This week’s favorite link: Hellblau Interestingly the English equivalent is much shorter.
Year: 2007
Bah bah black sheep
I’m thinking of getting this
Weekend ahead
Autumn-like weather and a bad cold, but it’s still a Friday! And just for the record, I don’t mind fast forwarding to spring. More search phrases – but not really a surprise to me given the quality of content here at Chiperoni.ch 😉 : Dilbert project tracking – points to an old blog post on… Continue reading Weekend ahead
Search phrases
Dear regular readers of Chiperoni.ch, On Sunday I continued reading the “New PR” book and i’ve got 3 pages of wild notes waiting to be blogged… but I’m too tired for PR just now. Oh no, i hope it’s not blogging fatigue 😉 Search phrases that led people to my blog today: i want to… Continue reading Search phrases
My kind of blue
Reflection
Today’s fave…
z’Basel am Rhy
Today’s favorite find!
Different
Stumbled across this 5 mins ago: group94
Motion sickness
Text snippet: Interestingly, susceptibility to motion sickness increases with fitness.
GPL and Movable Type
Interesting: What a GPL’d Movable Type means for WordPress
Lego face
Seen in Martin Gyger’s Flickr stream: These lego faces are fun! Just like web icons… you can see the pixels when you zoom in.
USA Stats
A lot less monolingual than you think it is: Percent of People 5 Years and Over Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home: 19.7% via USA erklaert
Mobiles for the world’s poorest
via the BBC: A 2005 study showed that an increase of 10 mobile phones per 100 people could increase GDP growth by 0.6%.
Too much
I don’t usually write about politics, but this poster campaign crosses a line. In my humble opinion it’s racist and backward. I don’t understand why so many Swiss people are ignoring it. Some say it’s just the usual pre-election noise. As suggested here, I’m going to send back all of the brochures clogging up my… Continue reading Too much
Adding a contact form
I’m trying out cforms II for a work blog. See Contact WordPress plugins are getting more and more elaborate… took me a while to get this form to display cos of the various options. Lorelle has an overview of contact form plug-ins.
Monday fun
Some fun links to start off the week: Australia from memory The usefulness of Web 2.0
Flickriver
Scrolling Ad Infinitum: I discovered a new Flickr tool called Flickriver… It loads all images into one long html page, i.e. you simply scroll down to view all pictures for a tag or group: My contacts My faves Malawi group Canon ImageBrowser to FlickrUploadr: BTW, I’ve found a shortcut how to add photos from Canon… Continue reading Flickriver
MAMP or pre-installed Apache
For local WordPress fun, I might install this package: MAMP Although Apache is already available. The pre-installed Apache can be accessed like this: Go to System Preferences > Internet and Network > Sharing Select Personal Web Sharing or click Start. Copy & paste the URL listed in the lower part of the dialog box into… Continue reading MAMP or pre-installed Apache
Installing Tomcat on a MacBook
Today I installed Tomcat on my MacBook. In order to run a website with Java servlets locally. Here are my non-developer notes, for my own future reference. To check if Java is installed, open Terminal and type: javac -version In a previous session, I had already installed the Apple developer tools, which includes JDK 1.5.… Continue reading Installing Tomcat on a MacBook
White Space
(half-geek plans) Maybe I’ll try out this WordPress theme over the weekend: Whitespace WordPress Theme And I’ve still got to figure out how to install and configure a Tomcat on a Mac. And I still want to install MacFuse and MacFusion
close up of my running shoes
Bush League
Interesting read: Cy on his Malawi experiences The contrast between rural and urban areas in Malawi is huge. I remember an article I read (probably The Nation or The Daily Times) during my last stay, on how people in a remote village in the northern region near Rumphi can get reception for their mobile phones… Continue reading Bush League
Embedding Google Video and Autoplay
quick note: If you’re embedding a Google Video and you don’t want the video to start automatically, check the embed code for flashvars=”autoPlay=true” and delete it…
Chiperoni.ch on MacBook
when it was still new and pristine…
Not new
At Lift 07 there was a panel on technological overload. The video of the panel is available here. Update: Since Google Video is no more, the video can be viewed on Vimeo Panel Discussion:Dealing with technological overload (Lift07 EN) from Lift Conference on Vimeo. Fellow blogger Mlle. A. pointed out that this kind of discussion… Continue reading Not new