As mentioned earlier , I have been suffering from increasing numbers of spam comments. I got tired of it and installed the anti-spam module for Drupal, mentioned in that blog entry. It looks like with a little twisting and adjusting, it catches almost all of the garbage. Cool! more »

As already mentioned , profits are rising, and the investment industry expects unusually high bonuses this year. Goldman Sachs have allocated more than half a million USD per employee on average. Naturally, most of the money will go to the fraction of the work force. more »

I have recently registered with Google apps for your domain . I was surprised with the speed by which they processed my application and gave me a go ahead. So now I can create e-mail users in my own domain and have a full-fledged web interface - and all for free! Addresses are something like more »

It looks like investment banks' profits will be exceptionally high this year as well. On the radio they have been saying that once again "those people with six figure salaries will get extra high bonuses". Not me, unfortunately. more »

It probably cannot get more ridiculous than that: a blind man has been arrested for driving . more »

Lately I am getting lots of spam comments to my blog entries, mainly concerned with pornographic sites or anti-impotence drugs sale. This is really annoying, and although my comments are not published automatically, but are rather stored in approval queue, it wastes more and more of my time to go through it and delete all of them. A valid option would be to use a captcha module for Drupal. I … more »

Those of you who use Microsoft Outlook know about its address auto-completion functionality. You type a few letters into the address field and Outlook presents you with a list of possible completions. The list includes those recipients, to whom you sent e-mails recently. The problems start when an address is no longer relevant, either because the person has got a new one, or you don't write him/her many letters any … more »

According to an article in The Economist, London attracts more capital and hedge fund managers each year. Mayfair starts to threaten NY's dominance as the hedge fund capital of the world. Higher profitability as well as better regulation are quoted as the reasons behind the change. An interesting quote: Amazingly, the FSA (the UK financial regulator) has fined only one hedge-fund manager thus far—and that was for just £750,000 ($1.4m). … more »

I wonder whether there are ways to improve ratings of my site without paying for advertisement. Any bright and not too obvious ideas are welcome! Write in comments below... more »

All you Windows developers - there is an alternative to Regsvr32.exe - Reggie . I haven't used it yet, but it looks quite promising. You need it if you experience problems registering your COM+ DLLs or typelibs, and don't have a clue what is the cause. Reggie is more informative, and even provides a shell return code, so it can be deployed in scripts. more »