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Ubuntu start-stop-daemon “Exec format error”

This is for anyone Googling it…

If you get the above error when trying to start a daemon, chances are you forgot to add a shebang to the top of your script:

#li3 = Lithium = Cake3

If you follow the goings on with CakePHP in any way, and you haven’t had your head buried in the sand the past week, then you probably already know that Nate Abele (@nateabele) has followed Garret Woodworth (gwoo) out of the door and left the CakePHP project. Nobody has stated reasons but seeing some IRC snippets and reading between the tweets it seems that the reasons behind the departures are centred around disagreements with the project lead Larry Masters (PhpNut).
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6 Things Derek Powazek Taught Us About Linkbait

Note: I meant to post this a few days but forgot, so it’s been sitting as a draft ever since. Better late than never though I guess!

Every now and then the SEO industry as a whole comes under attack from certain individuals, often times due to sheer ignorance, but also occasionally as a means to attract publicity for themselves. The individuals that instigate these attacks are generally so called ‘rock stars’ in their own industries and as such, tend to develop over inflated egos and start to exhibit diva-like tendancies - the perfect ingredients for a grand-scale keyboard fight.

This week it was the turn of some guy called Derek Powazek, who posted an entirely unsavoury and derogative post on his blog entitled Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists.
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Is Caffeine Behind Broken UK SERPs?

In a post on the Webmaster Central Blog, Google have announced the immediate availability of a test sandbox for what they are calling “Caffeine”. Described as “the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions”, Caffeine is a looking glass into the future SERPs.

The real question though is: is Caffeine the reason the UK SERPs are broken?

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Bing and Yahoo!, sitting in a tree…

Microsoft and Yahoo! have made a landmark deal today, which will effect the SEO industry in a few key ways. I won’t go into massive amounts of detail as I’m sure you’ve already consumed the facts elsewhere, but there’s a few things that need to be discussed.

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