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Wordpress is the best option if you want to set up your blog when you DON'T have the web design already made, because you can try any of the excellent themes available for free out there, and doing a few tweaks here and there, it may even look own-made! Besides, Wordpress is a software made for blogging, which is your purpose, and you can add hundreds of functionalities with plugins.However, if you already have your site, and just want to "insert" the blog in a piece of your layout, I must admit the doing it with Cutenews is much easier than with Wordpress. I remember that several years ago, when I was like 13 years old, I managed to make a Harry Potter website, and used Cutenews for the news section. The templating is easier with Cutenews, it was a matter of seconds.Anyway, if you think that some time in the future, you may want to expand your site and include forums, downloads or galleries, and have it all connected with your blog, then it would be worth try to put your design in a Wordpress theme (which can take you just a couple of days, including learning how-to) and use such blogging software since those things can be easily done with plugins.Well, that's your choice bluebear: if you want to keep it simple, Cutenews; if you'd like the add-ons, then Wordpress.Good luck!

I'm not a real web designer, but whenever I want to get a piece of HTML code done, I just use Wordpad (plain text, like Notepad without seeing those squared characters instead of the breaklines). They're just fine, and do the work great, specially combined with Firefox + Web Developer add-on. It's very easy, once you get used to it.For PHP, I use a program called PHPEditor, which highlights the pieces of code (quite useful) and is really simple.

I'd love to die during an orgasm, that would be fantastic! I would have come to life as a result of an orgasm, and gone the same way.Think about it... why make it painful (car crashes) or cowardly (die asleep), why not die making love to the woman I love?A poet said that life is like a parenthesis between no-life and no-life, so if you take your life as a theatre play, your death would make it rather a comedy than a tragedy.Of course, there's not much chance for your heart to stop due to an orgasm, but who can decide how it will be anyway?

I can see... So, there are de facto non-English hosted sites. Well, that's good! After I read the Terms of Service, I performed some searches, like "hosting spanish" to see if this topic had already been discussed and as I didn't found anything relevant, I thought that only English written sites were hosted. Thanks for the explanation!

I totally agree with the need to ensure that accounts are legal and have permissable contentes, but I believe there's a big portion of forum members who speak English as their second language, including myself, and so, I assume some time they may need free hosting in their native language. So, why can't Xisto host sites in those non-English languages which have a large community in the forums? I'm sure that this couldn't be possible in early 2005, since Xisto forums weren't as big as they're now, but in my opinion, it IS possible now. There must be some way to do it, like making a list of those languages which aren't in English, so the responsibility of checking hosted sites content doesn't fall on the admins' shoulders only, but volunteer members who check them and warn admins when there's something illegal. Please don't take this as a harsh critic, my aim is just to take part in Xisto forums as they are a stable community and not one of those free hosting which shut after 6 months (I've known it since 2005 when I was a teenager trying to make a Harry Potter website) and want to help making it a better place, not only proposing the ideas. So, if at any moment, Xisto will start hosting non-English accounts, I'd be glad to give a hand with whatever is necessary.

I've been looking for this book, "The Revolt" ("Myatezh") by Dmitri Furmanov on the Internet and Ares, but can't find it. If anyone has it in the computer, and shares it, I'd be grateful. My email is in the signature, but if you have a link to the book and leave it as a reply, it will be great too. The book was published in 1925, so I don't think it will be a copyright infringement. Thanks, Andr?s

I'm always reading more than one book at a time. So, these are my last ones, I can't remember the order: "The Prisoner of Zelda" by Anthony Hope "Yesterday y ma?ana" by Mario Benedetti "Los ?ltimos d?as del Che" (Che's Last Days) by Juan Ignacio Siles del Valle The Prisoner of Zelda is a well written adventures novel, and I read it on my cellphone on the bus trips to school last month. Also, I'm looking for reading "Rupert of Hentzau", written by the same author. I suppose is about the life of a character of the book I read. "Yesterday y ma?ana" (Yesterday and Tomorrow) is an excellent poems book. The writer is not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important living writers. I'd love to leave you a piece of his poetry in this post, but it's copyrighted and, most importantly, I wouldn't dare to translate his work. Anyway, if you want me to send you some poems in Spanish, just pm me (I don't think that's against the rules, isn't it?). Last but not least, Siles del Valle book is about the last days of the Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara, during his activities inciting revolution in Bolivia, including his execution. The book mixes documents, press stuff, testimonials with many pieces of fiction with things that happened and some things that the author imagined. It's not a book for reference but it's fine.

I think the only accurate way to find out what is the programming language of Google is from someone who works there.Because talking about Google is something very general this days, in my opinion. It used to be a cool search engine, now it's Google, it's everywhere, it's my email address, Google Earth, a toolbar in my browser... come on!Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but if Google is hiring C, C++, Java, Shell, PHP, Perl and Python engineers, all we know is that they use them all.But we can't know whether they are using C++ in the search engine or in Google Earth, or both. Why can't they access the info via different languages, depending on the one with best performance for the application.Anyway, I suppose that Google doesn't use PHP for the search engine, as Google's founders began its development in 1995/96 at school and it was then when PHP/FI was first realeased so I don't think they'd used a new technology, which was VERY basic in those times, to make a very advanced thing. Don't you think?

That's what happens when the government don't take a hands-on role in the situation of students. You depend whether on your parents' fortune, on your desire to get stacked in loans and bet your neck on getting a good job after your degree, or working while studying which isn't always possible.In my opinion, students and workers should join forces to make the government take really care of advanced studies, for everyone free. So, whether the son of the banker or the daughter of the lumberjack can have an university degree.That's what happened in my country, Uruguay, like fifty years ago. Now the most important university is the public university, University of the Republic. It is not in a campus, but spread all over the capital city, Montevideo (where 60% of the population of the country lives) and has very few colleges outside that city. But the most important thing is that is "free"...Still, it's hard to get a go through it degree, since many carriers are full time, and you don't have time to get a job to buy the bus tickets, the food or if you have to help at home or get a house to live in if you come from the countryside.All this make people spend 50% time studying than it was s?"supposed" for the carrier, if they can finish it some day.Luckily for me, my parents can afford my living cost, so I'll be starting Social Anthropology next year.

I'm doing my best effort so not to break the respect rules of the forums... (Janice voice: Ohhh-Myyyyy-Gosh!) The USA has been doing "something" for a century and a half. Remember Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Mexico, Argentina, Angola, Hawaii, Haiti, Philippines, Guatemala, Indonesia, El Salvador, Iran, Oman, Chile, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan. Any other country? I hope they told you that at school too. Other way, you may find out de facto freedom of speech is far away from what capitalist class wants to teach you or what FOX shows you....

Religion is in fact being updated constantly, since religions are not what their leaders say... "Religion is the opiate of the people" said Karl Marx... it's in the people, the cultures. Due to globalization, culture are mixing, or rather than mixing, they're being absorbed by a new univocous vision of what culture is .... and we can talk a hundred pages about it, but getting down to the grounds, you must not forget that religion is dependant of all this phenomenon called globalization (they are in internet, radios, TV, etc.). And why is it dependant? Because economy is changing, and that's the base of societies! (I'm not saying all that matters is money, because money is just the way we care about economy, but saying politics, arts, science, philosophy, institutions, they all happen in a determined moment and time, not in other one, in a society during its development.) So, as time goes by, and the world still spins around... what is Ratzinger doing?? Keeping a struggle against Liberation Theology and other approximations of religions to science and Marxism. Why? Tell me, why do religions exist? What was a primitive way of explaining the world became in the Middle Age (and before) to be used as a tool to oppress the masses. Also today. What has changed is that the group of values that Catholic Church and Co. defends are the ones which are worth for the new high class, which wants to have people oppressed... It's a long story, I hope you can understand it. If anything is not clear, please let me know so I'll fix it. I'm just too tired now and my can't write in English anymore. But it's a hell of a topic and I'll be glad to keep discussing it.

I just read the first 20 replies and most of them said "be yourself". It's kind of hard for a shy person, who I assume you are (really don't know why) to be totally honest and open with the person whose opinion concerns you most (I mean hers).However, that's the only truth... because you can pretend you're someone else, like the "cool guy" archetype or something, since some day it's great to have someone there that supports you just like you are.So, in my opinion, there are no tips or tricks to impress a girl... it depends on you only, all you have to know is that you feel something for her (call it lust, love, chemistry, whatever) and you want to let her know... the part in the middle, the process, the means, well, use your imagination... anything you tell her, write to her, give her or any gesture you make would be fine if it really express what you feel.(By the way, if she is not interested in you, there's really nothing you can do. Despite Hollywood shows, you can't wash their brains with sweet words and brave acts. )

I used to have often lucid dreams until a couple of years ago. But one day, surfing the net looking for info about dreams, I came up with an ebook from wikibooks.org, you know, the wikimedia project for free books about topics. I read it, there's where I learnt that those dreams were name lucid ones, and gave me a few techniques on how to control myself when having a lucid dream or something like that. Well, truth is that I can't remember of having any lucid dream since I read that book. Maybe it was just during puberty that you have them, but it's still strange because I passed from having at least one lucid dream a week or something like that to none in two years... I don't know, I think I'm gonna read the book again, right now I can't even remember what did it say. If you're keen on the topic, I give you the link to wikibooks.