White Fall Blooms
White isn’t a color normally associated with fall, unless it happens to snow, but the forest was bursting with these pretty white flowers.
For ‘The Record’ – Stop Calling!
Sunday comics, in my opinion, are the best part of the entire newspaper. The highlight of my Sunday is coming home from church, going to the local coffee shop, and reading the Sunday Comics over a cup of coffee.
Paying the news stand price stopped making sense so I purchased a Sunday subscription to a New Jersey Newspaper called ‘The Record’ at a special promotional discount. What joy, getting the comics for less, every week! When the promotion expired I didn’t bother to renew and was satisfied letting the subscription lapse.
That was over three years ago and the joy is long gone. I’m still receiving annoying telemarketer calls from The Record Newspaper to re-subscribe despite numerous requests and emphatic assurances that I have moved and no longer with to subscribe. Please, stop calling me.
Bookmark: FlickRiver
Came across this site randomly and found it to be a good aggregate of Flickr images in an easy to view list. Well worth viewing if you like Flickr photography.
Bookmark – Apache URL Rewrite to Control Access
Was looking for some quick examples to block access to URL’s based on a rewrite rule and found this blog post: http://www.netshinesoftware.com/blog/restricting-access-to-a-url-by-ip-address-using-mod-rewrite/ I’m copying the best bits here for easy reference.
Redirect traffic from specific hosts with specific query string
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^123\.255\.123\.255 [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^124\.255\.124\.255 [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^125\.255\.125\.255
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_my_special_component [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
Don’t redirect traffic from these hosts with specific query string
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.255\.123\.255
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^124\.255\.124\.255
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^125\.255\.125\.255
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_my_special_component [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
Sending Video to Grandma and Grandpa Through KakaoTalk
Sending video of the first and only grandchild to grandma and grandpa is somewhat of a challenge. Internet access is the primary limitation which is currently 3G data through their recently acquired smartphones. I got them setup using the KakaoTalk chat app for easily sending pictures and text messages back and forth. Using it for video was limiting because high quality videos were too short and longer, low quality videos, weren’t any good for anything besides sending through KakaoTalk.
After doing some experiments using Nero Record to down-size recorded HD video I found I could get over 3 minutes of decent quality video sent through KakaoTalk. This gave me the benefit of recording HD video for permanent record (i.e. burning to DVD) and being able to send a reasonably long video through KakaoTalk for easy access.
The following YouTube video is a walk through of the process.