drink Chai, not Beer
Its damn cold over here. Some -10° C today in southern germany. This are the times I prefer a
cup of HOT chai instead of frozen beer, not even a good one*! I just recently received some packs of original Ketepa Tee from Nairobi. It’s great to have friends and family over there that supply me with some basics, since we have no 
in Ujerumani. (Ati, there is nothing like http://uchumi.co.ke or even dot com?) Or can you imagine to buy a pack of Jogoo maizemeal at 23 USD?** Anyway, this shop is probably better than nothing.
* JKE, I would have loved to link tusker.de, but since it’s on sedo…
** plus $ 6,95 shipping worldwide
color codes of flags deciphered
Whiteafrican brought up this link to some at first sight funny flags. The flags are a result of a creative challenge campaign by an Portuguese news magazine. Entitled “Meet the World� some countries flags are shown, using the flags colors to sensitize on various social and political issues. (click on image to enlarge)the old Bedford TJ
Wow, JKE just sent me this link to a page with lots of pictures of african vehicles. It’s really funny since I made my drivers licence on such an old BEDFORD TJ. I booked five lessons and took only three of them, since the truck had to undergo some jua-kali treatment the other times. Driving was real fun as well. The steering wheel had a quarter turn of play so it was a real challenge to keep the lane on Thika Rd. Before heading of for the first ride, I had a small dispute with the instructor whether the right rear-view mirror was to be set up for me or for the instructor. The instructor said he needed the mirror, but can you imagine driving a truck without!? Anyway, I finally convinced him.
my little Wp-tweaks
Curious as I am, I couldn’t wait to update my blog to WordPress 2.0. So end of december 2005 I put up 2.0 and started tweaking for my purpose. For my blog on mzungus I chose regulus 2 theme, originally designed by Binary Moon. I especailly liked the clear layout and the backend funktions of the theme. Since WP 2.0 it is possible to add a configuration page (functions.php) to enable easy individual themesettings, without hacking into the code or editing the stylesheet. Regulus 2 allows the user to choose whether to
- display full posts or excerpts on the homepage,
- show information about the author,
- show the calendar,
- display the meta section,
- display admin options when logged in,
- show the recent post,
- show complete archive
- display multiple categories in the blog roll.
The user can further choose from of a range of header-images and color-schemes.
I found this to be nice enhancements and extended them a little by adding the option to display recent posts beneath the content of the homepage and recent comments. I added my own header image of course and extended the color-schemes.
Recent Comments & Posts:
I decided to solely use smart-unread-comments plugin, since I think it is the easiest way to keep my readers up-to-date. It relies on cookies. Display of recent posts is also included in Regulus Theme, but it is not possible to display recents posts, excluding the first posts that are already displayed on the homepage. Customizable Post Listings Plugin allows to customize that.
Tagging:
I testet the two probably most used tagging plugins, taggerati and ultimate tag warrior UTW. It takes some time to get into, but after some reading I got the stuff going. I settled with UTW, since I peronally felt better with it. The Autor of Taggerati also still has some problems with getting things done for WP2.0.