I got my first Google AdSense cheque in the mail today! I’ve finally crossed the $100 USD mark for the first time ever. Google pays on a monthly basis if you have a minimum $100USD accumulated.
I’ve been displaying AdSense ads on my blog for quite a while. It’s just been in the past several months [...]
So NCIX was having another one of their sales again. This time the deals were pretty good.
I’ve mentioned before that this site is running in a VirtualPC environment.
VPC_W2K3
I’ve decided to switch to VMWare Server. I’ll be bringing the server down so I can import my Virtual PC image into VMWare.
UPDATE: VMWare Server’s import tool failed to import my Virtual PC .vmc file. Luckily they have a separate converter tool available [...]
If you are a Rogers Internet subscriber and you try to reach a non-existent URL (e.g. http://asdfzxcv.google.com), you will be redirected to a Rogers search page displaying ads.
I logged in to my Virtual PC 2007 running Windows Server 2003 and pressed ALT+Enter to go in to full-screen mode and suddenly, I see this:
W2K3 on Virtual PC 2007 BSOD
I reset the Virtual PC, captured a printscreen then proceeded to try to upload my photo to my gallery. I didn’t realize my [...]
Anna was doing some work tonight in one of her spreadsheets and needed a bit of help. One of the things she was doing was calculating the number of months between 2 dates. There isn’t really an easy way to do this in Excel without resorting to using its VBA macro language. [...]
I was installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 after having downloaded it from the MSDN downloads site. During one of the reboots, my machine sat on the bootup screen. This is what I saw:
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My machine came with a 250GB hard drive and an optical drive. I added a second 200GB hard drive so I [...]
I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. WooHoo! Upgrade was a breeze. Deactivate plug-ins, backup, copy files, reactivate plug-ins, done.
Now I just gotta see if my email notification still works. I don’t remember where I set all the SMTP stuff.
WordPress comes with a stripped down version of the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. It looks a bit boring:
original_wordpress_editor
So I decided to spruce it up a bit and download a plug-in that upgrades the text editor. I chose TinyMCE Advanced by Andrew Ozz and now it looks like this:
tinymce_advanced_wordpress_editor
Installation couldn’t be easier. [...]
