I seem to have trouble every time I try to install phpMyAdmin. For those of you who are not familiar, it is a open-source web-based utility that manages MySQL databases. Today I tried installing it on my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop by running: sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin PhpMyAdmin was successfully installed, but I was not able ...
Welcome to the new tomlany.net! I am thrilled to be launching an all new home page! The site features a blog, which has not been a part of the site since June 2007, and an updated look. I hope you like it! Let me know if you have any comments. I posted a picture of ...
I just found a product that says it will connect your cell phone to your home phone system over Bluetooth called Cell2Tel. I think this is a neat idea, as people often leave their cell phones in one place while moving about their homes. I haven’t tried it, just thought it was a neat idea.
I was selected this past spring to serve as the webmaster for The Gustavian Weekly. The site is currently powered by Wordpress, the same system that powers this site, and currently uses the Gustavus blog template. The site looks really good and has a good amount of content, but we feel some aspects of the ...
I was surprised to see a story about a gun incident at my former high school when I was surfing the internet tonight.
Welcome to the tomlany.net blog! After being dormant since June of 2007, I decided to bring the blog back! I have used simple xhtml/css/php to manage my site over the past couple of years. Unfortunately, this process does not make it easy to “quick share thoughts”. As a result, my site was not updated very ...
I wrote a story about wind turbines potentially coming to Gustavus, which was published on the front page of today’s Gustavian Weekly.
Tom Lany is a creative journalist, marketer, web developer, and student at Gustavus Adolphus College in southern Minnesota. More »
