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Lee Ann Womack at Fortune Fest 2010

matt — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:45:48 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

Sara and I will be attending Fortune Fest 2010 in Lexington, KY next week. Also attending is my brother Doug and his wife, Sonya. We will be at the Rupp Arena as it’s the only building large enough in the area to hold the large number of Representatives gather for the annual meeting. The corporate offices for FHTM is located in Lexington.

We will enjoy performances from Lee Ann Womack, Paul Overstreet and Garth Fundis.

A Fortune and I Found It

matt — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:08:41 +0000

I’ve been looking for something over the last 20 years and I’ve recently found it. To be more accurate it found me. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing has a perfect business model where you don’t have to work 40 hours a week or, in many cases, more to earn a great income. People work hard and spend a lifetime at their careers building valuable skills or climbing a corporate ladder and then have to retire on half of what they couldn’t live on before. As you invest in only yourself you become your only asset.

Fortune’s business model will continue to return an income even if you are injured, sick or retired. Building your business with Fortune means that you are investing in others while helping them earn a great income as well. As you build your business you create an asset that unlike any other career it can be passed on to your children once you are gone.

I am so impressed with Fortune and everything it offers. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. There is an opportunity to be an area leader and build a lasting investment. You just need to get started. A quote that our founder often repeats, “The best time to plant an oak tree was thirty years ago, the next best time is today.”

Free Live Webinars

Sunday @ 8:00 pm CDT (Now until June 19, 2011)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/774525922

Monday @ 7:30 PM CDT – Todd Rowland, Presidential Ambassador, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/982065947

Monday 8:00 pm CDT Mondays (Now until March 7, 2011)
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/432735426

Monday @ 9:00 PM CST – Todd Rowland, Presidential Ambassador, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/292641562

Recorded business presentation

National Sales Manager Darla Di Grandi-Aguiler

FHTM Business Overview by NSM Darla DiGrandi from Brock Keen on Vimeo.

Corporate web site
http://www.fhtm.net/

My FHTM web site
http://www.fhtmus.com/mattthiessen

Watch Robert Kiyosaki’s video on why it makes so much sense to do this.
The four quadrants of business explained by Robert Kiyosaki

Extra Videos
http://thereelfhtm.com/

Making plans to retire in Tucson

matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:11:26 +0000

Tucson, Arizona

Someday!

Tucson, Arizona

Check back soon for an update.

Pippy

matt — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:08:13 +0000

Using grep to scrape web pages

matt — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:38:20 +0000

In preperation to scrape a number of web pages, I used grep to make a list of URLs I need to scrape. The list of URLs was in an RSS file.

grep -P “\<\![CDATA\[(.*?)]” hawkeye_stories.xml > hawkeye_stories_links.txt

Bash script to backup a WordPress web site

matt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:31:27 +0000

The script (backup_site.sh) for backing up a site has been modified. It now accepts parameters.

Parameter 1: domain
Parameter 2: database [optional]
Parameter 3: subdomain [optional]

Run as root

/home/root/sites/backup_site.sh gazlab.com matt_wp matt

#!/bin/bash

SITE=$1
SUBDOMAIN=$3
DBNAME=$2

if [ -z "$SUBDOMAIN" ]
then
if [ -z "$DBNAME" ]
then
mysqldump $DBNAME > /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/httpdocs/$DBNAME.sql
fi
tar -czvf $SITE.httpdocs.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/httpdocs
else
if [ -z "$DBNAME" ]
then
mysqldump $DBNAME > /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/subdomains/$SUBDOMAIN/httpdocs/$DBNAME.sql
fi
tar -czvf $SUBDOMAIN.$SITE.httpdocs.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/subdomains/$SUBDOMAIN/httpdocs
fi

exit 0

Saturday morning at Uncle Merlin’s lake

matt — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:31:40 +0000

is_home() not working in my WordPress plugin

matt — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:05:46 +0000

When using is_home(), is_category(), is_page() etc. in my WordPress plugin that displays category-based ads, they kept returning NULL. My problem was that I was calling this these function directly in my plugin. I resolved this by adding these call to … Continue reading →

Belle Plaine outlaws Ultimate Fighting

matt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:29:29 +0000

: Image by Stefan Tell via Flickr

My hometown, Belle Plaine, Iowa, had a bad experience after a recent show in the Legion Hall. I say too bad.

The city council rushes to pass a new ordinance.

Don’t upgrade yet!

matt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:23:14 +0000

I know how tempting it is to press that upgrade button, but don’t do it without backing up those files. Backing up your files first is just too quick and easy to skip when doing it from the command line. Here’s how:

Backup your MySQL database
DATE=`date | tr ” ” _`
mysqldump -u root -p DatabaseName > DatabaseName.$DATE.sql

Backup your web directory
tar cvzf new_filename.tar.gz /var/www/thiessen.us/httpdocs

c = create
v = verbose
z = compress
f = filename is being provided

If you need to restore these files

Restore MySQL database
mysql -u root -p DatabaseName < DatabaseName.Thu_Jun_11_08:14:41_CDT_2009.sql

Restore the web directory

cd /var/www/thiessen.us (change directory to the location of the web directory)

mv httpdocs httpdocs_bad (rename the current web directory)

tar -xzvf httpdocs.tar.gz (uncompress the backup)