Keith is an architect by day, blogger by night. He’s responsible for all the content on this blog, and irresponsible for everything else.

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First Day Review: Dreamhost web hosting

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Yesterday I took out another domain at Dreamhost.com, it’s another hosting service that got rave reviews from lifehacker. The costing is quite pricey, but I managed to get a promo code online for a $50 dollar discount. Mind you it’s still on the high side for me, it works out to about $65.00/year, but that includes both unlimited storage and bandwidth , one domain AND a who-is protect...

The limits of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

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Facebook has a 5000 Friend limit, meaning you can’t have more than 5000 facebook friends, and once you hit this limit Facebook won’t let you have any more friends. Being an excel guru, I knew that older versions of excel had a 65,536 row limit per worksheet. That meant you couldn’t store more than 65,536 rows in excel, the geeks among us would recognize 65,536 as a 2 raised to...

Ridiculously cool wallpapers from Jalopnik

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Jalopnik a website closely related to Lifehacker has been having a series of ridiculously cool wallpapers featuring ridiculously cool cars. If you’re into having cool cars grace your laptop screen so others can view something a lot more beautiful than the windows cloud head on over to Jalopnik and download you ridiculously cool wallpapers there. Warning , these wallpapers are so cool...

Unique facebook Icons

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Wonderfully Unique and fun Facebook icons. For a long time people have been bugging Facebook to give us some more flexibility is the quick comment sections rather than just ‘like’, but these beautiful icons from Leonard Savage really take the cake. [via Designer Daily]
 
 

Sub-domains on your site

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Subdomains are a tricky thing. In laymans terms all it means is to have something else in place of the ‘www’ in your web address. So for example: <- This is my domain <- this is my sub-domain, more specifically the resume sub-domain. Creating a subdomain allows you to section out your website, while allowing your urls to look cleaner. Personally I’m a bit...

Adding a facebook Like Button to your post

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Adding facebook like buttons are tricky things. It used to be I’d need to install a new plugin to have these facebook like buttons. For instance I use to use DiggDigg, which is a pretty good plugin for wordpress. However, for the initiated a code version that I could stick anywhere in my post seemed a lot more flexible to me.
So how does it work. Simple.

Installing Joomla on your Nearlyfreespeech site

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Joomla is a content management system that is customized for building actual sites. WordPress is similar to Joomla with the exception that it’s VERY VERY tailored to blogs. Of course I’m still new to most of this, but you can read up more by searching online:
 
So how do you install Joomla on nearlyfreespeech, surprisingly it’s VERY easy. Follow these steps.

Testing Media RSS

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MediaRSS is a wordpress plugin that allows you to post images into your RSS stream. So instead of seeing, just plain text in GoogleReader or FriendFeed you’d see text and a nice little photo. The plugin supposedly uses the first image in your post as the thumbnail to the RSS fee. This is just a TEST!! Stay tuned for more. <br> <br> Photo taken from Profound Whatever’s...

Moving from Blogger to WordPress

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I’ve had my blog on google powered blogger for over 8 years now. I first post on blogger was on April Fools day 2003!! That’s a full 8 years ago, my blog is probably older than some of it’s readers. All 8 of them… I enjoyed my time with Blogger, and this project  to move everything to keithrozario.com was not due to unhappiness with blogger, but rather trying to move...