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Another web 2.0 social networking site. I think the site is written in traditional asp, which is a little uncommon, because the usage of asp has been declining since a few years ago.
Anyway, what exactly is SocialURL?
SocialURL started as a project to help the ‘ADD’ driven Web 2.0 generation of users [...]

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Erik Gunther from Yahoo! buzz has written an interesting post titled Flailing in February.
Here’s a sampling of a few Buzz decliners in February from our top 500 search terms. Could these topics be in danger of falling off the cultural radar — or was February just an off month?

Some of the interesting ones are:
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You can disable BLINKing text in Firefox easily by following the steps below:
Type about:config in your browser’s address bar
Type blink in the Filter text box and press enter
Double-click on browser.blink_allowed to toggle the value from true to false
Technorati Tags: firefox, ff, settings, browser, blink, tips

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According to the folks at WordPress, version 2.1.1 may contain a security hole, and therefore, if you are running 2.1.1, upgrade it to 2.1.2 immediately.
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should [...]

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Use LEFT JOIN when you want to return all rows from left table regardless of whether they have any associated rows on right table.
Use RIGHT JOIN when you want to return all rows from right table regardless of whether they have any associated rows on left table.

SELECT
users.`firstname`,
pets.`nickname`
FROM [...]

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This blog’s title (have a look in the title bar ^) has been seo-ed to the max. Here’s what I put in header.php of my current theme.

<title>
<?php wp_title($sep = ”);?>
<?php if (is_home()) { bloginfo(‘description’); } ?>
– <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
</title>

Robert thinks [...]

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