RonMertens.com

I have decided to learn a bit of PHP and Javascript. I don’t want to become a web-site builder, but it’s important to have at least a little experience.

So I have made my first little PHP script, which inserts all ads and links at my travel page. So if you go to:

http://www.RonMertens.com/india

Then the ads are written using a PHP template system. Also the links (at the bottom of the page) are randomly chosen. Try to reload the page and you’ll see a different set of links.

I’ve also written my first Javascript. Now the pictures in:

http://www.RonMertens.com/travel

are chosen by random.

So these are not very sophisticated scripts, but at least now I know what I’m talking about with these languages

I finished writing and uploading the Crete travelogue…

http://www.RonMertens.com/2006/crete

It is pretty exciting, what with the wedding pictures and all…

We’re back from Crete! Michal (who’s now my wife, but only in Greece) and I.

We had a great time… A real vacation. Most of the time we spent at the pool side, or at the beach. We did a couple of day trips with the car. It was so hot we didn’t feel like leaving the car, really. But we saw some lovely greek villages, and had great food along the way, and listened to some good greek music.
We also got married, or at least got the papers… We prefer to think of the wedding we’re gonna have in in Israel as the real thing.

I’ll post some pictures (Probably the usual travelogue thingy) soon…

We’re going on a short (one week) vacation to Crete… Hopefully we’ll get some good rest. Anyway, I’ll take heaps of photos, as usual (I’m armed to the teeth with pixels!).

The exciting thing is that we are to get married in Crete. It’s pretty cool, even if it won’t be in the “greek orthodox church”.
But we do not consider this to be the “Real” wedding. In Crete we’ll do the paperwork, and the actual “wedding” will be in September, in Michal’s brother’s place.

A great moment in world’s history: I reached 100$ in my iStockPhoto account.

iStockPhoto is a place where photographers can upload their photos, and people buy them for a few dollars (depends on the resolution they want). You get paid for each purchase (which they term “download”). I have just over 300 downloads, mostly of two pictures: A beach in Costarica, and a cross in Budapest.
I joined iStockPhoto in November last year, and yesterday I reached 100$. Now I’m supposed to get a check, we’ll see how it goes.