Took me some time on Google to find out about the road closures during the 2013 New York City marathon. Head on over to Gridlock Sam for that info. Figured another entry for this post in the Google index maybe helpful to those searching for this info. Good luck to the runners. — Continue reading »
Wordpress 'page_option' Hack
📆 October 27, 2013
Wordpress is a great publishing product but its popularity is also its Achilles heel. It's notorious for being a favorite target of hackers and many have been successful in compromising plenty of installations out there, including this one. Having automated monitoring software is certainly a prudent way to stay on top of things, but in — Continue reading »
Berkshire Hathaway Over $1.5 Million
📆 September 26, 2013
Way to go Google Finance, showing Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares up by over 900% at the close of the market today. I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw that. Warren Buffett probably thought: "My company is worth only $3 trillion?" Google has since fixed the quote. It's back to its actual value — Continue reading »
My EPUB Journey - A Sort of EPUB Primer
📆 September 9, 2013
With the proliferation of the mobile devices, books have morphed into digital versions and are increasingly viewed in their digital rather then paper formats. To that end there are several popular formats for e- books. PDF, the well-established type from Adobe has been around for many years and still widely used for digital books, but — Continue reading »
Add Newline After SSI (Server Side Include)
📆 August 22, 2013
Recently I noticed that my Chrome browser was having issues displaying some of the web pages on this site. The pages wouldn't load at all or would only load partially. After some investigating it turned out that those pages were of SSI type, usually having extensions .shtml or .shtm. Such pages could also have other — Continue reading »
iUniverse, eBooks, and Copyright
📆 August 13, 2013
back in June 2012 I received an email from iUniverse regarding my book, Financial Markets For The Rest Of Us. In that email iUniverse, my book's publisher, proudly exclaimed that they have converted my book to the EPUB format and have submitted it to multiple sites. Here's an excerpt: We are glad to inform you — Continue reading »
Why did you write about Jesus?
📆 July 30, 2013
Fox network never ceases to be amusing, specially with the women they hire. Fox woman: as a Moslem why did you write about Jesus? Author: I didn't write it as a Moslem , but as a scholar. Fox woman: but you are a Moslem , why did you write about Jesus? Author: I have a PhD in — Continue reading »
Dialogue With USA, Bad Idea… For Iran
📆 July 26, 2013
The latest on the nuclear stale-mate with Iran is a report suggesting that Iran's imminent and reform-minded administration may be interested in direct talks with the US. I am no fan of the Iranian regime but a much lesser fan of the American foreign policy. America has proven time and time again that it can — Continue reading »
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