It’s been a long day and lunch is now here, finally at 3pm. So I boot up my computer to take a look at stuff and work while I’m eating. Ironically enough, I see Keener’s Blog has a picture of his drinking and doing stuff on the ‘puter. And he thinks he’s a mack daddy with a drink on the table… well I have two drinks!

So, here’s to you Mr. Sean “Brokeback” Keener. I’m toasting the white wine to you (too bad I don’t have a white zinfandel). The red one, that’s for you, Hydro.

This is the first time I’ve got a virus from visiting a web site. I was searching for “web stats” on google, and one of the results (about 13th) was http://www.supercounter.org. Right when the page loaded I was greeted by norton’s antivirus:

Scan type: Realtime Protection Scan
Event: Virus Found!
Virus name: Trojan.Ducky.B
File: C:\Documents and Settings\mika\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\P7J3TX0E\picture[1].wmf
Location: C:\Documents and Settings\mika\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\P7J3TX0E
Computer: MIKA
User: mika
Action taken: Clean failed : Quarantine failed : Access denied
Date found: Wed Feb 22 11:14:36 2006

I wonder if there’s a way to notify google about this malicious site - anyone know? It would be nice to have it removed from the search index.

rallyblogs.com is getting close to done. I’ve got all the back-end processes completed, but now I need to build some user interfaces and some automation. Presenting: rallyblogs - the guerilla news source for rally.

Yay! I’m up to making $9/day average with my Google Adsense / Yahoo Publisher mix. It isn’t a huge amount but it’s given me the initiative and motivation to ramp up some of my web work. Who wouldn’t want a bit of extra cash for a web site that pretty much just runs itself or one that you update anyway?

I’ve gotten a couple emails from people wondering why/how I have ads on some of my sites like this one. I also have them on a couple others such as rallyclassified.com or seafoodblog.org and how exactly I get the ads installed.

It is really simple actually. You only need one things to get started - a web site. Preferably something that has traffic because it’s all about the ratios. More traffic = more clicks = more money. And goo search engine ranking or referrals help a bunch too.

Then, you paste in your Adsense and/or Yahoo Publisher code wherever you want it to appear. I’ve included mine as an example here for both Yahoo and Google.

First, here’s Google:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5051799565436281";
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 600;
google_ad_format = "120x600_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel ="8108558064";
google_color_border = "CCCCCC";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_url = "666666";
google_color_text = "333333";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>


And here’s Yahoo’s Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
ctxt_ad_partner = "1835604550";
ctxt_ad_section = "24114";
ctxt_ad_bg = "";
ctxt_ad_width = 160;
ctxt_ad_height = 600;
ctxt_ad_bc = "FFFFFF";
ctxt_ad_cc = "FFFFFF";
ctxt_ad_lc = "0000FF";
ctxt_ad_tc = "000000";
ctxt_ad_uc = "999999";
// -->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://ypn-js.overture.com/partner/js/ypn.js">
</script>


It’s been my experience that Yahoo pays more per click on average (some of mine are almost $2) but their targeting still needs a lot of work, and their quantity of advertisers is lower. Google ads seem to “fit” better with my sites, but hey - money talks too!

Go get-em Tiger!

I had this idea to test out and see what Google Adsense for Domains (originally Oingo) would do for my domains. Now, they want 750,000 page visits per month to even talk to you and I’m no where near that. I just wanted to see what it would do so I found someone who was using it, and rewrote the URL with one of my own domains. No, I’m not going to make money on it if you click through one of their links, some random company/person will, but I thought it was interesting especially since their backend accepts the request seamlessly.

Try it and see:
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=WORL2323&s=seafoodblog.org
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=WORL2323&s=yahoo.com
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=WORL2323&s=google.com
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=WORL2323&s=ioan-fodor.com

I set up a voicemail to email (it attaches it as wav and emails it to me) for one of my online ventures. This way, I get to have a phone number on my web site but it doesn’t ring to my cell phone all the time, because that’s the only phone I own.

So, here we are! My first call from a customer.

Wonderfully enough, I’m making money without any phone calls so I don’t have to really care. Just thought this was funny.

Well, I finally figured out the cause of the water problem at the house. The neighbor’s apartment building gutter was clogged and overflowing. So all the water from their roof flowed down the hill into my backyard, right toward the basement window.

I was wondering why there was SO much water compared to previously. There never was anything near this quantity ever before, and now again since Noel (Our new worker-dude) climbed up and cleaned them out. We also did some serious improvement to the french-drain so things flow really nice so if it ever happens again, it should be no biggie.

I am quite relieved, to say the least. Now I just have to get it sold and some cash in hand!

I would really love it if someone could send me an invitation code for Google Analytics.

They’re using the Urchin engine, which does about the best job out there. I’ve used Urchin for years and it absolutely rocks! But, it’s a bit spendy…

Notice the popcorn inside the hard-hat. And no, it’s not mine.

I just posted this on the company’s blog and thought it was useful enough (read: strange enough) to share.