Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Test your karma early in the morning

Published on July 26, 2007 in Wordpress. 1 Comment

The “WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin”“: if it works flawlessly (like when I used it on video.forret.com), an amazing tool! It upgrades your WordPress installation to the latest version, while taking a backup of files and database, and disables your plugins right before and re-enables them right after.

Stilleven (2) However, when it doesn’t work as expected (like yesterday morning here on blog.forret.com), it can be painful. In my case: my K2 template was broken after the upgrade. There is no ‘revert’/'rollback’ function, so you just have to dive in the K2 PHP code and disable the odd line here and there. Once you’re done, you realize that the new version of WordPress now has Widgets pre-installed, and the K2 Sidebar modules you so carefully handcrafted are gone. So you have to frantically look for the right widgets to do rebuild your sidebar, like the Flickr Badge Widget,the Folding Pages Widget, the Executable PHP widget and Google Adsense Widget. Then you nervously look for the right HTML code for your Adhese ads, and try to get the widgets in the right order. And only then you relax to drink your first coffee of the day (it was 6AM).

Thanks for the tip, Pascal ;-)

My City, Your city: Brussels

Published on July 24, 2007 in Brussel. Closed

Because Ine asked me nicely:
Apple Martini

  • My favorite ‘grab-a-bite’: De Markten, certainly when it’s sunny and you can sit outside
  • My favourite shop: Mr Ego for clothes, Passaporta for books – for CDs I would want a shop like the Virgin store in Paris: scan any CD’s barcode and you can listen to it on any headphone set in the shop – since there is no shop like that in Brussels: I shop Amazon
  • My favorite restaurant: SkieveLat (Sablon), very close to where I live – great ‘ribbekes’
  • My favorite ‘take my friends when in town’: l’Achepot on the Graanmarkt (awful website, but nice restaurant), in the Dansaert area, or resto Henri near the Varkensmarkt
  • Other 5 things to mention: the restaurant on top of the Muziekinstrumentmuseum, the Chaff cafe – best terrace on the Vossenplein, the Warandepark/Parc Royal – with the nice Kiosk, café Roskam – my hangout place in the ‘Vlaamse’ area, the Recyclart tavern – cheap, cosy and with free Wifi!

And I’m gonna throw the stick at a couple of fellow-Ketjes (Brussels inhabitants, that is):

  1. Alex
  2. Bruno
  3. Frank
  4. Mike
  5. Wouter

Arno on the Francofolies

Published on July 24, 2007 in Brussel and music. 1 Comment

Arno and his deep-philosophical reflections on life, music and being paid.

(Interview on RTBF about the Francofolies festival)

“Je suis ouvert comme une vielle pute… Tu vois le bazar !?”
“Je ne pense pas, ce sont les soeurs catholiques qui pensent”

Jealous computers

Published on July 23, 2007 in advertising, mobile and nokia. Closed


Dr Shopova warns for the wave of aggression by jealous computers, jealous because of the Nokia N95. As an owner of a N91, I have had my camera go on strike occasionally or deliberately underlighting my pictures, but never suffered any bodily harm. Let’s see what happens now that I switch to Proximus and will be reading my Gmail over 3G.
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