SEO is well-known all around the world. One of the most popular term is the “Hommingberger Gepardenforelle”, which was announced by heise.de in april 2005. During my studies, I have to do such a contest with some colleagues, too. We created a page with the word “Brüllwurst” (german for yell-sausage), which is pure imagination. Our product’s name is “Elchwurst” (german for elk-sausage) and we started our site some days ago at http://elchwurst.qimp.org.
For me, it’s a well known problem: all these super live cds (e.g. Knoppix or like we have it today: Ubuntu) do not start as expected: X-Window always fails to set up everything correctly, but only on my pcs… Maybe it’s Dell’s fault? 
After getting the console on my Inspiron 6400 I had to fet a new driver with sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx, edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, replace the Driver in the section “Device” from vesa to fglrx and restart the X-Window server with startx. Always funny, especially for beginners, right?
By the way: it’s a ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 as gpu.
I can’t believe it, but this is a “helpful solution” for problems with the google bot:
Where possible, use absolute rather than relative links. (For instance, when linking to another page in your site, link to www.example.com/mypage.html rather than simply mypage.html).
To be honest: if somebody does this, I will get aggressiv ;P Let’s think about it: Maybe your website ist located at mytest.mydomain.net so the link to your main page should point to http://mytest.mydomain.net/index.html instead of ./index.html. So you’ll have a lot of fun when moving to www.mydomain.net and changing your links…
Yes, I know the function “search & replace”, but I don’t like regular expressions and you just have to change the href=”xyz” stuff 
I dont know why google’s new mobile device OS is called android, but I switched the platform for my accounting software… And this software got a working title (bifröst ist the name for the whole project): Glitnir.
And, before writing this posting, I upgraded Wordpress which was an annoying “journey”. First, my upload rate was really slow (0,5kB/s) and afterwards I noticed, that something is bugged. The preview screen under this textarea does endless refreshs (wants to, it is prevented by firefox).
Mozilla’s Thunderbird was updated to version 2.0.0.9 two days ago and I realized that my (self-installed) TB was still 2.0.0.6. So I started my mail client with root permissions, cause the “update thunderbird” was grey as standard user (still don’t know how to fix it, I’ve installed it manually for trying the new TB2 features).
The first problem: I got a virgin application… All my mails… GONE!!!! I don’t know why, but I got a more or less empty prefs.js, but after replacing it was an (older) security copy, everything was fine again.
And today? I found a bug that I did not notice as a bug yet. I searched for an email, I sent to myself some hours ago (from work) and I didnt find it in the inbox. But I had some duplicate entries (3 mails were shown twice). One of the new TB2 features revealed the miracle: One of these “duplicates” was my “missing” mail. I found it in a virtual folder which shows the newest mails of all of my (imap) inboxes (The are lots of possibilities to configure those kind of folders). And how to fix it? I did not find a solution yet, but a workaround: I just moved one mail to another folder, opened this folder an moved the file back: yeah, splitted again… both mails are back.
It was really annoying to get some ant tasks working. First I tried to save the latest svn-version (a number) into a file to use it within file names. This worked fine with the version of a special file, but it failed for a version for the whole project. So I switched to use the date for the “normal” releases and will use a some “own” version numbers for minor and major releases. Then I tried to use a ftp task to upload my project directly from eclipse. And this still does not work - it seems like some different jars don’t like each other.
But anyway, I have a really nice index.html now - and some releases are online too 
And this stuff is more or less useless until now and will be changed later.
Ok, the first thing I’ve learned right today is:
Fonts in the web aren’t perfect. I didn’t see the difference for a until I’ve changed the css sheet from
code {
font: 1.1em 'Courier New', Courier, Fixed;
}
to
code {
font: 1.2em Monospace;
}
There was a differnce, but I was too marginal for me.
Woah, theres missing something in my flat.
Woah, started to write english…
Ok, let’s start:
Why are we here? Out of Ginnu… mkay, stop!
I had this idea some hours ago, laying on the bed, having a stomach ache. I was fucked up with not learning the “new” CSS stuff (yeah, the official homepage is awful and sorry for my French).
Now, the point: I’m still writing my website layouts with html-tables. Lot’s of people think, that’s something you shouldn’t do. You might think whatever you want about it, but at least: it’s normal to use div and css for new projects. I used css for everything else before, except item placement. And this will change now.
As you might have noticed, the description of this blog also contains “xhtml and linux”. To say it in a few words: xhtml is the best friend of css and I have switched to linux as my standard OS some weeks ago, after windows didn’t allow me to copy some mp3 to my notebook. So I will write about these things too and maybe about ajax, sql etc.
Now, the “bifröst project” means: I’m on the way to learn new stuff until I’m in Valhall wait for Ragnarök, drinking beer, fighting,… As you can see, I like nordic stuff, hehe.
So, something about me to understand why I want to learn this “new” stuff:
I am studying “Business Information Systems” and am a software developer for several years now. With this surrounding you always learn new stuff. So maybe you’ll see some interesting stuff on this website later.
My goals are:
And the start page of this project is empty because it’s late at night and I’m to lazy to set up an index.html. But soon there’ll be a page with some links, e.g. to this blog and the first steps of the accounting software (which is also under construction and has no style in anyway yet).
Thats it, come back soon.
P.S.: Wrote a lot, so I have to continue oO