upgraded to wp 2.0

Following the true half-geek tradition pursued at chiperoni.ch, I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. So far everything looks like it’s working fine. Please leave a comment if you stumble across an error. I guess, I’m curious to see how Akismet will help to curb spam. Thanks wp for fixing so many bugs. As… Continue reading upgraded to wp 2.0

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Why You Should Blog…

I’d like to point you to this posting, which sums up a lot of things i’m discovering about blogging: Why You Should Blog Even though many of my long postings* never reach publish status, writing is a great way to reflect on stuff. And I love saying, “I’m blogging this”… *The short postings do get… Continue reading Why You Should Blog…

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AJAX Translator

Cool translator interface: AJAX Translator Goodbye to pulldown menus and submit buttons! Love the typo “Protoguese”…

Designing Icons

for future reference: Anatomy of an Icon Source: Swissmiss

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garish

I couldn’t think of the German word. Instead I used this word to describe what I was trying to say: ADJECTIVE: Tastelessly showy: brummagem, chintzy, flashy, gaudy, glaring, loud, meretricious, tawdry, tinsel. Informal : tacky Source: garish. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. and surprised myself what vocab is hidden in the back… Continue reading garish

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Swiss weather in Swiss German

Stopped by at the Swiss TV blog for the very first time, and do you know what: “es hudlet”, “es chuutet”, “es strääzt” oder “es chunnd ganz schöön cho schütte” Looks like I’ll need to learn more Swiss German dialect to find out what kind of weather’s being forecast for tomorrow. Just wondering if there’s… Continue reading Swiss weather in Swiss German

Google’s Ten Golden Rules

stumbled across this Newsweek article at Kottke.org: At Google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of “knowledge workers.” After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses… Continue reading Google’s Ten Golden Rules

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