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2006 January
zamwi grows up!
Well I’ve noticed quite a large number of people talking about this page and I’m glad to see a lot of new-comers hop aboard. We have some new features coming shortly that will activate zamwi to more than just a blog, but don’t get me wrong I’ll keep blogging. Continue reading »
THIMUN’s Final Post
Well THIMUN is over and we’re even back at school, I finally resized all of my photos and uploaded them to Flickr. Here it is:
So I hope you enjoy my pictures you can find thousands of other pictures from the official Munity newspaper. If you have a free day or two you may be able to get through all of them, I found a picture of Phil and I on the page, maybe you can find someone you know.
Enjoy the pictures and cherish the moment, I’m totally missing it!
The Grand Finale: THIMUN Day 6 – Outrageously insane yet a blast
The last day was clearly shown throughout the crowd. Laziness was all throughout the assemblies and commissions but fun was in the air. Crazy things happened, war was declared against random countries, notes were outrageous and meetings were not in order.
REPORT: Days 4 and 5 of THIMUN
So I’ve noticed that I have been getting a lot of hits from my links on the DoDDS website and on Digg.com. This is totally awesome! I hope I didn’t scare anyone by not posting yesterday, I have been outside the conference center without internet, but I still will not be able to post pictures until tomorrow, sorry!
REPORT: Day 3 at THIMUN
THIMUN really came together for me today, my resolution is making it and speeches began. Continue reading »
REPORT: Day 2 at THIMUN
The games really began today, nothing formal just a lot of lobbying. Merging was main part of today, lots of laptops and people huddling around them.
Urgent Phone Call
Okay, so I know this week I am suppose to be covering the happenings here at THIMUN, but to me this is huge.
I was just sitting on my bed at the youth hostel when my name was called over the intercom, it said I had a phone call downstairs. Like in 1st grade my friends said, “ohhhh, you’re in trouble.”
So I went downstairs and answered the phone. My mom was on the phone, she said it was important. I had been accepted to Towson University, my number one choice! I’m still feeling awesome about this and thought I would share it with you.
Sorry for the short post, I’m Evan is paying 1 euro for 10 minutes of internet! Insane!
Go Tigers,
Zach
A Special Week of Blogging, LIVE from The Hague
This week I will be doing a series of special blogs. Everyday I will report on the happenings of my events here at the Model United Nations Conference.
Not only will you be reading my posts about this event, but also I’ve set up a flickr slide show of my pictures from THIMUN (the Hague International Model United Nations), I’ll also be adding video to the site.
A bit about THIMUN
THIMUN brings together over 3000 students from all over the world tp a United Nations forum. Students debate on world issues in the commissions of the real United Nations. Each commission meets in different settings and is chaired by THIMUN students; the entire forum is student run.
REPORT: Day 1 at THIMUN
This is really what I will probably be doing this week, posting about the happenings of the day here at The Hague and throwing up some photos, I’ve also been working on a short video that I will display at the end of the week of life here at the Hague.
We left this morning from Germany at 8:00, the bus trip was only 4 or 5 hours, which is nothing compared to my 28 hour bus trip I took to Ibiza in my Sophmore year. The bus trip was split in half by a stop to McDonalds. We took a picture of the Golden Arches sign with Evan.
After lunch we had another two hours to go before we were dropped off at the youth hostel.
We got our rooms here at the hostel [pictures to come] and unpacked all of our goods. We took our resolutions over to the Conference Center and were given a tour of the facility. Check out the picture of the General Assembly before the chaos.
Later, we began the lobbying process. My resolution is in the Disarmament Committee, so I found a few people that were in my assembly. We were only there for about a half hour so not too much on resolutions was accomplished. Tomorrow morning we will begin the merging of resolutions and editing our works with other nations.
Well that is all for today, not nearly as exciting as things will be tomorrow when the games begin. I only have internet access here at the Conference Center so I work on everything offline and post when I get to the Wi-Fi.
- Zach
P.S. >>> I have created a Flickr slideshow of the photos here at THIMUN. I will keep it up to date so check it out on the link below.
Tired of Myspace, so was I…
Hookin’ it up with WordPress
Getting away from Myspace was one of the best things I ever did online. I started one of those lame accounts just to keep in contact with people, but soon I learned this is what people considered to be the web. …let me explain…
I get tired of hearing people say, “Hey, you wanna see my website?” And then they give me the URL and its “myspace.com/someusername” That aggravated me, yet I was a part of it.
I’ve wanted to launch a site for a while, but I wanted to do it myself. Blogging seemed cool, but too myspace for me, so I stayed away from that idea, until I stumbled upon WordPress.
WordPress lets you make a blog your way, you create the MySQL database, you do the coding, you run the site! That is exactly what I wanted. Here is how you can do it too!
Hosting
For starters you have to get some space out there in the magical world wide web. I bought my domain and server space through godaddy.com. They offer great packages with sweet bandwidth and space. I pay $3.95 a month for their 250 GB of bandwidth and 5 GB of space. This is plenty for a blogger. Be sure that you buy a package with PHP, I made the mistake of using a windows server…don’t do that. Go Linux and enable PHP, its the same price on godaddy.
When you get the server you need to set up WordPress. To get the source Wordpress file click here. Wordpress gives a decent tutorial on how to configure their PHP files, but don’t worry, I’ll walk you through it!
Configuring WordPress’ PHP
WordPress’ famous 5 minute installation worked pretty good for me, but I’ll share with you how to do it in simplier steps.
First you need to set up a MySQL database, its pretty easy if you are using Godaddy. Open your control panel and click MySQL under databases. Setup a name and password for the database, and don’t forget it! Also be sure to jot down the hostname, because you’ll have to configure this later.
Now that the database is setup you’re ready to configure WordPress. Open the WordPress folder and click on the wp-config-sample.php file. Enter you data about your MySQL database. The DB_NAME is the name of the database, the DB_USERNAME is the username of the database. Also the DB_PASSWORD is your MySQL password and the DB_HOST, which says you probably won’t have to change, I did, it is the Host Name.
Save the file as wp-config.php and your ready to get your blog launched! How awesome.
FTP
From the Godaddy control panel click on the FTP client and add the wordpress folder to your server. It is as easy as that. You can rename your folder to anything you want, the URL will be yoururl.com/wordpress (or whatever you name it).
Once you’ve FTP’d the files go to the URL and WordPress will take you step by step through the process.
Themes
This is really the final step in the configuration process, because using WordPress from here is easy. Setting up a different theme is a breeze. I use the K2 beta two theme for my blog and configured the colors using the excellent tutorial by Paul Stamatiou found here. By clicking on the Presentation tab and the Themes sub-category WordPress gives in detail how to add new themes to your blog.
Conclusion
Blogging is an awesome tool if you do it yourself and WordPress is the perfect way to do it! Go dump your myspace and start today, its really easy and I’m here to help. If you need more information or help drop me a line at zach@zamwi.com
Reliving the glory days
After talking to Chad today I decided it was time to relive the glory days of my early childhood. Going over to my friend’s house and playing Nintendo 64 was a huge part of that, but not owning my own working system limits the ability to do that. Fortunately, computers are there to help.
Emulators are great tools for playing ROMS of games on older systems. I currently use JNES for Nintendo emulation, but never went above it until today. The controller makes a huge difference in gameplay too!
Using emulators is an easy task, I was running Project64 on my computer when I took these shots, but there are a number of different programs you can use. Then I found the ROMS, or games for the emulator just through a google search.
If you would like a step-by-step guide to emulation be sure to drop by the contacts page and drop me a line.
Forever live on the glory days through technology!
- Zach
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