I’ve always been a big fan of Google, so I was really surprised today when I found some stuff where Microsoft seems to be doing a better job than Google. Microsoft of course has the advantage of familiarity when it comes to programs like Word and Excel. But I was surprised to see Microsoft has some great “Cloud” apps. Google has been making a bold move towards cloud computing with… Read More »Windows Live Skydrive rivals Google Docs?
So it turns out December was my best month yet on this site trafficwise (which isn’t saying much). I have made minimal to no effort to assist this website in getting decent rankings in search engines, aside from doing the usual set-up within WordPress. During the summer months, I did get a lot of traffic from my pages on the Keter Bellevue Shed. I would have hoped that was the case, as… Read More »People just love the unusual suggested searches
You can see my initial post on the topic of Placement ads vs Contextual ads here. Last month I had my November update when I had some mixed results. I figured I’d do a December update now. Since my last updated was on November 21, I figured I’d look at November 22 through December 21. For Website #1 which was up to 6.5% placement ads in November, it is now… Read More »Trying to maximize adsense revenue
I figured I would also try posting from within the android browser to see. How that works. The above is as far as I got in the browser and now I’m back to the android app to edit and add the rest. The browser was painfully slow. I’m not sure if it is trying to spellcheck as I went along or what, but it was worse than even using firefox… Read More »Working on posting here from Android
I’ve been playing around with running Android on my Touch Pro 2 and while I usually stick with a modified Rom in Windows Mobile, I decided I would see if there is a good blogging app for android. It turns out there is a wordpress app which is what I’m using now. Unfortunately, Android is far from a finished product for the Touch Pro 2. I’m amazed that people were… Read More »Using my microsoft phone to run Android?
In my previous post about Google Adsense Placement Ads vs Contextual Ads I mentioned that I had added channels to each of my ads on some of my sites, and I set them to be available for placement ads. From what I understand, placement ads are where an advertiser has specifically approved their ads to run on your website and possibly even specified which place on your website the ads… Read More »November update on how placement adsense ads are doing
I’m an internet junkee. I admit it. That’s the first step, right? Anyway – today I’ve been missing my ability to access google from my cell phone. It’s weird that I am still able to get my email through the exchange server, but I can’t access any google web pages, including gmail, google.com, and their news. I couldn’t find much information about this online. I for sure wasn’t able to… Read More »Sprint 3G network not letting me access some major sites
We were deciding whether to get more furniture or redo the closet in the baby’s room. While I’m somewhat handy, I definitely do not consider myself a big do-it-yourselfer. However, a year ago when we moved in, I did consider redoing the closet in our master bedroom. When we moved in, the house came with very basic closets. The closets consisted of a basic wire shelf from which you can… Read More »EasyClosets Review with Photos of the Installation
I spent a bunch of time today working on improving my channels in Adsense. I had received a note from Google in my account suggesting I allow advertisers to target my channels as that would improve revenue. They told me to do this in advance of the shopping season. I don’t really have any big seasonal items to sell, though, so I wasn’t in a big hurry to do this. … Read More »Are setting up channels for placement ads worth the trouble in Adsense?
So my cousin is in from out of town staying with us. He takes my 3 year old Toyota Highlander out to run an errand. On his way back, he’s making a left turn at a stop light to turn onto our street. He’s waiting in the intersection and then the light turns yellow and as it’s turning red he starts to make his turn. Unfortunately, there is a 21… Read More »What happens when someone else is driving your car and crashes it