Archive for the 'Technology' Category

.htaccess Tutorial

March 28th, 2007

The .htaccess file is a powerful way to improve your website. If your website runs on an Apache webserver (or if you’re running your own Apache webserver) you might want to learn about it.
I found this .htaccess Tutorial to be very helpful and easy to understand. Read it and learn how to take advantage of […]

Comcast DVR: A Piece of Junk

November 19th, 2006

People have long recommended that I get a TiVo because it’s awesome and has revolutionized the way they watch TV. I ended up making my own TiVo and realized that they were right…but my box ended up crashing after a few months (it was an old computer).
So I ended up buying what I thought was […]

Filosofo Home-Page Control Plugin for WordPress

May 29th, 2006

I came across the greatest plugin for users who use WordPress to power their blogs and the rest of their website, like myself. It’s called the Filosofo Home-Page Control and it allows you to put your WordPress blog and WordPress Pages on the same level.
In other words, you can have your main site at
http://yoursite.com
and your […]

New Laser Printer

April 23rd, 2006

No longer able to tolerate the inkjet printer at home, mainly because of its runny ink, I decided it was finally time for a laser printer. I went to CNET, the best place for reviews of electronic products, to start an extensive search of laser printer reviews. But then I remembered I didn’t have […]

How to Turn register_globals Off

April 3rd, 2006

For those of you trying to install Gallery 2 onto your webserver to display your photo albums, Gallery will complain if a certain PHP variable, — named
register_global
— is not disabled, for security reasons. When I encountered this, I was about to email my web hoster to ask them to disable it, but then […]

Mac Backup

March 22nd, 2005

First…I’ve had a 120G Western Digital hard drive sitting in my room for more than a year now. This hard drive was only $60…actually, it would have been $60 after an $80 mail-in rebate, but unfortunately I never mailed it in, so now I own a $120 hard drive that’s still sitting in its box.
Next…as […]

OS X Additions

March 2nd, 2005

I’ve been customizing my Apple a lot lately, trying to take advantage of OS X and the fact that it has a Unix kernel. My original goal was simply to be able to process LaTeX files on my machine, and after a quick search I realized I could either go with a light-weight Mac based […]

My First Apple!

August 7th, 2004

I bought my first Apple computer ever today…a 12-inch iBook with a 1GHz G4 processor! Having bought PC’s my entire life (and also having said in the past that I’d never be a Mac person), this is serious news here.
I’ve played around with Mac OS X in the past and have already been impressed by […]