Mont-rebei gorge

I already published this on my phlog and you know that I do not usually crosspost stuff, unless I crosspost stuff.

This is to say that you really should visit my gopher site at:

gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/chals/phlog

If you cannot browse gopherspace try this link (direct gopher proxy link to the above-mentioned post)

Anyway, I'm also uploading some of the pictures that I took (with a slightly worse quality)

Screenshot of the week 10

Much to my surprise I discovered that SMPlayer does YouTube too (installing SMTube) and to be honest I must admit that very well. I took an screenshot of my sid laptop while watching one of my favourite talk shows.

Working in the garden

This year's work in the garden consists in building several wooden boxes to grow vegetables as usual, but using ecological plague control methods (the boxes allow you to isolate/monitor the plants growth better).

So far I have built two big boxes (even though they are still not filled with soil) but I hope to have, at least, five by the end of the month, depending on the amount of available time. In the picture you can see one of the boxes and behind it, there is a little plastic greenhouse (the big one I used to have was completely destroyed by the wind).

Ambition

Today I got one of the best rock albums in history. It is, at least, an all-time personal favourite. I had been looking for it for years but it was only resold second hand and at a very high price. Thank god I could get this remastered copy at a very affordable one.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Tommy Shaw's Ambition

I would really like to explain how I feel, all the emotion that having this masterpiece produces in me (after so many years). I would really like to be able to express how happy I am, but I simply can't put it into words.

Screenshot of the week 9

I had forgotten an important feature of GetSimple CMS. The Website Health Check that tells you in detail about the status of your website:

Screenshot of the week 8

This is the 8th installment of my "Screenshot of the week" series. Why do I regularly publish screenshots? Because everybody loves screenshots. Don't they? Well, at least, I do love 'em ;)

This week I'm going to upload several images showing the internals of GetSimple CMS. Getsimple does not use a database, this is called a flat file cms. I was looking for one because I didn't want the complexity of joomla,drupal or wordpress. I tried several of them and I especially liked zimplit andpico. But above them all I preferred getsimple.

If you are looking for a simple and easy to use but however complete CMS do not look any further. Give getsimple a try. I hope you like it as much as I do. In fact all this site is built with it. And I also hope that these screenshots are useful. 

First, the login screen:

Second, the Pages tab:

Third, the uploaded files management:

Fourth, choosing the themes and adding the code to the components:

Fifth, the Plugins tab. You can activate or de-activate them with just one click:

Sixth, the Blog management (which is a plugin):

And last but not least, the calendar (which is another plugin) I think the calendar is cool. I added it to the footer:

Valentine's day is alright for publishing

As I already hinted in my "Testing blog" post, which was indeed the first post I published here, today is as good a day for publishing a new website as any other. It happens to be Valentine's day, which makes it a special day.

This site is so far nothing but a clone of my previous version of chalsattack.com but who knows, maybe I will revamp it to a certain extent. Since 2006 I have revised my website/hosting conditions every two years. Now I have decided to make sdf-eu my home. I already spend most of my computing time at sdf-eu so it is not a weird thing to do. I guess this decission was an easy one to make.

I have been the entire week looking for simple cms systems. I discovered GetSimple CMS and I must say that I really love it. I'm truly impressed. I was only familiar with joomla and drupal and I thought that complexity was a must but I realized that rather on the contrary it is not. Thank God.

TODO (before actually publishing it):

• 1. Create the CNAME
• 2. Write the backup script (I will use my own 'gophersync' script but adapted to work with html. My  'gophersync' script makes a backup of my gopher hole using cron and rsync once a month).

DONE (which took a long while):

• 1. Creating the html tables

I hope you like my new site and new blog. It even has a calendar, and everybody knows that having a calendar is as important as having a towel for a hitchhiker ;)