I have finally redesigned the look of the comments here on jensfilipsson.com, something I’ve been planing to do for a long while now. Here’s the result:

I have implemented Gravatar support which, if you’re registered at www.gravatar.com, adds your sweet face next to your comment. If you’re not registered, a random colorful pattern will show up instead.

Try it out for yourself! Write a comment below and tell me what you think!

Some new stuff are planned for the page. First of all, my new archive page which is already up. I’m also working on the concerts page, right now looking a bit unfinished (Well, it is!). I also want to work a little with the output of the comments. The weather in Vienna is very nice and I have lot’s of rehearsals coming up though, but I’m working on it!

I have some new concerts scheduled, and some more of them coming up soon, which is fun! It’s not easy coming to a new country, trying to make contacts and trying to get gigs, but it has turned out surprisingly well!

Now we’re heading for the sun!

My page has been down the whole day because of my web host upgrading their servers. A bit frustrating considering that they said it would only take 45 minutes. Now it seems to be working though, and I hope it will stay this way.

I got 6 of my 12 ordered records from Amazon today, so far I’m very satisfied with my choices!

I’m working very much with my page right now, and I told you before that I’m switching language to English, since I couldn’t find a good solution for writing in both languages. Well, now I found one, and right now I’m trying to get it to work here on the site. So, hopefully you can soon enjoy both Swedish and English here. Ain’t that sweet?!?

Yes, from this moment on my page will be in English. Since I don’t live in Sweden right now, and since I’m getting more and more international friends and contacts, it feels like a natural step to take. I first thought about having the page in both English and Swedish, but right now I can’t come up with a good solution to solve this technically. Maybe in the future, who knows?

One good side affect that I’m looking forward to is the possibility to practice my English, and I hope you can live with eventual mistakes that I’m surely gonna make once in a while!

All parts of the page is not translated yet of course, especially not the blog, which I’m sure gonna take a while to finish, but I will take it one part at a time.

I would also like to say welcome to all my English speaking friends! Hope you will have fun here!

As you can read in the title of this post, I will soon switch to English here on the site. Considering my circle of friends nowadays contains pretty many non Swedish-speaking, it’s a pretty natural step to take. Of course it also gives me the possibility to reach a greater amount of people.

I have been thinking about running the site in both English and Swedish, but right now I can’t find a good solution to accomplish this in Wordpress, which I’m running my site on. I have read about some stuff under progress, so maybe I will go multilingual (is that the correct term?) in the future. We’ll see!

Right now I’m working on some changes on the site, and probably I will do the switch when I launch these.

I received a question from Nina in a comment here on the blog, asking what I’ve done to be able to send blog posts with my mobile phone. I decided to publish my answer here as well, to make it easier for someone else having the same question to get an answer! For the record, I got my starting help from Markus Hängsel, and of course he also have deserved a link! :)

Step-by-step guide:

1. First go ahead and download the plugin Postie and install it.

2. Create a new e-mail address, in my case I created a new one on my own domain.

3. Next step is to configure Postie to fetch e-mails from the e-mail address you just created and publish them on the blog. I also configured Postie to only allow e-mails sent from my mobile phone to be published, this way we prevent eventual spam e-mails from appearing on the blog.

4. Next you have to make sure that Postie at regular intervals checks the e-mail account for new e-mails by, if you have the possibility, setting up a Cron job on your server, or by using the plugin Cronless Postie, that came along when you installed Postie.
My host doesn’t allow me to use Cron jobs, so in my case I’m using Cronless Postie. You can also use a service called Easy Monitor, which is an external service that you can read more about in the Postie FAQ.

5. To use Cronless Postie, if you choose this solution, you start by activating the plugin. Then, to make Cronless Postie check your e-mail at regular intervals, we have to tell it to do so. This is easily done by, in the three wordpress feed-files wp-atom, wp-rss och wp-rss2, adding the following code just before the last ?>-tag:
do_action(’check_postie’);

6. Then you sign up for an account at, for example, www.bloglines.com, and add your page to your subscriptions. Bloglines will then check your rss-feed about one time every hour, and at the same time tell Cronless Postie to check your e-mail. Magic!

Everyone can’t send e-mails with their mobile phone, I’m one of them, but what I can do is send mms:es to e-mail addresses, and this works just as well. I’m not saying this is the best solution, It’s the solution I came up with after googling around over this topic. If anyone has a better solution or ideas to improve this one, please tell me!

I hope this helps you get everything to work, but before you go, please let me give you a warning: Be careful with moblogging combined with beer, this could get very expensive! :)

(Here’s a link to intressant.se, hopefully this will help people finding this post easier.)

First of all: I’ve had a real pain in the ass infection in my wrist. Because of this I have tried not to sit to much at the computer, why I haven’t been writing in the blog for a while. It’s getting better now, and I will start writing again.

Have in periods over a longer time been working on a new version of the site. and now it’s up! Technically I have built it completely in Wordpress, which gives me the possibility to update all content from one place, and have a much bigger overlook and control over the site. Perfect!

There are several news, for instance the music player located to the right of all pages (except for the blog page). The reason to why it opens in a pop-up window is the ability to have the music in the background while surfing.

I still have some details in the content and the layout left to do, but this will be fixed part by part. I’m also thinking about translating the page to English, since I’m getting more and more not Swedish-speaking friends, considering where I live right now (Vienna). I’m not sure if I would like to blog in English though, but maybe I can call it Swedish blog and the problem is solved! What do you think? Give me some advice here!

Anyway, I hope the looks and content will be appreciated. Feel free to comment, give me tips and critique. Or tell me how nice it is.

Damn it, have just discovered an error in my guestbook! A while ago I replaced it with a new, more spam-proof system. It uses an akismet key to prevent spam and I really recommend this guestbook! The creator is Richard Williamson, aka Old Guy, and the guestbook’s name is Talkback. Check it out here: www.scripts.oldguy.us/

The problem is that I imported all my comments from my old guestbook into my new one, but now I discovered that the links to web pages that visitors have been writing in the old one somehow is associated with the wrong person in the new one. Weird! I will think about how to solve this in an easy way, I really don’t feel like editing every post by hand.

If you have a good solution to the problem you are more than welcome to tell me about it!