i’ve built in a little section called “blogs i read” in the right bar menu. it’s a selection of websites that i visit more or less regularly…

here are the websites that are featured for now:

• caroline chen: i hate pink!
• eric cheng: amazing travel reports, lots of stunning underwater photos, infrared photos, …
• escapisms: photoblog
• heimatseeker: more than just pursuing abstract german nouns (check out sibylle’s photoblog titled “i witness”, too!)
• matthew robertson’s photoblog

i just added my coordinates to this blog’s metadata. so now, if you click here, you’ll find my neighbors in meatspace. theoretically, at least.
because it seems like my only real-world neighbors are booking-agents.

well, that’s austria.

speaking of which – this satellite image shows where i live: overview – detail
wow. we’re really just a tiny nest of yodelers in leather trousers :wink:

i also liked these images: huge overview, the alps

there are a few wardrobe malfunctions that i recently took care of:

• i discovered that the picture-popup window is misplaced on mac computers (interestingly, that happens in safari as well as firefox!).
  the javascript that resizes and relocates the window has been disabled for mac users now.
• i’ve finally straightened out the stupid css/font-setting that (amongst other things) makes “cl” look like a “d” on some pages. looks like i’ll have to sort my css-sheet sometime – it’s pretty chaotic…
• the blog’s categories are now sorted by name. i was annoyed at the chronological sorting…

unfortunately i don’t quite know how to correct the firefox misinterpretation on the categorized gallery. the submenu is meant to be just one line high (like MSIE interprets it), but the select-box is for some reason inflating it…

the msnbot has practically always been browsing and catalogueing my homepage, in a very intensive way.

my first record is from the time when version 0.11 was surfing around (about three days after i activated the advanced log):
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before i leave to budX (cnn’s city code for budapest – i like it!), i would like to announce that my good friend andi has released his new website:

www.designguide.at has all the information you need for designing logos, starting at basics like “training your creativity” and “making primary conceptions”, to all the “technical” stuff you need to know.
(unfortunately for those of you, who don’t speak german, it’s in german only.)

now that’s what i call a smooth transition:

18:00 setting dns-entries for http and mail on new dn-server
18:00 – 21:30 something else to do.
21:30 entering new dns address at the domain name administration page
21:31 new domain name servers already in use and up to date.

everything instantly worked. if there’s something i missed, please tell me!

lately i’ve been overrun by comment spam.
that’s why i’ve just activated a plugin called “spam karma“, apparently coded by “the unknown genius”.

here’s a quick roundup of what it is/does:
Genetically engineered in the dark recess of our Secret Spam Research Labs and trained through months of reflex conditioning and shock therapy, this thing, once unleashed on your comments, will only let go of its death grip after the last spam has been shredded to pieces.
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But while a fierce and merciless spam killer, this plugin is also a perfect companion for your kids and friend’s comments.

every comment’s karma is altered, depending on whether it’s good or bad, and in the end, only certain karma-level-comments will pass.

now that thing *must* be good!

in case it messes with you although you’re my kid (yeah!), or a friend, …or at least not a spammer, please comment here and let me know.

[lyics quote of the moment]
come on over, have some fun
dancing in the morning sun
look into the bright blue sky
come on let your spirit fly

livin’ it up this brand new day
summer, sun, it’s time to play
doin’ things it feels so good
get into emotion
kate yanai – summer feeling