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Friday The 13th, A Car Crash & Google Translate Part III
On Friday, March 13th, 2009, me and my fiancée were on our way to my parents, driving down the Autobahn A7 Hannover in the direction of Kassel, when we had to stop in a traffic jam near the departure to Hildesheim. Fortunately, we had left a gap for the police and the ambulance (as so-called “Rettungsgasse”) – otherwise, the guy that was coming to a stop right between our car (middle lane) and the others (left lane) would have crashed right into us… seems like he was a little distracted. SO, PEOPLE, REMEMBER: ALWAYS LEAVE THAT GAP IF YOU ARE IN A TRAFFIC JAM, EVEN IF SOME PEOPLE TELL YOU NOT TO – IT CAN SAVE YOU FROM BEING SERIOUSLY INJURED – MAYBE IT CAN EVEN SAVE YOUR LIFE! Here … Read entire article »
Filed under: Miscellaneous Stuff
Disable Image Caption Shortcode In WordPress
I just read this nice article by Frank Bültge that deals with the image caption shortcode that WordPress creates automatically when you add an image via the media manager. As I never really liked it, I can’t say how happy I am that someone finally explained to me how to get rid of it in a very simple way. Just add the following code as a plugin or to your functions.php: add_filter( 'disable_captions', create_function('$a', 'return true;') ); I have just written a small plugin that you can download here. Credits should go to Frank Bültge for this. Thanks! … Read entire article »
Filed under: WordPress Stuff