WordPress 2.04 - Done Sunday 2006-07-30
Ooopee! I followed my own advice and upgraded my blogging tool to version 2.04. Like a breeze 
1. Took a backup of important database table using Skippy’s’s WP Database Backup plugin, which let me send the backup as a ZIP archive to me by email or just save it to my local harddisk.
2. Made copy of my whole blog directory.
3. Killed the wp-content/cache directory ( I had to “Clear the cache” first )
4. Deactivated all plugins
5. Downloaded the 2.04 version and unpacked in a local directory
6. Copied everything exept the wp-contents directory to the server
When I went with my browser to my blog, WP suggested that I run the wp-admin/upgrade.php, which means just to click on a link.
I the went back to the admin/manage/plugins and activated the plugins I use - é voilà!
I’m up to date.
Update Your WordPress Saturday 2006-07-29
WordPress version 2.04 is here in a stable release, and Matt is out on the WordPress blog to convince all WP blogger so update. Safe and sound as it is the new version contains important security updates, as well as some 50 bug fixes - who would believe that?
As you may have seen from recent Bug Hunts, there is also a major 2.1 upgrade under ways, but don’t hesitate to install the intermediate 2.04! The 2.1 version may linger in the clouds for yet some time.
The update is simple enough. Just download and copy the files of the new version over the old.
As usual don’t forget to make a backup of the old one first, and don’t overwrite the following files:
* wp-config.php file;
* wp-content folder; Special Exception: the wp-content/cache folder should be deleted.
* wp-images folder;
* wp-includes/languages/ folder–if you are using a language file do not delete that folder;
* .htaccess file–if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it;
* robots.txt file–if your blog lives in the root of your site and you have created such a file, do not delete it.
Here is the download and the detailed instructions for any upgrade in the all mighty Codex.
Go ahead and just do it!
Working Online Thursday 2006-07-20
Are you planning to through away your desktop tools and make the move to net based programs and storage. Byte’s David Em has the story for you. In “Gliding Into the future” he presents an effort by TransMedia to start doing just that. David writes
“Several of Glide’s components, such as device-independent online email and media sharing, are already in common use. Glide takes these capabilities, including storing images, photos, and videos, and adds simple image editing (cropping, inversion, and the like), slide shows, emailing, calendaring, and personal web site and blogging software.
A sophisticated multimedia-savvy word processor called Glide Write that exports Word, HTML, PDF, and ZIP files. A presentation tool called Glide Presenter is on the way. You can set Glide to automatically sync and back up your images, contacts, and calendar from your personal computer. It sends upcoming calendar date reminders to your email. I suspect the Microsoft Office team is following these developments with great interest.”
The company addresses the complexity of different stationary and mobile platforms in more than one way. The goal is that whatever device you use, you should be able to transparently load your documents and continue the work.
As David points out, there are great advantages in server based storage. For example if you want to send an image by email to someone, you just send the link. The reciever decides when and where to download the actual image. In my opinion though, the beautiful thing with online tools and storage, is that you can leave your office or home, and connect to your desktop from anywhere, even using a mobile device, and continue the work.
You get the service for free or for a small fee, depending on how much disk space you need.
Finally SUN’s slogan and vision “The Net Is The Computer” seems to start rolling out. Is that Web 2.0?
From their mission statement we read
“Our goal is to provide you with a place to design your life, where you can share unlimited media and information with unprecedented compatibility, flexibility and peace of mind. This is Glide Effortless.”
That may not sound completely new to me - say Flickr par example However, they have just launched a photo sharing system, and there is more to come, they promise.
I’ll get back to you as soon as have made some preliminary tests.
In the mean time go figure!
Fridhems forna glans
Äntligen är Fridhems veranda återställd till sin forna skönhet. Den nya spiran och övrig snickarglädje har kommit på plats efter några år av säck och aska. På ett gammalt vykort från förra seklets andra decennium, kan man se Fridhems fasad som den skall se ut. När min konstnärligt sinnade moder tog sig an huset 1985, såg hon genast till att återställa verandan, och den gamla spiran återskapades eller renoverades. Så småningom förföll den och togs ner, saknad av ägarinnan, besökare och grannar. Broder Björn tillverkade “garneringen” vid sidorna för flera år sen, men låg i träda i väntan på själva spiran. Den tillverkades av Hardy inför midsommaren, och jag fick glädjen att montera den.
Fridhem ler åter mot grannar, besökare och förbipasserande.
Blonda mostern 75 Sunday 2006-07-16
Otroligt men sant. Idag bjöd min blonda livfulla moster Anna på kalas i sitt nymålade hus i Kalleguta. Nåja, att hon bjöd på god mat och kaffe med kakor och tårtor är kanske inte så otroligt. Det har hänt förr. Men att det är 75 hon fyller, det kan man inte föreställa sig. Samma vänliga och klingande skratt, som i sin ( och min ) ungdom bjuder hon också på. En gång i veckan drar hon iväg med bilen till något danspalats på Öland eller på andra sidan bron och svingar sina ben i några timmar.
Stort grattis till en sådan lysande kvinna!!
EU On The Road - EU på väg Saturday 2006-07-15
( Svenska följer )
Eu on the road may sound like a hopeful note, and surely I like the idea of a united Europe on the road to a brighter future. Lots have been said and yet lots will be said to promote this idea. On my side of the road, the most important thing o come out of the European Union is peace. Peace after centuries of constant war.
This is about something different though. It’s about the lunacy of taking the European Parliament on the road once a month from Bruxelles to Strassbourg, with its members and staff, books, maps and computers for a second seat meeting. It costs the European tax payers over €200 million a year, according to the campaign fact sheet.
It’s about the Oneseat on line campaign initiated by Cecilia Malmström, member of the European Parliament.
The purpose of the campaing is to collect one million votes from European citizens, to put pressure on the EU to decide on one single seat of the European Parliament. If you are a citizen of an EU member state you can vote in support for the reform, by going to http://www.oneseat.eu/ and sign with your name and email address.
EU på väg låter väl hoppfullt och jag uppskattar verkligen tanken på ett enat Europa på väg mot en ljusare framtid. Många har argumenterat för EU och framhållit dess fördelar. För mig är det viktigaste att det kan vara en väg till fred i Europa efter århundraden av krig.
Det här handlar emellertid om något helt annat. Det handlar om idiotin och slöseriet med att ge sig ut på vägarna med hela EU-parlamentet en gång i månaden för transport mellan Bryssel och Strassburg med parlamentariker och en stab av tjänstemän, böcker, mappar, datorer för sessioner id dess andra säte. Denna trafik kostar de Eouropeiska skattebetalarna mer än 200 Euro enligt faktabladet hos Oneseat.
Det handlar om kampanjen Oneseat initierad av parlamentsledamoten Cecilia Malmström. Den syftar till att samla en miljon medborgare i EU-länder för att sätta press på EU att besluta om ett enda säte för parlamentet. Om du är medborgare i ett EU-land, kan du stödja kampanjen genom att gå till http://www.oneseat.eu/ och signera med ditt namn och epost-adress.
Solen och vindarna
Tillbaka på Solens och Vindarnes Öland efter min sejour i Stockholm är Fridhem lika njutbart, och den osedvanlliga värmen består. Det gör också mitt konditionsbefrämjande arbete. De senaste dagarna har jag rensat ut grenar och målat den nya spiran och det fundament av vindskenor, som skall hålla den på plats när höststormarna kommer. Grindstolparna ficks sig en första strykning och rosorna, som ständigt försöker spärra utgången genom den nya grinden mot Kungsgatan, har jag attackerat med seckatören. Idag har jag också testat den nya hackelsemaskinen, som skall förvandla grenar och kvistar till komposterbara spån.
Syster Eva fanns på plats när jag kom ner till Ön, men har åtminstone tillfälligt återvänt för Carlskronitiska plikter. Förhoppningsvis kommer hon åter efter ett musikaliskt besök i Hälsingborg. Här ovan ses damerna i vila i den Fridhemska trädgården.
Hyperlinking Considered Harmful? Thursday 2006-07-13
Oh my gosh!
Lorelle of WordPress fame writes in her very much readable blog “Do I Need to Ask Permission to Put a Blog in My Blogroll?“. She says that she haven’t thought about the question before and writes
“Since a link in a blogroll is a compliment and recommendation, do you need to ask permission to include a blog in your blogroll? Good question.
I would think not. You are not linking to content, and you are not violating any rights. You are linking to the whole blog, not a single post. There is nothing to ask permission for, is there?”
Earlier in the week she pointed her audience to an article by Shel Holz entitled “When is a Link not a Link“, which questions your right to link to somebody else’s content.
This seems to to amount to something, I don’t know what. Don’t blame Lorelle, she is perfectly sane or I’m brain dead, but could it be that the summer over the western hemisphere is too hot , or maybe the web has matured to the point of being suicidal?
Is HTML, “Hypertext Markup Language” to be considered harmful? Oh, Goodbye.
Before we seriously enter the Web 2.0 world of fame an ridicule, let’s take a deep breath and a step back and look at what the web 0.1 - 1.0 is all about.
It all started as a possibility to link text based information to other relevant text based information. When the author of a ( usually scientific ) document referred to sources or or other texts of interest in the domain of his/her article, it would easily be reached by including a link to that material.
With the advent of HTML as a formalized way of accomplishing this, and the hypertext transfer protocol as a standardized communication protocol between the information servers and clients ( consumers ), the web was born. The rest is, as they say, history. And amazing as such.
This is what it’s all about, don’t you, dear reader, agree? Linking information to other relevant peaces of information. In the beginning very few used the web and decided what was relevant. Linking was done in rather closed domains and cross linking between domains sparse.
As the web has grown ( some under stating here :), the writers and readers on the web have very disparate opinions on what’s “relevant”, and as a consequence cross linking among “domains” abound.
Many links lead to ballooney, and link lists without human comments are useless. Human nature plays its part - and it should. It is to be expected.
For those of us who want the web to be a source of useful information, it may be frustrating to sift through ads we don’t want, sex we don’t like and thoughts we think could be offered by a piece of wood - or worse.
But it’s inevitable, and in some way the start of a new kind of democracy ( oh, how dared I ?), where everyone has his or her say. If you say something clever many will listen. Yes, hopefully, I know.
Am I spacing out? Right, I am. It’s my blog, so I can do that.
Back to the linking and blog roll business, or “can I link to any content on the web?”.
Yes I can, but with some exceptions.
- I can link to anything if I don’t pretend or imply it’s my own stuff.
- I cannot link in someone else’s images or media in my own page without permission.
- I cannot use someone else’s texts in my own pages, except for citations.
Citations should not be extensive and the should be attributed to the copyright owner, possibly linked to the original text.
This means for example that you should not link someones HTML or other document into a frame of your own document, as this could give the *impression* that it is part of your own site.
As for asking permission to include someones blog in my “blogroll” or linking to other recommended reading - give me a break!
If someone doesn’t want to be linked to, or recommended or read at all for that matter, there are lots of ways to avoid that. Here are a few.
- You may choose to send the info by email to a selected audience.
- You can publish your documents in a closed network behind firewalls.
- You can require authentication for individuals or groups that you allow to read your stuff.
- You can set up a robots.txt file to tell ( well behaved ) search bots not to collect all or certain parts of your web.
- Finally you can sell all your stuff and gadgets and hide under a rock.
I don’t think I’m being harsh here 
The web is all about hyperlinking and it is a social endeavour. It’s all about information and it’s all about people.
Link on, and happily so!
Bilbo och Goliat Wednesday 2006-07-12
Yipeeee!
Äntligen har Bilbo och Goliat fått sin egen plats i universum. Som människans bästa vänner, har de förstås tagit med sig hussochmattarna Naela och Björn ut i cyberrymden. För att du som läsare av min långsamt uppdaterade blog skall försäkras möjligheten att följa deras vidare äventyr, har jag lagt upp en länk till Bilbo och Goliat i min blogroll.
Själv kommer jag att med spänning följa vad som där tilldrar sig.
Naela firas i hamnen Monday 2006-07-10
På söndagen var det äntligen dags att fira Naelas inträde i det hon kallar kärringåldern. Vi var alla inbjudna till Elisabeth och Sven i deras vackra hem i Hammarbyhamnen.
Förutom värdparet var Olof och jag med liksom Uffe och Kicki och deras vilda barn och så förstås barnet själv med sin Björn. Och förstås Goliat, som uppförde sig bättre än man kunde förvänta sig av en valp. Över alltsammans vakade Indra, så fort hon släpptes ut från sin bunker.
Vi bjöds en väldigt god buffé och fina samtal och Naela fick goda presenter från sin moder och sina bröder. Småkillarna busade på småkillars maner och hetsade upp sig. Särskil kul var det förstås att busa med Goliat. Det var trångt vid bordet där han parkerat sig. Kaoset slutade med en smäll när den minsta killen slog huvudet i en bordskant och slog upp ett hack i huvudet. Doktor Sven ingrep med ett specialplåster ock klämde ihop skadan.
En fin fest med sång hurra och äventyrligheter.
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