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Yesterday I had to dig a little into new Google Analytics code. Old Analytics code worked well on one site but I want to migrate to new one because Google is actively advertise it. Even help article now refer to new Analytics code.

Unfortunately it is minified and not readable. So I went looking to something that could undo minification and found this. Of course it does not restore variable names like A or B to anything meaningful but script is well written and meaning of variables is pretty...

I was so happy with aMSN some time ago but today it give me a problem. When started, its window was 1x10 pixels and no way to resize it. I spent 30 minutes trying to fix but finally had to uninstall it completely and reinstall. I hate wasting time for such stupid issues but what else could I do? (Yes, install Audium, I know ;)).

During Easter I went to visit my parents in Russia. They live 40 km from Moscow. It usually takes an hour to travel to them from Moscow by train or bus.

I live outside Russia since year 2000 and each time when I come to Russia I feel a bit sorry about what is happening there. I do not mean political thing, I mean how people has changed since Soviet times, what they became...

When I was a child, our living place was very clean, there was a long field of grass where we (children) liked to play....

It appears that one major German ISP has troubles with his routers and traffic goes through backup connection. But that connection has problems as well: one of its routers badly configured. It does has MTU value set to 1492 and router before it does not accept ICMP messages that advise him to resend messages. Therefore anything longer than 1492 bytes get lost completely. Due to this fact I lost huge amount of time. Finally I remembered that I have this issue half a year ago and quickly tested...

I remember times when ICQ was the only instant messenger in the world. Everything was easy and simple those days: just one number to remember (your UIN). Now there are lots of instant messengers. Some better, some worse. Normally I use Skype but for some purposes I have to run MSN messenger most of the time.

Last two weeks MSN messenger started to disconnect frequently. Last two days it could connect at all. I use recent version (6.0.3), which was released by Microsoft last year and there are...

The image below shows how questions should not be asked. Or, may be, it should how choices do not correspond to asked question.

What buttons should I use if I do not want to cancel transfer?

Here is a link to theme.

I moved one of our old projects to new server. It runs PHP 5.2.x. There is a forum there and I found that date() PHP function randomly returns UTC time instead of local time. Searching Internet did not give any results. Next I found that date/time support changed in PHP since 5.1.x and now it is essential to set "date.timezone" directive correctly in php.ini. I did that and hope it will force date() to return proper time...

Today another TYPO3 extension for comments family was released. It is IP blocking filter (extension key: comments_ipbl). It includes SpamHaus DROP ("Don't Route or Peer") list, can use DNSBL, and lets administrator block IP addresses either manually or by clicking on the link in notification e-mail.

This extension uses new hooks in Comments TYPO3 extension. I had to change some existing hook to make them more generic. So if anyone used comments_ic ("Comments: individual closing") together with...

TYPO3 Award 2008 contest was announced yesterday. I wonder will "comments" extension get an award as best extension since 2003? :)