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How to DoS your friends in the real world

by | Dec 4, 2003 | Front Page

I just lost my company mobile phone. It is really annoying and I was worried about my phone being abused especially since it is unbarred for international dialing.
After failing to reach the person who deals with the phones in the company I thought I will try and call Vodafone myself to get the phone barred. The phone is not in my name so I had little hope of pulling it off.
The guy on the other end was very helpfull, asked a few routine questions and barred the phone! I was shocked but gratefull

Gallery v1.4.1

by | Nov 27, 2003 | Usefull Things

The Gallery team recently released the latest version of their product and I must say it is rather nice. They have done some nice work, from the release notes the following ones are in my mind the most important:

  • New image frame styles
  • Cleaner, easier to follow Config Wizard
  • Nineteen different looks for your gallery

The new themes look a lot nicer than before, take a look at my Gallery for a example of it.
I really wish you could have per album themes that would make it perfect for a multi user hosting system like I am using it for, but I guess things happen in small steps. If you use gallery, it is time for a upgrade!

Google “Florida” update causes wide spread havoc

by | Nov 26, 2003 | Front Page

If you are a Google watcher in even the slightest sense of the word you will have seen the absolute up-roar going on at present over the changes in its search result policy. This change affects many sites and is one of the things Google is trying to do to cope with various poison tactics that is being employed by dodgy webmasters.
Lots of theories have seen the light, a good write up can be found here

On Friday, 21st November, Google decided to tighten the “filter”. All hell broke loose as tens of thousands of sites disappeared from positions they had held (in some cases) for years. We noticed some of our client sites plummeting for their major key phrase from being #1 to total invisibility. Yet this was only in highly competitive areas, not for their secondary phrases. These sites were, in most cases, not highly optimized, had not sought reciprocal links but had achieved their rankings through being on the web for 4 or 5 years. The bad news was that their company name and domain included the key phrase, sites (including directories) linking to those sites included the key phrase in their links and Google interpreted this as over-optimization and down they plunged. In many areas all the top 20 ranking sites disappeared, including industry leaders, to be replaced by educational sites, news review sites, government sites, major shopping portals or directories. Something major had happened – but what?