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It has been just over a month since I decided to try to optimize the advertising revenue for this site, and I’d have to say that overall it has been extremely successful.  But, I know that I’m nowhere near being done (my goal is to have Steve Pavlina like growth for 2006).  The optimization has three main parts: Create ...

A couple months back John Scalzi (my favorite, new, sci-fi author) had a blog post with a picture of his daughter and some of her new “friends”, plush toy Giant Microbes.  The obviously staged, frightened look on her face while looking at the giant microbes was priceless, but John’s comment “I do sometimes wonder ...

Seeing that Google recently changed their terms of service, and now allows you to publish your GoogleAds earnings, I figure that I have an obligation to the readers of this blog to let you know that I’m now $18.12 richer for adding GoogleAds to my site.  Now, that was about 4 days shy of a month, and I haven’t changed my ...

I finally broke down and added some advertising to my site.  I’ve noticed that a lot of my friends have added them, and I was curious to see what sort of money the ads can bring in.  I really don’t expect to make much (if any), but I might as well give it a shot.  I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on a ...

If I didn’t know better I would think that John Scalzi read my mind while summing up the whole “Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays” issue with the post, Merry Christmas, You Godless Jerk.  If you enjoy that post, then definitely go on and read his post on why he teaches his daughter about the religious ideas behind Christmas, ...

If you are a sci-fi fan and like Heinlein’s work, you may want to check out a newly published sci-fi book “Old Man’s War” by John Scalzi.  He has a bunch of other (non-novel type) books, but this is his first published book (he previously released another book, Agent To The Stars on the web, and can download for ...

This is old news for most of the readers who develop using .Net, but I know that there are at least a few of you that may not know of this info.  Sometimes I forget about the non-techie readers, and figure that most of my readers already know this stuff, so I don't post an entry on it. Steve Smith is a MS MVP in ASP.Net and president of ...

Rory is coming down from Connecticut on Friday April 30 to visit NYC for the weekend, which means it is time for the first NYC Nerd Dinner.  Where and when?  Well seeing that there is a special meeting of the NYC .Net Group that night, we will probably meet there and go out afterwards.  This is Rory’s first time in the big ...