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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My first mobile post
<p>My first mobile post using Drupal powered blog.</p>
GEL to USD exchange rates Mid - April 2014
It has been awhile since I last time examined GEL/USD exchange rates. Last time I did that, I was pretty worried about hidden devaluation of Georgian national currency Lari. During the past 4 years, GEL has lost its value against USD by -27.51% What are historical exchange rates (January - April 12th, 2014) (Screenshot from National Bank of Georgia) In last 3 and a half month, period Gel continues to lose its value against USD. USD 1…
How to enable Do Not track Chrome
<p><strong>Do no Track</strong> gives you some level of anonymity while browsing internet. In this article I will explain why I'm enabling Do not track.</p><p>The reason I'm enabling Do not Track is no because I'm afraid or scare someone is using my browsing history in his evil marketing or surveillance plans. The reason I'm enabling is because lately I'have seen to huge page views for my…
Boris Grebenshchikov and Aquarium @ Tbilisi Concert Hall
Yesterday Boris Grebenshchikov and his band Aqurium performed at Tbilisi Concert Hall. Although I'm not huge fan of him I must admit, he is so called Russian Rock Grandfather and it would be a crime to waste an opportunity to visit his concert right next door, here in Tbilisi. About concert: Since I was not very familiar with his creation, first part of concert I just listened, to determine, do I like him or not. His music is really eclectic,…
Caucasus Tourism Fair 2014
Every year in start of April, in Tbilisi, Georgia tourism fair is held. I'm visiting it already third time. This time I got some emptiness feeling, it doesn't looks like organizers has made any promotion both to attract visitors and companies. As usual at fair you could meet some hotel representatives, trying to give you some crappy brochure, rather telling their unique story. There are few international companies, which seems there are just to…
Once in a April Gagarin made his great flight
<p>On April 12, 1961, back then in USSR, Yuri Gagarin made first human journey in outer space.</p><p>Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.<br><br>Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles…
North Korea - Crossing the line
The film is about a former U.S. Army soldier, James J. Dresnok, who defected to North Korea on August 15, 1962. The film was directed and produced by British filmmakers Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner, and was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film, which was narrated by actor Christian Slater, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the festival. The film was first screened in 2007 on the BBC. The film centred around Dresnok's…
Drupal 7 Archive Drop Down Menu
In this tutorial I will show how to create Drop-down menu for your monthly archives using Drupal 7 and views. At first, please read this Drupal 7 tutorial on how to create Drupal archive page. By following this guide, you will learn how to create monthly archive page using views, and we go to add one minor change to change it to drop down menu. Open that views page, select contextual filters, and change settings from unformatted to jump menu…
Auto blog to Twitter using Twitterfeed
You are managing your blog, not some social media agency, right? Although you have created your profile in different social media, like Twitter, Facebook or Google+? As time goes, you are notifying your social accounts seems dead, what to do in such situation? Time is money, and you know that perfectly Automate your posts by using some tools. There are many options how to syndicate your content over different social media sites, this time I'…
Add Menu Classes In Drupal 7
In this Drupal tutorial I'll show how to add menu classes to your Drupal 7 website using template.php file. Original of this tutorial has been found here. Add this function to your template.php file: <?php /** * theme_menu_link() */ function THEMENAME_menu_link(array $variables) { //add class for li $variables['element']['#attributes']['class'][] = 'menu-' . $variables['element']['#original_link']['mlid']; //add class for a $…
Redirect non www to www - Apache .htaccess
It has been years since I last time used .htaccess file available in Apache. I'm using Ngnix servers for 99.9 of mine work. But today I had an opportunity to work on Apache environment, which uses .htaccess file. So in order to rewrite non www to www in Apache I added following rulles to .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] For Ngnix please read this…
Da Vinci's Demons Season 2
<p>Da Vinci's Demons season 2 aired on March 22, 2014. </p><p>I really enjoyed first season and was inpatient to see Season 2. </p><p>Maybe of very interesting ending at finale episode in season 1.</p><p>In this season you will meet new characters like Amerigo Vespucci, which in Da Vinci's Demons is portrayed as an alcoholic and con.</p><p>Good,…
Azerbaijan looking to held Olympics 2024
<p>Looks like country of Azerbaijan is getting eager to held Olympics 2024. About that is writting newsgeorgia.ru referencing to Turkish "Anadolu"</p><p>According to Azerbaijan officials the list of candidate names will be available on 2017, and Azerbaijan is eager to see it's name on that list.</p><p>It might sound like a surprise, but for me Azerbaijan, a oil rich country in not anymore a surprise.…
Time lapse - Day 2
<p>Yesterday I started a new Time lapse series -<a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/time-lapse-green-wall-day-1"> How wall is turning from brick wall into green wall</a>.</p><p>Today I'm adding second photo, and already It's visible that in parts were sun shines more, it's turning green:</p><p><strong>Day 2 photo:</strong></p><p><strong><img…
Add Viewport in the <head> in Drupal 7
In this Drupal Tutorial I will show how to add a new HTML in Drupal 7 head section. I'm using responsive design to enable my blog work pretty ok on mobile devices, but yesterday looking through Google PageSpeed Insights suggestions I found that there is no viewport defined, so it might not render CSS as I might want, but instead to scale webpage to device. Your page does not have a viewport specified. This causes mobile devices to render your…