2007 was an interesting year. I started looking for an internship and later I was invited by UBS for a 10 week period. I started making my own yogurt, I moved my entire gallery from Gallery to Coppermine and made themes for all my website so that it looks like one. Another big news was that PayPal started accepting Bulgarian payments. After my vacation in Bulgaria, I took the road test and got my license ( two days ago ); Leopard was released by Apple and Skype for Linux started to support video.
If course there were sad moments too…
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We got some new gadgets. To list a few:
- phone: LG VX8550
- Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85 IS
- Front Projector: ViewSonic PJ503D
- Guitar: Deluxe Stratocaster® QMT
- Pream: Behringer V-AMP PRO Modeling Preamp
- mic: Shure PGX24/SM58 Hand-Held Wireless System
I can say that it was a goooood year.
I wish you all a very happy year.
The spammers started a war with me 2-4 days ago and I started receiving 15-20 comments for approval. After I looked trough the various Captcha! and what not else plugins against spam I figured out that my problem is in the trackback comments. So I just disabled them for all my posts and now the spam disappeared ( knock on wood ). If they start again I’ll then put a plugin (along with Akismet that I already have ) to see how it goes.
While I was playing with my plugins I updated the live-comment-preview plugin and I updated my entire theme to support multiple languages. Of course I had to find a Bulgarian translation for wordpress, which lead me to this website. The people there have done pretty good job, but they have two .po files that I needed for all messages. So I had to merge them with msgcat, and to add a few messages myself for my theme.
If you’re interested in my .po and .mo files there are here. Now, at last, when you choose Bulgarian, everything in the blog is in Bulgarian, when you choose English, everything is in English.
Edit:
After I added the last few posts I noticed that my comments.php is not working after the “upgrade”. It was an additional if/else that I’ve added and was easy to fix.
Edit 2:
Thanks to Nikolay Bachiyski, for clearing out for me the localization thingy for themes. Now the messages from my theme are combined with the ones from the default theme and are in the theme folder. Soon I’ll clean it up a little bit and I’ll release it for the interested to look at.
At last we have a short break of a couple of days because of Christmas. We will probably make some meatless meals for the evening and some of the Bulgarians will join us. The sauerkraut is getting bad already (that’s good) but it is still a little bit green. I’d like it to become yellow. Otherwise we could’ve made some stuffed sauerkraut. Still about 4 days ago I made pork with sauerkraut and we didn’t throw any out 
A lot of people in Bulgaria know how to make drunken chicken in many ways. Here is the recipe that I use:
6 chicken drums
about 1.8lbs potatoes
about 12oz of beer
1/4 block of butter
salt, black and red pepper, savory spice, vegeta and curry
I first prepare the chicken. Cut the butter in 6 small pieces ( you can put it in the freezer for a few minutes for easier cutting ). With my finger I make some space between the skin and the muscle of the drum and I put a piece of the butter and some vegeta. I put the drums in a big roasting pan (without the grill) with the butter up. Next I cut the potatoes in about 12 pieces each ( half, half and thirds) and I put them around the meat in the pan. Next I add a thin layer of every spice on top of everything. I add the beer and water until I almost cover the meat and potatoes. At that time all my spices are on top. I do not stir them. Put them in the oven for about 45 minutes on moderate heat and all should be done at the same time.
It’s quite easy and rather tasty
