Glenn asked about this in our private SEO forum, but thought I'd share it here too. I wrote this dirty shell script a couple of years ago for Wotbox, but I think it should still work. Just set it to a cron job once a day and it will give you a nice IP to country database.
[code lang="bash"]
thedate=`date --date=yesterday +%Y%m%d`
workdir=/scripts/ipdb
savfile=$workdir/ipdb.$thedate
dbserver=127.0.0.1
database=ipdb
dbuserpass="--user=user --password=pass"
cd $workdir
echo "Downloading ARIN IP database"
wget -q "ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/delegated-arin-$thedate"
echo "Downloading
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Google, who for some reason choose NOT to bother making their site and SERPS fully standards compliant, finally have a results serlvet that does validate - http://www.google.com/xhtml
From the DocType it can be seen that this is intended for mobile platforms:
[code lang="html"]
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Also selecting Mobile Web (Beta) shows some interesting results. Could be time to starting thinking about Mobile
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I decided to use Wordpress for this blog as it seems to be the current 'standard'. It was nice to se that it works nicely out of the box after the short install. However, being as awkward as I am, I decided that that I wanted to tweak it a bit:
Firstly I didn't want to have a dynamic url system, so opted to use WP's 'permalinks' setup. But again
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