Beginning with the last question – still here ;-) But very busy.

- with the job (which is about to change somehow in the next few months).

- with home servers, computers, networks, electronics, navigation systems, etc. (upgrades, updates, patchings, backups …. The server OS must be finally reconfigured and upgraded. The bugs, slowness, disks running out of space and memory leaks make me nuts).

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Update: Fixed for Firefox 3.6. Actually, it was not an FF bug, but following the standard. The background of the boxes will be broken in Internet Explorer which is buggy. Chrome renders OK.

Firefox 3.6 is out but the bug related to element positioning is still there. So if you are going to upgrade you will see that the design is broken.

Looks like it’s the time to rewrite the internals again… Oh my …

I’m upgrading WordPress to the latest version. Please let me know if anything is broken.

I’ve added a new forum feature called usermap. Now you cam map your location in the world! Let’s see where we are!

… and will be unavailable for some time.

… All done. Let me know if anything’s broken.

What do you think, do we need “post rating” and “share” buttons? Does anybody use social/shared/remote bookmarking? These features proved to be not that useful as I thought, but, again, is it just me who never uses them?

$#$%^&  happens…

Probably more often than we would like it (“like” is not a good word here) to happen.

Update 19 Jul, 2009 @ 19:48

It’s nice to find the site suspended when you’ve just come back from a busy vacation… Instead of taking simple troubleshooting steps, the providers decided (again) to simply suspend the account. Next time I will have to find another provider (again). The reason is: overusing the system resources. The actual reason is unknown. Denial of service? Possibly. Can be easily detected by the provider. They even have a specific paragraph in their services list.

OK, anyway, the site has almost disappeared from Google (again) and lost “reputation points”. I’ve become a “phobia” person. I’m afraid of losing stuff. Losing time, energy, money, information, privacy, health, etc… I make backups at least twice a day, I check processes every 5 minutes. Unfortunately you can’t backup/clone everything. But unfortunately you can backup/clone problems.

Jeez.. I love that… Not …

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Update 2009-03-23 @ 12:35:25:

• Moved some functions to JavaScript. That reduced the page sizes, decreased the page load times (since the menus are cached by the browser) ,  and increased the percentage of the content/metadata ratio.
• The menus  can still be accessed by JavaScript disabled clients
• Added contact info
• Added navigation links (on the right) to the recent comments, most viewed articles, etc
• Added a Map counter (at the very bottom). It’s a fun to see where you all are coming from ;-)

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Tonight the WorfdPress (the blogging software) will be upgraded. During the upgrade the access to the dynamic contents will be very limited.

Update: Upgraded! Please let me know if you notice that something is broken.

I’m sick of using phpBB. My next attempt is mybb. I have migrated all users, threads, messages, etc  from the previous forum to the new one. Only attachments did not find their way to the new forum, but I will fix that manually.

Please test and let me know what you think: new forum.

Update 2008-11-04 @ 02:52:05: The new forum is practically ready. The links are pointing to the new one. The old phpBB forum can be found here.