It’s been a 2 weeks nightmare. In the 6 years that I’ve been blogging and running websites, I’ve never experienced anything quite like what I went through with my hosting company in the last 2 weeks. The catastrophe included all possible things that could go wrong meshed into one long incident, which has resulted in [...]

2009 is about to close, 2010 awaits. For those interested, here are a few stats about Fili’s World – the blog- for the year 2009. Over the last year I wrote 205 blog posts, averaging a post every 1.75 days, which is surprising with the insane work load I’ve had. I think it shows that [...]

In today’s world, a person’s blog is an important indicator of his personal “brand”. I’m maybe too well aware of the fact that the things I do online reflect on how I’m perceived and judged by others. Those who want to know who I am look me up on search engines and social networks and [...]

You’re all probably familiar with Facebook & Twitter by now. If you’re not, you’re my idol – you’ve managed to escape two of the most time consuming socially enforcing phenomenons currently pushing their way through the net. Although I’m considered by most friends and family as an early adopter of technology, especially "all that social [...]

Mis-B, or Mrs. Webber-Zvik, a talented Israeli web-designer with terrific blog design projects like Parisait, has been extremely sweet and kind in presenting me with the most wonderful 4 year anniversary present for my blog. Take a look at those kick ass logos :   Isn’t that just beautiful? Thanks, Mis B!

I never thought it would last this long, but I’m still doing it. Honestly, every year I tell myself that I can’t see myself keeping up with it another year, but I still do. Can’t really say why, but it has become one of those habits. It’s just one of those things that I do. [...]

The number one complaint I got about the photo gallery for this blog is how bad it looks and how slow it is to browse between photos, compared to other hosted services like Flickr and Picasa Web. I’ve been using the very useful Gallery2 open-source PHP platform for years now and it can really do [...]

Happy (/+Chinese) new year! It’s very difficult to summarize a blogging year. I started going through last year’s posts, but as there are hundreds of them, it seemed very time consuming. So I’ll take the easy path and share some stats. Over the last year I wrote over 250 posts, averaging a post every 1.5 [...]