Long time ago, in 2002 I decided to create my own point of presence in the Internet. Back then I’ve got pretty nice domain (scoundrel.kremenchug.net), hacked up a few pages on php, added a guestbook and that was it. Many years it was almost static and I did a few updates on my resume page few times a year. Later I’ve switched the site to wordpress to make it easier to manage my resume and stuff…
And 3 years ago in March 2006 I’ve decided to start my own blog. I took a standard template and started the blog on a separate domain while the domain was on its own domain name… This spring my wife made me a great birthday present – she’s created me a custom blog design that has all the stuff I wanted from my own web site for a long time. My friend Dima Shteflyuk has helped me with creating a wordpress template from Tanya’s mockups and here we are – now I’ve decided to merge my blog and my web site into a single web entity called http://kovyrin.net/. Welcome to my new blog/site/whatever!
Sorry for a short outage today – we were moving to a new server we had some problems because of software incompatibilities on the new box. Now all sites on this box should behave as usual 
This blog turned 1 year old last month and I think all of my readers were glad to read it. I’ve never asked for help and I offered help to people who needed it. But today I’m forced to ask my readers for help because it is the first time in my long practice when I really don’t know how to solve my problem.
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Want to say sorry to all my Russian language readers because my Russian Feed has been broken for last week or so after hoster changes. As for now feed works fine and you can read my last post in your native language!
I apologize for the lack of posting on my blog. Life has been pretty busy as last month I started a new job as Senior System Administrator in Toronto, On at a leading video hosting community.
I am very excited about this job and look forward to working with a great team that is really passionate about what they are doing.
As time goes by I will be posting more. At the moment, thanks for staying tuned.
Today my blog database was totally destroyed because of hardware failure. 
Blog was restored from not so fresh backup, so many comments and last two or three posts has been lost and I have restored them from archives of my RSS feeds. I want to aplogize to all my readers, who uses RSS-feeds and got some strange info about last posts – while I was restoring my posts, there was incorrect information in my feeds. Sorry, guys…
As a part of my wife’s work on wp-based site, I have translated Contact Form Wordpress plugin to russian.
WP-ContactForm is a simple drop in way for users to get in touch with you. Its easy for any WordPress user to add this functionality to their site. Just upload two files and change a few options in your admin panel and you’re set.
Russian .po and compiled .mo files can be found here. Installation procedure is really simple: upload .mo file to /wp-content/plugins/wp-contactform/ directory on your server.
Today I have installed Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin and my blog is available from PDAs and XHTML-compatible smartphones.
First of all, I really glad to know, that one of my favorite Firefox plugins – Web Developer Toolbar – became one of the winners in Extended Firefox plugins Contest. Congratulations to Chris Pederick!
By the way, in this post I have decided to describe the list of my favorite plugins, because I think, it may be interesting for some of my readers.
Here is complete list of plugins in my Firefox installation:
- Live HTTP Headers – the best Firefox plugin for web server admins and web developers! Allows viewing HTTP headers of current page and shows them while page is loading.
- Web Developer – great plugin for web developers with many different options like HTML and CSS validation, control of JavaScript execution, HTML outline, cookies control and many other options.
- HTML Validator – really good Tidy-based plugin for run-time HTML code validation (some times can help to find annoying errors in HTML-code).
- Google Toolbar for Firefox – very useful toolbar from Google. Consists of search request field, pagerank monitor, spell checking button, and list of last searched keywords.
- Session Saver – saves all of the opened windows and tabs between Firefox restarts (like Opera does).
- Search Status – shows current page/site rank in Google and Alexa.
- deli.cio.us – plugin to keep, share and discover my favorite bookmark with deli.cio.us service.
- Adblock – plugin to filter ads from webpages.
- FlashGot – I’m using this plugin to integrate Firefox with my favorite download manager Download Master.
- FasterFox – performance tweaks and page download timer for Firefox.
- IE Tab – plugin for integration of the Internet Explorer into the Firefox tabs.
- PDF Download – very interesting plugin, that allows user to select preferred action for PDF files (view in browser, download, save to disk).
- Clear Cache Button – very useful plugin for purging Firefox cache by one toolbar button click.
- Disable Targets for Downloads – small plugin, that prevents download links opening new blank windows.
- Last Tab – Allows tab navigation in a most recently used manner (after closing some tab, selects last opened tab, not closest on tab bar).
- New Tab Button on Tab Bar – small plugin adds “New Tab” button to the tab bar and allows to browse without keyboard using.
- Customize Google – adds some useful elements to Google search results (such as links to results in another search engines).
- Omea Connector – adds some useful actions to Firefox, allowing to integrate it with my favorite RSS-aggregator Omea Reader.
