Da wir heute immer noch keine Nachricht im Postkasten hatten, können wir wohl davon ausgehen, das Jara an der Gesamtschule angenommen wurde. Da wir gehört haben, das die ersten Ablehnungen schon am letzten Donnerstag in Sennelager eingetroffen sind, können wir relativ sicher sein, das es mit der Gesamtschule wirklich geklappt hat. Da fällt uns schon ein kleiner Stein vom Herzen.

So sieht jemand aus, der jetzt in vollen Zügen das Rentnerleben genießen kann und sich nicht mehr mit einer nervigen Firma herumschlagen muss. Am Freitag war der letzte Arbeitstag meines Vaters.

After I wrote the article about the books, which I’ve bought and read, a colleague at work noted, that Terry Pratchett books about the “Discworld” are missing. And that these books are a must for every Fantasy and Science Fiction fan. Yeah, well, he’s right. But that’s fixed now. The first two books about the “Discworld” just arrived from Amazon.

It’s been a while since I’ve been reading some Fantasy or Science Fiction stuff in English and this shows. It takes a bit of effort to get over the first hills aka through the first pages. After that it will get easier again.

I just noticed, that the next trance oriented broadcast, namely GDBJ went off-line and that the radio station, which aired GDJB switched from Dance to Rock. Trance music is apparently really at the end of it’s life cycle. I hope, that enough trance music continues to exist on the Internet.

After installing WordPress yesterday evening I completed the migration to the new 1.5 version this afternoon by installing authimage and iimage-browser. I minimally patched both plugins to my liking. authimage needs <!-- ... //--> around a little Javascript code fragment (routine testValues()). Otherwise the W3C Validator would produce 4 warnings about “<” characters. And for images I prefer to have the image a link to a popup window, which would show the image in it’s original size. For this I created this patch to the file iimage-browser.php, which now allows the creation of a popup window.

And while I was at it, I tuned the style slightly with some picture elements. I find it a little more pleasing to the eye, since the fat blue background behind the dates is gone. The leaf to the left of each date however looks a little bit like a dinosaur footprint from Jurassic Park. Anyway, I hope you like it.

I just switched to WordPress 1.5. Update went very smoothly. Thanks to the ssh access to this site, I could very easily backup and mirror it to my home Linux box. Here I duplicated the directory tree another time into a directory named wordpress, keeping additional copies of index.php, wp-config.php and wp-layout.css. Then I simply untared the WordPress distribution over the directory. After putting index.php and wp-layout.css into the theme directory, editing it according to upgrade instructions and editing database userid and password into wp-config.php I was basically all set. After invoking upgrade.php the new version was operable on my home box.

Only thing I then needed to do is to resync the directory tree back to the web site and invoke upgrade.php. That was all.

The plugins authimage and iimage-browser need to be updated as well, but this will have to wait until this evening.