Mientras aguardamos a que se acabe el mundo, el capital humano de Chichipanguanorrea y el Grinch feo* les desean un feliz fin del cuarto trimestre fiscal y un próspero año contable 2013.
* El Grinch feo cortesía de una de nuestras más queridas seguidoras.
A few days ago, my fellow blogger Kirsch posted about his blog being hacked. Well, I was victim of the same attack. Both of our blogs run on DreamHost and use WordPress.
I found a detailed description of the attack here, however this description refers to a 2 year old attack. I highly doubt WordPress would go this long without a patch to fix the vulnerability.
Everything has been restored to normal thanks to my backups and tools provided by DreamHost.
En un nuevo intento por encontrar una solución eficiente, sencilla y elegante de compartir el material fotográfico de Chichipanguanorrea, he creado una nueva sección utilizando iWeb.
Un feliz fin del cuarto trimestre fiscal les desea Chichipanguanorrea y el Imam Hussein ibn Ali feo!
Para recordar fiestas anteriores:
En caso de una emergencia, este es el único código de barras-QR que debes aprenderte. Nunca salgas de casa sin él.
… y Pepe hace pipi en el patio.
Era el año 2004 cuando decidí comenzar Chichipanguanorrea. No sabía exactamente acerca de que iba a escribir pero la idea de tener un blog se me hacía divertida. Al comenzar el blog tuve que tomar dos difíciles decisiones: elegir un nombre para el blog (no siempre se acierta) y decidir si quería escribir el blog en inglés o en español. Sabía que escribiendo en inglés le abría las puertas del blog a una mayor población de lectores. También sabía que la calidad de mis escritos iba a ser considerablemente mejor si escribía en español. Finalmente opté por escribir en inglés: satisfacer mi ego prevaleció sobre la calidad de los escritos.
Han pasado más de cuatro años; he publicado casi 200 artículos. De lo que más orgulloso me siento es de haber convocado una gran comunidad de personas alrededor de la canción ‘Fantástica Mujer’ incluyendo al artista que la hizo famosa (Felix Formental) y a su compositor (Luis Alva). Y no es casualidad que dicho artículo lo haya escrito en español.
Es por eso que he decidido transformar Chichpanguanorrea y a partir de la fecha escribiré en español. Sin embargo estaré dispuesto a escribir algunos artículos en inglés cuando lo considere relevante.
El contenido que actualmente se encuentra publicado en inglés no será traducido al español, con excepción tal vez de las páginas principales.
El equipo de Chichipanguanorrea agradece a sus lectores y les desea un año 2009 cargado de buenas noticias.
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A deep apology to the english native speaker readers of Chichipanguanorrea, but this is going to be the last english-written post you will read here. I’m now going to write in spanish because it is my native language and I can be more eloquent at it. However I will still publish english versions of some posts either by demand or when I feel it would be appropriate to do so. Feel free then to leave a comment on any post requesting an english version of it and I will translate it for you.
In case you are curious, this is not a 2009 new years resolution or anything. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a few weeks already and finally today I got some spare time to publish this post.
Another great year is almost over and to carry on with the tradition we started back in 2004, this holiday season the Chichipanguanorrea staff is proud to bring you the ugly reindeer.
We wanted to hire ugly Santa again or even one of his ugly Elves. Unfortunately since the government has decided to NOT bail out Chichipanguanorrea & Associates Entertainment Business Bureau Corp. (NASDAQ: CAEBBC) we could not afford endorsing such personalities this season. But fear not loyal readers: this is the finest and ugliest Santa’s reindeer you would ever find!
Again Chichipanguanorrea delivers great success!
I’m so happy Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States that I went ahead and updated my blog look.
Loading ...Sharing your pictures on the web seems like a very trivial matter, right? well I can tell you it is not that trivial. Here is my story.
Back in 2004 when I first created Chichipanguanorrea I chose Fotopic as the solution for sharing my pictures. The interface was ugly but uploading the pictures was very easy with a Java-based plugin. Unfortunately the free version of Fotopic has a limit of 250 MB which I reached a couple of years ago. Today if you ask me to rate Fotopic, I would give them a 4 out of 10.
Later in 2005 I created a flickr account and started uploading pictures. Since the free version of flickr has a limit on the amount of data you can upload each month and it only shows the last 200 pictures (the rest of the pictures can still be accessed through perma-links), I decided to use flickr as the place to upload ONLY my best pictures. I really like many of the features flickr offers: tags, a huge community, nice interface, geo-tagging, but the limitations prevents it from being the best option for uploading tons of pictures.
In 2006 I decided to try some options I could easily integrate with my WordPress blog: I tried FAlbum and Gallery but it was zenphoto who won my heart. I installed zenphoto in my blog and have been using it since then. It is really easy to upload the pictures and the galleries are created automatically. My only complain would be that including a picture inside a post is not so straight forward.
Today I decided to revamp my picture gallery after updating my blog with the latest WordPress distribution available last night. I’m between upgrading my zenphoto installation to the latest version which has some new features or trying NextGen gallery, a WordPress plugin that seems to be very popular among WordPress users. The good news is that I can try NextGen without removing my current zenphoto installation nor I have to duplicate my picture galleries.
Here are some examples of how NextGen works:
Test 1: adding a picture with the reflection effect
[singlepic=1,350,250,web20]
Test 2: adding a picture with a watermark
[singlepic=2,350,250,watermark]
Test 3: adding a gallery
At this point I’m liking NextGen a lot, but I’m having trouble getting the pictures to show up. I think this is because I’m pointing to the pictures from zenphoto and the permissions might not be properly set up. I noticed that even in zenphoto I cannot open a picture file directly
