Please Pray for Us...
...as we are newly married! We'll be heading off to our honeymoon for the next week, but I guarantee there will be some great blog posts soon thereafter. Natalie and I are so excited to share some of the process of preparing for our wedding and our marriage in the coming months, both here, and on our wedding website, geerlingguyandgirl.com .
How to Make Chai Tea Mix (for delicious Chai Tea Latte)
A recent project on which I spent many hours required the production of many gallons of Chai Tea Latté Mix; After enjoying a few cups of this extremely tasteful drink, I thought I'd post the recipe I used here, as well as a few notes for the mixing directions which will help point you in the right direction.
(You probably won't need quite this quantity of ingredients. Not pictured: the dry milk powder.)
The key to the mix is to make it really, really smooth
Planning for a Wedding...
It's just a few days until the 'big' day, when Natalie and I will become 'Mr. and Mrs. Geerling,' and I'm excited! It's been a thrilling year, and though things can be stressful (for both parties) at times, it's all worth it. I will get to share my entire life with one of God's most beautiful daughters, and someday (God-willing)
Installing Drush on Mac OS X "Snow Leopard"
To those wishing to install Drush on their Mac, but having difficulty, here's a surefire way to get it running great:
[ Edit : Umm... instead of doing all the steps below, you can use Homebrew (the 'missing package manager for Mac OS X') and enter $ brew install drush . Much simpler!]
- Fire up the Terminal (this is why you're using Drush, so you'd better get comfy in here!).
- cd to your Desktop, download
Warriors of the Net - IP for Peace [Funny Networking Video]
Click here to begin your journey into "the net:"
Some quotables:
- "Mister IP packages, labels, and sends packages of information [to your computer]."
- "AppleTalk packets—they're going against traffic, as usual."
- "Ah, the router—a symbol of control in a seemingly unorganized world."
- "The router switch plays fast and loose with IP packets—a digital pinball wizard, if you will."
- "Out here [on the Internet], it's
Allowing anonymous IP-based access to content with Boost, subscription model
On the St. Louis Review website ( case study here ), which offers much of its content based on a subscription model (you must be a subscriber to access the 'premium' content), we wanted to allow those inside our network access to nodes that were marked 'subscribers-only', without having to log in to the website and maintain a user account. Here's how we did it:
1 - Modification of Custom Subscriber Access Code
Our site uses hook_nodeapi() to limit access
Bad / Annoying IP Addresses
From time to time, there is a very disobedient/annoying computer or set of computers that annoy the heck out of me onlineâusually by attempting to bring down one of my websites, or by trying to access hundreds of vulnerable locations (which makes my server return a bunch of 404s) on my server.
For information on different IPs, I use the online IP information lookup tool at robtex .
Anywho, to cut a long story short, I will list the IP addresses and reverse
Two weeks from now... [marriage]
...I'll be a married man!
In the next few months, my beloved fiancée and I will be writing a few stories about our engagement and marriage preparation, as well as some of the awesome highlights of our preparation for our actual wedding and reception.
We might have a 'special section' on this site for marriage-related topics ( you can already read through some marriage-related posts here ), or we might set up shop on a different site... whatever the
"Licensing for this product has stopped working" - Adobe CS3/CS4 on a Mac
Recently, I had to recover my iMac from a Time Machine backup and a hard drive replacement (my old drive flaked out— see how I repaired my hard drive here (video included!) ).
Upon trying to open any Adobe Creative Suite 3 app (I use Photoshop and Illustrator daily...), I got the following error window:
I was taken to this Adobe Support page , which suggests a variety of options for fixing the problem—all of which didn't work for me.
The
New Article/DIY Guide Posted: How to repair your Intel iMac
Over in the Articles section, I posted a detailed tutorial/guide on how to replace the hard drive inside a 24" Intel iMac with an aluminum enclosure (the process is similar on other aluminum iMacs). It's a rather intricate process, so in addition to a few illustrations, I posted a video of the process on YouTube (it's embedded in the article as well!).
Intel iMac Teardown and Hard Drive Replacement - DIY/Guide
Have fun repairing your iMac! (Please be