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Recently I found a bug in Google Translate. It’s not damaging, but it is interesting.

What I have discovered is that when you use a certain string, the Google Translate frame inserts itself into the main frame, causing it to load again within that frame, in turn this causes it to reload within that frame and this continues until your browser decides it’s had enough and stops (or in the case of Internet Explorer, until it locks up). This kind of self-looping is often referred to as recursion.

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Trading standards say that consumers are being tricked into buying fake goods online by companies based in China pretending to be based in the UK by using “.co.uk” domain names. There are ways to avoid getting caught out… Read the rest of this entry »

Today I decided to join stackoverflow.com, which requires you to login using OpenID.

It was pretty simple to get signed up with myopenid.com, but while I was on the stackoverflow login page I noticed a little message which I found interesting: Read the rest of this entry »

Turn dynamic URLs into friendly URLs

I’m sure we’re all familiar with URLs that look like this:

http://www.example.com/?nav=page

These type of URLs aren’t particularly “friendly”, they are known as dynamic URLs. As a rule of thumb search engines such as Google don’t like them as much as “static URLs”.

However, Google has recently released an article on this very subject entitled Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs, I recommend you give it a read so you fully understand what we’re talking about.

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Recently Matt Cutts posted an article on his blog about Recording an IRC channel on Linux/Ubuntu.

However, as you can see his article was all about using the irssi IRC client on Linux/Ubuntu.

I decided that some people may wish to know how to do it on Windows.

Here’s how…

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