It is little old but I found it useful from time to time. My Notes

I removed www from my site name, so from now on it is only http://rayed.com/, www.rayed.com will be still acceptable but will be redirect to rayed.com.
Here is how it is done in Apache:

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName www.rayed.com
         Redirect permanent / http://rayed.com/
</VirtualHost>

FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text, it mainly for UNIX but you can find other versions for other OSes.
http://www.figlet.org/

                          _
 _ __ __ _ _   _  ___  __| |  ___ ___  _ __ ___
| '__/ _` | | | |/ _ \/ _` | / __/ _ \| '_ ` _ \
| | | (_| | |_| |  __/ (_| || (_| (_) | | | | | |
|_|  \__,_|\__, |\___|\__,_(_)___\___/|_| |_| |_|
           |___/

I never liked Google toolbar anyway, but for those who can’t live without it here it is:
Google Firefox toolbar

Lately I raed (and heared) a lot of good things about Ubuntu Linux, my understanding is that Ubuntu is a user friendly Debian (I am sure it is more than that).

My friend Osama Aldosari gave me a copy of Ubuntu CD, and made think of installing it on my laptop, more to come one the experince.

Read more about Ubuntu at Wikipedia

I added small Javascript to the list:

<select onchange=" location.href= this.options[this.selectedIndex].value; ">


My wife bought this lovely painting:

The painting is by an Iraqi artist -I couldn’t get the name- check other paitings from www.iraqifineart.com

I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress the process was very easy, but I am still having difficulties with slow parts of WordPress!

I am thinking seriously about moving from Blogger to WordPress, Blogger is really great service, I mainly choose it because it doesn’t need any server side scripting at all, i.e. it will work with SAUDI NET myweb service.
But lately I moved some parts of my site to a new server, and I now have a more reliable Apache+PHP+MySQL installation, and start playing with wordpress and it was really cool feature, I even built a plugin 🙂
any way here is my test wordpress page: (http://rayed.rayed.com/wordpress/)

I bought a new Nokia 6230i mobile phone after I my old Nokia 6610 was stolen (actually dropped in a cap while he drove me home).

The new phone comes with 1.3 Megapixel camera see a sample picture

Luckily STC started providing MMS service, which allows me to send emails from mobile phone, so now I can take a picture from mobile phone and email it direclty my flickr account, or I can blog by sending an email to my Blogger email address.