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Will You Sponsor Me For A 100km Ride for Refugees Fund Raising Event?

September 17th, 2006

I’m posting this to you to ask for your help because, this year on October 14th I am going all the way and riding full 100kms in the third annual Ride for Refugees fund raising event. I am looking for sponsors to make it all worth it. I am training for the challenge as I have never ridden that far but with God’s strength, he will carry me to the end. This cycling event is held each fall near Elmira and I am joining a growing group of cyclists who are raising support and awareness for refugees being served through International Teams Canada

I volunteer at our Welcome Home facility here in Kitchener/Waterloo and getting to know the refugees there has been very eye opening. The challenges involved with a 100km ride dwarfs in comparison of the challenges faced by a refugee. Imagine in a moments notice, force to leave everything you have and know to travel the refugee highway in hopes of a new future.

The event goal is $150,000 and I am looking to raise my share of that good goal. This year my personal goal is to raise $1000 and any amount you give will help reach or exceed it. Please help me reach my goal and help these people, in giving you too will ride with me that day.

Would you sponsor me?

There are over 35 million refugees in the world. Many are coming to Canada and they need support as they adjust to our Canadian way of life. Imagine snow for the first time. Imagine if the letters all ran backwards to what you were familiar with reading. Imagine being alienated from your friends and family. They need our support and International Teams (www.iteams.ca) has been serving refugees for over 25 years.

Don’t hesitate to sponsor me today!

You can go directly to my personal page to sponsor me by clicking on the link below;
https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/personalPage.aspx?EventID=6694&LangPref=en-CA&RegistrationID=219228

You can also go online to www.rideforrefugees.ca and click on sponsor a rider. Once there you can donate with any credit card to my personal fundraising goal.

Thank you so much and God bless

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HTML Character Codes

August 11th, 2006
Description Character HTML Entity
Space    
Exclaimation Point ! !
Double Quotation Mark " "
Pound (Sharp) Symbol # #
Dollar Sign $ $
Percentage Symbol % %
Ampersand & &
Single Quote Mark ' '
Left Parentheses ( (
Right Parentheses ) )
Asterisk * *
Addition Symbol + +
Comma , ,
Hypen - -
Period . .
Forward Slash / /
Zero 0 0
One 1 1
Two 2 2
Three 3 3
Four 4 4
Five 5 5
Six 6 6
Seven 7 7
Eight 8 8
Nine 9 9
Colon : :
Semi-Colon ; &#059;
Less-Than Symbol < &#060;
Equals Symbol = &#061;
Greater-Than Symbol > &#062;
Question Mark ? &#063;
At Symbol @ &#064;
A A &#065;
B B &#066;
C C &#067;
D D &#068;
E E &#069;
F F &#070;
G G &#071;
H H &#072;
I I &#073;
J J &#074;
K K &#075;
L L &#076;
M M &#077;
N N &#078;
O O &#079;
P P &#080;
Q Q &#081;
R R &#082;
S S &#083;
T T &#084;
U U &#085;
V V &#086;
W W &#087;
X X &#088;
Y Y &#089;
Z Z &#090;
Left Bracket [ &#091;
Back Slash \ &#092;
Right Bracket ] &#093;
Carat ^ &#094;
Underscore _ &#095;
Single Quotation Mark ` &#096;
a a &#097;
b b &#098;
c c &#099;
d d &#100;
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t t &#116;
u u &#117;
v v &#118;
w w &#119;
x x &#120;
y y &#121;
z z &#122;
Left Curly Bracket { &#123;
Pipe | &#124;
Right Curly Bracket } &#125;
Tilde ~ &#126;
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&#128;
&#129;
&#130;
ƒ &#131;
&#132;
Ellipses &#133;
&#134;
&#135;
ˆ &#136;
&#137;
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ž &#142;
&#143;
&#144;
&#145;
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&#150;
&#151;
˜ &#152;
Trademark &#153;
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&#157;
&#158;
Ÿ &#159;
  &#160;
¡ &#161;
¢ &#162;
£ &#163;
¤ &#164;
¥ &#165;
¦ &#166;
§ &#167;
¨ &#168;
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ª &#170;
« &#171;
¬ &#172;
­ &#173;
Registered ® &#174;
¯ &#175;
Degree Symbol ° &#176;
Plus/Minus ± &#177;
Power of 2 ² &#178;
Power of 3 ³ &#179;
´ &#180;
µ &#181;
&#182;
· &#183;
¸ &#184;
¹ &#185;
º &#186;
» &#187;
1/4 Fraction ¼ &#188;
1/2 Fraction ½ &#189;
3/4 Fraction ¾ &#190;
¿ &#191;
À &#192;
Á &#193;
 &#194;
à &#195;
Ä &#196;
Å &#197;
Æ &#198;
Ç &#199;
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É &#201;
Ê &#202;
Ë &#203;
Ì &#204;
Í &#205;
Î &#206;
Ï &#207;
Ð &#208;
Ñ &#209;
Ò &#210;
Ó &#211;
Ô &#212;
Õ &#213;
Ö &#214;
× &#215;
Ø &#216;
Ù &#217;
Ú &#218;
Û &#219;
Ü &#220;
Ý &#221;
Þ &#222;
ß &#223;
à &#224;
á &#225;
â &#226;
ã &#227;
ä &#228;
å &#229;
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ç &#231;
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ë &#235;
ì &#236;
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ï &#239;
ð &#240;
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ò &#242;
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÷ &#247;
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þ &#254;
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Description Character HTML Named Entity
Ampersand & &amp;
Cent Sign ¢ &cent;
Copyright © &copy;
Degree Sign ° &deg;
Mid-Dot · &middot;
Greater Than > &gt;
Less Than < &lt;
Non-Breaking Space   &nbsp;
Not Sign ¬ &not;
Paragraph Sign &para;
Quote " &quot;
Trademark ® &reg;

HTTP/1.1 Response Codes

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Informational 1xx
100 Continue
101 Switching Protocols
   
Successful 2xx
200 OK
201 Created
202 Accepted
203 Non-Authoritative Information
204 No Content
205 Reset Content
206 Partial Content
   
Redirection 3xx
300 Multiple Choices
301 Moved Permanently
302 Found
303 See Other
304 Not Modified
305 Use Proxy
306 (Unused)
307 Temporary Redirect
   
Client Error 4xx
400 Bad Request
401 Unauthorized
402 Payment Required
403 Forbidden
404 Not Found
405 Method Not Allowed
406 Not Acceptable
407 Proxy Authentication Required
408 Request Timeout
409 Conflict
410 Gone
411 Length Required
412 Precondition Failed
413 Request Entity Too Large
414 Request-URI Too Large
415 Unsupported Media Type
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
417 Expectation Failed
   
Server Error 5xx
500 Internal Server Error
501 Not Implemented
502 Bad Gateway
503 Service Unavailable
504 Gateway Timeout
505 HTTP Version not supported
   

Unix Cron

August 11th, 2006
Introduction

cron is a utility that you can use to schedule and automate tasks. By defining items in the cron table, called crontab, you can schedule any script or program to run on almost any sort of schedule.

For example, run a program each day 5 minutes after midnight on mondays, wednesdays and fridays. Or schedule something to run every five minutes, or once a month.

Basics

Each user has their own crontab, the scheduled scripts run as that user take this in account with regards to permissions. To edit the crontab use the following command:

$ crontab -e

You can list what your currnet crontab is using the
following command:

$ crontab -l

Crontab Format
The following is the format entries in a crontab must be. Note all lines starting with #are ignored, comments.


# MIN   HOUR   MDAY  MON  DOW   COMMAND 
   5     *      *     *    *    echo ‘Hello’ 

Item Definition Valid Values
MIN Minute 0-60
HOUR Hour [24-hour clock] 0-23
MDAY Day of Month 1-31
MON Month 1-12 OR jan,feb,mar,apr …
DOW Day of Week 0-6 OR
sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
COMMAND Command to be run Any valid command-line

Examples

Here are a few examples, to see what some entries look like.

#Run command at 7:00am each weekday [mon-fri]
00 07 * * 1-5 mail_pager.script ‘Wake Up’

#Run command on 1st of each month, at 5:30pm
30 17 1 * * pay_rent.script

#Run command at 8:00am,10:00am and 2:00pm every day
00 8,10,14 * * * do_something.script

#Run command every 5 minutes during market hours
*/5 6-13 * * mon-fri get_stock_quote.script

#Run command every 3-hours while awake
0 7-23/3 * * * drink_water.script

Special Characters in Crontab

You can use an asterisk in any category to mean for every item, such as every day or every month.

You can use commas in any category to specify multiple values.
For example: mon,wed,fri

You can use dashes to specify ranges.
For example: mon-fri, or 9-17

You can use forward slash to specify a repeating range.
For example: */5 for every five minutes, hours, days

Special Entries

There are several special entries, some which are just shortcuts, that you can use instead of specifying the full cron entry.

The most useful of these is probably @reboot which allows you to run a command each time the computer gets reboot. This could be useful if you want to start up a server or daemon under a particular user, or if you do not have access to the rc.d/init.d files.

Example Usage:

# restart freevo servers
@reboot freevo webserver start
@reboot freevo recordserver start

The complete list:

Entry Description Equivalent To
@reboot Run once, at startup. None
@yearly Run once a year 0 0 1 1 *
@annually (same as @yearly) 0 0 1 1 *
@monthly Run once a month 0 0 1 * *
@weekly Run once a week 0 0 * * 0
@daily Run once a day 0 0 * * *
@midnight (same as @daily) 0 0 * * *
@hourly Run once an hour 0 * * * *

Miscelleanous Issues

Script Output
If there is any output from your script or command it will be sent to that user’s e-mail account, on that box. Using the default mailer which must be setup properly.

You can set the variable MAILTO in the crontab to specify a separate e-mail address to use. For example:

MAILTO=”admin@mydomain.com”

Missed Schedule Time
Cron does not run a command if it was missed. Your computer must be running for cron to run the job at the time it is scheduled. For example, if you have a 1:00am scheduled job and your computer was off at that time, it will not run the missed job in the morning when you turn it on.

Related Links

[brucemilton.com] At Command Mac OS X and eBay - at is similar to cron but for one time jobs, not reoccuring

CronniX Home page
CronniX is a Aqua (Mac OS X) front-end to the Unix utility cron. I haven’t used
this but looks pretty cool. If you prefer a GUI interface and have a Mac, check
it out. (Freeware)




Memorial to Tiger

August 4th, 2006

Today we had to bid a fond farewell to our family cat named Tiger. He had developed a thyroid condition that was making him extremely thin, no matter how much he ate. This condition also caused him to loose partial control of his tongue so he could not lap up anything. The vet said that even if we got a Thyroidactomey he made never regain full use of it. He had even developed a bad case of arthritis in his hips and could not get around very well.

Tiger

Tiger was almost 13 years old and was well natured cat that love to play and cuddle. Tonight the house feels very empty. He would always come into the office around 12:30am to remind me to feed him and to tell me it is time to call it a day.

He will be missed and this is my memorial to a good friend.