Blog Archive: June 2014
An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs, work out at the gym, and many more. Here I write about travel, finance, and other things that might interest me.
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Is your website traffic down on weekends?
<p>If you have a website and you are using some analytic tools, you might seen that at weekends your website traffic is down.</p><p>For example my<em> "worst"</em> day is Saturday.</p><p><img src="http://www.reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/website-traffic-down.j…; width="1026" height="257"></p><p><em>At the above image you can see - with…
Add Pin It button to hover over any image
In this tutorial I will show how to add Pin it button for every image on your website. But before that you might check my tutorial how to add Pin it button to Drupal 7 Bellow is an example with working hover Pin it button Hover over image to see Pin it button on left top corner You will need to add following code to your website (in <head>section</head> <!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --> <script type="…
Cycling to Tbilisi sea and back
Today was a great Saturday, we took our bikes and rode to Tbilisi sea and back. It was all day long (more than four hours) fun experience in very hot Summer day in Georgia. Total distance: 16.9 km, Climb: 213 m, Time: 4.30h, Feelings: Superb Route map When we finally reached Tbilisi sea - I was so exhausted, after I got of from bike, my stamina was over: Tbilisi sea
How to check Google rankings with Google Spreadsheets
<p>In this article I will show, how you can check and track your SERP with Google Spreadsheets.</p><p>But at first I will tell you a story - More than 3 years ago I started to work on a hobby (but large scale site) dedicated to Georgia. It was built with Drupal, involved Google maps, Feeds parsing (Flickr, Wikipedia and more Open data)</p><p>So basically I built a kinda Mash-up - web site, that aggregates different…
Google+ comments block for Drupal site
Lately I have been paying more attention to power of Google+ and so I decided to give a try to Google+ comments on a Drupal site. Google for me generates about 70-80 percent of traffic, and so I guess most of the users will have Google account, to comment without need to login/register onmy site or let's say Disqus comment system I'm currently using on my blog. As you can see - comment block is really nice, and taking in consideration it's…
How to align Facebook like, Google + and Twitter buttons?
Working on a project I faced a problem how to align social share buttons. By default I'm not paying much attention to this, but there are circumstances you must provide clean work. So here is the example: These are social share buttons from my blog, as you can see, Facebook button is not in one line with other lines. To fix this, I did a quick Google search and found great tutorial on Github: Here is my Drupal view - containing social…
Switching to Caucasus Online internet
<p>For a last year in Tbilisi, I have used Silknet DSL internet connections, and everything was fine, till day it was not fine. I don't know the reason why, but Silknet's DSL stopped working as expected. You can <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/living-georgia/silknet-conversation-over-p… my thoughts about Silknet's Customer Service here</a>.</p><p>Anyway - I switched my ISP to another Great…
Devious Maids
<p>Devious Maids is another great TV series to watch. </p><p><strong>About Devious Maids</strong></p><p><span>Four Latina maids with ambition and dreams of their own work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226342/</span></p>
New Amsterdam
<p>New Amsterdam is a TV series made on 2008, and lasted just for 8 series. </p><p>Why I found these series interesting? Producers has tried to make something very interesting. As you may already know - New York city once was New Amsterdam and was found by Dutch colonists, well of course there lived Native Americans, before Dutches came.</p><p>And that is showed in New Amsterdam series - main role actor -…
Silknet - Conversation over phone - Nightmare
<p>Silknet is one of the major internet providers in Georgia, it offers great service for great money. But there are times things break up, for example Wi-Fi router. Silknet for their customers is offering some cheap ZTW 300 routers, and that's fine with me as long they work, when they stop to work,<strong> it's time to call to Silknet customer service.</strong></p><p><strong>And then it sucks</…
Working with Drupal views attachments
Drupal views attachments is a nice feature, which allows us to extend Drupal views. For example, we can create a featured view and attach to it other view displaying additional information. One of the reasons I love views attachments is because of I can create a main view and add to it smaller view and offset some items: With views attachment sky is the limit, you can build for example a restaurant list view and attach to it Gmap style map…
Joseph Stalin Declassified
<p><span>A History channel documentary on Joseph Stalin.</span></p><p><span>In this documentary is pictured time how Stalin took the power after death of Lenin. About mass deportations and Stalins plans to conquer the west.</span></p><p><span>Not very objective, but still enjoyable documentary.</span></p>
Georgian Bus - Great way to travel from Kutaisi to Batumi or Tbilisi
At first, when Kutaisi International airport was built (around 2012/2013) there were few transport options to choose from to get at least to the city center of Kutaisi, as it turns out, the city is actually located about some 17km from the airport. Back in the days, there were just taxi services, which was and still is pretty costly (as long as you are not using BOLT) While you are still figuring out about your next flight to Kutaisi or travel…
Batumi Aerial Tram
One of the must have tourist attractions in Batumi is an aerial tram (cable car) ride. Built back in 2012 these gondolas will take you in a 2,5 km long route at maximum elevation of 252 meters. During you ride you will enjoy breathtaking aerial views of Batumi city. Best enjoyed in evenings shortly before sunset. At the other end of the ropeway there is nice viewing platform offering scenic views to the city and Black sea. Ticket price per…
Sataplia cave in Georgia
Sataplia cave together with Prometheus cave are one of the main tourist sights around Kutaisi town, in Republic of Georgia. I first visited Sataplia cave at the end of May 2014, when my father for the first time visited me in Georgia. I picked him up at Kutaisi airport and before departing back to Tbilisi I decided to take an opportunity and explore this cave together.. At first you will need to have some taxi to get there, luckily I had one.…