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.

WordPress is a personal blogging software, works with PHP and MySQL.
The first page of WordPress administration page is called dash board it usually takes forever to load, this due the fact that WordPress display some RSS feed from its development blog.
The loading problem caused by trying to access the RSS feed with a proxy server, which won’t work inside Saudi Arabia, so here is the fix, in the file wp-includes/class-snoopy.php modify the proxy lines to be something like:

var $proxy_host = "proxy.saudi.net.sa"; // proxy host to use
var $proxy_port = "8080"; // proxy port to use