Nebulous

Someone suggested I set up Adsense, just for the heck of it.   So I said, “Sure.  Why not?  There’s nothing to lose.”

And there’s barely anything gain either, as I would find out! 

From Nov. 11, 2009 to Feb. 15, 2010 Adsense has earned me a whopping $0.31!

Is this a criticism of Adsense?    Definitely not!  There’s many people who earn a decent amount of money from Adsense and it’s tied to the content of the site— black hat sites that game the system not withstanding…

What I’m really saying is that I lead a life less than ordinary and I suck at blogging for commercial purposes.

Last night, one of my blogs went down with a server error without my knowledge.  I decided to hunt for a freeware website monitoring application.  Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before…

I didn’t spend too much time hunting since the Google results were just clogged with a lot of non-freeware and external service-based results.  It really shouldn’t be this hard to find a decent enough website monitor application!

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It’s a coincidence that I should come across that “evil robot” article about the same time I was looking into my web logs…

I haven’t complained in a while about bad bots» but turns out that a few of them have been hammering my blogs on a regular basis, increasing server memory usage and eating up my monthly bandwidth allotment.

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Wordpress has the ability to save different revisions of a saved post.  While this “roll-back” capability is incredibly helpful, it can lead to database bloat over time.

I’ve been using two plug-ins that I’ve found to be quite useful for keeping revision bloat at bay.

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