as i’ve argued before, google’s algorithm is imperfect.. here’s another discussion of its down side. the search results as well as the news results (since on their faq page they said the news follows the search algorithm closely) are ranked by page ranks. PAGE RANK DEFINED: Condensed version PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature… Continue reading imperfect google

While surfing around the internet, sometimes you may come to a website with appearantly nasty looking, unreadable fonts.. well, let me guess, you are probably using IE and that the designer has probably used dropshadow filter in their css for their fonts. why is that? this is because you have cleartype turned on for your… Continue reading cleartype and drop shadow don't mix

today i was trying to remove the referral spams i’ve been getting. i found there are so many that it will be way too time consuming to remove them manually. while i do not want to completely rid of my referral script, i can no longer stand all the horrible porno referral spams i’ve gotten.… Continue reading my idea to fight referral spam

it’s not exactly regular expression parsing. i just thought since i use tabulas link page function often, i will just show the same links on pure essence. it saves some time. so i wrote a little script to read the tabulas link page and have it added to pure essence link on this page. basically… Continue reading parsing tabulas links page

does anyone know enough about XML to help me out? apparantly my rss file has some errors. someone who uses rss feeder software can not parse it. altho i know blogline and livejournal parses it fine. the file does not show in IE but it shows up fine in mozilla or firefox. i don’t know… Continue reading rss error?

add little button plugs script at the side 🙂 if you wish to have your 88×31 button plugged at pure-essence.net, click here 🙂

i realized today that most of referral spams i’m getting are sent by the theplanet.com hosting service. take a look that is gross! here’s a more complete list. either theplanet is getting paid for doing this kind of nasty work or someone is seriously abusing their service. either way theplanet.com will be blocked by me.… Continue reading theplanet.com referral spam

i claim to be one of the first people who wrote a complete detailed walkthrough for motas. I felt quite honored when the author of the game wrote me an email to inform me a new level had been released. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to finish writing the new walkthrough until today. The new… Continue reading motas new level

for those who still like using Kazaa Media Desktop and absolutely detest the spyware and adwares, you must get the freeware Diet K right now. it is designed specifically for kazaa so it removes all its spyware, adware even the p2p networking (which takes up a huge amount of resource on your cpu) while maintains… Continue reading Diet K!

the new theme “oriental” has an unique look but i can not set it as a default theme due its horrid navigation support. i could have used the normal vertical scrollbar but that would destroy the layout. so i used this scrolling script. it saves the layout but the theme lost major part of its… Continue reading oriental theme