Entries for month: February 2004

Justly Married Justly Married Justly Married

I'll most likely be buying one of these posters and you should, too. My gay and lesbian friends have just as much right to have their love legally recognized as do those of a strictly hetero persuasion. It amazes me that government can so blatantly saction such bigotry as trying to amend the constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages... just makes my blood boil.

100% of the profits from the poster will go to DontAmend.com.

Hat tip to Eric Meyer.

Odd Referers Odd Referers Odd Referers

By far the oddest link to my blog ever, http://www.kelleyfurniture.com/Office-Deskeg.html ... can't quite tell why they did :)

MySQL Whooped MySQL Whooped MySQL Whooped

This is for the benefit of those of you who found as little information as I did on Google about MySQL converting dates to Binary when using DATE_FORMAT, or just about any other formatting function inside your SQL. Now, I could have sworn I'd tried this before, but I must have been high on Pepsi. Anyway, here's the SQL that was giving me binary data:

DATE_FORMAT(tbl.field,'%Y-%m-01')

And here's what I did to make it work...:

CONVERT(DATE_FORMAT(tbl.field,'%Y-%m-01'),CHAR)

Your mileage may vary, but enjoy :)

New Sales Rank Tracker Feature New Sales Rank Tracker Feature New Sales Rank Tracker Feature

You can now view book details directly from the Sales Rank Tracker. Now I don't have to go to Amazon to check the latest reviews or ratings either ;). Just call me lazy, I can take it :)

Sales Rank Tracker Book Details

Amazon SalesRank Tracker Amazon SalesRank Tracker Amazon SalesRank Tracker

I'm playing with a new project, and if you're an author and interested, please check out the Amazon SalesRank Tracker and let me know how you get on with it. There has been at least one report of difficulty with login/session scoping, but I'm leaning more and more towards a local issue on that user's machine since I can't pinpoint (until further notice I'll be blaming Norton).

Anyway, play and let me know what you think. Feature requests and bug reports are welcome, and there is a contact link on each page of the application to let you send your comments to me.

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