If you want to extend your Linux skills beyond old PCs and servers then try running Linux on your Linksys WRT router as your next weekend project. This post outlines what you need to do. Upgrading a router running its original Linksys code The stepsare relatively simple. First read the installation instructions on the OpenWRT [...]

Jonathan Guy-Gladding was one of the first Caribbean artists to have a website and in the early days of Simiya when there were only a hand full of featured links, Jonathan’s works would be displayed every few days. The use of vivid color in life settings the Caribbean is slowly losing and the exploration of [...]

The de Young museum in San Francisco is presenting a special exhibition of art from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris called the Birth of Impressionism. There are nearly 100 works by renowned artists living in France during the latter half of the 19th century. Prior to the industrial revolution the Church and royalty were the [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a thousand pictures, but what if you only had a singe word to describe my volunteer visit to New Orleans? What would it be? There are many superlatives such as “amazing”, “wonderful”, “unbelievable”, and “incredible” but they they are too commonplace. How can [...]

Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to strategies that you can use to improve the likelihood someone will find your website pages when using specific sets of search phrases or key words in a search engine. Here are some tips specific to Joomla that can be used by your non-profit or non governmental organization (NGO). Page [...]

I will be volunteering with the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans, Louisiana to help their efforts to rebuild the city after hurricane Katrina. It is a noble cause led by Zack Rosenberg who speaks here about the challenges and rewards of the work they do. Should you ever forget, the impact of the hurricane [...]

If you are an avid cyclist, and like to rocket down hills and live to tell the story, you should read some more. There are also some good lessons for motorcyclists too. I bought a 2005 61cm Fuji Team Super Lite bicycle on Craigslist two years ago and decided to use it on a regular [...]

Will we be the victims of the sociological curse of interactive Internet? Will we become electronic vegetarians consuming only the most essential social interaction? I  think too little has been written of the impact of a pervasive connectivity will have on our lives and how it will affect face to face human interaction. We won’t [...]

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for 2015 aim to halve poverty and hunger, school the world’s children, arrest disease, provide gender equality, spare mothers and their infants from untimely deaths,  save the environment and forge global partnerships in the pursuit of development. The 2009 MDG report notes many successes. The poverty target seems achievable.  Between [...]

During the dot com implosion that started in 2001, I was working for a managed web hosting company whose customer base evaporated with the unrealistic euphoria of the Internet. For over two and a half years we were faced with quarterly layoffs till my team of 20 was reduced to a pair of traumatized professionals. [...]