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Redirecting Wordpress feeds to Feedburner

(Hello. It’s been a while since my last post. I mostly post on Twitter, Facebook and identi.ca now. I also maintain two “mini-blogs” on Tumblr and Posterous. My two loyal readers should head over there, follow my social network accounts, or subscribe to my aggregator. *hint, hint* Anyway…)
I’ve been meaning to fold in [...]

Multiple (Firefox) personalities

Er… profiles, I mean.
I use Firefox add-ons for the occasional web development tasks. (Too bad, not all my favorite extensions are available in the workplace’s “blessed” add-ons repository, but I can live with what’s in there.) Sometimes, though, having too many add-ons slows down the browsing experience, specially for times when you just [...]

Redirect subdirectory to subdomain

Just a quick note, lest I forget this. To redirect a subdirectory to a subdomain using .htaccess, use the following:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^subdirectory(.*)$ http://subdomain.domain.tld$1 [R=301,L]
</ifmodule>

(Note the 301 permanent redirect.) The regular expression is greedy, but it takes care of the trailing slashes — just in case. *shrugs*

Google “breaks” the internet

Well, not quite. But for a few hours, any search made through Google threw out results with tags that the sites are bad and “may cause harm”. The glitch has since been corrected.
(Interestingly, at around the same time, searches through the Google applicance cluster we have at work also yielded errors. Related?)
Here’s a related [...]

‘Klaatu barada nikto!’

About the same time as I upgraded Coredump to Wordpress 2.7, I also got the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 update.

I haven’t gotten around to trying out all the new features, but they look promising. Well, some may seem old news if you’re already using Google Chrome, but they’re good news nevertheless.
First off, the Beta [...]

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