Now, I have some stuff, I wanted to bring to your attention. Basically you could see this post as some kind of container, holding different subjects. I thought that it might be ridiculous to write numerous entries, just to stay on topic.

So… First of all, I am sure many of you people know WordPress. I for my part have been using if for some months, and it seems to suit everybody’s needs at the beginning. No comment spam whatsoever and some other interesting features are literally waiting to be explored. However, sooner or later, and even if you keep everything slick and tidy, you will be confronted with comment spam. Do not ask me why, for I simply do not know an answer to the question. The thing is, that I know numerous blogs, which have been using wordpress (of whatever version) and it simply always resulted in that same fact.

Comment spam, is than something that I hated so much, that I (when I still was using WordPress) killed the ability to leave a comment. Interestingly this didn’t prevent comments from being posted. That’s when I went ahead and deleted the PHP files, which should allow the job of posting a comment. This didn’t help either. (Not that I still cared, as I didn’t show comments on the site anymore, but still – that’s some kind of scary.)

Anyways. Yesterday, Daniel K. Gebhart told me about an interesting (new?) Blog software, called s9y (Serendipity – a PHP Weblog/Blog software). This sounds great, as it got tons of features and other perhaps important stuff. It might be worth a try if you are bored by the problems you might encounter by using WordPress. (On a side note, I do not want to complain about WordPress just like that however. Do not get me wrong, for WordPress still is an amazing thing. And actually everything is great, but the comment system. This is however, as I’ve previously explained an important feature for me, and I suppose, numerous other people.)

Something entirely different. Flickr… I love it. I had huge web hosting expenses back in the days when I published my pictures in the good old fashioned “Apache will list it all” way. Now though, my flickr account allows me to cut down those bandwidth costs for the moderated sum of 25$ a year. (Actually I can’t remember the exact cost). Interestingly I had to pay much less, because of the conversion rate €/$. Which was great. So what I am trying to tell you here is, that if you are interested in sharing pictures, or putting pictures online, so that many people can have a look at them, consider flickr, it’s well worth it. Now, I do suppose that most of the use perl people will have an own server, where they can put all their things online, but there might be some more people reading this, who do not want to get themselves through all those different things. As of now, I have already infected two people with the flickr virus. Namingly elver (Elver Loho) and fotex (Daniel K. Gebhart).

Flickr offers you some (at least in my eyes) great features. Like for instance, the favorites, which basically is nothing else than a good way to bookmark good pictures. Beside, the huge amount of users on flickr, makes it easy to get comments, which might inspire your motivation to make good shots yourself. For all of those who are interested in uploading pictures, you should have a look at Flickr-Upload on CPAN.

Speaking of Elver, he visited Luxembourg and by there me, from Saturday till Thursday. It was a great time, and I am interested in visiting Estonia one day as well. Seems to be great, and the beer seems to be by far not as expensive as over here in Luxembourg.

Well, anyways. I can’t think of something that I would want to tell right here, at the moment. This is thus the way I will end this shiny but unimportant post.