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Quiz show is popular in Japan now. Stupid panel are more popular than intelligent panel. Everyone laughs at stupid panel’s answers. Hmm…. I don’t like it. Of course, everybody likes these stupid panel. They are sweet nature. Maybe some of them do it deliberately. But I don’t like it…

To put images on Drupal sites I mainly use ImageField or my hacked version of the inline module together with ImageCache and Thickbox

I finaly bought a new laptop computer this month. I hadn’t checked my e-mail for 5 months because my PC broke after 5 years in use. I checked my e-mail yesterday, and I received about 7000 e-mails…I thought I shoud checked all e-mails if these were important or not. But I gave it up as soon as I saw how many I receive e-mail. I’m sure almost all these e-mails were junk. Maybe…

I just got back from Göteborg (in south west Sweden) where I have been teaching Drupal to the developers and designers of Xelera Communication.

Xelera build and designes webb-sites, e-commerce solution and does Internet marketing. They have become interested in Drupal and wanted me to kick-start them. I had sessions on Theme building, module development, multisite installs and site building with CCK+Views.

Notice the search field here on xdeb.org? If you have JavaScript turned on you get the enhanced version with a nice placeholder/hint that disappears when you click in the field. The search button is hidden also, I assume everyone just hit return to to the search anyway so it just take up space.

If you use Safari, or any other Webkit browser, the search field is even more enhanced. Here how it looks for you who don’t use a Webkit browser.

Aside from looking gorgeous, it adds value in terms of an enhanced user-experience. It works just like any other search field on Mac OS X. If you just want the nice Safari search field, take a look at http://drupal.org/project/safarisearch.

All this is done with JavaScript on the original Drupal search form ensuring graceful degradation. If you turn of JavaScript all that happens is that you get the standard search field and button.

Here follows the code I use to implement this here on xdeb.org.

Yesterday I was at the second ever Drupal meetup in Sweden. I could not attend the first one unfortunately.

We where eight that got together last night at the pub Kvarnen in Stockholm. It was really nice to meet other people, in real life, that all new what taxonomies are and why they are so great :-).

Besides getting to know each other we talked about setting up a site to promote Drupal in Swedish. A design draft that looked very promising was presented. Drupal work shops, Drupal BarCamp and a Scandinavian Drupal conference was also on the agenda.

The quickest and most efficient way to maintain a Drupal installation is in my opinion to install and update it via cvs. It looks complicated to start with but my experience is that when you get used to it you don’t want to do it any other way.

I will assume you already have cvs installed or otherwise know how to do it on your server. You also need to have shell access and be familiar with the command line. If this is not true you better stop reading :-).

Original article 2006-10-31, new revision 2007-11-16.

A friends pulled up his mobile and said, “this is something in your taste I believe”. He pressed play and the music of Katie Melua sprang out of the tiny speakers. He was right, absolutely in my taste.

When I came home I looked up the name that I had scrawled on a small piece of paper. iTunes Store had her music but not as iTunes Plus (i.e no DRM) so I went to one of the CD/DVD web shops I use and bought her music on CDs instead.

This must be the first time the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to a author that I have read (and very much enjoyed).

that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny

I don’t really get the motivation given by the Svenska Akademien but I do think she is well worth the prize.

I have trouble with my computer(windows). I can switch on my computer, but I can’t open any file, and can’t shut down it. I have to send it to repair. It’s thanks to my Mac that my sister and her hasband gave me, I take it calmly.

Postal Servicse will be privatized and split up from tomorrow. I work for a post office. A lot of things will be changed. I’m little worried. For instance, when we make a call, we have to say “Hello, this is (my name), Japan Post Service Company.” We will not able to use “Japan Post Office”. And some people would be wary of us, especially senior citizen would say ” Who are you! I don’t know ‘Post service Company’! I can’t understand difficult things.” Because there are a lot of phone fraud in Japan.

Of couse, there are good things though!

By the way our uniform will be changed, too. We wore dull aqua vest, yellow ocher pre-tied tie and dark blue skirt. But we will wear Brack tie with stripes, white shirt, and black skirt starting tomorrow. I like new uniform. I’m looking forward to wearing it!