1. Broken SD400
(Gallery/Photo Gallery)

I sat on Laura's Canon SD 400 camera that I bought her for christmas the other year. The LCD cracked when I sat down with it in my back pocket. I replaced the LCD and it works like new again!... just ...

2. Fireworks
(Gallery/Brandon and Julie's Wedding)

3. Salt Lake City
(Gallery/Photo Gallery)

I am working out of the global datacenter in Orem, Utah just outside of Salt Lake City for the week. There are mountains everywhere. They're really pretty, but I wont have any time to go ski/snowboard ...

4. Global Tour - Work
(Gallery/Photo Gallery)

I went around the world with work - here's some photos from the different locations. ...

5. 2005 GTO to Monaro Conversion
(Gallery/Photo Gallery)

Some pictures of the conversion of my 2005 Midnight Blue Metallic Pontiac GTO to a Monaro - Work in Progress ...

6. Google Chrome - No Plugin Available to Display this Content
(Blogs/Tech)

... be in beta, but it appears to be working great for most people. Specifically,Google Chrome requires Java version 6, update 10. You can download the latest version of Java from this website: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp ...

7. Test Article for 1.5
(Blogs/Tech)

... any issues with 1.5 and it works like a charm. I should also note that JomComment recently added support for the import of comments from MxComment, which made the transition a breeze. That being said, ...

8. Joomla Migration Plan
(Blogs/Tech)

I've finally decided to start working on a Joomla 1.5 migration plan. The main thing that has been holding me back is my search engine optimized URLs from Joomla 1.0.15 which are being generated using ...

9. Josh Lyon's Birthday
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

Today is my (Josh Lyon) birthday and the interns did their individual final presentations today. 3 of the 8 interns were working for me on on a new platform that we will be rolling out to customers in ...

10. Rollerblading with Shiner
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

I've started rollerblading with Shiner (our dog). Since we got Dish Network, we've been watching a lot of Dog Whisperer - the show with Cesar Millan.  He is always talking about releasing the dogs ...

11. Long Time, No Blog
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

It's been a while since I've written a blog post to my website, but I guess I've just been busy with a lot of things going on in my life. I've been travelling a ton for work - which has been really ...

12. Upgrade from Joomla 1.5RC4 to Stable
(Blogs/Tech)

... working. Sure enough, it all worked great! I would highly recommed creating a backup of your site files and database. Here are some links from my site on how to do this from the shell: Create ...

13. MySQL backup from Shell
(Blogs/Tech)

The following is a short code snippet on how to view which MySQL databases are available for a user, then a command to back them up. This should work on Unix and Linux variants. To view what ...

14. DS Syndicate Write Permissions
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

... can try just setting the write permissions (777) first and if that doesnt work, then set the owner. chmod 777 -fR components/com_ds-syndicate/feed chown username -fR components/com_ds-syndicate/feed ...

15. Troy's Website Ideas
(Blogs/Tech)

I had about a 45 minute conversation with one of my Coworkers, Troy, about my webiste yesterday. I asked him to tell me three things he liked about the site and 3 he didn't. The three things he liked ...

16. 301 Redirection Using htaccess
(Blogs/Tech)

... on RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] I should note that this method of redirection only works on servers that support the mod_rewrite apache module. This would typically just ...

17. Christmas Time
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

It's the Friday before Christmas and I'm excited I dont have to work until after the New Year. I've had a lot to do at work - some fun projects and some not so fun. The good thing is I'm working on ...

18. Blogg-X No Keywords
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

I just realized that the new Blogg-X component I'm using doesn't have a keywords area in it. If I could find a good way to automatically have these fields generated this component would really work ...

19. Up To Date Blogging
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

... doesn't make for a great blogging system. I created a social network at work using Joomla as the main tool and blogging was one of the features I had to overcome. I guess it wasn't as big of a deal ...

20. Google Spellcheck
(Blogs/Tech)

Sorry, but I gotta make another techy blog post.  I was having some trouble getting the Spell Checking functionality of my editor component working today and couldn't remember what I did on my last ...

21. Find Local IP Address
(Blogs/Tech)

Here's a quick tip for those of you looking to find your LOCAL (as in within your network) IP address.  In Windows, you would simply issue the following command from the command prompt (Start > ...

22. Hitachi 79FL and NME 1.2
(Blogs/Tech)

... today and installed my NME 1.2 chip into it, but I can't get it to work. I've done the following things to verify my installation: Tweaked the POT to many different levels (3.15, 2.98, ...

23. Gmail Tip: Add Special Contacts
(Blogs/Tech)

I was trying to add my grandparent's e-mail to my Gmail contact list, but gmail kept telling me "Please make sure the email address you entered is valid."  I figured it probably wouldn't ...

24. Southwest: Clothes Too Skimpy
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

A coworker just sent me a link to this article about a girl getting kicked off a flight for wearing clothes that were too skimpy. This just adds to the list of reasons why I don't like Southwest.  ...

25. New Site Features
(Blogs/JoshLyon)

... and google does a great job of letting you simply enter what you are looking for in the search and it does the rest of the work.   Their GMail platform is really where this idea became innovative ...