how to create an on-mouse comment in posts?

[zlamushka]

you re so cool, radu ...

I wish I could bug you everyday with my troubles, but I already did three times, so i guess it is time to relax

it is easy to get accustomed to other people helpin, eh ?

I wish you needed a recipe or an insight of a particular spice... What did dracula eat in his 'regular' life? Maybe I could contribute to your knowledge

bloody mary, i guess...

zuzy

[Dracula]

Thanks Zuzy,

You can "bug" me anytime, I'm glad to help when I can. If you have any other problems don't hesitate to ask.
I really don't know exactly what Vlad III Dracula was eating (except for drinking bloody mary coctails). For sure there was no junk food in the middle-ages, people in Wallachia was doing agriculture even more than in Transylvania, also hunting. There are a lot of rivers in the area, so fish should have been part of them weekly menu. Wine was largely appreciated in that part of the world, it was even part of the corronation ceremony in Wallachia (together with an olive oil prepared in Constantinopole - they where not eating the oil, just were being "oiled" - by the church heads.
However if you know more about the dishes in medieval age, I'd be happy to work with you to an article on this theme. You could host the article on your blog and I'll just write two lines and link to it for details.

[Edited]: I remembered there was a TV documentary (on Discovery Channel I think) saying that middle age food was really spicy and salty. Salty because of conservation reasons, of course.

All best,
Radu

[zlamushka]

radu,

that is sooo nice to hear, thanx. Trust me, i will not dissapoint you, I ALWAYS have a problem with my blog

So, How would I create that pretty calendar that lots of bloggers have? It should be very simple, friendly and marks all the days when I posted something (as well as current day)

I ll think about the medevial food article. Meat is not my favorite, so my knowledge in that area is similar to my tech PC knowledge (very amateur)...
On the oter hand, I looooove spices, chilies, herbs and salt, ... I am sure Vlad III. must have enjoyd at least one type of vegetable. I ll see what I can do

Zooza

[Dracula]

Well, sincerely I don't know a page using the calendar, even if I figure our how it is like. If you see one somewhere on the 'net please send me the address of the blog so that I can have a look and help you. In fact, I think I'd like to have it also on my blog .

If it is blogger offering the tool for them, we shall find a way to do it. If they use other blogging services, it might be slightly more difficult, not impossible however.

About cooking for Vlad III ...well I think you should have done some good food elsewhere you would have had problems, with the risk of becoming...his food. (just joking about this one, there are no real proofs about canibalism, just suppositions). Anyway the guy seems to have been a bad boy !

all best,
Radu

[zlamushka]

hey again,

nandyala.org/mahanandi/ again her. She has amazing blog. It s strange she doesnt have a FEED on her site to subscribe to. Is that site even a blog?

[Dracula]

Well, I see it, in fact I found a similar calendar looking for some IT info few hours ago. The problem is both blogs are "Powered by wordpress/Neuro" (see the bottom line on her blog). Well, I'll think of somehing for blogger...but I have no idea right know about how to do it.

I think it is a real blog, just that she doesn't want everybody to use the info there. There are many blogs done more or less with feeds, the guys do no work and drive nice amounts of traffic.

all best,
radu

[zlamushka]

hi Radu,

i was just going to tell you about that. I found out that all the calendars i looked at were powered by Wordpress (darn....) Well, well... cannot have everything.

Actually I think I am quite ready with what I have for now. It s about the time to start focusing on the concept rather than design, so people can come and actually read something.

I was gonna ask one more thingy.

I used to have this cute free site stat by Neo Counter. A 14 day free trial. Now they just told me that my period is about to expire and if i dont pay i ll use my statistics. They ve already switched to the crappy free widget design which i dont like, but i am afraid that starting from ZERO site stat will be their next step.
Well, I am a cheap ass and dotn want to pay for the luxury...

I have other accounts with Google analytics and Feedburner. Is it possible with one of them to publish their little box that will show how many readers I ve had so far ? I know that there are sites like Sitemeter that do that, but I just dont feel like opening an account now and start from 0, u know what i mean?

Thanx