The link to this article whizzed by in my feed reader and as it turns out the article is very, very good: true, clear, concise and very to the point:
Design Multilingual Websites: A Beginner’s Guide on Hongkiat.
Archive for February, 2010
Design Multilingual Websites: A Beginner’s Guide
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Lead like the great conductors
Thursday, February 25th, 2010A brilliant and funny TED talk by conductor Itay Talgam on leadership styles and challenges:
On the danger of downloading themes
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010This is something I had not bumped into before, but today I downloaded a free WordPress theme to adapt to my own wishes (which usually involves a whole lot of hacking and slashing), but this one took some extra time because it was riddled with invisible links to several commercial sites, apparently to boost them via the bots that usually visit blogs. The crappy part was that the code that published the links was actually encrypted to prevent removing the links. This particular creator even went so far as to change the default WordPress ‘Meta’ links to his own site.
Translation: if I hadn’t been hacking my way through the code I wouldn’t easily have found the semi-hidden links, so anyone just downloading and using this theme or one like it will inadvertently aid these somewhat immoral practices and end up with a slightly crippled blog.
Update: After finding that all of their themes have these links etc. I’ve decided to name and shame: the free templates came from wpthemescreator.
Update 2: Some more investigation even found some hidden encrypted code in the theme that inserted links to the creator’s site quasi-randomly in the blog’s links and probably the footer as well. Yechh. I’ve decided to still use the cleaned up theme but remove any link to the creators, even though that is normally against my principles.
The Golden Earring rocked once again
Monday, February 22nd, 2010I spent last night with my big sister at the last concert of Golden Earring’s current tour. This was an electric gig (as opposed to an acoustic, they mix them up on tours), and it completely R-O-C-K-E-D!
The support act was The New Shining, a Dutch band that was actually very good (can you tell support acts have often disappointed me in the past?), so the warmup was very effective…but no support act can beat the ‘Earring’. Once they stepped on stage they went from zero to 100 MPH in zero point zero seconds. Excellent as always, but on top of that it was kinda ‘extra special’. Not sure why, but these guys flew! Amazing guitar solos by George Kooymans, an electrifying bass+synth solo/intro by Rinus Gerritsen and Cesar Zuiderwijk completely rocked the hall with a truly mindblowing drum solo. And how Barry Hay still belts out the songs like that after all these years I really don’t know.
All in all one really great night out. It’s been way too long since I did this, and being there with my ‘big sis’ made it extra cool. Thanks sis!
Rubik’s phone just beat you
Thursday, February 4th, 2010This is quite amazing: A guy called David Gilday has built a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot that solves a 4×4x4 Rubik’s Cube (way harder than a 3×3x3), but the twist is: the real brains of the operation is a Nokia N95 that actually scans the cube with its camera, figures out how to solve it and then tells the robot what moves to make. Very, very cool David, you have officially too much time on your hands 
Source: Make
Awesome story, quite a lesson
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010This blew me away today:
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