Bicycle Tires Updated Here’s an update from the bike tire explorations: TUFO | Product Line. Saw this first on Sdeals. This is a tubular tire that fits on a clincher rim. Interesting idea. Weighs 335 grams but this includes the tube, so it compares with say 180 grams for a Veloflex Pave plus 70 grams […]

PHP password protection Here is something that Michelle has asked for. When I convert Tongfamily.com over, I’m going to add this as well. By adding one line to each page, you get password protection. Cookie Password Protection in PHP. This is freeware for the simple case, but costs $20 otherwise. List of password protection scripts. […]

Mailing List Servers Another thing I’ve been looking for are mailing list servers. Right now I’m using Arrow from Jadebox which is Windows based, but does require you have your client up and running all the time. This is limited to 50 users I’m going to try EZMLM – Easy Mailing List Manager which is […]

Photo Gallery and Digital Photo Management Here is the final project, finding a good photo gallery and digital photo management system. There are web based ones like PhotoWorks, but I’ve found them to be super slow or cumbersome. So, I’ll start collecting a list of hacker ones. Here’s a start: alexking.org

PHP Bulletin Boards Now that the blog project is well on its way with the next steps being to get four other sites up and running and to try movabletype on tongfamily.com. The next step is to understand bulletin board software that’s out there and then album and photo archiving. Here are a quick list […]

InternetSeer Web Site Monitoring Service. This is the number one hit on Google for doing site monitoring. Right now it is hitting the b2 blog mail monitoring url every hour to get email into the blog at Geek Fishing