travel-junkie.comtravel-junkie.comboris is a travel addicted, white wine loving, unfortunatley quite accident prone, easy going and not so german dive instructor on a round the world trip. he always travels with his hammock, his chess set and a copy of 'the big blue'. this is his blo 
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My Quest For Information
2008-05-17 05:25:00 Guidebooks vs the internet, a battle of giants. More About: Information , Articles , Research , Forum , Quest
Lost & Found
2008-05-17 05:09:00 What exactly does 'Finding yourself' mean and does it really work? More About: Lost , Articles , Experience
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions?
2008-05-17 04:57:00 New Zealand, jQuery, a new theme and palm trees. More About: New Zealand , Decisions , New Style
Chinese Soldiers Or Tibetan Monks
2008-05-17 04:55:00 These buddhist monks might be trouble... More About: Travel , Photos , China , Tibet , Chinese
Lost & Found
2008-04-06 11:58:00 [singlepic=732,498,300] Once in a while you meet someone who is out and about busy "finding him or herself". I have never fully grasped the concept of this idea. What is it exactly that people try to find? Is it their real self, how they would be without the influences of todays society, or is it how ... More About: Lost , Articles , Experience
WP-Plugin: NextGEN FlashViewer
2008-04-04 13:22:00 Description: The famous Adobe Flash Plugin s (SimpleViewer, TiltViewer, AutoViewer) from Airtight Interactive for NextGEN Gallery. Latest Version: 0.60 - Changelog Author: Boris Glumpler & Alex Rabe Requires at least: WP 2.1.0 Tested up to: WP 2.5 Download: click here for the zip! Move Close Changelog for NextGEN FlashViewer 0.60 NEW: Support for AutoViewer NEW: Admin pages in the NextGEN Gallery admin area NEW: Support for Highslide NEW: Support for Language Switcher Changed: Plugin name Added: nggflash.po file for translations Added: nggflash-de_DE.po and nggflash-de_DE.mo files Added: Option preloader color for SimpleViewer Added: Admin style for WP 2.5 0.50initial release as NextGEN Simpleviewer by Alex Rabe Installation Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/nggflashviewer Go to airtightinteractive.com and download the SimpleViewer & Tiltviewer & AutoViewer Upload the files viewer.swf, TiltViewer.swf and autoviewer.swf to the plugin folde...
Burn One Down
2008-03-20 15:14:00 This week the big day finally came... We were allowed to hold the match to all the wood we had pushed together in the last few weeks! What a sight! Luckily for me, I was the designated part-time videographer. What's left of the trees is still smouldering... More About: Burn
Enough!
2008-03-20 08:28:00 I've had enough of people leaving a comment and then put some f**king company name as their proper name. Use your proper name or a nickname, not some way of brilliantly thought out keyword to get more links. So far I've always changed the name according to what the email address said and deleted the ...
Chopping Wood Kiwi Style
2008-03-16 00:24:00 The place I work gets really cold now during the night, so we decided to start the fireplace up. In our little farmhouse we have one woodsaw, four chainsaws and two axes. The Kiwi s decided that that’s not good enough… ShareThis More About: Photos , New Zealand , Style , Wood
NextGen Gallery Captions Galore!!!
2008-03-15 11:30:00 I know that some people have been waiting for me to come out with a new tutorial on how to captionize their Next Gen Gallery singlepics with the new version 0.8 and above. How about one better? Let’s go crazy and captionize literally everything we can get our sneaky little hands on. Singlepics, widgets, related images… Download ... More About: Tutorial , Galore , Caption
Omarama VI And Happy Birthday!!
2008-03-02 02:05:00 Part 6 of the series of images from my office! I hope you enjoyed the images. This one is the last. Happy Birthday , Bro!! ShareThis More About: Travel , Photos , New Zealand
Omarama II
2008-03-01 00:03:00 Part 2 of the series of images from my office! ShareThis More About: Travel , Photos , New Zealand
Omarama I
2008-03-01 00:03:00 Over the next few days I will be posting pictures I took with my mobile while being at work. Well, more on the way to and from work in a valley close to Omarama in New Zealand . The quality of the images will not be what you are used to, but it gets so dusty ... More About: Travel , Photos
Omarama III
2008-03-01 00:03:00 Part 3 of the series of images from my office! ShareThis More About: Travel , Photos , New Zealand
Omarama IV
2008-03-01 00:03:00 Part 4 of the series of images from my office! ShareThis More About: Travel , Photos , New Zealand
Omarama V
2008-03-01 00:03:00 Part 5 of the series of images from my office! ShareThis More About: Travel , Photos , New Zealand
Work Opportunities On The Road
2008-01-25 10:03:00 Everybody who has been travelling for a bit longer knows that eventually there comes a time when all that saved up money doesn’t amount to that much anymore. You’ve probably seen it coming and acted on it by having rice and sweet chili sauce three times a day, all washed down with a yummy glass ... More About: Travel , Articles , Australia , New Zealand , Work
Frisbee Golf With A Twist
2008-01-19 04:09:00 Continuing on from my last post, Frisbee Golf is another activity in Queenstown that is cheap and fun. All you need is a Frisbee, so either buy one (around 12$), steal one or borrow one. Many hostels have plastic plates, they’ll work alright. Make sure to remove all food scraps for best aerodynamic performance. Every ... More About: Contest , Photos , New Zealand
Ascending Ben Lomond
2008-01-17 01:51:00 After a few weeks enjoying life as a couch potato in the hostel lounge I grabbed the chance to go hiking with a couple of guys from my hostel room. I was gonna climb up Ben Lomond with Jack aka Clumsy Monkey Boy, an Englishman, and Kevin, the original Flying Dutchman. Now, Ben Lomond was ... More About: New Zealand , Queenstown , Trekking , Hostel , Ascend
Captions for NextGen Gallery Singlepics
2008-01-07 07:00:00 A few days ago I decided that my pictures in posts needed captions. For all my images I use the excellent plugin Next Gen Gallery . In the forums a few times the question had popped up on how to add captions, so I decided to write a little how-to. I had already heavily modified some of ... More About: Tutorial , Caption
The Theory Of Progressive Travel
2008-01-07 01:46:00 I have done quite a bit of travelling over the last few years. Out of the last 8 years, I have been away from Germany for roughly 6 years and out of all the countries I have been to, I liked Indonesia the best. That definitely had something to do with the people and the ... More About: Progressive , Travel , Articles , Transport , Experience
My Favorite Shots
2007-12-30 00:33:00 Here come my most favorite images that have made it onto my blog so far. Come back from time to time as the list grows longer as I add new photos to the site. Enjoy! Sunset Summit Cuttlefish Cuttlefish Scorpionfish Scenic Lighthouse Angkor Wat Kinabalu Kids Turquoise lake Water buffalo Lamafa Flag Girl Street Rinca Komodo dragon Kids Flower Crab Lizard Hatta Windmill Champange pools Lake Wabby Moheno Wreck 12 Apostel 12 Apostel Footprints Whitsundays Nice view! Let me know which of my photos your favorites are! Head ... More About: Photo , Travel , Photos , Australia , Indonesia
New Job
2007-12-19 06:50:00 I am really sorry for not writing anything for so long, but I was busy with some other non-travel related projects and today I started a new job here in Queenstown. Nothing fancy, just helping out on construction sites, but it’s well paid and it was a quick way of getting some work. Now after ... More About: New Zealand
New Job
2007-12-19 06:50:00 I am really sorry for not writing anything for so long, but I was busy with some other non-travel related projects and today I started a new job here in Queenstown. Nothing fancy, just helping out on construction sites, but it’s well paid and it was a quick way of getting some work. Now after ... More About: New Zealand
Stand With Al
2007-12-11 23:20:00 In a couple days Al Gore will visit the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia , to talk about the need for a visionary treaty to deal with the effects of global warming. Add your voice to Al Gores petition, which he will take with him to Bali! At the time of writing 186,072 people ... More About: Global Warming , Decision , Stand
Stand With Al
2007-12-11 23:20:00 In a couple days Al Gore will visit the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia , to talk about the need for a visionary treaty to deal with the effects of global warming. Add your voice to Al Gores petition, which he will take with him to Bali! At the time of writing 186,072 people ... More About: Global Warming , Decision , Stand
What?s Your Most Lovable Nation?
2007-12-06 11:57:00 Don’t you just love the English? They are loud, they are obnoxious, they always have to add their two cents and they always know better! But they are so funny as well and they love taking the piss out of themselves! What’s your most lovable nation and, more importantly, why do you think so? ShareThis More About: England , Culture , Country , Nation , Obnoxious
What?s Your Most Lovable Nation?
2007-12-06 11:57:00 Don’t you just love the English? They are loud, they are obnoxious, they always have to add their two cents and they always know better! But they are so funny as well and they love taking the piss out of themselves! What’s your most lovable nation and, more importantly, why do you think so? ShareThis More About: England , Culture , Country , Nation , Obnoxious
Highslide and Nextgen Gallery
More articles from this author:2007-12-03 14:56:00 This post has absolutely nothing to do with travelling, so stop reading if you’re not interested in geeky Wordpress stuff. In the process of making Travel-Junkie.com a better experience for my visitors I have discovered the excellent Highslide effect for images and loads of other stuff by Torstein Hønsi. So I started implementing this effect, ... More About: Gallery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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