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Bundespräsidentenwahl 2010 und deren Medienpannen

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Thomas

“Das hätten die schneller haben können”, witzelte ein Antenne Bayern Moderator (m. E. Wolfgang Leikermoser?) im Radio in Bezug auf die längste Bundesversammlung in der deutschen Geschichte. “Man hätte die Wahl nur auf einen Tag legen müssen, an dem ab 16.00 Uhr wieder Fussball gespielt wird.” Und das entbehrt nicht einer gewissen Wahrheit.

Hatten die Abgeordneten schliesslich in Ermangelung eines Fussballspiels alle Zeit der Welt, um sich im Reichstag gemütlich einen vollen Tag lang vom Catering verköstigen zu lassen und, wem auch immer ihr Wahlverhalten galt, jemandem einen politischen Denkzettel zu verpassen. Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 with New Face

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Thomas

after migrating websites and databases onto new hardware last weekend, I took the chance and did, what was way long overdue: I made an upgrade to WordPress 3.0 yesterday. Even though several other blogs of friends and those all around the world mentioned heavy problems and various plugins malfunctioning after the upgrade, it worked very well for me. Continue reading →

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Websites going into maintenance mode soon – major database migration forced

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Thomas

Due to critical hardware failure, I’m forced to shut down and migrate all my websites and those hosted on my server soon. This might happen this afternoon already. Right now, most of the websites are still working properly. Nevertheless, several … Continue reading →

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Beenden einer App im Hintergrund auf dem iPhone4

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Thomas

Ich hatte heute tatsächlich das Problem, dass eine App auf dem neuen iPhone4 in einen Fehlerzustand geriet und nicht mehr reagierte. Konret hat sich die WordPress-App zu Tode geladen. Mit dem alten iOS3.x liess sich die Anwendung einfach beenden/terminieren, doch … Continue reading →

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after 100 days of unfake.it

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Thomas

Hi there! I have to thank you! All of you, using unfake.it as URL shortening service! It’s been 100 days, since I faked the first URL with unfake.it – my very own URL shortening service. I started this project, ’cause I always … Continue reading →

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unfake.it as standalone WordPress plugin for Twitter Tools

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Thomas

Hi there! unfake.it has become a new and standalone plugin for WordPress! Alex King (thanks for that!) just added filter hooks to his famous Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress, which allows everyone to push URLs for a new posting to a … Continue reading →

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unfake.it patch for Twitter Tools 1.6b2

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Thomas

Hi there! Today, Alex King published a new beta version of Twitter Tools (v1.6b2) providing various bugfixes. A few minutes ago, I released the new unfake.it patch for this version. Help, documentation and download here: http://unfake.it/help.php#twitter-tools Have fun!

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studiVZ and meinVZ contacts in your IM (Digsby)

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Thomas

Hi there, today, I found something very intesting in the blog of Christian Heeren. His page was linked in the Digsby Forum and he teaches, how to get your studiVZ or meinVZ contacts in your Instant Messanger. Though meinVZ is … Continue reading →

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Twitter Tools patch

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Thomas

Hi there! Lots of you may use WordPress as blog system. Lots of you may also use a Twitter account. I guess, most of those people will use the famous Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King (http://alexking.org/) to automatically notify Twitter about … Continue reading →

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New theme!

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Thomas

I did not like the old theme anymore, so I switched to a new one this night.

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