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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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- Backup needed

  As every good geek I know, that backups are pretty necessary, but never made
  them. ;) True. The last backup of my local data (mails,...)  is about 10
  month old and my productive server configuration has even never been
  updated.

- Wow! That was fast! New Planet PHP logo arrived!

  Colin Viebrock, the designer of php.net made an amazing new logo for Planet
  PHP. His first draft corresponded nearly exactly to my own idea of a new,
  cool logo. 2 drafts later the new logo was finished. Extremely cool and
  extremely fast. Like the whole design, it's plain and really nice looking.

- Fight against spam

  Finally I managed to bring my server up to dat regarding spam and antivirus
  facilities.

- Link on php.net

  Recently Planet PHP got linked on php.net. Thanks to Gabor Hojtsy for that!

- Planet PHP linked on PEARweb

  Planet PHP recently got a link on PEARweb.

- OOO 1.1.1

  Yes, you read right. OpenOffice.org version 1.1.1 is out. With a huge bunch
  of bug fixes and some cool new features (e.g. "," instead of "." as the
  decimal char... whoever that needs! ;) ) I will definitly install that this
  evening.

- Logo for Planet PHP

  Finally I got the chance to start developing on Planet PHP. :)

- New RSS reader

  RSS (I guess) is one of the most usefull and common XML dialects. Especially
  for me. Beside XHTML RSS is the one I use most. Until about 10 minutes ago I
  used Liferea for RSS reading, which is indeed a cool and clean tool. But
  what gives you a good tool, if you forget to use it? What I wanted was to
  have my RSS feeds integrated to my email client and I found what I wanted:

- M$ Office versus OpenOffice.org

  Heise wrote: "Microsoft vergleicht MS Office mit OpenOffice", which is
  translated "Microsoft compares MS Office to OpenOffice".

- Enhancing firefox...

  Mozilla Firefox (formally known as Firebird) is the coolest browser the
  Mozilla project ever produced. My compliment! But to get a fully customized
  browser you have to download and install (ok, that's just 1 step together)
  several extensions. And since I have multiple computers, where I more or
  less often have to install the desired Firefox, I allways needed to browse
  through the extension directory and find all the extensions I wanted to
  have...