Last year (2005) when I started my first WordPress blog, I was looking for a better way to stick Google AdSense ads to the posts, and an easy way to manage where and when those ads are shown. Since nothing existed at the time, I sat down to write my own WordPress plugin, AdSense-Deluxe.
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It seems that everytime I start trying to satisfy some curiosity of mine — like learning about electric food smokers — About.com pages come up high in the search results. But I can’t stand that site! Maybe I’ve never given them a fair chance, but my intial reaction is always that there’s too many ads intermingled with too little information, and they string you from one page to the next with the hope that following an enticing link will bring you to what you seek. And let’s not forget the framing of offsite pages…. But they are so ubiquitious (and now owned by the Times Corporation … think NYT). Anyone have some good things to say about About.com?
I went on a post-Christmas kitchen buying spree tonight picking up a couple of items for my kitchen which I’ve had my eye on for several years. One, a heavy-duty stand mixer, the other a food vacuum packaging device.
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I had to replace my old G4 Titanium PowerBook last week when the cat knocked it to the floor and busted both hinges, (note: PBResQ is going to repair the hinges and bezel around the LCD for me. I’ve sent friends to them for iPod battery replacements and other iPod repairs) so I ran out and purchased a new 15″ 1.67GHz superdrive PowerBook from MacMall, only to unpack it and find it had a dead battery which wouldn’t charge and even worse, a totally defective trackpad button.
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