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Minor important changes!

Shamini — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:08:37 +0000

I've done a few changes to my blog tonight, mostly things you won't notice, but the most important change is that I've decided to start blogging in my mother tongue Norwegian again. Now, these posts won't appear on the home page, but you can easily find them by clicking "Skriblerier (NO)" in the top menu, or simply choosing the category from the list on the right side. This way I can avoid the clutter of mixing several languages on one page, something I wish I had thought about sooner.

The reason why I'm not doing it the other way around (making my "main blog" Norwegian by sticking the many posts about makeup on a separate page) is simply that I know I have a lot of foreign readers, especially people who share my passion for makeup and shopping, and I don't wanna lose any of them due to this change. So I'm not gonna stop my rantings about shopping, makeup or whatever other related obsession I might have, I'll just keep doing them in English.

I've also added a more mobile-friendly layout for those who wish to read my blog on their smartphones, which seems to be working fine. This is a feature I've missed having, but now it's finally available. You might also have noticed - duh, who am I kidding - the banner from Sigma on the right side? It's an affiliate banner, which means I'll earn a few coins should you choose to enter their site by clicking it before placing an order.

I guess that's all I had to update you on for now. Remember "Skriblerier (NO)" for my Norwegian posts from now on, and should you prefer to read only the makeup and shopping related posts, you can just choose "Makeup" from the top menu and everything else will be filtered out.

Any problems or questions?
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We do like changes, no?

Shamini — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:02:32 +0000

I've been feeling the need of a new template here for some while now, but don't know enough about PHP to start making one of my own. At least I'm honest. I've found a free template which suits my needs perfectly, but I'm a little afraid of changes, even though I prefer having a template I know doesn't have any annoying bugs. Also I'd like to add a few small details I've been missing, and my old template wasn't very compatible with.. anything. So, I've been tweaking this free template for several hours today, and I think everything should be working now. I'll most likely make some small changes here and there, but I do like it very much - and it's easy to maintain.

Please let me know if you encounter something that doesn't work properly, or just leave me a comment telling me what you think of this new look! All feedback are appreciated.

Google Friend Connect

Shamini — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:52:01 +0000

After some swearing, a lot of troubleshooting and a little thinking I finally found the error that caused my Google Friend Connect application to die on me. I hope those of you who were following me will consider doing so again, and this time I'm hoping it'll stay alive. The reason that you'll have to reconnect is that I screwed up and deleted my former listing, and so I deleted all my friends at the same time. Nice? Yeah, I know. Stupid.

Anyway, thank you so much!

FUTILE comments!

Shamini — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:21:19 +0000

Who would have thought, another "Say WHAT?" post already! I'm frequently visiting a fair amount of blogs, either by people I know personally or blogs I've ventured upon from reading comments, and apparently there's a new amazing phenomenon going around. The new, hot thing amongst "the cool kids" is to leave comments on all available blogs saying: "Please come to my blog and leave a comment!", or even "I'm having a blog versus blog challenge, and you can win a link from my blog!". What is this? Is there some stupidity contest going on that I'm unaware of? Can someone please enlighten me?

Believe me, if you come to my blog to enter a completely idiotic comment about me visiting your blog I'll be sure not to visit you, or even promote your blog by keeping the comment available to my viewers. Not going to happen, sorry. Save your time and energy to write some real blog posts for your own blog, and try to compose comments related to the post you're commenting on instead of spamming crap. Just think about it. If you have the need to promote your own blog in such a manner, maybe you should just rethink your attempt as a blogger? Now I'm sure I'm gonna get a few "humorous" comments with the intention of annoying me, but if I know you.. I know where to find you, so don't even think about it.

Annoyed? HELL YES!

Blogg.no + Gravatar = FAIL

Shamini — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:22:38 +0000

I don't understand why there's always something that isn't working properly when it comes to web design. Well, maybe it's me. Maybe I suck. Maybe. Although I'm pretty sure it isn't my fault that users from blogg.no (the link is not promotional, it's only to give you the opportunity to check out the stupid site yourself) don't have functional gravatars when they comment on blogs that aren't hosted by blogg.no, and vice versa. Gravatar actually means Globally Recognized Avatars, and is supposed to follow you from site to site. Seems like blogg.no have hijacked the gravatar to show their own static avatar - or really no avatar at all - instead of just getting the actual personal gravatar for users outside of blogg.no! It annoys the hell out of me. Seriously, I refuse to register for an account just to get that bloody avatar to work when I comment in blogs hosted by blogg.no.

If you're not using Gravatar at all, blogg.no, then please stop using their logo! KTHX.
Long live stupidity! Jeez.

Snart 11 dager

Shamini — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:20:41 +0000

Jeg kikker p� klokka. Om 2 timer og 50 minutter er det bare 11 dager igjen. 11 dager. De lengste 11 dagene noensinne. Jeg pr�ver � f� tiden til � g� ved � lage en liten webside. Overraskende nok har jeg ikke glemt gamle kunster, og det g�r relativt problemfritt � sette sammen en enkel liten side med avrundede hj�rner. Relativt, fordi jeg m� tr� til med en liten dose feils�k f�r hj�rnene bestemmer seg for � adlyde meg, og bli avrundede. � lage en side tar dog ikke lang tid. Kanskje en halvtime inkludert tiden det tar meg � feils�ke. Og det er fortsatt .. snart 11 dager igjen. Jeg har liksom ikke s� voldsomt mye info � putte inn p� siden enda, s� det blir mest bare et slags design - men mye er gjort n�r fargene og layouten er p� plass! Licota f�r creds for fargene, det var hun som satte meg p� id�en. Og godt er forresten det, ellers hadde den nok blitt bl� som de fleste andre websider jeg tryller frem.

Snart 11 dager igjen.

Google Friend Connect

Shamini — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:36:21 +0000

Do you see that small Google applet at the bottom of sidebar to the right? It's the "Friend Connect" applet, and I would very much appreciate it if you would take the time to join mine. That is if you're regularly following my rantings.

So you'll join? Thank you!

OBS! Endringer..

Shamini — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:55:58 +0000

Fra og med n� vil du finne alt som har med negler og neglelakk � gj�re om du velger fanen �verst, eller klikker p� kategorien "Negler" i menyen til h�yre. Dette gjelder dog bare innlegg som kun h�rer hjemme i denne kategorien, som feks. NOTD-bilder og lignende.

WordPress 2.7

Shamini — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:41:07 +0000

Himmel og hav. Det har aldri v�rt s� skummelt � oppgradere fra en WP-installasjon til en annen f�r, iallfall ikke n�r jeg f�r panikk fordi themet mitt er "brekt", og freaker helt ut f�r jeg - helt av meg selv - skj�nner at det hjelper � reaktivere pluginen som fikser akkurat det problemet. Vet ikke helt om jeg liker det nye "dashboardet", men det er vel ikke mer enn en vanesak. N� skal jeg roe nervene med � pakke litt til juleferien. Si fra om dere oppdager at noe ikke fungerer som det skal!

Edit: etter oppgraderingen til 2.7 har liksom WordPress.com Stats kapitulert. Jeg er klar over at denne angivelig kun er kompatibel opp til 2.7 Beta, men det er folk der ute som hevder at den fungerer for dem med 2.7 ogs�. Det som skjer er at jeg aktiverer den, f�r beskjed om at den beh�ver oppmerksomhet og at jeg m� taste inn API-n�kkelen. Dermed finner jeg den, for�vrig den samme som Akismet trenger for � fungere, men n�r jeg taster den inn f�r jeg kun en feit, r�d error som sier f�lgende: "Error from last API Key attempt: parse error. not well formed" - noen som kan hjelpe meg med dette?

“Skakkj�rt, men sjarmerende”

Shamini — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:58:19 +0000

Endelig har dagboka mi f�tt navn, og det har s� langt blitt meget godt mottatt av leserne mine. Hadde jeg dratt i gang en konkurranse og lovet vekk premier i hytt og gev�r, hadde det v�rt PoPSiCLe 1 som hadde stukket av med 1. premien - men siden jeg var litt gjerrig p� det punktet vanker det istedet heder og �re p� den bitre, gamle bergenseren.

Dermed er ogs� jeg klar for kampen om tittelen Tordenbloggen 2008, med mitt nye og flashy navn! Hvorfor det ble akkurat det det ble? PoPSiCLe foreslo blant annet "Skakkj�rt og vidunderlig", men siden "vidunderlig" ikke er et ord som opptrer spesielt ofte i ordforr�det mitt (og fingrene mine gjerne taster "vindunderlig" istedet), s� pr�vde jeg � spinne videre p� forslaget. S�, skakkj�rt kan vi vel alle si oss enige i at jeg er til tider - og sjarmerende? Don't get me started. Hah, ..jeg skal overlate jobben med � v�re kjepph�y til enkelte andre, visse bloggere er jo ekstremt gode p� nettopp det - jeg er stort sett bare selvironisk. Og du m� jo v�re enig med meg i at "sjarm-" og "sham-" klinger godt sammen?

Til slutt f�r jeg vel bare meddele at den f�rste sn�en har falt i Trondheim ogs�.

.. eller �rjan, som jeg liker � kalle ham.