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Affiliate programs
In an effort to monetize my blog, I was recently looking at affiliate programs. In an affiliate program, I link to products, sites, or services that I like or think others would, and for every person who signs up or buys something at my recommendation, I get a cut of the profit.
Unfortunately, the two I was looking at don’t seem to want me.
Spam
Every time I mention spam to Jennifer (my wife) in relation to her inbox, she says she doesn’t care about it, that it doesn’t bother her. She doesn’t even delete spam. What gets past GMail’s (excellent) spam filter just sits in her inbox, and some of it, I am sure, has been there since she opened her account.
The other day, I was reading about 419 scams. You know, those Nigerian
“I have some money I need to get out of the country so if you give me your bank account number I will put it in your account and you can keep some” emails. I read that the basic premise behind the scam existed in the sixteenth century, and went to tell my wife this. I was halfway through explaining what a Nigerian 419 scam was when she interrupted me and told me, “Those are real, you know”.
Google Homepage with Tabs!
A while back there was a “rumor” circulated via digg that Google Personalized Homepage was going to be offering tabs soon. I just refreshed my page and saw this! There was a tab (in Google blue, naturally) marked “Home” with … Continue reading
Home Depot, Camino
Well, it turns out that the Amish store doesn’t need me more than once a week or so, so I got me a full time job at Home Depot. I make the same, but also get some bad-ass benefits. The … Continue reading
IM Smarter
IM Smarter is a program that does several tiny jobs so seamlessly that it should be in everyone’s software arsenal.
Edit: the service has now shut down. Bummer