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So, recently I won another book online, this time from Free Software Magazine. It's titled Linux System Administration. I'm really looking forward to reading through this book.

The article for this contest is here.

Thanks to Free Software Magazine for picking me to win this book, and thanks to O'Reilly for giving away 10 free copies.

I was so shocked and saddened to hear about the loss of my colleague and friend, Jon. You will be remembered always, rest in peace.

If you want a Producer credit in a movie, all you have to do is donate some money. This is happening through The 1 Second Film.

Follow the link and you can view my profile, Cory Lievers, Producer, The 1 Second Film. Or you can just view The 1 Second Film main site.

As you know from an earlier posting, I wrote on my experience with the backup tool rsnapshot.

Well I've been thinking that it would be nice to have a web interface to browse the backups and be able to download certain file(s). So I've started giving this a little thought, and also started a page on my website for it: Rsnapshot Web Interface.

A while back, Google released their Google Custom Search (Google Co-op). It allows you to use Google Search for a defined set of URL's.

So, this is useful for my lievers.ca domain because it allows me to search on all of my specified sub-domains, against the Google Search Index.

You may be asking, "Hey, but on your www.cory.lievers.ca website, I can see a 'Google Search' on the site, what's the difference?"

Well, the difference is that with Google Custom Search, I can tell it to search on more than one site, ie: all of my sub-domains. So search all my sub-domains from one location.

Another use for Google Custom Search is if you visit a lot of related websites, or just always need to search against a certain set of websites, you can set up a Google Custom Search against the URL's. Then you enter your search query, and voila! a Google Search is done agains those sites.

Get Started, visit the Lievers Domain Search.

Thanks.

Wow. I'm very excited. On September 13th I came across a posting that showed an article on ajax.phpmagazine.net, saying that they are giving away two copies of the book titled Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and AJAX: From Novice to Professional.

There was only one comment at the time, from someone who wrote a couple of google map tutorials. So I thought, what the heck, I'll enter. As you know from previous postings, I have my Google Maps page that shows my website visitors. So I thought that maybe if not too many people entered, I'd stand a chance to win.

Well 3 other people left comments, but all were "I'd like to do ...", so I thought maybe that I had actually done something, it would give me an advantage.

Well I got an email this morning to tell me I had won one, so I sent them my shipping address. Hopefully they ship to Canada.
The website also shows me and Jorg as winners.

Looking forward to receiving the book,

Thank you Ajax Magazine and PHPMagazine.net.

So I've recently added some Google AdSense and Referrals on my website, www.cory.lievers.ca.

On the main page, there are some referrals for AdSense, AdWords, Firefox, and Picasa. Please click on them and check out the products. I really believe in Firefox, and I just love Google services to death.

Then on a few pages, right now my Maps page, then the Maps | displayGeo, and Photos, there are AdSense ads on the right hand sand.

In the footer (every page) is horizontal AdSense ads, and a couple more AdSense and AdWords referrals.

Please check them out.
Thanks.

Previously, when viewing the start page of cory.lievers.ca, the second half of the page wouldn't load until the Yahoo Answers Javascript files completed (to show my Yahoo Questions/Answers).

Now, the Yahoo Answers section is hidden and the rest of the page loads, then the Yahoo Questions/Answers are shown.