Have you ever tried to include special characters like e.g. é, ê, è, ‘ or “ as a string into a JavaScript (like in an alert message when someone forgot to fill in a field in a form etc.)? Most likely it will look something like à followed by yet another character (especially in IE when the site is running on a Windows server, Firefox will probably get it right…). In order to avoid this you can simply replace the character with the corresponding Hex value (ASCII).

Loss:

• After Viacom got YouTube to remove its videos and signed a deal with Joost.com.

Win:

• At the same time, YouTube’s traffic actually increased 14% since removing the videos.
• YouTube has found some success with media partnerships lately (e.g. NBA and BBC).
• YouTube gets coverage for all those deals in the New York Times.

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Based on this news bulletin I’m performing an upgrade during the next few hours resulting in periodic downtime;

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

If you are running version 2.1.1 of WordPress I suggest you do the same. Anyhow I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you. But safety first, as may grandma keeps telling me…

A big thank you goes out the the WordPress team for their swift response and solid feedback as always.

Edit: Upgrade procedure completed! Please let me know if something isn’t working as expected!

I’ve made it part of my Friday routine at the office to create a backup of my Outlook Express profile. This backup includes ALL my emails, folders and contacts. However it doesn’t include the forwarding rules, but I don’t consider them invaluable as they are just rules not personal data.

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