Technique does not always obey

I was going to finish and publish a post I started yesterday evening on my IPhone. Today, however, when logging in to my blog from the web as usual, the draft was not there. Did I save it? I think so. Yes, I did! Somehow I thought I had been accessing the same interface as I am here on the web and that any draft post or page should be stored safely in the database. Was I dreaming? If the post is not in the database, then where is it?

Anyway, I am still thankful for the fantastic app that allows me to blog from my phone while going home on a train. I mean, does anyone of us take this for granted? Not me.

The life before WordPress

Everybody of us someday discovered WordPress for blogging, then decided to download it and install it for blogging. Some of you might even have chosen to run the entire website on WordPress, making use of the software as a kind of CMS. But what happened before?

I can remember some days back I had one of my first ugly websites with an iframe. The home site contained what was supposed to be a blog entry, but I did not actually call it “blog”. When I needed to implement comments I first tried to install some service whose name I cannot remember. It did not work. Then I chose Haloscan, which was pretty easy. Back then, all the techniques related to blogging nowadays were pretty much unkown. No software, no posting, no visual editor, no blogroll. And look at how things are going now. Nobody is obliged to squish content into Iframes for easy publishing

It`s a thief

I could not believe my eyes when I saw it. Indeed, I had already heard of content thieves in the blogosphere, with unknown anonymous individuals harvest blog feeds to make money with content that was written by others. Now I discovered the link to this blog on my WordPress dashbord, and it lead me to a generic blog, calling itself “Do it yourself at home”…Made me laugh out loud: DO it YOURSELF!!! The only thing this retarded individual did himself was putting up that blog and filling it with stolen content. All this is crowned by the fact that the stolen content is posted in a context that totally differs from the quoted entries. My entry about interesting search queries on Google was embedded into an entry that claims to be about “How to make chocolate”. This is too much…

Been doing some web stuff

Most of you might already know that I am somewhat impatient. Before new WordPress version 2.3 came out, I already installed the beta release here on my blog and got confused first by some plugin breaking because of the new database structure. But then it all worked fine.

With it came a new layout I created last weekend, whose content and sidebars are fluid. As always, my dear friends IE 5.5 and 6 proved to be party poopers and made the layout break. Instead of letting my hair fall from my head in anger, I simply decided to let only one of the sidebars show in IE 6 and lower. You can still navigate the site and its posts using mentioned browsers, but I suggest you to switch to another browser instead (Why not try Firefox )

Besides that, I add to deal with some nasty spiders that dared entering my bathroom without permission. This morning one of those creatures sat on my bathtowel. I discovered the beast, luckily, before rubbing my face with it. (Must have been a guardian angel who saved me;-))