I finally found some working pagerank prediction tool.

I've been using http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction , but it is completely broken. It gives you result: "Unable to retrieve prediction at this time".

This website: http://www.seomastering.com/pagerank-prediction.php uses it's own algorithm to estimate your future pagerank based on the quality of backlinks.

It's hard to say how accurate it is, but maybe it at least does something :) This website has got several other useful SEO tools.

After the pagerank drop to 5 from which many pages suffered at end of the year 2009 (probably due to changes in the ranking algorithm), the google pagerank increased today to 6.

I found a great plug-in to Eclipse. There was always a problem to run the source-code formatting in Eclipse, it was annoying to do it all the time. Fortunately, there's a plugin that runs this indentation and organizes the imports for you everytime you hit Ctrl+S (Save).

Here's a link:

http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/plugin_details.jsp?id=1162

I use it in the BEA Workshop for JSP that is perfect when developing JSP + JSTL + Spring MVC.
The main feature why I like it is a hot-deploy functionality. Everytime you save JSP or a .java class, it reloads it in tomcat and you can see your changes immediatel.

Do you see 12 or 13 men? Do you know a solution for this? Isn't this puzzle just great?!  

Last weekend I was in Prague with my girlfriend. We stayed in the IBIS hotel Karlin. When they asked me how would I pay, I said, I would pay with my debit Mastercard. They took it to "authorize me".

To my surprise the amount of approx. 300 EUR was taken, I recieved an notification SMS immediatelly.

They said they are going to return this at the check-out date.

Ok, after a check-out they gave me two reciepts, one for the rollback of the authorization (300 EUR) and second for our room (178 EUR).  

Now, five days have passed, and I didn't get my money back ! Why ?

.. I went to my bank, they said - It's a problem of a hotel. 

So I decided to call a hotel manager. They said, as I thought, the problem is in the bank, and it's an usual situation and I should wait and wait and wait until I'll get my money back. But how long ???

Is it normal ? 300 EUR were taken immediatelly, so what the hell the return takes such a long time ?

How then the clients should be motivated to pay with a card, when such situation happens?

I am not desperate about that money, it's about a principle..

My friend said, what would happen when you will travel around europe and everytime you will stay night in different hotel you will pay also the authorization.

A friend of mine payed the same way somewhere in France. His money are somewhere "on the way" in the virtual world second week !

Here are some of the great articles and presentations about the Search Engine Optimization (SEO). They are in the PDF format so you can easily print them and read as a book. 

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/presentations/organic-seo-itzone.pdf

http://www.easywebtutorials.com/ebooks/SEO-MadeEasy.pdf

http://www.rankquest.com/downloads/pdf/RankQuest-SEO-Articles.pdf

There is also one good resource for the SEO - The seo book (www.seobook.com), but unfortunatelly, it's a bit commercial and requires a registration fee.

My experiences with the RICOH company and the request to replace the broken LCD display on Caplio R4.

During my business trip in Germany, I bought a Ricoh Caplio R4 digital camera. The RICOH company are not on our slovakian market yet, so this has been a bit risky. There is an option to buy such a cameras via the companies like FORMEI, which provide also the support.

At the end of year 2006 we had a party with our friends, and drank a bit of alcohol. You know how it goes in such situations, we did lot of crazy things and the result was - that the LCD display of my Caplio R4 got broken.

What a pity.. no support in Slovakia. I browsed RICOH's websites and found out that the only way how to repair the camera is to send it to the Germany or other EU country providing the official support. I also made a phone-call to Germany and asked for someone who speaks english. I registered on their website for the RMA number with the explanation what happend. Few days after I sent the camera there. After that, I logged again and saw that the status of my request as "closed". What happend? Were they unable to repair it? To my surprise, they told me that my camera was repaired under the warranty, however I caused the damage myself ! It was unbeleavable to me that they also said that I won't pay any of the costs ! In few days I should recieve a package from the UPS. My only costs was a postal fee.

Long live the RICOH company and their great support ! :)