I’m a Gmail user, and only use other mail servers for work purposes because it’s company policy. My messages tend to be neatly tagged before being archived, but there are always a couple of them that just seem to stay in the Inbox forever. Some of them are already tagged and ready to go, but they seem to escape… for some reason.
One of the reasons relates to the existence of a special tag. When something interesting to write about arrives it is tagged with the ‘blogabout‘ tag. In order to archive all the ‘blogabout‘ messages here some links to their content. Hope you enjoy it.
- Profiteroles: A recipe for a marvelous desert… from a worth following portuguese recipes blog.
- 100 Questions: From a very interesting blog that I follow on a daily basis.
- Smarter Men Have More Sperm: … sometimes I wonder if all science is good science. Obviously I’m a nearsighted person, without a long run vision of science, but can someone tell me where is the importance of studying the relation between the amount of sperm produced by a man and his intelligence.
Yep, at my daughter’s request a new blog has been created. This time it will be written in Portuguese. The idea is to write some daily rants, far less organized than this blog and much more frequently.
Please visit!
Along with photography, I think I have a new addiction! To blog… that’s my newest addiction.
I’ve taken three days of vacation, plus the weekend to rest. But I found myself in front of my home PC for the entire day. I did not spend the whole day writing posts. Still I manage to spend the entire day… creating new photo blog using Wordpress as blogging engine.
The new Photoblog is called Experiment, and you can visit at experiment.marcosbento.net!
Some of the content from the previous blog attempt was moved to the new location, but more will be available quite soon. Follow the news using the feed.
I was updating my blog. The expression update is used in the sense that my attention was focussed on design of the information provided by each click, not actually creating new posts. The basic result of design changes is always the same. Everything gets messed up and then follows a bug correction phase.
The latest problem was that my “Previous Entries” link wasn’t working. This was the first symptom, but the link was actually there and pointing to the correct location. My problem was that the selection of posts was always the last five entries.
Each page generated by Wordpress has an associated query that filters pages or posts based on the url you’re requesting. The problem was that by inserting a new “Recent Entries” section I’ve changed that default query to create the list of recent entries.
The solution was to create a personalized query to use in The Loop:
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=10'); ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<!-- Generate the required list... -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but withthe previous entry on this blog the ongoing focus was shifted. Well, that was intentional and I hope to continue that way.
This doesn’t mean that there won’t be more computer related topics discussed here. The only difference is that there won’t be only computer related topics. More than a computer geek, I’m also a family man, a [very, very, very] amateur photographer, an assumed autodidact with interests in a lot of other subjects.
Hope you continue to enjoy my random ramblings.
I’m having a couple of days off work, for the first time in the last couple of weeks, because of holidays*. This doesn’t mean that I spend time away from my PC, just that I didn’t work.
I used my free time to create a new blog. This time more of a notebook than a blog, in which I’ll write what was supposed to be no more than mental notes. I also found a very nice Firefox Extension called ScribeFire that allows to add new posts without ever login to wordpress dashboard. Essentially, it will contain tips and tricks found on the web or that result from my experience (either good or bad!).
The new blog, located here, and it’s conveniently called Single Point of Failure. Cool name, isn’t it?
This way, Introspection can continue to be a personal blog focused on self introspection and related activities.
* in Portugal, the 1st of May is considered as Labour Day (usually used by the unions to perform some kind of public statement)
I’m trying to use a FF (version 2, yes, I’m still using version 2 of the best web browser ever!) addon called ScribeFire, which enables me to write this post from FF without ever accessing the actual blog.
If you’re reading this through the blog’s webpage, you certanly already noticed the new design that is being used. (If using the RSS feed, please don’t forget to open the webpage, and possibly leave your comment/critic to the design.)
It might not be the most wonderful theme ever created for a wordpress blog, but since it was I who created it… I enjoy it, very much! Much more lighter than the previous one.
The header has been created using a sophisticated rendering algorithm known as “Search google for wallpaper”, followed by a 15 minutes evaluation of the possible candidates, and some cutting and pasting supplied by gimp.
