Happy Birthday Me!
It’s my birthday today! Woo-hoo! I’m another year older. A quiet today, but going out to dinner tomorrow night with the family.
USA vs Mexico
Ok, soccer fans. The game you’ve been waiting for, a World Cup qualifying game between heated rivals USA and Mexico this coming Saturday, September 3 in Colombus, Ohio. It’s coined by many as the “El Classico.” It’s a game you simply can’t miss. Perhaps, the biggest soccer game in North America the past three years. [...]
Travel Maps
I recently came across a neat website called world66.com. The site offers customized maps of countries and states you’ve visited. Just fill out the simple online form and an html code will be generated for you. Just add the html code to your website. That’s it. I’ve added the maps to my travel page. View [...]
The Bleeding Edge
Well, after a couple of hours fighting Gallery, I managed to get it back online yesterday. I upgraded Gallery several weeks ago, but I didn’t bother checking how it looked like on Internet Explorer. The menu border was missing and the fonts were out of whack. How can Gallery looks so good in Firefox and [...]
Grand Canyon Attraction
The Grand Canyon will get a glass-bottomed walkway. The horseshoe shaped platform will jut out 70 feet from the canyon’s edge allowing a spectacular view of 4000 feet below. The glass platform will accommodate up to 120 people although it’s capable of supporting up to 72 million pounds. The project is worth $40 million and [...]
Linux Browsers
I just searched Google and was amazed by the number of browsers available for Linux. There are at least a couple of dozen browsers actively in development. The most popular browsers are Mozilla’s Firefox, Konqueror, Galeon and Opera. Firefox and Opera have Windows versions available for download. They are free. Gratis!
Sudo
I’ve learned something new today, Sudo. Sudo is a Unix command that allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run some or all commands as root. Why? Well, I have this program called Bluefish which I use as a HTML editor. I have to run Bluefish as root to modify my webroot [...]
CSS Gallery
I have been playing around with a picture gallery powered entirely by CSS. I got the idea from a website called CSS Play. CSS never ceases to amaze me. If you really want to see what CSS can accomplish, go to Zen Garden and be awed by the CSS designs. There are currently 734 designs [...]
Smoothwall Firewall
It’s official. I am now using Smoothwall firewall at home. I made the switch yesterday afternoon. Now, I feel fairly secure about my home network. I have several systems at home running different flavors of Linux plus a laptop on a wireless network. Prior to the switch, I had a Netgear wireless router that acted [...]
The Great Raid
I saw the movie The Great Raid last night. In my opinion, it’s one of the most accurate movie depictions of the war in the Pacific. The movie was set in the Philippines in January 1945. It’s about a daring rescue of 500 American POWs in the Cabanatuan camp 30 miles deep in Japanese territory [...]
