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My free book has arrived...

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:43:12 -0500

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.

R.I.P Jon...

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:08:43 -0500

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.

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Get a Producer credit in a movie!

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:09:16 -0500

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.
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Rsnapshot Web Interface

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:36:32 -0600

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.

Lievers.ca Search using Google Custom Search

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:21:37 -0600

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.

I won a new Apress book !!!

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:29:36 -0500

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.

Google AdSense

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:27:21 -0500

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.

Cory.Lievers.ca Yahoo Answers

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:58:06 -0500

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.

Added more functionality to Maps

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:19:18 -0500

Sweet,

So the last posting informed that the marker information windows now works. Now there's another cool piece: when the page loads intially, you'll see a little animated gif image showing the the page is loading. When the map is done displaying, it will disappear.

Also, I've seemed to fix my previous Internet Explorer problem as I rewrote how it operates. The only thing is IE seems to take longer to load than Firefox, but hey what'cha going to do? My answer: switch to Firefox.

You can check it on on my Geocoding Website | Display Geo page.

Fixed Marker Info Windows on Maps

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:05:31 -0500

Sweet,

So prior to this posting, there was a problem on my displayGeo (Google Map of my visitors) page. The problem was when you click on a marker (icon on a location), it would always pop up the same marker text on the last drawn marker.

Well that has been fixed, so now clicking each marker will contain it's corresponding City Name, Country, Lat, Lon.
You can check it on on my Geocoding Website | Display Geo page.

{Still doesn't work in IE for some reason -- any one have any ideas ??}

Back from Vacation...

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:30:00 -0500

Ahhhhhhh,

Vacation. Always nice to have. I didn't do anything too extravagent, but nice things none-the-less.

Visited my parents for a few days up in Slave Lake, AB. Checked out all of the major developments happening there, like this year they got a Canadian Tire, Walmart, etc. Lots of changes.

Went to Edmonton, AB for quite a few days. Hung out on Whyte Ave and West Edmonton Mall quite a bit. Checked out the waterpark and even Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Also checked out this band at a little club called Moses Maze (I think I spelled it right). It was pretty neat music.

Then went to Jasper, AB for a day. It was supposed to be longer, but the Edmonton sleep-over became and extended edition. I really liked Jasper, I think it's the first time I ever really did anything there, other than drive through on the way to "somewhere else". Got some nice pics of mountains, Athabasca falls, etc. I'll post a flickr link once I get them sorted out. Anyways I'll have to get back there sometime and actually do something.

But of course, back to work and reality.

Cheers

Searching for my website

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:29:29 -0500

I'm proud to say, that a couple websites are now finally showing my site in the search results.

Yahoo: Search for - Cory Lievers

MSN: Seach for - "Cory Lievers"

Google: Search for - Cory Lievers

Excite: Search for - Cory Lievers

Dogpile (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, ...): Search for - Cory Lievers

Metacrawler (Dogpile ?): Search for - Cory Lievers

AltaVista: Search for - "Cory Lievers"

Adding recent blog entries to website

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:44:04 -0500

So, on www.cory.lievers.ca, I'm working on adding recent blog entries from this site. Trying to figure out right now how to link to to the entry url's.

Got My Car

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:29:47 -0500

Okay, so I'm very happy. Had a good weekend in Edmonton. Got to pick up my new car.

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And the best news...

cory.lievers@gmail.com (Cory Lievers) — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:55:27 -0500

A new car !!!

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