Year: 2011

Ultimate geek respect for Adrian Hands

Here is something that touched and moved every geek out there:

Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9-year-old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away.

I think the following comment does the best job expressing the feeling:

There are so many who benefit from the community, and so relatively few who give back. So many people claim some excuse to not contribute anything to anybody without getting paid. Then there’s this guy. I am honored to have shared a planet with him.

Day in brief

I'm at McDonald's http://4sq.com/eSRsvm #

Day in brief

Today started with me realizing that it's Friday. And finding 5 euros on the street. Can't complain so far. :-) #
Enjoying my first frappe this year. (@ FXCC) [pic]: http://4sq.com/gTWsql #
Friday? :-) http://t.co/U5hV8Ks #

Day in brief

Shared: Fixing the little things http://bit.ly/hlJ4OY #
Pizza and champaign on the house for lunch. Celebratung the first client. (@ FXCC) [pic]: http://4sq.com/h8KDJq #
I paid 74 Euros for 59 litres of Unleaded 98 today. Insane price for a full tank, I think. #

WordPress Embeds – images and videos the natural way

Those of you who, like me, were using WordPress for a very long time, as well as those who got into WordPress recently, probably don’t know that WordPress can embed images and videos into posts and pages without using any plugins at all. Even though there are plenty of plugins available (for example, Smart YouTube), you don’t always need them.

As per WordPress Embeds page, all you need to do is add URL to image or video in your post or page. Just make sure that the URL stands on its own line and that it’s not linked. Alternatively, you can use [embed] short code. WordPress supports quite a few popular sites – YouTube, Vimeo, Revision3, Flickr, Google Video, and more. The support is based on the oEmbed format.

Of course you’ll get more power with specialized plugins, but for many bloggers out there this built-in support will be more than enough.