Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
I picked up this great tip a few days ago.
If you have a website with Google AdSense ads being displayed on it (and if you are active with their colors and layout), you may notice a spike in earnings whenever you change things up a bit, only to see a steady decline in earnings as time goes on. Then, you change things up again…same thing.
The reason for this phenomenon may be what is called “Ad Blindness.” It’s what happens on websites that have repeat visitors that get used to your ad colors and layout. There are so many discussions on this topic all over the place, but I thought this one was particularly good.
Anyway, what to do? I am going to give you a teensy bit of information to use really quickly. Then, you can go do your own research from people much smarter than me.
To rotate your ad colors, you can change the regular old "FFFFFF"; (or just plain old white) to something that will rotate between white and black, such as ["FFFFFF","000000"];. Do you see where I’m going with this?
Ok, so you know what your Google AdSense code looks like already. Here is a sample of the color portion of that code, with the text color randomly rotating between white and black…
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_text = ["FFFFFF","000000"];
google_color_url = “666666″;
See? That’s easy. You can rotate colors for any color attribute. Give it a try and enjoy…
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
I would first like to say that this post is sponsored by ArticleHub.US and Article Leeg.
Anyway, I found the grand pappy of all article directory lists. Right now, there are 590 article submission websites listed on this page, with more being added every day. When I was looking last week for these types of websites, I found a bunch, but none as eloquently laid out like this. Many of them had multiple pages and all that. What a pain in the butt.
Ok, I’m outty.
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
25 Alternative Uses for Olive Oil
Olive oil also has plenty of uses around your home, outside of the saut é pan. There’s no need to waste your expensive Greek or Spanish Extra Virgin for these tasks, just grab a bottle of inexpensive, domestic olive oil for around-the-house use and start using it to shave, lubricate, and stop snoring.
U.S. bird population cut in half in last 40 years
Twenty common birds — including the northern bobwhite, the field sparrow and the boreal chickadee — have lost more than half their populations in the past 40 years, according to the Audobon’s society’s research. “The focus isn’t really on what’s happening to these 20 birds, but what’s happening to their environment,” said Greg Butcher, the societ…
11 Little Known Killer AdSense Tips You Wish You Knew Earlier
1 Place ads following the F (golden triangle, top-left) pattern, 2 Blend the links with your site, 3 Use a rectangle in top-left, with one paragraph over it, and a link block in the footer, 4 Use two blocks (not more) to get expensive ads, 5 Use alternative color switcher (special AdSense color code) to prevent ad blindness, 6 Read the post.
Are you Lazy? How to Make Laziness Work for You!
You’re feeling lazy right now, and reading blogs instead of doing what you ’re supposed to be doing. That’s OK — we all do that. But let’s look at how to make that laziness work for us, and how to turn lazy into productive.
[PHOTO] Stunning 360 Degree View from the top of Mount Everest
What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked mountains, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above sea level. Locals call it “Sagarmatha” meaning “forehead of the sky”.
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
I wasn’t expecting much from this flower when it started to sprout out of the ground early this Spring. I really had no idea what it even was. It looked kind of like on of those Spider Plants I used to have inside when I was a kid.
The plant started blooming the other day and Laura mentioned that it was a Daylily. I think it looks pretty good.
Here is a little background on the Daylily from the Wikipedia…
“Daylilies can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 11, making them some of the most adaptable landscape plants. Most of the cultivars have been developed within the last 100 years. The large-flowered clear yellow ‘Hyperion’, introduced in the 1920s, heralded a return to gardens of the once-dismissed daylily, and is still widely available.
Daylily breeding has been a specialty in the United States, where their heat- and drought-resistance made them garden standbys during the later 20th century. New cultivars have sold for thousands of dollars; but sturdy and prolific introductions soon reach reasonable prices.”
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
I took this photo this morning. It’s our pink rose bush with some pretty neat water droplets hanging off the edges of the leaves. I don’t know if the droplets are from the morning dew or are actually coming out of each leaf. Oh, well, but take a look, it’s a pretty cool picture…
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
Ok, ok…this is the last one of this little Agway/Sam’s Club series.
Yesterday, we also picked up a “Casa Blanca Oriental Hardy Lily” from our local Agway. This plant is huge at over 3 feet high. Laura fell in love with it as we were browsing through Agway’s garden center.
The thing I really like about this plant is the fact that the flower grows up to 12 inches wide…now that’s a huge flower!!! It seems like it is a tough plant too and spreads (I love that) by way of rhizomes. You know how I feel about rhizomes. Hopefully they will spread and I can split them after a few seasons. Our other lilies in the front garden are spreading, so we’ll see what happens.
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
I didn’t do too much writing in the last post, but I did mention our little blueberry bush that we picked up a few months ago from Sam’s Club. It is now about 4 inches tall.
Yesterday, Laura and I stopped by our local Agway and purchased a nice big blueberry bush. It stands about 3 1/2 feet tall. It was a good deal too at $15, if I remember correctly. I planted it in the backyard near the grape vine. I also put a wire fence around this, because a few years back, Laura and I went blueberry picking up in Binghamton and the bushes were all wired up.
It’s a very nice looking bush. I hope it lasts and roots in well because the dirt was like dust when I dug the hole. I watered it, so we’ll see.
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
A month or two ago, Laura and I picked up this cool box of four plants from Sam’s Club. I think they were two grape vines, a rasberry bush and a blueberry bush. Everything died, except one grape vine and the blueberry bush.
I have been saving the two plants since we purchased them in buckets on the side of the house. This post is about the grape vine…which I believe is a Concord. The vine has pretty much been sitting still with no growth.
I decided yesterday that it might be a good idea to get the vine planted in the real ground, so I found a nice spot in the backyard. I had some left over wire fencing that I could use to surround the vine so it had something to grow on.
I dug the hole and tipped the bucket that the vine was in upside down. When the dirt and vine slid out, I noticed that there were roots touching the bottom of the bucket…then I remembered that grape vines like to root way, way down in the ground. They do this because that’s where the water is and oftentimes, vineyards are dry. I think that perhaps the fact that I had the vine in a bucket for such a long time, the roots couldn’t grow, hence the lack of growth up top.
Looks nice, doesn’t it? I will let you know if the vine ever grows.
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
Joomla! - Open Source Does Matter
Joomla! is moving to ensure the future of the project by committing to compliance with the GNU/GPL licence. This decision reflects a lengthy introspection combined with legal considerations to properly secure the project in the spirit of Open Source. For us, for everyone, Open Source does matter.
Nanotechnology Now Used In Nearly 500 Everyday Products
The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world ’s first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.
Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft
The high priests of free software have congregated at Google Inc. headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and face down recent patent threats by Microsoft Corp.
A Good Year to be a Trekkie
Wil Wheaton talks about why he thinks that it is a good year to be a Trekkie.
Who Should Run Yahoo?
Are Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s days numbered? Almost certainly. Is it too soon to start picking a successor? Not at all — and you can help! You can nominate and vote on the executives you think would make the best Yahoo CEO. Send a message to Sunnyvale: Who’s got the best chance of turning Yahoo around and taking on Google?
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
I have one mystery solved. Remember that post I wrote a few days ago asking what type of flower we have growing in the front yard? I thought it was the “Gaura lindheimeri - Pink Wand Flower.”
Well, as it turns out, it’s not. Laura and I stopped by our local Agway this afternoon and saw our very flower sitting in little plastic cups in their garden center. I was somewhat excited to read the name, to see if I was correct with my previous guess. The actual flower we have is the “Phlox subulata - Moss Phlox, Moss Pink.”
I knew I would get it eventually.
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