Jerry sent me the link to a blog called Online Siesta that he suggested that I read. I found it interesting because it is a blog about how to make money with blogs! It is full of great tips on how to make money with your blog. As I’m reading the blog I see that it is written by the Vice President of Infolinks.com, which sells in-text link advertising. Apparently the way bloggers make money with this is similar to other programs where the blogger puts in hypertext links that generate revenue when the reader clicks on the link.
That seems like it is a good way to make money, assuming that the reader actually clicks on the link. As for me, when I’m reading someone else’s blog I really can’t say that I click very often on the links. I wonder how many other people actually click on them? I really enjoyed reading the post about the 10 top reasons to NOT use in text advertising – it obviously is sprinkled with sardonic humor that I get a kick out of!
Ever since I can recall, my wife has been very anti-gun. She has been vocal about how much she feels uncomfortable having my guns in the house. She’s says she’s afraid that if someone breaks into the house and finds them that they will use the guns against her. Yesterday I went out to run a few errands, and when I got home she surprised me by telling me that she wants to learn how to shoot my .25! It seems that a couple of strangers came driving up our long driveway and it scared her pretty badly. So now she wants me to take her to the shooting range and show her how to handle a gun – just in case she ever needs to use it. I think it’s a good idea, but I wonder how she’ll take to the gun! She’s been so vocal against it in the past. It will be interesting – that is for sure!
Will tells me that he has finally decided to go to an outplacement melbourne consultant to see if they can help him to find his next job. He’s been looking for a job for over a year now, every since his company laid off a hundred employees. It sure seems that the economy troubles are not being confined to the United States! I blame corporate greed and corruption for those troubles. There really should be a better system “out there” that enables everyone to make a decent living and not simply support the “rich get richer and the poor get poorer” spiral that we seem to be stuck in.
But I digress. Will said that his sister Becky used a career outplacement sydney service to help her to re-evaluate her job skills and find a new career, so he is hopeful that they will be able to help him to land a new job too. It has been very difficult to survive this past year and he is sinking deep into debt. I certainly can empathize with that! I hope it works out for him.
When we first moved into this house I went up into the attic and saw that we had an attic fan. I couldn’t figure out how it was supposed to work; everything that I tried to make it run didn’t seem to have any effect. Well, finally I got around to having a handyman service come out to the house and take a look at it. I hated to admit defeat, but my wife was reminding me frequently that we really should be running it to help keep the costs of cooling the house low. Well, it turns out that the motor was burnt out. No wonder it wouldn’t run! We determined that it was cheaper to replace the motor than to replace the entire fan, which was surprising, but good news. So we replaced the motor and now it runs just fine. I hope we will see a difference on our electric bill next month!
One of the things I really like to do on vacations is to go to resorts that give you the feeling of being in a rustic lodge. Decorated with the kind of rustic furniture that looks like the pieces were made of sticks and twigs that give you the feeling that the people who live there went out into the woods themselves and cut down the saplings and bent the twigs into the shapes for the chairs and tables. It gives me a feeling of being connected to the earth, and to the pioneers, and I like that!
Business and work, Computers and/or Internet, Money and finances | Dean | 
July 19, 2009 11:17 am | 
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