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A year after joining Google’s AdSense program, I finally got up to $100 in ad revenue at the end of June. I got a check towards the end of July. I was hoping for a really fancy colorful Google check, but it’s just a normal looking one. Someone needs to sell them some better checks.

Meanwhile, the Sony page I made is doing great. It gets more hits than the battery pack page but only half the hits of the dejumbler page. However it gets a lot more ad clicks and, in July, accounted for nearly half of the monthly revenue, getting 1,546 page views, 65 ad clicks, and $7.21 in revenue.

While in Perdido Eric bought this book on the first day it came out and finished it the following day. Then David read it in two days and I was able to start it, but then had to buy a copy myself when I got home so I could finish it.

Continue reading “The Half Blood Prince”

At Perdido, Kelly pointed out that there are colored dots on the bottom of soda cans. Different cans have different colors. I checked all the cans and they all had a dot of some color on the bottom. Even cans from the same 12-pack will have different colors. I thought there had to be a reason, but didn’t know what it might be. I did a search on Google and had the answer in minutes:

http://www.nordson.com/Businesses/Container/Products/containerinkdot.htm

In a factory there might be several machines printing the cans and each machine prints a different color dot on the bottom of the can. This way, if there is a problem they will know which machine to shut down while the other machines continue working.

Big daddy blogmaster

Spares us from disaster

He’s vector-based or raster

And fights off the evil Blaster

Happy Birthday Jeb!!!!

While watching Avondale’s excellent fireworks with Mom (down from 16 people) last night I saw some kids playing with sparklers. For years sparklers were the only fireworks you could buy legally in Georgia and we got to play with them when we were kids. But I got hurt worse and more often from sparklers than any kind of firework I can think of. Sparklers consist of a flaming hot wire spewing sparks that kids wave around while burning each others retinas out. Meanwhile with regular fireworks everyone knows the rules: light fuse and get away. What could be simpler than that?