About Wordpress

I needed a new blog. In spite of having tried Wordpress two times already and was left disappointed both times I thought I give it another shot. "Let's see what the new version can do" I thought to myself.

I created a blog, choose a template, and tadam! I had my first article, tag line and comment automatically added. So I went and removed that article, changed the tag line and moved on to edit the template because there was a friggin' smiley in the footer!
As it turns out the templates are not editable, customizable, uploadable or anything (maybe they are and I could not find out how... than it's not userfriendly!). You can edit the CSS though, so maybe you can change the color of the smiley and the "template created by ..." text to the color of the background. I did not stay long enough to find that out.
Another thing: there are a sh!tload if widgets in Wordpress but you cannot add your own content to the sidebar or footer, like a Google analytics tracker code for example. (Or maybe I could not find out how. Again, user friendlyness)

At least the "Delete blog" procedure went smootly.

End of the story: moved to blogger, although the desired name was not available I created FormulareUtile.blogspot.com, customized the template (you can declare variables, then edit the values in a designer. Very cool), added my custom code, custom sidebar content and finally my first article.

Only one thing missing from blogger that is in wordpress: Additional tabs/pages. Don't worry, I'll live somehow.

New useful website: Formulare Utile

I created a new website on blogger: FormulareUtile.
Its purpose is to collect all the forms and documents a person needs to face the Romanian bureaucracy.

Every bit of feedback, opinion and information is welcome!

I hope you find it useful

Is it funny today

Site about the funniest web comics of the day. Funnyness is based on the votes of the users. I highly recommend this site to you.

• http://www.isitfunnytoday.com/

Word mosaic

[Via Imagechef]

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know on Nettuts+

• http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/10-rare-html-tags-you-really-should-know/

Funny article about France rejoining NATO

"The French government announced after the London bombings that it had raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide.
The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively disabling its military."

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161642/As-France-rejoins-NATO-humorous-reminder-missed-them.html?ITO=1490

Extreme shepherding

Sheep In LED Clothing - WTF!?!

Wow.

SQL Server - Automatically mapping a user to a login, creating a new login if it is required

The following example shows how to use Auto_Fix to map an existing user to a login of the same name, or to create the SQL Server login Mary that has the password B3r12-3x$098f6 if the login Mary does not exist.

USE DataBaseName;
GO
EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'Mary', NULL, 'B3r12-3x$098f6';

A neat icon source

• http://www.switchonthecode.com/neat-software/get-access-to-hundreds-of-office-icons

My ASP.Net development server stopped working

So this is what happened!

• http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/03/13/asp-net-web-development-server-stops-working.aspx

Hehe

Heavy bacteria

(From Better Half)

New agent in Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Hour follows the fast-paced life of Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell), a special science adviser to the government, who, with his bodyguard, Rachel Young (Marley Shelton), not far behind, works against the clock to protect the world from the worst abusers of science.(Taken from TVRage.com because I'm too lazy to type)

So the show received a new member: Omar Benson Miller as agent Felix Lee starting from episode 14 of season 1! I like the guy, I hope you like him too!

TED tak: Bill Gross - Great ideas for finding new energy

Please note, that this was filmed in 2003.


If the video does not start, click this link:
Bill Gross - Great ideas for finding new energy