What the h e double hockey sticks is Molson up to?

I am 100% convinced that the marketing team (or direction) for Molson are Americans. This ad promotes stero-types that most Canadians don’t like.

Frozen lakes? Our lakes are not frozen 6 months of the year, in fact, some, are only (at best) frozen for 0 months! Georgian bay does not freeze over anymore. Smaller lakes are frozen solid, but at best from Nov to March, 5 months.

Freedom? That is not a big concern for Canadians…. why do I need to drink Molson to be free?

I liked the old ‘I am’ ads.

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Does your site search suck? Apple’s does…

I’m currently developing a Google powered site search for a client. For some odd reason only the universe knows about I decided to see what apple was doing. I did a search for iphone at apple Canada and got no results. Screen shot below. I just went back to make sure it was not a temporary hick up, and this now I’ve got a spinning pin wheel and still no results (screen shot below).

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Thunderbird Signature Above Quote

By default signatures in Thunderbird appear at the below quotes. Signatures can be placed immediately below the reply and above the quote by doing this:

  • Tools -> Account Settings -> Select your identity
  • Click the “Manage Identities” button at bottom right
  • Select your identity and click the “edit” button
  • Select the “Composition & Addressing” tab
  • Under “Composition”, check “Automatically quote the original message when replying”, followed by “start my reply above the quote”, and place my signature “above the quote”

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Even Google screws up

502 Server Error - Windows Internet Explorer 912009 35126 PM

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.UK Results from Canada in Google.com

When I search Google.com from Canada I often see .UK results in the SERPs on Google. If I switch google.ca the results are gone. Or if I use a US based machine the UK results are also gone. So Google clearly knows that I am not in the US when I use google.com. Why does Google.com think that .uk results are relevant to a Canadian.

NOTE: For testing I use a browser with all cookies cleared and I am not signed into my Google account.

I have a preference for Google.com v. Google.ca.

Here are some screen shots of results that show .uk results in Google.com.

Hotel Results on Google.comPizza results Google.comLawyer Result Google.comPlumber Result Google.com

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Updating MYSQL records

Run this query in MYSQL to update record(s) within a table.

UPDATE `TABLE` SET `FIELD` = 'VALUE' WHERE `FIELD` = 'VALUE';

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How to get e-mail user and passwords off a linux Plesk machine

Step 1: Log in/access server via command line interface (try putty)

Step 2: Log into MYSQL
mysql psa -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

Step 3: Run this MYSQL query
select concat(mail.mail_name,'@',domains.name), password from mail left join accounts on account_id=accounts.id left join domains on domains.id=mail.dom_id where postbox='true' order by dom_id;

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Display time of server in PHP

< ?
echo date("d/m/y : H:i:s", time());
?>

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Turn on errors in PHP

If you need to turn on errors for one page, place this code at the top of the page.

< ?
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
?>

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.htaccess 301 redirect

place the following in the .htaccess file

redirect 301 /old.html http://www.yours.com/new.html

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