Learn By The Drop presents a video showing how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. Acquia's installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQL, PHP and PhpMyAdmin. Acquia Drupal is a Drupal distribution that comes packaged with many useful contributed modules including CCK, Views and PathAuto.

Following up on my earlier post on running a web server on a usb stick, here is a list of other free web server software that can be run from a flash/usb drive. These servers typically run Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin.

USB Webserver - Portable Web Server. The page for this application is in Dutch. I ran the page through Google's translate service and this is the English it produced (I've included the original Dutch):

Usb Webserver in brief

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Dumpr.net is a free service that allows you to apply effects to your photographs online and also save the modified photos.

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Now that it's officially spring and the weather in these parts is starting to warm up, I am looking forward to taking new photos. When it's cold and windy I don't expose my hands to the cold, since I really dislike winter.