Tony Abou-Assaleh

This year was the first time I participated in Earth Day. From 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM Atlantic Time, all the lights in my house were off. My family and I enjoyed a romantic dinner lit by numerous candles.

We had a few objectives in doing this. First, to participate in a growing international movement and save power consumption during this special hour. Second, to remind oursevles of the importance to conserve energy usage and pledge not to be wasteful. Third, to enjoy an evening with candle lights, something that we rarely do.

GenieKnows.com relaunched their site with a new image and a new functionality – it is now the home of version 2.0 of their local search platform. This new release brings user-contributed reviews of local businesses along with user-contributed photos. Other notable features include a cleaner interface and improved functionality.

With this move, GenieKnows positions itself as a serious player in the local search market going head-to-head against the big boys as well as the newer smaller players.

I’ve been trying to upgrade to the latest WordPress (version 2.7.1) for a while without success. Every time I initiate the upgrade, whether through WordPress’ built-in automatic upgrade feature or using the automatic upgrade plugin, the process stalls when it reaches the step of downloading the latest zip file. After checking the the compatibility matrix I discovered that my hosting provider, 1and1, runs PHP4 by default, which incompatible with the upgrade script. This problem can be easily fixed by forcing PHP5. This can be achieved by adding the following line to your .htaccess file:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php