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Around the Blogosphere, 26 July-1 August 2010

So, what's been hot on the blogs this week.. well, lets see..  lets start with Mel Gibson. Apparently, someone released at least 5 tapes where the former action hero makes death threats towards his ex-wife, where he admits to have punched her, and mr Gibson doesn't stop there.. he also spews anti-semetic, homophobic and racial remarks on those tapes. Will he be able to get back into the movie industry ever again? Don't know. Time will tell.


Moving on, as I posted a few days ago, BP has photoshopped several of their photos on their official website. BP have confessed to this although blames an overzealous photograph for the doctoring. John Aravosis from americablog.com was the blogger who blew the whistle about the edited photographs, and Washington Post picked up on his story.

What drives me to blog?

I've had a few people ask me what motivates me to blog. Well, the reason is both easy and complex to answer. The easy answer would be "Cause I have an opinion and everybody else does". And of course, there's the patented answer: "Because I can".

My interests are broad and very diverse, and I like to move between different topics; I don't like to nail myself down and niche myself into some particular speciality.

Around the Blogosphere, 12-18 July 2010

Not surprisingly, the hot topic in the Swedish blogoshere this week has been the resignation of the the Swedish Minister of Employment, Sven-Otto Littorin. The reason given for the resignation was because of a tough seperation and custody process, and because of being hunted by media in its wake, Littorin stated that personal issues was more important than his role as Minister of Employment. However, a few days later, it was revealed that the allegedly true reason behind his resignation came just the next morning after an evening newspaper found that Littorin purchased sex from a prositute. This has been strongly denied though, and the newspaper who came with the allegations have been sued. Could be damaging for the sitting government, considering that it's election year.

14 days with Drupal

A short comment on changing from Wordpress to Drupal..

I've been using Drupal for 14 days now after giving it a try instead of using Wordpress..  and I must say that I'm not regretting anything. Drupal is a robust and extremley scalable CMS. It's not, however, very easy to setup and maintain which might be daunting for some bloggers, however, give it some time and affection and it'll certainly grow on you; and it'll also grow with you!

For you who doesn't know what Drupal is and don't want a few hours worth of a lecture, you can get a basic idea in just 57 secs!

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Drupal won!

So I did decided to change from Wordpress to Drupal over all.. quite a steep change, but I do believe it's for the best; even though I love Wordpress and I respect it very much, Drupal is more flexible and scalable. However, considering I don't know much PHP and have only rudimentary knowledge of HTML, it'll be interesting to see how it all pan out. But it'll be an interesting journey for sure! I love to experiment, and I believe in Drupal!

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