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Unhealthy: The AdSense/Yahoo Ad Click Hype

28 Jul, 2006  Comments are off

As you can see from both of my blogs, I use Google’s AdSense as well as Yahoo’s Publisher Network contextual advertisement systems (on seperate blogs, of course*). Due to the over-protective rules of these programs I can not give any specifics about what my earnings are. So I won’t.

…but let me tell you, I am REALLY sick of stories like this.

They suggest that all that you have to do is start a blog or a web site about some random subject and lo’ and behold, you’ll be raking in the dough.

Nonsense!

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The Pirate Bay’s Machine Name

28 Jun, 2006  Comments are off

These people are my fricking heroes.

I’ve been doing tracerts to some domains out of curiosity as a result of this article on Wired. It’s a quick How-To to check if your traffic is being routed through AT&T and thus the NSA.

So I done a tracert on thepiratebay.org. How could I pass that up? When I saw the results I laughed out loud! click here to see it.

Sorry, ImageShack wouldn’t thumbnail the image.

Perhaps this is old news for most of you, but it was obviously new to me.

~Steph