Google Ad Report = $10.58

Posted on 07/15/2004 by

I’m amazed that the small reader base of mac.fiveforks.com continues to generate money via the google ads. We’re up to $10.58! Not much, but I’m amazed. This report shows that my birthday generated over three dollars! Who knows why.

Keep clicking on google ads on mac.fiveforks.com if you see interesting ads. It will help pay for some of the software that makes this system work and keeps it backed up. (MovableType, AutoMySQLBackup, ImageMagik, etc.)

Today an ad for a site that sells praying mantises and lady bugs appeared. Probably driven by the Tiny Mantis posting.

Jeb the Web Reb

Posted on 07/13/2004 by

Greg asks, “what is a reb?” He ain’t from these parts.

Ted wrote a birthday poem saying not many words rhyme with Jeb. So I signed a comment “Jeb the Web Reb.”

Mom and Dad (mostly Dad) nicknamed me after General Jeb Stuart of the Confederate Army (the rebels.) So a “reb” was a confederate soldier.

The nickname was only supposed to be a childhood nickname. So Bruthu Grant should take note. He has nicknamed Michael “Lil’ Smut” … just for while he is a kid.

Right.

First Hummingbird of the Season

Posted on 07/11/2004 by

Kathy was wondering where the Hummingbird’s were earlier in the week. The first one showed up today sipping from Kathy’s new feeder. Last year I took some photos in August, so maybe July is the time they show up.

Shade Garden

Posted on 07/11/2004 by

A database of shade tolerant plants. Copy/paste plant names into Google to find out more about each one. Atlanta is Zone 7b.

My Shade Garden – Zone Search

CocoaMySQL

Posted on 07/10/2004 by

I used a trial version of Navicat to get to the underlying MYSQL tables behind MovableType. I’ve needed to do this in the past to reset user passwords. Navicat is a bit expensive ($95) for my occasional needs.

Just found this open source utility that does everything I need. Next time I have to reset a password, I’ll send them $5.

CocoaMySQL – A MySQL GUI for Mac OS X

CSS Pencils

Posted on 07/09/2004 by

Scott found this one. Follow his link, then wait for the color pencils to show up. It is not a picture, but instead, every dot of color (or group of 3 dots) is created with an html border tag and colored using CSS. Different style sheets control the bright, darker, red channel, etc. Follow the “About” on his page to read more about it.

birdhouse.org: CSS Pencils

AutoMySQLbackup

Posted on 07/07/2004 by

This one worked for me. It is now sitting in /private/etc/periodic/daily/ with other daily scripts being run by cron. Had to add the path to the MYSQLDUMP utility in this line:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin

Automatic MySQL Backup

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