First of all, 2009 is here and waits for your ideas. Come to fink of it, I wish you a
Happy new year
Recently I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7 (something you should do as well) and I realized that it messed up my galleries. Every image was linked to an own attachment page:

Every time someone clicks the images, there would be a seperate page, instead of a fancyzoom popup. Here is what you can do to set up the gallery function to not use attachment pages for images: Read on
There are several things that I don’t like:
- hot rooms
- melted ice-cream
- long loading times
- and when people think you are stupid!
The latter is worst. One of the examples are websites where you can choose your language like this:
Please choose your language / Bitte wählen Sie Ihre Sprache:
German Deutsch
When you give people a choice there should be at least some difference, right? Now let’s look at what I found recently: Read on
Ever tried that great fancyzoom thing? It gives clickalicious results like this:

Here is how you can set it up for your WordPress site:
Read on
Nuns don’t have sex, right? But they do in fact have blogs! A nuns life.org is a blog by Julie Vieira that caught my attention in the way that it presents itself quite subtle with a unique content that is not too out of this world. Quite contrary! Her stories are manifested in the real world with real people. Julie is a real modern nun: When she blogs, she refers to the real world and also to the digital world. In one of her latest articles 7 Ideas for Giving Gifts to Nuns she provides the idea to give a nun the gift of an Amazon.com Gift card:
it is a great gift because Sister can choose what she needs. Maybe it’s the newest hip-hop CD or a specific book that will help her with her ministry.
For her awesome blog I want to give her the FAIT award. Congratulations, Julie! Keep up the good work.

Go read A nuns life.org

There are a lot of sites out there, that kindly ask you to give them money. These are sites that have advertisements all over the place. As their ads don’t make them as rich as they expected they ask you for your money in exchange to their poor content. Interesting, isn’t it?
Ian Fernando points out that this is often done with a blog plugin, that -in his words- uses “Neuro Linguistic Programming Strategy“. Instead of asking directly for money they want you to buy them a beer or a coffee. Even Ramon questions what you donate for. When people need money to run their blog, I suggests they host them at some free blog provider like blogger or wordpress.
Anyhow, this annoys me as much as twittering! Read on
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