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Aqueous cream is bad for eczema
Ten years no eczema (living in healthy London smog). Winter, a move to the country, a few cats, a bit of hard water and some stress later and kaboom the eczema is back. Go to doctor. Doc says, “Get some emulsifying ointment, aqueous cream, oilatum and some hydrocortisone for that eyelid”. Use all four for…
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SteigenBerger knife scam
The SteigenBerger knives are a scam. The http://www.steigenberger-worldwide.com website is a front for selling cheap Chinese (I’m guessing) recycled steel knives. Rob Bevan got scammed by this and wrote a post back in 2004 about this when they were being sold under the name Berghaus and Swissler Royal. There’s nearly 400 comments on Rob Bevan’s…
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iPhone UK mobile price comparison
For Orange,O2,Vodafone the 18 month £30/month contract was always the cheapest (ignoring data/text/minutes usage) For T-mobile the 24 month £25/month was the cheapest I took the Carphone Warehose tariff comparison worked out the overall cost until the contract ends and you own the phone. I then figured out how much they’re actually charging you a…
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Apache phpMyAdmin spam-pot
This is for preventing 404 errors when hackers try to guess your phpmyadmin setup file location. This is based off the project honey-pot concept. The bot stops searching once it finds a file its after and thus reduces the load on your server (actually this is not strictly true, sometimes they will just search for…
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18 months of dealing with a MySQL ‘too many connections’ error
Database Crash On a few separate occasions the database has become overwhelmed with ‘too many connections’ and then starts rejecting people from trying to view the website. We are running: Fedora MySQL 5.0.27 WordPress 3.0.1 (the problems all occurred with WordPress 2.7-2.9) phpBB 2.0.23 PHP 5.1.6 Current solution The database has now been up for…
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Blue Marble
So I guess I’m not the first to discover this photo, but at the time I posted the photo I bet I was the most recent person to have admired its beauty.
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Gnolia links
Links for Feb 12 The High Cost of Open Source » Debuggable Ltd Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tags: cakephp, shitstorm Lithium: the most rad php framework Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tags: php, frameworks, framework, cakephp Web Strategy Matrix: Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter (Feb 2010) « Web Strategy…
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Ian Channing 