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Anybody here use Splunk to analyze their stats? It seems like a very cool tool to use to monitor the server logs - I've yet to dive into it, but if anyone has experience using it I'd like to know what you think. One specific area I'm interested in is using it to parse the apache logs on shared...

My buddy just sent me these. I think they're horrendous. I mean, these are beyond horrible. It actually hurts to read them. So I thought I'd share. Here goes... Q: What do you call it when twins are pleased? A: Duplicate content. Q: What do you call it when a tapeworm has you over for dinner...

WeaSLE launches this upcoming Tuesday, Feb 5th at 10 am CST. Limited memberships will be accepted, so set your clocks. What is WeaSLE? It is a members-only site that provides an automated means for site indexing/promotion. Members get ten submissions per day, as well as access to a few other...

OKay so I downloaded the Multicurl Class from here: Class: MultiCurl (fsockopen) - PHP Classes I even got it to work. But I cannot figure out how to set Curl options when I use it. Normally I would include a couple lines in a cURL script like: curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY...

I use FeedWordPress to pull in content. I use Sociable to put nice pretty social bookmarking icons at the bottom of each post. However these two plugins don't work together. If I deactivate FWP, then the Sociable icons do indeed show up. However when I activate FWP, then all the Sociable icons...

There are probably a lot of different reasons for not moving to New Orleans (from anywhere) but definitely don't make the move from Minneapolis unless the following are true: 1. You do not rent a U-Haul trailer and drive it yourself 2. You hire someone to pack your stuff for you and you don't...

I need to create over 100 directories. Each directory will be named according to a keyword on a list. I figured it would take me all day to do this, so I wrote a PHP script to do this. My attempt has had two unfortunate outcomes. 1) I took all day to write this script when I could have been...

I heard once that when you're at a gathering of people, one way to tell if you're in danger or not is to look around for women flashing their boobies. The saying is, "No tits is trouble." If there are NO tits and you are in a potentially volatile situation, get out of there immediately or if...

I am scraping content from a site, and for the most part things are going okay. 'Cept I have a problem with a portion of the scraped content - I want to remove part of it and keep part of it. Here's the portion I am dealing with: Original text: <span class="prefix">DATE:</span> May 25, 2006  ...

Check this out, it's from the AfterVote FAQ: ____ Isn't this entire system going to be in trouble when blackhat seos come around? The way aftervote was built, its impervious to manipulation. Because of the social aspect, if people aren't finding the results they want...

I wrote some kickass tools in PHP that just run really slow. So I got to thinking about speeding these particular scripts up. But there's only so much I can optimize the code. Which brings up this question: is there a faster scripting language than PHP? Now, I realize it probably depends on the...

Okay so maybe you know about this already. But for those of you who don't, I have to recommend you check this out this useful FireFox plugin called LiveHTTPHeaders. Get it here. Why do I recommend it? Basically I use it to see what's going on behind the scenes for logins, forms, etc. so I can...

If I search for a domain on Googe using "link:", it will say there are a certain number of results. However when I go to the second page of results, the number changes (sometimes much lower). Any ideas as to why?? Could it have to do with previously indexed pages being de-indexed? If that's the...

I need to take a list of URLs like this for example: www.mysite.com all about my site whatever.net things and stuff http://www.mycoolsite.com cool, coolness, and cool stuff randomsite.org RadStuff.com and turn them into a list of links. If there are keywords like some of the above have, the...

Does anyone (like me) have a bunch of MySpace accounts that no longer are useful for backlinks due to the msplinks redirect that MySpace uses? I have been searching for a solution but so far haven't been able to come up with one. Anyone know of a workaround? One thing I HAVE found is that...