http://www.kawehdashti.com Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:25:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have experimented with Intense Debate for a while now, as their commenting system looks tremendously promising. They have just been acquired by Automattic, the wordpress people. It comes as a plug-in that syncs the comments on any given blog with their servers. Some sort of automated comment back-up, I guess. ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/11/13/intense-debate/ At 4am CNN officially projected Barack Obama the 44th US President, defeating John McCain. http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/11/04/america-votes-results/ I downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 a couple of days ago and today finally found the time to burn it to CD to try out the Live CD. Hugh suggested that Broadcom Wifi might now work in Ubuntu without requiring all the fiddling stuff that has so far kept me from using Linux. Everything ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/11/02/ubuntu-810/ I have begun to write my first own WordPress Theme. It is based on the Starkers Blank Development Theme by Elliot Jay Stocks. The beginnings are there. The header is as good as finished. You can sneak a peak at my other site. Let me know what you think. Addendum: We are running ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/11/02/kaweh-theme/ I have upgraded my WordPress to version 2.6.3 and I expect that the results will be completely unnoticeable. Yes I know, it has been available for some time and I should have upgraded earlier. I was simply too emotionally attached to the previous version. Meanwhile I am looking forward to version ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/10/28/wordpress-upgrade-263/ While I was in Zaragoza to attend the wedding of Luis and Lara, we went to visit a bullfight. Luis and his Father, his father-in-law and me had very good seats and I took plenty pf photos. This is not for the faint-hearted. I have not edited the photos apart from ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/10/26/bullfighting-in-zaragoza/ As you may know, my good friend Luis, one of the crazy ones, has married. He and the lovely Lara have tied the knot in Zaragoza in a wonderful traditional Spanish ceremony in the city's cathedral. Wedding Photos! Ok, I know you have been waiting, so here they are. I have been ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/10/18/luis-y-lara/ I was lucky enough to attend the October JADE Meeting in Brussels. All the best and loads of luck to the new team. I am sure they will do a great job. There are several dozen photos taken during the meeting on my camera, but because I am little pressed ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/10/08/coming-from-brussels-going-to-zaragoza/ is totally excited about going to Brussels! # http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/09/27/daily-twitters-round-up-2008-09-27/ Hello humans. A couple of weeks ago I added simple delicious.com and digg com text links to my wordpress template. Now, every time I write a post, wordpress automatically adds a post-specific digg.com "digg this" and a delicious.com "bookmark this" link to the bottom of the post. I did this because the ... http://www.kawehdashti.com/2008/09/27/add-digg-and-delicious-links-to-your-blog/