Finally!!!!!!!!!!!! After months of my page appearing differently in firefox and Internet explorer, I’ve finally been able to fix the issue of the page appearing on the left in firefox but in the middle in IE. Apparently Firefox handles CSS (Casscading Style Sheets) differently from IE and there is a little known hack that fixes [...]

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So for the current computer assignment my students are working on they have to research all the parts of a computer and then build their computer and shop around for various components and prices.
In the process one of my students was looking for “cool computer mice”. What they found was quite interesting to say the [...]

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So it hasn’t even been a week already, and am I starting to miss school, not that I miss working and all, its just that I wake up in the mornings and wonder how on earth I am going to fill my day.
So I’ve come with a few ideas, check back here often to see [...]

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Most recent hacking attempt is came from Amsterdam, it seems they were somehow able to hack my ftp access to my account. I have since rechanged all passwords assosiated with my site and blocked IP, from the range where the instigating site originate. So if your checking back to hack my site, feel free to [...]

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Thanks to the hacker that pointed out some of the security holes with my system. I have since patched them up and cleaned up my site.  Apparently a computer in Russia was adding malicious code to the bottom of all of my index pages redirecting them to some ad sites.
This resulted in a number of [...]

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Mrvaughan.com Now has over 500 pages currently index in Google.
Currently some of the higher ranking blogs and sites have over 30,000 or so. This must means I’m on my way to the top, can’t be too long now.
Feel free to create a web page that index’s mrvaughan.com or mentions it in any way.
Another mentionable milestone [...]

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I will be out of the classroom thursday morning. For that reason ICS 3/4M has been alternately assigned.
TDJ 234M will be in room 111. 
Here are the assignments for period 1 and 2.
Period 1 Computer Science - Students are to continue working on their blogs and/or review for the final exam (see the post on exam review). If [...]

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Google has a newly updated search tool for private websites, it allows you to customize how the results are displayed. You also have more control over what results are displayed. To install this on your own site you have to sign up and register with google adsense then you are able to generate the code [...]

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