I tend to follow car blogs a lot, to see whats coming next, what are the numbers of the next machines. What else manufacturers have lined up or the troubles some of these companies face. One of these new blogs is Brake Banzeen, I have been following this Kuwaiti blog for some time now and I like it, he tends to have some information before those main car blogs do and sometimes he has some really good juicy videos to watch that make my mouth water seeing some of those machines, like the details on the new M5. If you like cars or anything with four wheels then this blog should be added to your list, I hope he transfers to a main address rather then a wordpress address soon.
Link: Brake Banzeen
Luckily for me Meshoo has some time on her hands with everything she has had to do with family. I have been preparing my complaint list for a while now, one day at work I got a message saying my blog was being upgraded and she was upgrading it from 2.7 to 2.8.
There are some minor differences, it is a bit cleaner in the back end but everything remains the same except for the image uploading. I have always faced a problem with the flash uploader for WordPress and it just wouldn’t work with Firefox or Chrome, I would have to go to Explorer 6.0 and upload image by image which was time consuming. Luckily this update made the fix so you can upload the traditional way or through the flash uploader, images are managed better and you can access them more easily.
Another small issue was that the categories wasn’t being retrieved correctly, some code was off so the data wasn’t being retrieved correctly. I can safely say now that the categories are fixed you can access them normally, I knew I was annoyed because I constantly used them.
Thanks Meshoo!
It seems ZDistrict has been listed as motorcycle sales company, and went searching through google there was this reference. Now that made me laugh, any motorcycles I do have are for my use only.
Thanks Yousef!
I have been a user of statcounter for a while for all my stat drilling needs for the blog and other websites. Didn’t really think much of switching to Google Analytics even though I keep reading a lot about it. I switched it on a couple of days ago for the blog and the information is pretty interesting and the way the reports are presented to you, the best part about all these tools is that its for free. Lifehacker had a post about Polaris, which takes all the Google Analytics data and presents it for you on your desktop. Polaris is an Adobe Air application which presents all the information with an attractive look and feel, free for personal use and $15/year to handle multiple profiles.
Link: DesktopReporting
The political unrest, war, bloody social strife, and greatest recession in the globe followed by the plague… Really? Are you serious? Can things get any worse? Once people lose their money they usually say at least “ive got my health” now they will die by the ‘pig’ flu, what an awful way to die! I dont know about you but i think that this is as low as it gets….. Fuck this generation, its screwed! We began our life during boom in the 80’s, entered school as the economy peaked, looked for jobs when the bubble burst, lost all our money, and now in fear of a deadly virus. Give me something at least a democracy, wait…… it dissolved three times since i could vote… AND none of the people i voted for won…. to sum up im poor, fearing death, what else do i have to look forward to?
‘Saviour & Inspiration, S’
A friend of mine wrote this, I just liked it and decided to post it. Its a really simple summary of what he is thinking about at this point in time. I liked it since it was just raw – Marzouq
A WordPress plug-in which works with WordPress 2.7+, its meant to format the posts to be easily reable and loads up very lightly onto the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android phone. I like when its a very simple piece of software which works as it is supposed to. You can view the blog horizontally or in landscape mode, making it a versatile piece of software and simple.
You can change your view to the full normal view instead of this compress version. If you are just looking to read then this is the best format but if you want to see everything then you have to go into full view mode.
Link: WPtouch
I have been facing a number of problems over the past two months, which have caused my blog to crash the Dreamhost server. I complained to them a few times, and the DH Support said that the load is coming from my Plug-Ins folder but I wasn’t sure what was going on. After a couple of tries, trying to fix things I emailed Meshoo and Jackie asking for help, because it was driving me nuts.
It was upgraded to WordPress 2.71, it felt a lot more stable but still their were load issues in the server. I even stopped Google and Yahoo from hot linking to images to a degree, even telling the bots where to go for indexing. Their still were issues, and after complaining so much, Meshoo took it upon herself a few days ago to make a new clean theme for the blog. I just told her that it should be somewhat similar in regards to the color scheme, other then that I am open to her choices. After day of endless sleep this is the amazing work of art, I want to thank Meshoo for making such a beautiful theme as usual, I think its fantastic but she still thinks there are a few things left to work on. The best part about this theme are the Search and 404 pages, which can be easily found. The updated blog was up in less then a day, and through out the day today major tweaking were being done. I hope everyone likes the new theme as much as I do, thanks Michelle.
