‘Egermancy’ - the Russians are Coming!
Wednesday, August 4th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 5 Comments »One of my favorite movies of all time, and one which reveals I've been around for a long time, is the 1966 classic "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" with Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, and a few of ...
Installing Browser-Based Email for Missionaries and Profits
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 4 Comments »While many of you enjoy the benefits of bargain basement Linux Apache web hosting services, not everyone is blessed (and sometimes cursed) with the cPanel. A user-friendly, Apache-for-dummies control panel system that helps you manage your site without having to ...
Using XSLT to Transform the RSS 2.0 Daily Verse feed from the ESV Bible
Friday, June 4th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 4 Comments »For those of you old enough to remember the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture, you might recall a gruesome scene early in the movie where a transporter malfunction turns two incoming shipmates into disfigured piles of short-lived screaming flesh. ...
Using MySQL with the MT-Blacklist to Auto Ban IP addresses
Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | No Comments »One of the downsides of increased blog popularity is an increase in comment spam attempts. Fortunately, using a variety of tools already at hand, I'm able to identify and block these persistent buggers automagically while I sleep. The Problem Last week, this ...
cPanel backup using an MS-DOS batch file and wget
Thursday, May 13th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 5 Comments »Unless you want to end up like Blanche DuBois, never, ever depend on the kindness of strangers to safeguard your backups. This means keeping a set of backups that are far removed from where your site is hosted. This way ...
It’s 9:40 AM Sunday, do you know where your PDA is?
Wednesday, April 21st, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | No Comments »Just to show you how old I am, here's a story I can recall from the chilliest days of the Cold war. Legend has it that a big hulking IBM Mainframe mysteriously "disappeared" while riding the rails to its destination ...
Mirroring Websites with wget, curl and/or tar
Friday, April 16th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | No Comments »From time to time, it is a good thing to back up your entire site onto a different computer/server, even if your entire site is database-driven. Take my situation two weeks ago, when my former host provider shut down the RBC ...
Good examples of good examples : CSS Vault
Tuesday, April 6th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 2 Comments »It is unfortunate that we are so paranoid about plagiarism that our education systems have forgone the practice of having students copy the works of great masters. This was especially true in the disciplines of art and music, as I ...
You need to explain the difference
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 28 Comments »An interesting thing happened to me while sitting poolside here at Aqaba, Jordan. I was talking to an individual who works for one of the larger Christian marketing firms. He wants to develop a lay-ministry website for a neighborhood prayer ...
The CD I would have burninated
Friday, March 5th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 9 Comments »This is post for any and all of you headed for mission trips this summer. No matter how much homework you do, emailing individuals who've been there and done that, read the web pages at hotels, hostels and cities of ...
‘Pelase’ Proof Read
Thursday, March 4th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 10 Comments »They say a picture is worth 1000 words. 'Pelase' don't say something like this on your web church's site (the sign is bad enough): Always test your new code.Mistakes like can really detract from your site's content ...I always get the ...
Greetings from Amman Jordan!
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 5 Comments »I have to run to dinner with the group of journalist the Jordan Tourism Bureau has graciously invited. But just a quick note, the hotel in which I'm staying has a nice firewall. So nice that I wasn't initially able ...
