Sep 18 2008

Those of you who read my blog regularly might notice that I’ve added a couple more AdSense ads to my page, a leaderboard at the top, and an ad in the first post, in addition to the sidebar Adsense unit that’s always been there.

I’m trying to monetize it a bit to cover the cost of hosting for my various websites, but now that my Matched.co.uk ads are paying out quite well, I’m considering dropping them to help make the site look a bit cleaner. I am earning a very small amount from the Adsense units, but I think it might be better to just get rid of them for a nice clean site look…

What do people think… obtrusive? Shall I get rid of them? Or keep them?… I wonder…

Jun 18 2008

If you’ve been following my Twitters/blog for a few days you should notice I’m getting hyped for Hellfest. Well this is my last regular blog post until at least next Monday. I’ll try and keep this up to date with Twitter updates, and I’ll try and post a blog if I’m not too passed out. Anyway, the ferry is at 11:30pm tonight, we’ve gotta be there at 9:30pm (silly, I know!) so I’d better get a move on!

Farewell to thee all, fair readers, temporarily anyway.

Oh, and get some tickets for Frosthold!

Jun 11 2008

Am I lazy? Yes, probably. Now that my Twitter digest posts are working again it tells me how much I’m not posting… and I haven’t posted here in a whole 4 days! Oh noes, whatever will become of me… Truth be told, I’ve not had much of a chance to blog to be honest, even about things I’ve wanted to blog about at work or at home.

I have just recently got back from a meeting with one of our partners in (stupidly busy, traffic-wise) Farnham, which ended sooner than I thought. I also thought I’d have little-to-no envolvement as I didn’t think I’d have any idea what anyone was talking about. On the upper hand, I actually had a reasonable amount of input (at least when the other tecchie guy came in), and knew more-or-less what they were talking about. All-in-all, a successful meeting I think.

Well, I’m back in the office now anyway, after getting aggravated at all the stupidly slow drivers on the A32 (30mph in a national speed limit, anyone?), and we have an hour to go ’til we depart to Southampton to check out the delights of the masterful Bon Jovi. Should be fun to see the classics such as “Livin’ on a Prayer”, “Bad Name” and “It’s My Life”, amongst others. I’ve never been a huge fan of Bon Jovi, but I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to see him for free, courtesy of Netbasic! Looking forward to it though.

Oh, and while I’m bloggin’, check out dis shizzle: Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs. A few of them are quite funny, but I think you have to know about the music to get some of them. Some gentle lols came out of me anyway…

May 11 2008

Posted by mobile phone:
As the title suggests, today was quite tiring for me. I spent most of it re-installing Ubuntu Server on Oblivion and getting fustrated with my consistently buggy backplane (new one arriving tomorrow!). Finally I managed to get Virtualmin up and running properly so the migration from Tampa can begin soon. The new server cases will arrive tomorrow so I expect tomorrow evening will be spent moving the hardware to the cases. I have a feeling the cabinet I have will fit the cases but have very little room at the back to breathe. I feel the need to buy a KVM switch is growing now I am moving into rack-mounted realms, so that is probably next on my list of stuff to buy. Anyway, I’m now sat chilling in the Deco with a pint, again having just had pizza… Hannah’s mum went to the train station and is on her way home now. I feel tired and sleepy, but life must go on…

Apr 15 2008

Posted by mobile phone:
Well after exploring a few options for posting by mobile, I’ve finally found a half decent plug-in to use thanks to Newboy and the creator of WordPress Mobile of course, Andy Moore. How shiny! Not that I needed to use my phone as I am sitting right next to my PC…