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Support freedom to blog
The popular SEO expert and all-round good bloke, Aaron Wall (http://www.seobook.com/) has decided to fight his bizarre traffic power lawsuit. Please take a look at what is going on and either link him from your blog or donate. If you want to know who traffic power are, rather than me risk a lawsuit just let Google do the talking. It's not pretty.
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Yes still interested! New media in winnipeg?
I just got asked by two different people if I was still in the UK. Unfortunately, yes :O( I know, I know, tell me about it. I wanted Amy (my daughter) to start school in Canada for the new term in september but looks extremely unrealistic now doesn't it?
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Emailing Unicode Emails to Hotmail - solved!
In my last blog I asked how I could send unicode emails to hotmail, well Dave Wanta and www.AspNetEmail.com (no affiliate code, heh) to the rescue!
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Emailing UTF-8 to Hotmail?
It looks suspiciously like Hotmail explicitly rejects viewing UTF-8 encoded email - is this correct?
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How do I get around the "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations" error?
I bet this is a schoolboy problem but even the mighty google is not helping. I am trying to read chunks of DMOZ RDF xml into a dataset.
I am getting a "The same table (xxxx) cannot be the child table in two nested relations." error which I think I can sort out by doing a XSL transform .. which is where I am stuck.
What I am doing is
Dim DS As DataSet = New DataSet
DS.ReadXml(MapPath("xml/" + Request("x") + ".xml"))
DataGrid1.DataSource = DS.Tables("externallinks")
DataGrid1.DataBind()
DS = Nothing
How do I wedge in a transform to take out the offending relation before I do the ReadXml statement?
The XSL examples I see online either output to a file or use methods that VS is telling me is obselete :O( -
Google caught Search Engine spamming?
Google caught breaking their own webmaster guidelines, specifically keyword stuffing and cloaking
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Cool technology - a vision of the future
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a computer with the form factor of a mobile phone but with a full size screen and keyboard? How about using gestures instead of a mouse?
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Giving the fox keys to the chicken coup?
Gator exec joins federal privacy committe
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Calling UK developers - MsWebDev ads blogs
MsWebDev.org.uk, the UK ASP/ASP.NET community has now added free blogs for members so sign up if you are a UK developer and want your own blog :O) This is thanks to the new release of CommunityServer - great work guys! I just hope our little MSDE database can cope ;O) At the moment email list signup is seperate to registering for the site, until we get a large injection of cash it will need to stay that way unfortunately.
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Sick and tired of MS bashing
NickW posts an interesting snippet about IE7 and as usual with Microsoft related subjects the anti-ms/pro linux comments come back (rather than discussion of the topic)
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Cryo mouse mod
Take one mouse, a lego person and some skill ... transform your mouse
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Everyone is an expert, especially when it comes to Web Design
Jason Mauss has blogged about everyone having an opinion on web design. It gave me a chuckle cos it is so true. Got to disagree on one point though. He reckons people don't get so opinionated about interior design, etc. Sorry Jason, in my experience people will have an opinion about anything they are not qualified to discuss :O)
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Oh Canada
Still trying to work out the legal and logistical nightmare that is getting my family and myself immigrated to Canada. There are many issues, my mum and dads status and whether they can return (after 30 years!), if I can sponsor my parents and wife from here in the UK without proof of Canadian income, school for Amy, Job for me, which would enable us to look for a house .. where to go, what to do ..
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Accessibility Champions fail their own tests
"DRC, the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), the supposed standard bearers for website accessibility, continue to fail even the most basic A/AA requirements"
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Spoiled by .NET, the pain of using PHP
This is not a PHP vs ASP.NET post, don't worry!
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Cheap UK Internet Magazines Subscriptions
Don't you just love ASP and .NET? Because of Google Adwords recent TOS changes I have had to rapidly set up a site for my magazines campaign, thanks to these lovely web platforms I have been able to do this in double-quick time. I had scraped the merchants site and used regex to grab the content days before the official feed. Another campaigns feed is so limited I am going to use the same code and tweak to produce my other site. I know this could be done in PHP but I think the OS crowd would be hard pressed to produce a tool as productive as VS.NET :O)
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New Web Browser beta from Opera
Opera 8 Beta