Self Employed in Spain – Why bureaucracy strangles us.

The titles a bit heavy but this short clip goes a long way (and puts a bit of a funny spin) on the process of becoming self employed in Spain. Its not just becoming self emplopyed that can be so frustrating however. Most systems in Spain are still bogged down in bureaucratic nonsense with bottle-necks in the system, unclear processes and small minded people on powertrips capitalising on their positions… just like this:

To all my mates, who dont believe me, this was a true story. Swear.

Getting cheap flights online with the Irish

With St.  Paddys Day less than 24 hours away I have to say I was delighted to come across this.  Puts me and Im sure a few of my colleagues (yer all irish tomorrow lads and lassies!) in the mood for a right ole party to celebrate the green! Its just ever so slightly taking the piss out of booking flights online… and taking the piss out of the ourselves as well. ;P

Have a wee watch at this redition of purchasing a cheap flight online.

Manage Facebook tabs and iframes with a wordpress plugin

Some of you may be aware that Facebook have been threatening/promising (depending on your point of view) to change their current setup , again, by removing the FBML (Face Book Markup Language) and instead reverting to the use of iframes.  this is for a few reasons that we dont really care about as what matters to use is:

  • Will it make life harder or easier
  • How much harder or easier
  • Can I do it myself without paying vast sums of money?

The answer is…maybe. But if it is difficult this rather cool wordpress plugin will help. Called the FaceBook Tab Manager it allows you to configure a tab for Facebook in WordPress and then copy and paste it into Facebook.  This should allow WordPress lovers a much more familiar and convenient way of managing a Facebook page (we hope!)

Heres how it looks :

Manage Facebook tabs and iframes with a wordpress plugin

And heres the official description:

The Facebook Tab Manager allows you to create landing pages and other types of content to be displayed within Facebook, particularly within the tabs that appear on Facebook business pages and pages for other types of organizations. This provides a way of putting more interesting layouts and functionality into your Facebook pages, without the need to get too deep into fancy programming.

The Facebook Tab Manager was specifically designed to take advantage of a recent Facebook page redesign that added support for iframe tabs on Facebook pages. Optionally, you can now also specify content to be displayed on an associated canvas page.

Tab content can include any WordPress content, including output from Shortcodes and other plugin functions.

Nice one!