Today I was searching in my pc and suddenly found the very first version of liekie.com including the installation ánd all archives of the weblog I made with the blogsoftware Greymatter. Since Wordpress now supports importing posts ánd comments from Greymatter I decided to upload the installation and the archives and try to import all posts wich go back to January 2003. In fact it is the period of the last 2 years I was living in Holland
It wasn’t too much trouble to import the posts and all comments, so from now on you can find back all ramblings I ever made in this weblog.
I still need to edit every single entry, so it gets one or more categories and repair the broken links wich am able to repair and upload some pic and videos again because they are on a server wich doesn’t excist anymore. But this time I don’t need to edit every single com,ent in the database, because the importtool did well on importing them

Written by Liekie @ 02:19:16 am
Tags: archive, Holland, weblog, website, Wordpress

Next Sunday Fresh and I will leave Berlin for spending christmas with my family in Holland. Since it’s hard to find someone to take care of our pets at this time of the year, we will take Shanny, our dog with us.
Just like every time we are visiting Holland we are short in time since so many things have to be done before leaving Berlin :s At the beginning of this week I thought I had everything concerning the housekeeping under control. I really hate it coming home in a chaos, so the appartment had to be cleaned, all laundry had to be washed (I am kind of lazy in washing laundry * blush *), christmas shopping had to be done. But now it’s Friday, and when I am looking around I see I must clean again, I am washing the last laundry, need to doo the dishes and after it I need to clean the kitchen, need to buy the last grocaries so I can make some sandwiches for Sunday, we are still wrtiting the last bills for the business so they can be sent to our customers before the end of the year, tonight we have to go to the other side of Berlin so we can give the housekey to someone who will drop by to feed Pugsley, our cat, because we cannot take him with us.
I know, we’ve got tomorrow as well, but we planned to go see Fresh’s family since we’re spending christmas in Holland. So tomorrow is gone as well.  It’s a bit stressy right now, but I think somehow we will manage everything…

Written by Liekie @ 04:29:53 pm
Tags: cat, christmas, dog, Family, housekeeping, Work

Here’s a little update about the new Liekie.com.
I am still working on the website, I added some new features like social bookmarking and a sitemap wich makes it easier being found in Google and getting a better pagerank.
I also added the support pages on WebcamXP again. I am still planning to write some more tutorials, but it’s something for the future since a lot has been going on in my live at this moment wich has a higher priority. I also plan to get the webcams back online, but it’s also something for the future. I need to reprogram the pages wich were showing the webcams, due to a new version of WebcamXP and someone still stealing my camstream…

Written by Liekie @ 08:08:15 am
Tags: social bookmark, Webcams, WebcamXP, website

So for the past 2 years this website has been running on the CMS Joomla!. I liked it a lot playing around with Joomla!, trying some new components, making the upgrades and at the end even trying to make my own template.
But since this site is a blog actually, I think Joomla! isn’t suitable for this website at all. It is not possible to work with categories the way you work with them in a “real” blog. Joomla! works with sections wich you can devide into categories, and as soon as you move a post to the archive, the post isn’t listed in the categories list anymore. So I have been thinking about migrating the entire website to Wordpress, since it’s the best blogtool at this moment, and with wich I’ve got some experience since I am running 2 other blogs on Wordpress.
The pages with tutorials I have written for WebcamXP I can also add to Wordpress because Wordpress has the possibilities to work with pages and subpages and even categorize the pages.
I am still looking for the best options to migrate from Joomla! to Wordpress, but sofar I was only able to find 1 solution, wich only migrates the posts and not the comments. If I cannot find a good way to migrate I’ll might move this website to a subdomain, and disable the option to post comments and guestbookentries.

Written by Liekie @ 03:34:55 pm
Tags: blog, Joomla!, migrating, WebcamXP, Wordpress

I guess it is about time for an update since my last post is is from March this year
A lot has happened during these passed months. The main reason I didn’t update anymore is because Fresh and I both signed up for an account in Second Life last January. For this reason our webcams aren’t online that much anymore, since 5 cams running take too much resources from our pc’s and internetconnection while playing Second Life…
Regular visitors of our webcams might remember the rabbitcam, a cam wich was pointed at the cage of my old rabbit Bugs. Well, I’ve got some sad news about Bugs now. We had to put him asleep last April, because the problems with his teeth got worse. He got an inflamation again due to a tooth groing into his jaw, and at the end the medication didn’t do what they were supposed to do. So with a lot of pain in our hearts we had to decide it was better for grandpa Bugs to put him to sleep. Bugs reached the age of 9 1/2 years wich is pretty old for a rabbit.
We also had some stress with our grandma doggie Shanny. At this moment she´s about 13 years old and because of that she´s getting weaker. She get´s ill sooner as before, just like humans.
Last March we had some scarey moments, because she suddenly had diarrhoea. We went to the VET and he gave her some medication, but it got worse and she started to throw up blood as well. We ended up taking her to the animal hospital at Friday night since the VET couldn´t help anymore. We shouldn´t have wait any longer, else she didn´t make it. She had a terrible lack of fluids because of the diarrhoea and the throwing up. It turned out Shanny had some bad infection in her stomach but it was unknown what caused the infection.
Since this infection she gets some special diet food for old dogs with a sensitive stomach, and she is doing much better since she gets the food.
Last September we finally made it to visit my family in Holland. The week we have spent in Holland was great. It was nice and quit, and great to see my parents, sister and some other members of the family again. Next X/mas we will be visiting them again, really looking forward to it!
Since October first I found a mini job here in Berlin. I work for someone who has some apartments for rent for mainly tourists in Berlin Mitte and in our house as well. If some tourists rent an apartment in our house I will be there to check wether everything is fine in the apartments before the guests arrive, I show the tourists their apartment, and tell them something about the environment (shopping, metro stations, etc.) here and give them their keys. I also do some research on the internet. It’s a great job, because I am able to work at home most of the time
That’s about what has happend these past months. I hope to update this site more in the future.

Written by Liekie @ 02:28:05 pm
Tags: dog, Holland, rabbit, Second Life, update, Webcams, Work