ace’s blog

My blog used to be located at blog.petewood.us.  I just moved it to www.acedanger.com.  I had some decent search engine rankings on a few keywords and I didn’t want to lose them.  I knew there was a way to rewrite the URL so that if someone clicked on a link to one of my old pages, it would redirect them to the same page on the new domain.  For example, if someone clicked on a link to blog.petewood.us/2006/07/11/vacation/, I wanted them to be redirected to www.acedanger.com/2006/07/11/vacation/.  I have never written any scripts to rewrite URLs before so I turned to google for all the answers.  I found some info from several pages and came up with this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog\.petewood\.us
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.acedanger.com/$1 [r]

What this does is exactly what I have described in my example above.  I hope this helps someone out.  To test what I wrote, just click on the blog.petewood.us link above and it should take you to the acedanger.com page.

A free 10-week “AJAX Programming” online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and toolkits….

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Below is a list of the Firefox extensions that I use.

• Forecastfox
• Google Suggest This is no long a stand alone extension.  It is now a part of the Google Toolbar for Firefox.
• All-in-One Gestures
• Tabbrowser Preferences
• Tab X
• Performancing
• IE View Lite
• Bookmarks Synchronizer 3
• Bloglins Toolkit
• View Source Chart
• del.icio.us
• Gmail Space
• JSView
• IE Tab

Google Calendar is here! Finally…
This was live as of 11pm CST of 4.12.06. Google Geeks should be much happier now, seeing as this has been the most hyped Google addition since Gmail came out. There has been a ton of speculation as to when this would come out and even if it was for real! Now it makes me wonder what the Google Geeks will be waiting for now?

read more | digg story | the calendar

MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors. These careers ranked highest.

This is funny because I just had my official title changed from
“Application Developer” to “Software Engineer” AND I just got a raise.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4780648.stm

…and that’s a lot of cash considering;

“Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006″

and as digg.com user beelz commented:

2.7 billion * .12 = three hundred twenty-four million

…and that’s a whole lotta cash for just searching! That does not include revenue generated from users clicking on the sponsored links or the Adsense links.