I couldn't agree more with Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert, about the state of our education paradigms and how they are in desperate need of changing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U ... Continue reading »
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Genesis Translations updated to 2.0.0
Yesterday I finally found some time to update my Genesis Translations plugin to match the release of Genesis 2.0. A lot of languages have been updated and a few new ones have been added, but it is still very well possible that your language is not complete. In other words: we need your help in making the translations complete! Please let me know if I can help you on your way with translating. ... Continue reading »
Help! WordPress Won’t Do Automatic Updates!
As you may have seen WordPress 3.7 just got released and with it automatic updates. Now, in some cases, people may discover that their particular sites can't update automagically. In my findings in the sites, we manage for clients the most common reason is that you have had to update WordPress previously by entering your FTP credentials. If you've done that once, changes are WordPress remembered those for you, but in this case, those credentials need to be placed in your wp-config.php file in order for the automatic updates to work. Luckily, all you need to do is add the ... Continue reading »
Why argue with this guy?
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the atoledo lot of mankind.Albert Einstein Originally I had the following quote here: Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian ... Continue reading »
This Speechless WordCamp Europe Video
During WordCamp Europe I, and many others, was interviewed by Kaarel and he just shared his brilliant video with the world: ... Continue reading »
Introspection with no means of diversion
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.Michael Sacasas ... Continue reading »
What is this Europe you are speaking of?
With only 20 days left till WordCamp Europe, I thought it'd be good to refresh everyone's definition of Europe. ... Continue reading »
And therein do we err
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost ... Continue reading »