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Posted by Posted on Apr - 20 - 2011

Wp Questions

Hehe… if you have a question, here is a place where you can ask for answers: WP Questions

I had no idea until today that this kind of site exists, but now I am happy that I discovered it. There is a community here, and if you stuck with something wordpress related, you just get an account, pop up your question, offer some $ and somebody will come with a fix for you. When you got the answer that works for you, just pay the one who helped you out by paypal and everybody is happy. Obviously there are a bunch of already answered questions, so this is only a small reward you need to pay for somebody who has taken your particular question and tried to help you out. It is a win-win for everybody, because for small issues you don’t need to hire expensive webdesigners.

Posted by Posted on Jan - 08 - 2012

Ann Druyan, about her husband Carl Sagan

“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — and ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again.

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous – not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous and so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful…

The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”

Ann Druyan, about her husband Carl Sagan

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Posted by Posted on Jan - 03 - 2012

Good Morning Mug

Lovin it!

Posted by Posted on Nov - 24 - 2011

I am thinking…

I have this domain, because… I have no idea. I just liked it, thought it was a cute name for a domain name, so I bought it. I was like hmmm, I make it a blog, where I post “stuffs”. Ok, I did that, for a few times, but then I got lost, didn’t had time, and so an and so forth. This is why I am thinking to transform it to some sort of “workout diary” where I keep my workouts in order, short and sweet. From data collected through endomondo or other I can keep track, and It is fun to see from where the results actually come.

Posted by Posted on Nov - 16 - 2011

Google’s spam filter

Google’s spam filter went crazy. Really crazy. It is not enough that spams all my payment receipts from Paypal, but today did something more amazing: it spammed its own confirmation mail! I wanted to add a new account to my gmail, so I don’t need to log in to another email account, and added the mail to gmail. This supposed to send me a verification, and I needed to click a link. The email already was set up as a forwarder to this gmail address, so I received the mail there. But it was in the spam folder! Wasn’t even looking there for a while, because I was convinced, google won’t consider spam its own mail. I was wrong :D

Posted by Posted on Nov - 10 - 2011

Firefox 8.0? bleeeaaahhh…

Yesterday I had an each in my finger and pushed the “update now” button for firefox. It was a stupid move! Apparently lately the word “update” means “get a shittier version of what you have and lose all your settings” I am not a native English speaking person, but I was firmly convinced that “update” means to get something BETTER. Apparently I was wrong. The first time I noticed the true meaning of “update, and upgrade” words with wordpress. It supposed to be newer and better, and it became bigger, slower and with much more bugs, functionality that most users never need, built in, just to make it more complicated. By the way, this happened with Microsoft Windows product too. When I was a newbie, to install a windows you needed a few things: the kit, the drivers and a little bit of knowledge. Windows first was on 10 1.44 mb disks, than it was on a cd now hell knows how many dvds you need for the full package. And of course it instals itself, blocks out even the experienced user from a bunch of settings, because “shut up you little geek, me, computer knows best”.

Anyway… today I realized that my Hungarian Dictionary, English dictionary and a whole lot of other “addons” (extensions, plugins WHATEVER) are disabled! Why? Have no idea. Not even the slightest idea. Because after installing I haven’t had any notice about not being compatible with Firefox 8.0. And strangely they ARE compatible. But I need an extra step, go and figure out why the heck it didn’t works, and enable it by hand, restart firefox and voila….

So I don’t get it.

Ok OK one thing I get: it is free. If I don’t like it, I can move on and find some other product to use. Yeah that is a good point.

After loosing all my bookmark, this is the second hit from Firefox. I will wait for the 3rd, and will say goodby to this browser.

Posted by Posted on Nov - 09 - 2011

Firefox Addons, Extensions and Plugins…

Today I discovered that Firefox has Addons, Extensions and Plugins… For me, the “average Joe” (what is the average Joe’s female form? Average Janette?) this makes not really much sense. It is same shit after all. So I don’t really get why do I need to have extensions, addons and plugins in firefox.

Posted by Posted on Nov - 09 - 2011

To good to be true

I was searching for some article directories, pligg sites, social bookmarking sites and directories. I wanted to submit my sites, to see if something happens. Well… nothing. I mean not much. I managed to put together a link of over 19.000 directory sites. Yeah, that is the correct number. I knew there was a few duplicates so I made a clean up, and ended up with a list of 14.000 directory sites. Woow, I was like, ok, if I submit to all of these, there will be a bunch of backlinks to my sites, I am gonna be the best…:D I was wrong… I still had a lot to clean up from this huge list. Because the sheer amount of the directories, I first imported the list to a working server, where I had installed a wordpress plugin called “backlinks checker”. I set it up in a way that all dead links to be removed. The server was working for a few days, checked the dead sites, and I finnaly ended up with a nice list of 9000 directories.

It was still to much, but I had to check these with hand. So I generated a list and started to check the sites one by one. I took over two weeks, until I managed to delete all the “live, but parked” sites. These were not reported by the dead link checker, they were not dead… just something else. The final list was less than 2000 working directories. A few directories from this list still need to be dropped. They are accepting only paid submissons, so no point of waiting my and their time with the submit.

What is my point exactly here? Don’t fall for this “too good to be true” lists. They are not that good as presented. What happens is that most of the webmasters are lazy folks, and they won’t even bother to check the validity of this lists. You will see a bunch of forums with a lot of members saying that the list is magnificent, perfect, woow… but you can safely bet: to make a good list for yourself you need to put a lot of work to it.

But of course if you have no idea where to start, you can start by getting a list (whatever is that list about) and CHECK IT, correct it, add your stuff. Work with it and it will pay of one day.

Posted by Posted on Sep - 05 - 2011

WordPress Revisions (wp 3.2.1)

After version 2.6 there was a so called “revision” introduced for wordpress. This definitely a good idea, but it can also cause a lot of issues. For example I have a blog, where I don’t want to keep revisions. I just don’t want to see them. To stop this “revision madness” I needed to add a line to wp-config and everything was taken care… But this method didn’t worked for wordpress 3.2.1

The line to stop all the revisions from "happening" was 

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS',False);

After I updated a few of my blogs, I noticed a huge incrase in the size of database and was surprised to see that I have a few hundred of revision posts!

Right now I have a setup with a wordpress 3.2.1 and it looks like this line in wp-config fixes the revision creation madness…

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS',0);

further testings are needed.

Posted by Posted on Jul - 05 - 2011

To update or not to update?

The wordpressian version of the good old “To be, or not to be” Shakespeare-ean quote.
Yesterday one of my blogs had the usual “WordPress 3.2 is available! Please update now.” message on the yellow ribbon. I was just building that blog, and was like, what the hack, I will just update it and see what will happen… Well it went a little bit wrong for me.

Because that blog is heavily relying on Feedwordpress, a great feed syndication plugin, that is an absolute must for that site to be alive at all. After the update Feedwordpress stopped working and gave me this error:
“PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_SimplePie_File::WP_SimplePie_File() ….”

Because I had no time for this, I simply decided to copy wordpress 3.1.4 files over and let the site like that until “further notice”.

Today I had a little time on my hand and was able to find a not so elegant solution for the moment. It was not really a rocket science to find the answer, but I was not looking the right place at the beginning. I found the FeedWordPress 2011.0602: More compatibility fixes, fewer duplicated posts and in the comment section there is a short and sweet fix for the issue.

“Thank you for the heads-up on this issue. I’ll be including a fix in the next public release of FeedWordPress (a few days from now), but in the meantime, here is a quick DIY fix that you can apply yourself, if you don’t mind making a quick edit to feedwordpress.php.

Grab a copy of feedwordpress.php from your web host and bring it up in your favorite text editor.

Go to line 1841. It should look like this:

WP_SimplePie_File::WP_SimplePie_File($url, $timeout, $redirects, $headers, $useragent, $force_fsockopen);

In the text editor, change the line so that it looks like this instead:

parent::__construct($url, $timeout,
$redirects, $headers, $useragent,
$force_fsockopen);

Save changes, upload back to the web server, and see if it fixes the problem you’re encountering.

If this solves your problem, then the fix should be bundled into the next release of FWP, so future upgrades should not be a problem.”

Now I have to admit… I am a lazy person. This is why I won’t update wordpress now on this site. I need to have that site up and running, cannot play with it. When I will build some other one, maybe I will try to fix it this way. If I would have got this answer a little bit sooner, than I would have been tried it without a doubt. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next release of the plugin.

Anyway, for me this is yet another lesson to be learn… with WordPress it is not always the best idea to do the “update it right away” method. It is not the first time that there are minor, but very annoying issues still to be fixed. So I will go the other way… I will let my sites with inferior versions for a little while, and see what happens.

Posted by Posted on May - 19 - 2011