Monthly Archive for September, 2005

What a mess

I’m going to move to another flat. My girlfriend wants to spend more time on her education so she wants to move back to her parents. Today we emptied the living room and the bedroom, leaving behind a lot of mess. I have to admit that it was her who did most of the work by putting things in boxes, labeled them and piled them up. These are some pictures shot with my Canon EOS 300D so you can imagine what was going on. Continue reading ‘What a mess’

Using Drivel to blog to WordPress

You can use a GTK+ tool called Drivel (see Image 1) or one called BloGTK to access your WordPress Blog and add posts (like this one). Alternatively there is a Gnome applet named gnome-blog that basically does the same (although Drivel is much more sophisticated). As you may have noticed I’m mentioning tools for Linux for I am using Linux as my primary Operating System (about 99% of my time). There exists a list of blogging tools for other OSs like Windows and MAC OS at the Wordpress Weblog Client Page. Continue reading ‘Using Drivel to blog to WordPress’

WordPress

Now this is neat! WordPress does what I want. And this is the reason I converted to WordPress. WordPress is a weblog tool based on PHP with a MySQL database and valid XHTML 1.0. I also did a new theme looking like my old Mambo template - with small changes and a CSS file much smaller (about 65% of original size). Continue reading ‘WordPress’

The Holly Hack

Today I found out about a solution to the Internet Explorer problem I recently had with my fotoalbum. I read about the Holly Hack that prevents Internet Explorer on Windows to behave abnormally and found out it may be a solution to my problem too. Continue reading ‘The Holly Hack’