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Neelie Kroes hacked… EU-Azerbaijan relations

Our super-duper high-tech IT-savvy EU commissionner Neelie Kroes messed up EU-Azerbaijan relations recently, first claiming that the computers of her collbarators were hacked during an official visit to Baku, then silently sending the two people involved in the accusation on holidays.

It looks like the two "collaborators" of Neelie Kroes stumbled upon the "suspicious activity" popup window while connecting to their email accounts from Azerbaijan.

FairSearch.org tries to persuade EU decision-makers to crack down on Google

There's been a fair amount of talk about FairSearch.org in US, and how ill-though their campaigning is.

One of my clients is now rolling out ads for FairSearchEurope.eu. Just as its US counterpart, FairSearchEurope.eu is very shy of itself. It's website is registered to a law firm, its founding is unclear, it banners are the most obvious examples of FUD tactics I have seen in the past years. Come on, dudes! There are so many reasons to attack Google, don't whine about the only thing that works, their search engine.

Не вращайте айтишников

Есть у моего клиента сайт на Wordpress. Проект, которому пророчили большое будущее. Будущее не пришло, денег проект не приносит, посещаемость мизерная, поддерживается по остаточному принципу. Cегодня с утра заглянул я по привычке в LinkedIn, а там как раз рекламировалась статья Bare Minimum SEO: 3 Things You Must Do. А первым пунктом в статье шло… «check your indexing status in Google Webmaster Tools». Ну я и пошёл проверить.

Какого же было моё удивление, когда оказалось, что на проекте не проиндексировано ни одной страницы, а в /robots.txt сайта написано User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n. Wordpress создаёт /robots.txt программным способом, поэтому проблему было сложно заметить. Теперь сижу и гадаю, было ли это подлянкой одного из бывших айтишников, либо просто разгильдяйством. Как обычно, правда наверно где-то посередине.

The continuation of the HTC saga

I bought an HTC Desire S smartphone in June. Since then, I sent it three times for repair to Dynafix, which is apparently the HTC Repair Center for Belgium. For the 3rd time, Dynafix replaced the mainboard for my phone, which fixed the original problem. However, I quickly noticed a new and easy to reproduce problem that I communicated to the HTC call center. I was told over the phone that I will get a replacement unit. However, after returning the original unit to th repair center, the only thing I got was a discrepancy report saying that I returned a phone with a different IMEI number than the original. Of course it was different, Dynafix replaced the mainboard, so it had to be different! I am waiting for weeks now to get the promised replacement.

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