"Not a lot of people know this" but in 1990 I was lucky enough to be filmed as an extra in Star Trek.
Whilst I was a fan of the show I wouldn't go as far to say I was an addict, still it was fun to get the full Hollywood special effects make-up treatment.
Sadly we weren't allow to take photographs and even I can't recognise myself in the relevant episode.
But the event always stayed in my mind so when the push to "internationalise" joomla began I purchased a Klingon-English dictionary so that joomla would not only be available in every language on earth but in every known language.
Last year I blogged about my personal backup procedures.
No matter how many times I say it people still don't listen.
Backing up your data is your responsibility and yours alone.
Happy New Year to you all.
Of course I'm not really so sad as to be sat typing this blog post at midnight on New Years Day. It's actualy 15:53 on the 29th and I'm using the "Start Publishing" feature of joomla.
Ask a lawyer an opinion and they will give you one but is it the correct one.
Every lawyer has their own speciality area, and the good ones will even tell you in advance that your question is not within their area of expertise, but they all give you a legal "opinion" based on what you want to hear.
Sadly lawyers are like prostitutes, the oldest profession in the world, if you pay them enough money, or are a big enough client, they will find a way to achieve your goal.
Hopefuly by now you will have read Steve Krug's excellent book "Don't Make Me Think" and you will have understood how we speed read a website looking for the relevant content.
But how does a blind person "speed read"? Do they have to "read" all the content of the website or do blind people "speed listen"?
I've always said that once you start using joomla it's like a highly addictive drug that is impossible to let go.
So when I stumbled upon this unattributed chart comparing drug dealers and geeks I just had to produce a joomla version.
The number one mistake I see with newcomers to joomla is a failure to understand the Section, Category, Article structure of content.
How many times do you see people either reject joomla or spend hours developing complicated and convoluted solutions to satisfy their desire to have nested sub-categories?
And yet the truth is you don't need them. The problem is that they are trying to match their frontend menu structure with their backend filing system.
A few weeks ago I was chatting on skype with Fotis from joomlaworks.gr discussing the merits of various different RSS news readers or aggregators.
Despite trying several neither of us really were satisfied with what we had found.
I started this blog in response to a few of my friends "demanding" I put some of my thoughts and tips & tricks down in writing.
Of course I hopped that other people would stumble upon this blog and find it interesting but I never expected the readership to grow so large so quickly to an average of 1500 visits every day.
Congratulations, you discovered a hidden secret!