I’m back!

I managed to remove most of the malicious coding, but I will need to work harder in the future to be more secure; oy.

February 7, 2013 Tags: Hacked Posted in: website update One Comment

I’ve been hacked!

Thanks to Legesse for informing me. This is my first hack. I really don’t know what to say *wipes tear from my eye* It looks like it happened late night on Jan 31st. My Dictionary site was just redirecting to an outsider’s. I guess this is what I get for using outdated php software. eh?

I’ll try to have everything running smoothly but I have a midterm tomorrow witch needs my immediate attention. I’ll be back. I’ll be back…

February 4, 2013 Tags: Hacked Posted in: website update One Comment

5 years for memhr.org

5 years, wow. Quite the milestone; eh?

December 14, 2012 Posted in: website update No Comments

The true spirit of the Olympics

This has nothing to do with language, but I had to share this photo (by selampeace) of a bus ride with some of Eritrea’s and Ethiopia’s Olympic athletic team.

Olympic Bronze medal winning (and national icon) Zersenay Tadese is to the right.

August 3, 2012 Tags: athletics, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Olympics, Zersenay Tadese Posted in: Eritrea No Comments

Read Ge’ez on Android phones

I’m writing this very post using my Samsung SII phone and I’ve discovered something that might help some of you who use any “rooted” Android phone.

Unfortunately my phone didn’t come with the ability to render Ge’ez fonts “out of the box”; so it doesn’t display any Ge’ez letters (ሰላም), just those annoying undefined boxes (⏿⏿⏿). However, there is a way to enable your phone to display Tigrinya properly.

1. Just go to google “Play” (the app market) and download and install the app “font changer“.
2. Download the “GF Zemen Unicode” font.
3. Place the font in your “/sdcard/.fontchanger/” folder.
4. Lastly, start the app and enable the font.

Not a very “user friendly” or simple way to get your phone to display Ge’ez. You first need to own an Android phone, and second need to have it “rooted”; however, if you happened to have these two things done then I’m sure you’d find my above directions to be very easy, indeed.

June 9, 2012 Tags: Android, font, Font Changer, Ge'ez, root Posted in: font, language, Tigrigna No Comments

Happy New Year

Here comes 2012. New year, new possibilities.

December 31, 2011 Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments

The top ten search queries for ሕዳር 2011

I’ve been slippin’ with these, so here they are again:

1	love
2	hello
3	good
4	defy
5	go
6	review
7	peace
8	separate
9	be
10	nice

December 3, 2011 Tags: top ten Posted in: top ten search queries No Comments

Happy 4th birthday memhr.org!

Well it’s December 1st 2011 and you know what that means…

Yes, I mark another year since I started this website/blog. Wow, 4 years in total. I can’t even count the amount of hours I’ve poured into the site (it still looks pretty amateur), nor the amount of money I spend on hosting it (well I suppose I can count that); however I don’t have a single regret.

I suppose I do have regrets, sometimes, but normally that uneasiness comes because I don’t spend even more of my time working on this site. It seems that every week I have some new idea on how I should update or progress memhr.org, but I never put them into practice. I guess I normally fail at this because I’m neither a programmer, a linguist, nor even a native speaker of Tigrinya . But here I am; into my fourth year of online, amateur, English/Tigrigna lexicography. Crazy.

Oh well. I’ll close this post saying that I hope you’ve enjoyed these past 4 years as much as I have. Later,

December 1, 2011 Tags: birthday, memhr.org Posted in: website update 3 Comments