We managed to finalize the blog for the fictional Democratic Christian Filipino Party (DCFP) of our student project. We? This group consists out of my girlfriend Katharina Schnitzer and two wonderful companions of our student group Torben Behmer and Kristin Balke, and with me the four of us represent this political party’s website for the Election Project course this term.
Why not using a blog for our election campaign project?
Here’s a list of reasons…
1. We do not need to rent an extra serverspace.
2. We must not rely on our lector to get updates online.
3. We can modify the content any time.
4. It’s almost easy to use without great HTML knowledge.
5. Everybody can contribute new articles and input to the „website“.
…
n. well, enough for now! Everyone has most personal issues why to use a blog instead of a handmade crafted html website. It’s automated, it’s dynamic, it’s modern.
About the DCFP’s technic background: Of course I used the Blogspirit software package to create this blog a few weeks ago and most of it’s original functionality remained. However, I modified the templates to show just the headlines and category names at the Main Page – while the blog’s articles are fully extended in the archive, categories and in the permalinks. I basically erased the sidebars‘ content such as the calendars, recent articles and comments, and on top of this, I only need to manage to get the Search-Engine and Join-Us areas operational… oops ;) !
Rum-Regatta in Flensburg
LebenFor yesterday we enjoyed some „foodastical“ adventure at Jörn’s home – a grilling snacktime with the Barbecue grill, Oke, David, Jonas and Lena, Katharina and myself and of course Jörn. After consuming a ton of meat and baked potatoes dipped into a variety of sauces, we continued to bust ourselves with a small feeding of a few high percentages including Pastis, Aquavit, Vodka, Rum and some other interesting shooters. No, this was not the kind of becoming boozed but for tasteful purposes only. Katharina and I agreed on creating a large private bar as we spotted Jörn’s hundreds of fine bottles.
But after that we left to the Havana Club stand at Flensburg’s harbor to get some more practise in tippling with Caipirinha and Havanna Sail, which was a special mixture for this weekend’s Rum-Regatta in our town. And guess what I did earlier? I bought one bottle Aquavit from Flensburg’s oldest and last remaining Rum-House A.H. Johannsen to begin my newest hobby of collecting bottles of alcohol.
Sober my Hotmail
SpamIt’s normal to receive about 30-50 emails per day containing nothing else but annoying spam. But there’s something new. Since the recent variant of the Sober virus is sending out e-mails with ZIP files attached, I received a ton of these emails on top of the spam over night. Isn’t it wonderful if the email addresses and servers of my most beloved spammers get infected? Yes it is! Stupidity is no excuse, and I do not need debt services, erection help and porn. If I recount the IPs of my inbox’s email transfer, there’s usually one spam and one virus. Can’t this sober just shut their spammer PCs off? ;)
The German Brückentag
Unicum AkademieGermans often tend to use remaining holidays to fill up space between weekends and national holidays. If there’s a holy event on thursday but friday appears to be a normal work day, several companies, institutions and organisations lack in personnel as the majority of them prefers to get this day off work in order to have an extended weekend. While I enjoyed to have these bridge days as much free as possible as I was employed, I rather dislike the fact of having bridge days while being a student. Nearly every course was cancelled today, and I will not move out of my appartment to participate in the only one of which I’m not sure if it takes place or not. It’s a useful chance to reload all your previous work and check it up, and I might turn in another economics session and pull sociology out of the cloudy-mind-dust.
What happened?
Unicum AkademieThere wasn’t much to report in the last couple of days except the following three aspects. On top of this, I had to stay a while off the net – sometimes it helps.
1. Our student group started to add content to the blog of our fictional party which was the reason for not blogging at my own blog.
2. I had a conversation with Philippe on Skype about Blogspirit and some other interesting issues, and as I can tell, this guy is really nice!
3. We enjoyed ourselves on Ascension Day as we among several thousands of people celebrated the typical misues of the christian event in it’s mutation to „Father’s Day/Men’s Day“. These people destroy a lot booze on these days.
CNN Spam
Blogkultur, Medien, SpamI’m just going to test if CNN is going to harvest my blog for adding corrective pagerank information or not. Apparently, they’re reported to spam several people who have placed CNN as topical statement into the recent entries or even linked to their site. Why would CNN do this? Just to increase the pagerank for their own site and decrease the pagerank of possible negative critics. I still like to watch their news reports on TV and read through their website, but if they’re going to do this… who knows what they’ll unleash?
Design Directory
DesignJust a small note since this might turn out handy for the future of anybody who likes to hire designers: The Design Directory is an international links database with approximately 1625 categories. (You may hire me, too.)
WordPress Date Bug
BlogkulturBy reading serveral of my RSS feeds, I noticed a frequent date error which occurs since last weekend on various blogs based on WordPress. I found this in the pubDate field within the RSS2 output:
So far, this datestring looks absolutely perfect, but you notice the variations between the abbreviations for the months? It’s a simple inconformity between the english and german abbreviations, since the dates originally are displayed in english, so I guess it’s some language update which might cause this error. I advise everybody to check their WordPress RSS2 php file for fixing this small bug – it usually puts your newest (german) entries below those with english date strings.
Election Project – Beta!
Design, Unicum AkademieWe managed to finalize the blog for the fictional Democratic Christian Filipino Party (DCFP) of our student project. We? This group consists out of my girlfriend Katharina Schnitzer and two wonderful companions of our student group Torben Behmer and Kristin Balke, and with me the four of us represent this political party’s website for the Election Project course this term.
Why not using a blog for our election campaign project?
Here’s a list of reasons…
1. We do not need to rent an extra serverspace.
2. We must not rely on our lector to get updates online.
3. We can modify the content any time.
4. It’s almost easy to use without great HTML knowledge.
5. Everybody can contribute new articles and input to the „website“.
…
n. well, enough for now! Everyone has most personal issues why to use a blog instead of a handmade crafted html website. It’s automated, it’s dynamic, it’s modern.
About the DCFP’s technic background: Of course I used the Blogspirit software package to create this blog a few weeks ago and most of it’s original functionality remained. However, I modified the templates to show just the headlines and category names at the Main Page – while the blog’s articles are fully extended in the archive, categories and in the permalinks. I basically erased the sidebars‘ content such as the calendars, recent articles and comments, and on top of this, I only need to manage to get the Search-Engine and Join-Us areas operational… oops ;) !
Destroy Me!
DesignWhile reading some RSS feeds I came accross the Searchenginewatch which featured Netdisaster. You may enter any URL at Netdisaster and choose from several catastrophes like mold, dinosaurs, wasps, spilled coffee and cigarette burning. Or you may want some harder stuff, then try to drop nuclear weapons over the entire web-site or keep Mars Attacks! digitally alive with some of the most devastating effects – or just take your paintball gun and colorize the website.
Firefox hit 50 Million
MedienThe (un)expected happened – the Firefox Browser is challenging Microsoft’s Internetexplorer more and more. On April 29th 2005 „at 8:58 AM PST, we rolled over the 50,000,000 downloads line.“ I love open-source software…
[via Dimension2k, Spreadfirefox]