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	<title>Alix Axel Weblog</title>
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	<description>1111111 * 1111111 = 1234567654321</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Human Virus</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/human-virus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Funny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check this little video out.

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		<title>Let your computer dream!</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/29/let-your-computer-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, while I was reading the user comments on this lifehacker post I came across this amazing piece of software called Electric Sheep.
Electric Sheep is an open source distributed screen saver, the odd name is based on the novel &#8220;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&#8221; by Philip K. Dick, and it&#8217;s goal is to create [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Let your computer dream!", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/29/let-your-computer-dream/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Round to the Nearest - Digit or Multiple?</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/26/round-to-the-nearest-digit-or-multiple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 10:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Math]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was working on a project where it was crucial that all the item prices ended up with a 9 after a discount coupon was redeemed, in need for an quick way to round any given number to the closest nine I did a couple of searches on Google and on [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Round to the Nearest - Digit or Multiple?", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/26/round-to-the-nearest-digit-or-multiple/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Lightweight MySQL Database Wrapper</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/26/lightweight-mysql-database-wrapper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/26/lightweight-mysql-database-wrapper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 09:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m going to share a minimalistic MySQL wrapper you can use to kick start you application database development. This class is made by just seven essential methods that fit in only 101 lines of code.

Methods:


Affected_Rows()


Connect($database, $username, $password, $hostname = 'localhost', $port = 3306)


Disconnect()


Insert_ID()


Query($query, $type = 'assoc')


Quote($string)


Tick($string)


Affected_Rows()
Returns the number of affected rows by the previous [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lightweight MySQL Database Wrapper", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2008/05/26/lightweight-mysql-database-wrapper/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Viral Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/11/02/internet-viral-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/11/02/internet-viral-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[aol]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fastmail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[google pagerank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hotmail inbox]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[indiatimes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lycos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[msn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[myspace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[netcabo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[portugalmail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rediff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sapo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[serp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[viral marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web hosting company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed I&#8217;ve been away (more of awaaaay) from this blog for quite some time now, the reasons for this are:

Time is short (and money too, who would have thought he?&#8230;).
I&#8217;ve been getting so many SPAM comments and few or none friendly comments.

Anyway, I&#8217;ve been custom web developing for 4 or 5 [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Internet Viral Marketing", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/11/02/internet-viral-marketing/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>My first five Dollar Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/09/21/my-first-five-dollars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Math]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[algorithm]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[digits]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dollar bills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[euro banknotes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[federal reserve bank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[five dollars]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mathematical formula]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential portrait]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[printing standards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[serial number]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[serp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[us federal reserve]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[validation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got my hands on my very first Lincoln (five dollars) bill, they seem much more older and used than Euro banknotes. As I had already made a Euro note serial number validation algorithm in PHP I thought: &#8220;why don&#8217;t I do the same for dollar bills?&#8221;.


I started by doing some research on Google [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My first five Dollar Bill", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/09/21/my-first-five-dollars/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Data Mining Books &#038; Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/24/data-mining-books-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/24/data-mining-books-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Data Mining]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[covers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[currently reading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[databases]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dificult]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eight books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intelligent data analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[knowledge discovery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lame]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal website]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[portuguese]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[publish a book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today my very first Amazon order just arrived: Intelligent Data Analysis - a Data Mining book that I saw at Kurt Thearling personal website. I&#8217;m really into learning Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, I find it quite an interesting (and useful) subject.
 

It took almost 4 weeks for the book to arrive, I&#8217;ve [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Data Mining Books &#038; Amazon", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/24/data-mining-books-amazon/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Nice CSS Technique</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/13/nice-css-technique/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/13/nice-css-technique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[css]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/13/nice-css-technique/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this nice CSS technique that uses the power of regular expressions.


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		<title>Managing your online business with Google</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/12/managing-your-online-business-with-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/12/managing-your-online-business-with-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[calendar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[docs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gmail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spreadsheets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Ok it&#8217;s been a long time since I last posted something here so this time I&#8217;ll be talking about something that if done right can save you a lot of time and hopefully improve your online business by 200%.

This is a guide in how you can use some of the Google tools and services to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Managing your online business with Google", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/08/12/managing-your-online-business-with-google/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>If anything can go wrong, it will&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/07/29/if-anything-can-go-wrong-it-will/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/07/29/if-anything-can-go-wrong-it-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alix</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[alexandre rodrigues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[algorithm]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[validation code]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web servers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well you may already know the Murphy Law &#8220;If anything can go wrong, it will&#8221;, well believe me: it&#8217;s true.

The other day I was haply working when suddenly my HD starts making this annoying noises and beeps, I restarted my computer and puff&#8230; It was all gone!  The problem is that the most recent [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "If anything can go wrong, it will&#8230;", url: "http://www.alixaxel.com/wordpress/2007/07/29/if-anything-can-go-wrong-it-will/" });</script>]]></description>
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