One of the bugs is that the administration menus don’t link correctly any longer.

Open orgSeries.php, and replace the function series_organize_options (line 156) with the following:

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That actually caused my series plugin to break down, but that was fixed by me with two edits.

But the main part is that.. weirdly.. the Wordpress team didn’t put an option to disable these, as they can create useless data records. I, for one, like the feature, but I don’t see myself using that.

It’s neat for publishers and multi-user blogging, when people review and edit and add photos, etc.. one person at a time. But when there’s just one person doing it.. it’s close to useless. I couldn’t care less how this post looked like one day or one month ago..

So the only way to turn the feature off is to edit your wp-config.php file and put

define ('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 0);

But what about those revisions left in your database? Several posts look as if they found the true answer, but it’s one of those “The one who laughs last, laughs best” situations. Didn’t those people hear about post meta? Or about post terms (tags, categories, or series?! )?¹

Here’s the proper way to clean your MySQL DB for Wordpress from post revisions.

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It seems that the “lovely” ICQ team pushes people to upgrade their ICQ messenger, or else.. to switch to ICQ.

pidgin.im seems to be down, and there’s no solution anywhere, except for a patch ¹. But most of us don’t do ICQ builds every time we pee, so that’s practically of no help. But there’s hope!

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Post tags: aol, dll, fix, icq, oscar

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Femeile celor mai buni prieteni. Prietenele celor mai bune femei. Femeile-cele-mai-bune-prietene.

Femeile care se gândesc la futut la fel de mult ca şi noi, dar au decenţa să nu vorbească la fel de des şi de urât despre asta. Femeile care ne trimit cadouri, care ne-aşteaptă cu luminile stinse în maşina parcată la colţul străzii, care ne plătesc consumaţia, care ne întreţin, ne savurează şi apoi ne roagă să le uităm.

Praise to real women (Dragoș Bucurenci)
June, The ONE #47

I’ll try to translate it all to English, when&if I have the time. It is really well written, and kept me reading it to the end

This also made me look for a previous entry entitled “Simple Honesty“, with the motto You make me want to be a better psychopath:

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I will be staying there for 2 years, and it would be nice to cut potential health costs, since they could prove to be quite high in Sweden.

I could basically get two types of insurances: one is a basic travel insurance, while the other is an insurance for people working/studying abroad.

Differences between the two, as provided by Allianz-Țiriac:

I managed to get a copy of their manual (Romanian), so you can read the full descriptions for both:

• Allianz-Țiriac - Asigurări medicale de călătorie în străinătate
• Allianz-Țiriac - Asigurări medicale pentru persoane care lucrează/studiază în străinătate

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Post tags: allianz, eu, health care, insurance, medical, romania, țiriac, travel

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• Neat Protocols 0.1, thanks to me
  Download Neat Protocols
  - it’s a personal collection of protocol icons, from many packs
  - includes Skype, Tlen, Facebook Chat, and a gTalk icon, if you want to replace the Jabber one
  - How to install? Just grab the ZIP and extract them to your pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/ directory. Be aware of the fact that you will overwrite older ones - make a backup, if you wish!
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• Skype
  Protocol plugin, thanks to Eion Robb (Download)
  - doesn’t have Call and Send SMS options yet
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• Facebook Chat
  “Protocol” plugin, thanks to Eion Robb (Download)
  - it’s a very basic/experimental thing so far, but it’s still super-duper
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• Tlen
  Protocol plugin, thanks to Aleksander Piotrowski (Download)
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In Romanian we have a group of pronouns that show politeness - dumneavoastră (you), dumnealor (they), dumneaei (she), dumnealui (he), etc. There are also the informal options - tu (you), ei (they), ea (she), el (he), etc.

Generally, even nowadays it is still a courtesy to use the polite version when you speak to a stranger. Yet there are so many sides to the story.

First of all, I find it weird that youngsters.. 20 and bellow.. call me by the polite pronouns when in public. I’m not talking about my friends, but about people that you near you when using public transport, for example. If I stay between them and the door, while they will need to get off at the next buss station, they will say “Coborâți?” (eng. Sir, will you get off?) or “Îmi faceți loc?” (eng. Sir, would you make some space for me?)

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Post tags: language, massacre, politeness, pronouns, respect, romanian, survival

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Post tags: admission, experience, feat, residence permit, schengen, sweden, travel, visa

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When MS Word 2007 begins to crash erratically, but most probably upon closing down or showing that the crash happened in mso.dll,
do the following:

• Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data
• Delete it with all its properties

This will also erase the linkage to any Word Add-in you might have.

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