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Just wanted to say that I really love the Akismet Spam filter!
So far it has caught more then 19,000 spams and I just deleted 700 spam comments. Imagine getting all of those emails in your inbox!

So if you haven’t Akismet running on your blog and you want to have a spam free blog, then you really should give it a try.  The installation is very easy; Download the plugin (via the plugin page in the admin part if you’re using Wordpress), get your API Key & activate Akismet and you’re good to go!

Wow! Its been a while since I’ve written something here.. My last post is from 16th of November which is just too long ago. But hey, what can I tell you? Pfff…Life is awesome but a little bit crazy and busy at this moment so perhaps that explains why I didn’t blog for such a long time?

So what have I been up to lately?

• Well, the last couple of weeks has been extremely busy at work; trying to order the stuff we need and get everything in our warehouse on time, dealing with some complaints, a lot of sick colleagues (including me for over a week and half!) and much more!
• As you perhaps recall, I’m going to back to “school”. So I spend several hours a week to my study and preparing myself for my first exam which will be in the end of January.
• Designing a new theme for this blog… Yeah I’m working on a very new cool theme for this blog but it doesn’t go as fast as I would like to.. Lack of time!
• Doing a lot of things in/around the house.

• Getting ready for the Christmas time, setting up the Christmas tree.



• And much more… but don’t want to give you a headache!

More then enough reason to take a few days off at work and just relax and enjoy the holidays! And that’s exactly what I’m going to do! So for the next couple of days (long weekend) Jannie and me have planned a lot of cool stuff to do!

Will keep you updated!

Before I start explaining how you can get rid of the encoding in a theme’s footer, I have to say that if your theme’s license (paid theme!) doesn’t permit this, then don’t do it. If that’s the case you can find plenty other (free) WordPress themes!

I don’t know why, but some theme authors embed links in an encoded footer. Now it’s not that we don’t like to give credits to the theme authors, but what if the theme author has placed a lot of sponsor links which doesn’t have to do with your blog (or with the theme author!) or what if you want to add some information to the footer? When a theme’s footer is encoded, then this is just impossible. However you can remove this encoding by following the next steps:

1. Go to your index.php file
2. Find a line that says:
   <?php get_footer(); ?>
3. Place the following marker text above the line:
   <!-- Evil Footer Devil FOUND -->
4. Place the following marker text below the link:
   <!-- Evil Footer Devil BEGONE -->
5. Now save the index.php file and view the source by pressing CTRL+U in FireFox.
6. Now look for the HTML code between those two markers and copy it.
7. Make a copy of your existing footer.php file (or just paste the HTML code in your existing footer.php file) and save it.
8. Now you’re able to change the links etc which was encoded in the first place.

NOTE: Don’t forget to insert the <?php wp_footer(); ?> before </body> tag.

I’ve used the method above and it did the job for me. Perhaps this might be handy for you too!

Yeah! I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC. As you might know I used to have Vista running on my PC (for more then 1 year without any troubles) but with the Windows 7 being released I just had to give it a try! I already had heard a lot of good things about Windows 7 so you can imagine that I was very curious.

After backing up the important files and folders I formatted my HD and started to install Windows 7 x64 bits. I don’t know why but I had never installed a x64bits OS on my PC before so with Windows 7 I thought… Why not give x64bit a try? I mean I do have the hardware parts for it! So the installation started and I must say that the installation only took about 30 minutes which is really fast!

Once the setup was done and Windows 7 was loaded I noticed that all of the drivers of my CPU chipset, video drivers etc was already installed! I mean I was able to work with Windows 7 Ultimate almost immediately. Here below a screenshot of Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

With Windows 7 some small things have changes.. One of the good changes is that you can re-arrange every system try icons. Just drag and drop them into the order you like! This is definitely one of the things which I’ve missed in the past Windows versions…

My first impression of Windows 7 is that it’s a great improvement compared to Vista. So far everything is working just fine. It has also improved performance, speed and feels much more stable then Vista.  I also like the improved taskbar and some other features!

As  you might know each file in Windows has an extension in its filename, for example .doc is for Microsoft Word. So in this case when you double click on a file which has the .doc extension Windows tries to identify the program in order to open the file. Now in most cases you don’t need to change and/or set these file type associations however in some cases that can be very handy!

While I had Windows XP installed on my pc, I was able to change/set the file type associations under Folder Options.. However ever since Vista, Microsoft has decided to move it to somewhere else! If you would like to set/change the file type associations in Vista and don’t know where to look then follow these steps below:

• Go to Start
• Open Control Panel
• Click on Default Programs followed with Set Associations
• Select a file type in the list and click Change Program.
• In the new screen you’ll see a list of Programs along with a description and the current default program.
• Now click on the Change program to set or change the current defaults.

Easy right?

This video was brought to my attention by my cousin Parna. At first I thought this was just a joke but when watching the video I realized that this is for real!

Recently we’ve bought a new car, next to our first car: Peugeot 106! This time we’ve bought a beautiful bigger car; a Ford Fusion 1.6I from 2003, see the pictures below!
We’ve bought this car last Monday and we’ve driving in it a lot and I have to say that I love this car! It’s so comfortable and it’s a bit higher (and faster ) then what I used to!! We will keep the Peugeot 106 as Jannie needs her own ride..

What do you do when you just got married? Yeah, going on honeymoon! And that’s we did too! We chose to go back to Kos (Greece) once again as we loved it the first time we went there!

We had actually booked at the first hotel as the last time however we ended up in another hotel, which was even 10 times better! Why? Well, at the first hotel (The Loca Blue Lagon) they mixed up our hotel room and gave us a shitty room. A room which was 10 minutes a way from the main pool, bar, restaurant etc.. That’s not the worst part.. They offered us a room with 2 single beds! Yeah.. exactly on our honeymoon!  After complaining we were transfered (almost immediately) to the Palazzo Del Mare hotel which is even more luxurious then the first one! From then on we could enjoy our honeymoon perfectly!

Click here to go to the gallery and view the pictures or click on the picture above!!