Amongst other things, I like to keep a detailed track of where I have been [especially during hiking in the woods, venturing into areas that I have never been before, etc.]. For this purpose, I have configured my Garmin GPSMap…
Amongst other things, I have the habit of keeping a detailed track of where I have been and for this purpose, I use my Garmin GPSMap 60CSx. I have configured this GPS to save track information every 3 seconds. If…
Amongst other things, I have the habit of geotagging my photographs and for this purpose, I use my Garmin GPSMap 60CSx, an API I wrote to store tracks in MySQL & Geonames data in a MySQL [please refer to this…
Though the term waypoint has come into fairly common use in recent times, the concept has existed for as long as we have been navigating. Waypoints have traditionally been associated with distinctive features of the physical world – such as…
Though the term waypoint has come into fairly common use in recent times, the concept has existed for as long as we have been navigating. Waypoints have traditionally been associated with distinctive features of the physical world – such as…
Why Strings As Graphics, you ask? There are a myriad of reasons and/or applications where strings need to converted to graphics and one such, probably most commonly seen, application is to put our email address on the web. We want…
I understand there are very many plugins available for WordPress that help keep track of a variety of stats. This one, wp-visitors, is simple and light-weight. Myself and couple friends (Adam & Karen and Tim Obermann) have been using it…
During the State Of The Word address in not-so-recently held WordCamp New York, Matt Mullenweg gave a sneak preview of a plethora of new (and cool) features being included into the next WordPress release (2.7). I had since then been…
Citing their website, an Automattic.com joint:, A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your…
It might, at some point in a WordPress powered blog, become necessary to a show some widgets/stuff in some places (the main page, archives, etc.) while show a different set of widgets/stuff in some other places (static pages – about…
Not liking something is NOT THE SAME as hating it. With above point in mind, I do not like MS Word. With first point still in mind, I do not dislike and/or hate people who like and/or use MS Word.…
One of the most primal needs of displaying strings as an image is during form submission and to make sure that a human being (although there is a finite probability that a monkey can accidentally type the same string correctly)…
Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS 4.0. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you…
Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me running CentOS. It may very well work for you on other linux distributions, Red Hat-like or otherwise. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are…
Disclaimer These instructions/steps worked for me running CentOS. It may very well work for you on Red Hat-like or other distributions. Please note that if you decide to use these instructions on your machine, you are doing so entirely at…