Bart Westgeest

There are many programs for writing and editing texts and most are good for anybody and anything. Because basically they all do one thing – they let you create texts. As a writer you write, as an editor you edit and as a publisher you publish. The writer in you wants a tool that can create [...]

I made a change in my WordPress setup two days ago that I couldn’t undo and as a result this blog didn’t show up properly. I think I made WordPress make a change in the .htaccess file. It was possible to reinstall the blog by visiting (…../blog/)wp-admin/install.php in my browser but since it wanted to create [...]

I spent some time discovering LibraryThing. It was a pleasant surprised to notice how serious the site appears to be. It seems to attract older people who don’t mind some social activity but prefer to do so “without meeting people”. It basically is a good site to make a list of the books you own and [...]

I thought that updating Linux Ubuntu would be quick and easy, but in the end it took me more than a week. After the switch from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 I was stuck with a system that could start and sometimes did let me log in, but only to display the dashboard for a few [...]

After 20 days of reading, building and experimenting with Drupal I finally got my new blog up and running… in Wordpress. It took me 5 hours to make WP work for me and I am rather satisfied already, convinced that it can function as a Contents Management System as well The final reason why I turned [...]

After some years experimenting with several blogging systems as for example Blogger and Wordpress.com and .org I almost by coincidence, finally, understood what a Content Management System (CMS) actually is. As I had been thinking about starting a (yet another) new blog/homepage, I had a look at some background information and got interested in [...]

NaNoWriMo ‘08 was a mixed pleasure for me. I had chosen a not complicated storyline with many autobiographical elements and after plotting it all into yWriter I felt pretty comfortable. In the beginning the writing progressed well but I quickly noticed that this writing 1667 words a day – no matter what quality – [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 has the honor of being the main excuse for not writing enough in the NaNoWriMo ‘08. So before telling about my experience with the writing event I can already report that I certainly won’t make it to the 50.000 words that are required to ‘finish’ succesfully. But maybe it helped me to [...]

While playing a game of cards it struck me how important it is to organize well. First it looks like the cards don’t combine and that I have no chance of winning the game, but when I start to sort them it suddenly becomes clear how my chances really are and what I am missing. [...]

Creative Commons is an organisation that provides people who want to share there works a way of doing so. When you place for example pictures on the internet it is as a general rule copyrighted by you, the owner. By adding a creative commons logo you indicated that people are welcome to use it under [...]