Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

The Game of Risk Been playing this with the kids since Alex got it for his birthday. Naturally Connie, being a living buddha and a hard core game player since 5 years of age, always wins. So, here are some places to get some strategy help. Like chess, I only win because of the Internet:…

Christmas is coming, time to look at bikes MTBReviews 2003 Kid Bikes. Has the best listing of kids bikes. Shopping for bike is starting. They need a good 20 inch wheel mountain bike with gears. Here’s a quick review of some of the major ones. I’m looking for aluminum frame, 7-speed, 20 inch wheels in…

quartzified.NET :: halo [Disappear the light is fading]. Weblo.gs produces a great what logs have been updated in the last day list. Great for just getting a sense. Here’s good insight into a 17-year-old’s life and how these online diaries work. I love the look and also the fact it is hard coded as a…

Web Hosting, Web Host Buyer’s Guide and Directory of top hosts and reviews. More on Ensim and also about Rackshack, the underlying hoster for Tranquil. Interesting how hosting is now tiered in terms of distribution. Rackshack. It is like the .com revolution never started when I look at a page like this. It is also…

Dynacenter. Other note is that even with this great service, you still need some local backing store if you have any digital photos at all. Even 300MB for $12/month from Tranquil can’t begin to store any reasonable number of 1MB+ print quality JPEGs.

Had a great turkey dinner today. The brined turkey really works well, although it makes the dark meat taste almost cured. The white meat really comes out super well. Did it on the Rotisserie that we got. Took 2 1/2 hours for a 12 lb bird. Best tip of all. Connie cuts a little hole…

CSS Introduction. Ok, I’m finally going to make my sites look good and to do that I need to learn CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). AGain, thanks to google, here is the top CSS tutorial. Wish me luck!

blo.gs. This is the second biggest blog trakcing site. It is amazing, There are currently 54,661 weblogs being tracked for 886 users. Wow! I like this site because it shows what is being updated in real time. And you can see the whole community there. Plus there is a neat ie5 pane that you can…

Sage, Orange, and Clove Rotisserie Turkey BBQ Recipe It’s Thanksgiving Time, so it is time to try some new recipes, I’ve got a new gas grill. Never thought I’d cave on that, but now I can rotisserie, here’s a recipe I’ll adapt to the event. I’m doing a brined turkey with this, but the rub…

Using Blogrolling’s PHP option on your PHP enabled weblog. I’m converting to using PHP so that the blogrolling stuff can be read by google. This works on all the geekfishing.net related sites, but not for my current tongfamily.com since it doesn’t have PHP 🙁 If your blog supports PHP and allow_url_fopen you can call the…

Rss Readers. Another thing to study are RSS readers. Since all these blogs we now have generate RSS, it would be kind of nice to consume them as well.

lgf: the lowest of the low. A great site and also has a nice PHP script to show you dynamically where people are coming from to get to your site. I’ll slam into tongfamily, geekfishing, etc. soon.

hitormiss.org : Daily Crawl. Another incredibly cool cgi script thing that I found on Anita’s blog. This lets you know where you’ve been by the time that you visited. Blogrolling is great, but this is even cooler. This is basically blogrolling, but happens on your server, not in some meta-server. The most incredibly thing about…

Converting to Movable Type Just a note to folks, I’m converting this blog over to MovableType. I’m not going to be updating this as much over the next week before I do the full flip. If you want to see the upcoming blog, checkout New Tong Family. For a while I’ll run the posts in…

Random Thanksgiving Thoughts We all have much to be thankful for. My biggest this year is that I can sit and think with guys like Ludwig about what the next big thing is. Here are a couple of observations, just an outline, I’ll fill in later, but wanted to get thoughts down. The miracle of…

Gallery :: your photos on your website. On geekfishing, we are using Gallery now for photos. Seems like a nice applications. Here’s a note on how to password protect individual albums, so some can be public and others require registration and only certain people are allowed to see it. See the very last post as…

Geek Fishing. Finally got this master site up and running. For those of you who are wondering about the name. It refers to our boating trips on Lake Washington. Instead of fishing for, well fish, we go looking for errant 802.11 wireless signals. It is amazing what you can see on a cruise on the…

More on getting photo gallery to work right: Gallery Right now I’ll stay focused on getting a decent photo gallery thing running. Went through the basic MovableType File Upload stuff. it is OK for a few photos, but it wouldn’t really scale to larger sets. I need something that will take my c:\pictures directory and…

Tong Family gets a slight update Did you notice that lots of the starter junk is gone from the front, And also search moved to the menu pane. Most current blogs have a tighter format than mine, so I’m gradually switching over. Next step is to start using (and learning CSS), so that I can…

Installing MovableType on Windows MovableType Installation. This is a good list of things to do, although at 2 AM, things get a bit blurry. Main things are to get Apache loaded, then ActivePerl, then to hook Perl up with Apache by editing httpd.confg. Instructions for Apache and Perl on Windows: Installing Apache. OK, on the…

boardom :: View topic – b2wap.php hack. Ok, a cool way to get the last set of posts from a b2 blog via a wap interface.

boardom :: View topic – [Request] People Who Are Not Logged In See Nothing. A good description from the author himself on how to get B2 to be private. Good for personal and family photos and news. Lots of different ways to do it. You could: Use .htaccess with apache Use the new filters command.…

Getting a local Apache server to work on XP I’m going to create a development server that mimics what is GeekFishing so here are some notes on how to make it all work similarly. This will also let me install things like the PHP DBG module that require major hacking that an ISP normally doesn’t…

Password protection This has come up several times. So, here’s quick tutorial. HTpassword generator. This is an all in one generator of htpassword which is a file you put in a web server to protect a particular directory. Creating .htpassword. This is how you create a file. Htpassword Line Generator. This is how you create…

PHP Editing and Debugging Freeware I’m tired of using wordpad and sticking in echo and print_r statements in PHP to figure out what is going on, so here is a search for a good debugging environment for PHP. I spent hours tonight trying to get the debugger to work. Let’s just say the freeware stuff…

MovableType Tips, Tricks and Traps Continuing the search for incredible tips on MovableType. There are an amazing number of things to wade through. In order of discovery, these are: MOvable Type External Resources. Where my search first started. There are some very nice hacks here mainly by Kevin Shay and Brad Choate and Adam Kalsey.…

PDA Your Movable Type Blog If you run a weblog using Movable Type, then you can easily make it available for PDA readers. It takes under 30 minutes to set it up. Wow, Movable Type sure is beautiful. The only thing really missing is mail2blog, but here is blog2avantgo2pda

Wiki, Wiki Wiki. Yet another strange technology for collaboration. Will it never end. This is some kind of content collaboration system. Earthweb on Blogs. A good article about how IT should handle blogs and what they might be good for.

Scoop || What is Scoop? Now that the search has begun, it is incredible how many blog and near-blog tools there are. There are photoblogs (see previous entry), there are bulletin board like things like PHP NUke and then there are things like scoop, which I’m just understanding… Scoop is a “collaborative media application”. It…

Photolog in MovableType FIVE STEP PHOTOLOG. Ah ha, this is how you do a photolog using MovableType. It is amazing how clever people can be. You basically overload the fields in MovableType so that the main image is in the main entry, description is in additional entry and the Thumbnail goes into the Excerpt. This…