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Many things

..have happened in the past few days. I shuffled around some sites, created a donate page for the solar car project, and snapped up gsearchblog.com. Dunno, I just like doing stuff like that. I’ve also tried some new AdSense placements, specifically, on Invision Plus. The problem with a forum community is that they retaliate against…Continue Reading…

Free Mini Macs

I’ve got three referrals and need seven more. [Update: Complete!] There’s some question as to whether this really works, but since it’s free, there’s not much to lose. Sign up and complete an offer. I’d appreciate it. November 2007 Update: Wow, how interesting to find this old post again. For my own reference, and anyone…Continue Reading…

Lots of clicks with low earnings

On one of the GC ad channels, in the past 7 days, I have over 5,000 clicks reported but less than $4 earned. It works out to about $0.0006 per click! I think the earnings are correct, but the clicks count is way too high. On the other end of the scale, the footer ad…Continue Reading…

Added leaderboard to top of topic views

These new ads at GC will apply only to Guests. Not only will it help to monetize traffic from them, it may also push them to register since registered (and logged in) users don’t get the ads. One concern I have is whether Google will continue to show the ads with higher bid prices in…Continue Reading…

First entry in the AS Journal

Here’s a little something I’ll start doing with my blog. As recommended by an eBook I just purchased, I’ll start keeping an AS journal. Before buying the book, I was already blending text ads into my sites. But it’s been a further motivator and validated some thoughts I’d had. One of these is the supremacy…Continue Reading…

The file serenum.sys is corrupted

Attempting to install Windows XP Home Edition on a Pentium4 PC. “The file serenum.sys is corrupted.” In efforts to locate the source, I swapped out hard drives, XP install CDs, CD-ROM drives, IDE cables… I took out one of the sticks of RAM (there were two). I had really thought the problem would be the…Continue Reading…