Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category

Your Browser is Too Modern

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

What is it with websites in Israel and browsers whose names do not start with the words "Internet Explorer"? Though there is lots of web connectivity and presence, it seems that all of the web developers here were just never told that using Javascript that only works on IE is ...

Resetting a Lost MySQL Password

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I sometimes use a Debian Ubuntu VMWare build to do some LAMP development. Due to my inexperience administering anything having to do with Linux, while trying to reset the root password, I accidentally put in some bad information into the password field (I forgot to use the password() function to ...

New Photo Blog - Israel Photos

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

For the past three and a half years, my wife and I have been using a pocket-sized point-and-shoot digital camera to try and capture our future memories. Although it has and continues to serve us well, we are very often frustrated with the amount of time it takes to capture ...

Forgot your Zooomr password?

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Good luck finding a way to get it back? Seriously, head over to zooomr.com and try to find a way to retrieve or reset a password (if you find it, I will be humbled and thankful). I was going to go and try to use your site. I know ...

Trying out Windows Live Writer

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

In honor of its officially coming out of beta, I decided to download and try out Windows Live Writer. Some of the features that attracted me are the ability to use one interface to publish on a number of different blogs at the same time, through a desktop client, without having ...

Blog Updates

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Done: Upgraded Wordpress to 2.3.1 Upgraded all out of date plugins Changed my theme (new theme: Big Blue). Customized new theme with the usual plugins. Added new plugins to right sidebar: Twitter Tools by Alex King (displays my most recent "Tweets", allows me to post to Twitter directly from my blog) Added widget to display my ...