# I am participating in the Dakar rally 2012 from January 1 to 15th in Argentina, Chile and Peru. We have built the world’s first electric off-road rally car OSCar eO and our aim is to win the “Alternative Energy” category.
Plugin Updates
I know that the latest WordPress update (version 3.3) broke both Widget Context and Tabbed Widgets plugins. I’ll be able to fix them only by the end of January 2012. Please check the WordPress forum for temporary fixes.
Wish you all happy holidays and don’t forget to follow us in the Dakar rally (live on dakar.com and on your TV) and see how we’re changing the perception of what electric cars can do!
# Knowing who is talking about your blog or website on Twitter is easy — simply subscribe to the following RSS feed:
http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=konstruktors.com
Replace konstruktors.com with your own domain.
# Most of us learn about the importance of having and keeping regular backups only after loosing some of our important files, photos and documents. Luckily, I haven’t lost a single file and mostly because I have been lucky. Even the best hard drives crash and laptops get smashed or stolen.
My first real backup solution more than six years ago was a 120 GB external hard disk that needed a bulky power adopter to be plugged into the wall and turned on before it could be used. There was no software that would be able to sync only the modified files so I had to create folders such as jun_2006 and aug_2007 and copy everything again and again every time. USB transfer speeds were slow and it took only month to have reached the ultimate backup mess on that external disk.
Few years later I got a new external Maxtor disk that would use two USB wires to power the disk instead of the external adapter. It should have made it easier but it didn’t because the syncing software was still too slow and hard to configure to do any good. So I lived my life on the digital edge and presumably didn’t think about loosing all my client website source files, server access information, invoices and many other important files. Read more »
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Page Speed score of my blog: 97/100
WordPress can be very fast. Here is the server-side setup for achieving the 97/100 Page Speed score (it is only because of Google Analytics that the score is not 100/100): Read more »
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Using the Page Speed tool.
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I finally have Google sitelinks.
# I’m publishing this for historic purposes only.
# Konstruktors.com is ranked #88,733 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. While we estimate that 24% of the site’s visitors are in the US, where it is ranked #74,617, it is also popular in Canada, where it is ranked #41,055.
The site’s visitors view an average of 2.1 unique pages per day. Konstruktors.com has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Milwaukee (#5,116). Compared with internet averages, the site appeals more to users who are under the age of 35; its audience also tends to consist of childless, more educated men earning between $60,000 and $100,000 who browse from home.
– alexa.com
I really enjoy the part about ‘users who are under the age of 35, and childless, more educated men who browse from home’.
# There is only one brand of laptops used aboard the space shuttles — IBM ThinkPad. In my opinion, they are the best laptops one can ever buy, mainly because of their unspoken hardware and famous red trackpoint mouse.
Several weeks ago the screen inverter of my Dell Latitude D820 laptop (which also has a trackpoint) failed and turned it into a desktop that can only be used with an external monitor. So I found a used IBM ThinkPad A31p (released in 2002), which is now running Ubuntu that supports every piece of hardware inside it. Although I won’t be carrying it around very often because it weights 3.45 kg (7.6 lb), I might make a sticker that says “Used Aboard the Shuttle Spacecraft” and look cool even with a laptop that old.
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