pleac.sf.net when I'm stuck, there's some really good examples here - albeit incomplete in many languages. It was originally a Perl cookbook but has been translated into a number of different languages. It's just a shame nobody seems to be updating it further.

Cryptome and Wikileaks fell out a while back over a pretty big disagreement. You should take anything that either of them say about each other with a pinch of salt. That said, Cryptome do have a very good point here.

I was agreeing completely with this entire post up until you mentioned Aegir. Whilst I keep seeing lots of people who absolutely love Aegir, it's caused me so many headaches that it really isn't worth it when you're planning on hosting just a single website.

Instead I would look at Pantheon's Project Mercury. It's an entire Drupal stack based on Pressflow, MySQL, Memcached, APC, Varnish, ApacheSolr, BCFG2 and Hudson. Their main website is now really pushing their commercial hosted solution but it's still open source and available for download via Launchpad - check out http://groups.drupal.org/pantheon

Or "myusername has no skills". That way you encourage people to add their skills.

Ah ok yes, it is in plaintext - it's just not selectable because there's an image created too. Worst of both worlds really then.

Or you could use http://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup which the Ubuntu installer uses for default settings. It's all returned in xml and gives current location and timezone as well as IP address (not that I've ever woken up with no idea where I am of course)