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Some Upgrades to Bill’s Poker Blog

February 18, 2009 General Ramblings

If you’re reading this via RSS or email delivery pop on over to the website and check out the redesign. Actually, it’s a bit more than a redesign as I also changed hosting providers and a ton of other things. As you may note, I went with a professionally designed theme (i.e. it cost money) [...]

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Wise Up Google

January 12, 2009 General Ramblings

Because I travel quite a bit I always run into an issue where Google or some other website decides to be really smart and change the language of their website to the language of the locale from which I’m accessing the internet from. MySpace is/was the worst because no matter how many times you tell [...]

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Google’s NoFollow Tag is a Joke

July 28, 2008 General Ramblings

Over this weekend I noticed that my Page Rank on Google shot up to PR8 from PR3 for about an hour. I thought perhaps Google had decided to retract their penalty for not no-following some of my links but I’m back at PR3 so perhaps they haven’t. Nat Arem first picked up on the fact [...]

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Passwords and PINs

December 17, 2006 Online Poker

Since I went to the trouble of spouting my big mouth about security, I thought I might post some ideas that I recommend to others. The disclaimer is that I’m not 100% compliant with my own suggestions so do as I say and not as I do. :-) I tend to break my passwords up [...]

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Poker Bots and Little Old Ladies

May 6, 2006 Online Poker

There’s been a bit of a storm brewing on 2+2. A long time contributor had his mom accused of using bots by PokerStars. After a few mind numbingly long threads and several emails to Lee Jones it was determined that the person reviewing her case had either had bad information or had made a mistake [...]

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The Return of PokerFilter

April 17, 2006 Poker

Well, PokerFilter never really went away but I did do a redesign and upgraded the software. Best of all, I’ll be posting regularly again. The original idea had been to copy* the feel of MetaFilter, a popular link posting website. The only problem is that MF is a custom program written by Matthew Haughey so [...]

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PokerBot Pro – Another Online Scam

March 13, 2006 Poker

Pauly emailed me this link the other day and I just can’t help calling the guy on his bullshit. He’s certainly not the first person to make such absurd claims but he happened to be the one I decided to pick on. :-) First off, let’s just define a bot of any sort. It’s a [...]

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Funny Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles

October 25, 2004 Tech Ramblings

I ran across this site the other day and thought I would pass it along for the geeks out there. Q193835: Setup Program for Grammer [sic] Game Warns User of Unknown Shell “The warning is harmless, and you can ignored it.” Bicycle Casino: Dealer Misreads Player’s Hand, and Losing Hand Unexpectedly Wins “The known variations [...]

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I got my RSS Feeds

May 16, 2004 Tech Ramblings

Last week I did a little pissing and moaning about some of my favorite sites not having RSS feeds. I had asked if anybody knew of any tools that could help me scrape my own RSS feed but no responses on that question. So, I did what I normally do which is hack myself out [...]

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