After researching and taking Clark Howard’s advice to buy Vanguard’s Total Stock Index fund, I noticed an add from Fidelity advertising lower expense ratios.
This note from Clark confirms it. The minimum investment is $10,000, though.
No sooner had I posted the blog about my powerful brother of the DOT, than this google ad appeared next to it. I have to admit, I was confused at first, thinking this was some kind of organization that would be opposite of the Georgia Gay Alliance.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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.
This tutorial builds a script to do MySQL backup.
I added Google ads to mac.fiveforks.com just for the fun of it. Anyone can sign up and do this. The ads are “smart” in that they look at the web page they are on and try to deliver ads related to the topics. Dog kennels have been featured on Stonegate (thanks to articles about Stout and dog poop.) Some high-tech ads have appeared on Jeb-Log. Whenever someone clicks on one of these ads, I earn money. (No, we can’t all just click on them all day… Google knows if you are doing that and it doesn’t count.)
Checks are sent monthly. This is my earnings report as of day two. (Click to zoom.)
This is an amazing thing because it decentralizes advertising space. If you have enough people who visit your blog, you could generate a healthy income through advertising. Will free-lance journalists need to work for major news or publication companies?
Kelly and Claire posted two recent blogs recalling embarrassing moments. Kelly found a related song in iTunes, and used Kung-Log to create the html for “Now Playing” at the end. What she did not know was that her dad had modified the Kung-Log tag template and left out a slash in the final closing </div> tag. This caused the right side of her blog to disappear (as did Claire’s when they did a “Now Playing” on her blog.) I’ve gone back and fixed the tag template and their blogs, so all is well. A good geek father am I.
Six Apart responded very quickly to the new licensing complaints. They said they did not realize how many people were using MovableType for small groups like families. Now I can pay a reasonable price (around $100) for 5 users and then add users at $10 per. So a family of 10 can be legal under $200. MovableType is so much more useful than Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, I can’t complain.
I was having a hard time downloading a 250 MB file of photos from the Jamaica Missionaries of the Poor visit. Internet Explorer and Firebird would repeatedly time out.
This handy utility did the trick. It somehow breaks up the source file into multiple pieces and starts working on each piece simultaneously. I think the key is, it keeps working, and doesn’t time out.
Good for on-screen help text, copyrights, and legal text…
Also included here is the method of setting up cron.hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly directories that hold scripts for cron to run.