House Of Koenig

We make a lot of calls to family back in Indonesia so having a good calling card is important.  I remember the shock when I first started calling my wife in Indonesia and getting a phone bill for over $700.  Thankfully my long distance company at the time put me into a global plan and put all my past calls at the lower global plan price.  But now we find the cheaper method is calling cards.  We’ve been buying a card called Continental from a company called Comfi. The rates are 7.5 cents per minute so for $20 we get about 4.5 hours of talking time. They offer other cards as well but many have maintenance fees that can add up quickly. Another card we have tried is called Jupiter, but we’ve had problems connecting to some cities in Indonesia. We’ve also used Skype for computer to computer calls and that has worked well and is free. But for calls to landline phones we’ve been sticking with the calling cards. I’d be interested to hear what others are using when calling Internationally.

Ever wonder how to get your Twitter feed into your Wordpress sidebar?  It’s really very simple.  Here are the steps I used to get the Twitter badge as you see displayed on the right.

1. Navigate your browser over to www.twitter.com/badges login and select Other for the Flash and HTML widgets.
2. Select your version of the badge you want (I chose Flash)
3. Choose your basge color and then copy the text to your clipboard.
4. Open up your Wordpress admin console. Navigate to the Design tab and then Widgets.
5. Add a Text widget and copy the clipboard (text you copied from Twitter) into the text widget.
6. You can then move the test widget to any location in the sidebar.

Your Twitter feeds will now display in the sidebar of your Wordpress blog.

This is the official start of the “House of Koenig” blog.  I’ll be writing about things I am passionate about, things I know and even things I don’t know about.  It should be an interesting and entertaining experience.  Or it may be a complete and total disaster.  More to come…