Blogged with Flock

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Blogged with Flock

I just discovered Flock, a nice browser with integration of Web 2.0 services like del.icio.us, flickr and such. The interface is pretty neat, though a bit too “full” for my taste, but the browser has some great features like when you hover the mouse over a picture on a website, a widget pops up which lets you directly blog this picture (the photo in the last posting has been blogged that way). I guess I will play a bit more with Flock, but for every day web browsing a slim Firefox seems to be more handy …

[via Andreas and Spreeblick]

Blogged with Flock

Ein großartiges Stöckchen, was ich da bei Spreeblick gefunden und aufgehoben habe.

Die Regeln:

Der Name deiner Band wird der Titel des ersten Artikels nach Klick auf diesen Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Dein Album wird nach den letzten vier Worten des letzten Zitats dieser Seite benannt:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

Das dritte Bild auf dieser Seite wird dein Album-Cover:
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Wer Lust hat, darf das Stöckchen aufheben …

Well, as promised, here are some details on the new wordpress installation and the import of the old simplephpblog postings. As I said before, I wanted to have some changes to my blog. I wasn’t satisfied with the categories, they never seem to really fit, being too general or too special. I wanted to have tags and a fancy tagcloud in my sidebar. I am not sure if simplephpblog is still under development, but it is pretty quiet and there’s not such a big and active community around simplephpblog like there is around wordpress. WordPress comes with a ton of themes and is easily extensible with plugins. And after I found a nice perl script to import my old postings into the new wordpress installation, I tried my luck and I am very satisfied with the result. I had to alter the script a bit, since I used compressing for the postings (stored in compressed text files) and the script could handle plain text files only. But it worked in the end, so here we go.

Ines also uses wordpress for blogging and has a nice listing of the plugins she is using, so I skipped through that list and installed some of these:

• Custom Smilies, replaces text smilies with graphical ones
  
• semmelstatz, nice statistics plugin
  
• Simple Tags, adds tagging support
  
• Social Bookmarks, adds links to social bookmarking services to the posting
  
• WordPress Database Backup, well the name says it

The theme I am using here is called Perun. I just adopted it a bit for my needs.

Another great feature of wordpress is, that you can write postings and edit them, before publishing them. This is great, since e.g. I had to interrupt writing this posting several times because I had to take care for the little one.

Well I hope to blog a bit more in the next time, also about my work on my PhD thesis. I don’t know how much time I will have for this endavour in the next weeks, but it’s my plan to use the free time (when Jonas is sleeping) for my scientific work.

As you can see, the blog is new. I switched from simplephpblog to WordPress. I wanted a few more features in my blog, for example tagging for postings and simplephpblog seems not to be developed further (or at least it’s pretty quiet around that project), so I switched to the mother of all blog softwares. Fortunately I managed to import all the old postings and comments, so this blog is already filled

So, update your feed readers and bookmarks to the new URLs! All further details on the wordpress installation tomorrow! Good night!

Don’t try this at home!

Power Laserpointer Bauen – MyVideo
[via Janek's Skype status message]

Wenn auch zu einer nicht sehr freundlichen Zeit, aber es gibt ja Videorecorder: ab morgen, 09.01.08, 06:15 Uhr zeigt der MDR wieder die Serie "Die Besucher" – großartige Science Fiction aus den 80ern. Kultstatus!