I have never been much satisfied with Adsense for celebrity sites anyways. Since last 5-6 months Google Adsense has been paying a cent or two for every click i get on my celebrity sites network. Believe me, i have lot of traffic on those sites and i really do get lot of clicks there. An average 100 clicks give me $2.00 only. I mean, this really is insane. Isn’t it? Is that what the advertisers at adwords are really paying for celebrity sites? I feel totally looted here!
Anyways, recently i was browsing my Adsense account and there in those green highlighted pointers it was written that verifying your website via Google Webmaster Tools will help us serve you better. Well, i thought this is it. Much targeted ads, much more money and much better revenue for the celebrity sites. So i readily added and verified all my celebrity websites. So what do you think? Problem solved? Am i earning more now?
Lol Not really. It’s even worse! Now an average 100 clicks give me $0.50 to $0.75. There you are Google Adsense. You really are brilliant with getting much more targeted ads.
My Dear God. Who in the world pays less than 1 cent per click to any advertiser program in the whole wide world?
I checked the ads running on my sites. Just reading the url and opening them in new windows. Each and every site is Made for Adsense (MFA). And they look worse. With absolutely no content. For God sake even blogspot blogs are being advertised by Adsense! Where is the Google TOS of “good landing page” being applied? I just want to ask, why is Google so dumb with their advertisers? And yet they come out brave and merciless when it comes to paid advertising on other sites which we have, by deindexing and banning and PR ripping things. What is it with you Google? Why don’t you get a life? Why can’t you live your own life and let live others their own?
Fact is, Google won’t let you sell advertising on your sites and blah blah blah, because they want people to use Adsense instead. But hey, they will not let you earn with Adsense either. Because they can’t filter MFA’s from their advertiser program.
So there you have it. Google Adsense vs. Celebrity Sites. You clearly know who the winner is! Don’t ruin your life. Get some better publisher advertisement programs on your celebrity sites.
Recently i wrote how good the new wordpress 2.5 was in each and every aspect. But it has a such a big security issue. Only advance techies noted that. And then of course there was the media library upload issue with wordpress 2.5.
Anyways, with many bigs and problems and reports, Wordpress had to come with a new version and today they launched the new version 2.5.1. Three big bug fixes including the media bug, one major security fix and around 70 other bugs fixed. This is what you will be getting in 2.5.1
I think i read somewhere that they also enhanced performance for Dashboard, writing post,editing comments and widgets administration. Good thing is that new wordpress has the fix for Internet Explorer layouts issues. So probably, this is a much more stable release. And it’s not a rocket science, but you better upgrade your bloggies to this version fast. At least for the security issue sake! Good luck!
It’s been a lot many days since the official Wordpress 2.5 was launched. As and when it was available on my webhost’s fantastico upgrades, i as usual, upgraded one blog immediately. Just to see how the thing were with the new version. To my surprise, this update was not just any usual bug fix or something. It’s a total revamping of the script inside out. The login panel, the design panel, everything has been changed. And i was like Wow!!! wordpress is really up to something this time
Anyways, after browsing all the features, trying out all the different things and heavenly satisfied with the new version, i logged in again to al my 5 webhosts and upgraded all the wordpress blogs that i have to the new 2.5 version! Upgrades very pretty neat and all went smoothly. And i was very very happy about the new wordpress.
Now came the next day and i wanted to start a new blog which is somewhat related to MoBikes. Each and every post is bound to have some pics or few of the talked about motorcycles. So i wrote whole of the content, added the tags and all and then checked the add media which was a wonderful thing. All AJAX and very comfortable. I just selected the pic and clicked on upload….and then this bastard comes up….”Crunching” and next thing you know, the image wasn’t uploaded and there is an HTML error. I tried more times with the same process but would that ever do any difference. No… i saw the same errors again. Anyways, i then went to wordpress support forums and searched for the crunching error and no surprises, as i found two long threads already there. One was a useless discussion of PHP with no one making no progress and heading nowhere. So i closed that thread and went to other thread. In that thread the same problem was discussed. The second reply came from a guy with the weblog “D Technology Weblog”. I think it’s a pretty big blog but honestly been there first time. Anyways, this guy gave the solution to add some code to .htaccess file. I did that and yes it certainly fixed the bug! And now again, Wordpress is a beautiful script. You will love the Media Library and the AJAX upload system. I am glad i found the bug fix. Else i would had to downgrade all the 2.5 versions to whichever lower version that worked best.
By the way, here is the code that i added in the .htaccess file on the root.
<ifmodule mod_security.c>
<files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</files>
</ifmodule>
Alright, so i hope you don’t get this error but if you do, then you know what you need to fix that bug. If you still can’t fix it with the above method, then may God help you. And hey, there is another method out there to fix this bug, which actually disables your AJAX upload system. Please do not try that and spoil all the beauty of your wordpress admin panel. Good day!
I am not sure since how long i have been using Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 BETA. It’s been long now. But till today it was such a pleasant experience with this wonderful Yahoo messenger.
Today, i was chatting with a friend and all of a sudden, i was signed out from messenger. Well no problems. Has happened before also, wasn’t a big deal!!! So i clicked again on the sign in button and within two seconds i was back online! But this time there was a big problem.
I cannot see any contacts. I cannot add any contacts. It’s a messenger window totally blank, totally white! My friends and Y! messenger buddies can contact me via IM and i can reply to them. But the messenger list is absolutely empty. Anyways, since i needed to contact someone in emergency, i had to manually do so by pressing Ctrl+M and then chose the contact and then chat with him. There is no other way i can see who is online and it’s so damn difficult to contact someone.
I have attached the image showing my present messenger.
Anyways, i searched for it in Yahoo! answers and Google! Many are facing this problem indeed. But there is no solution on the whole world wide web. Some suggested that they downgraded it to Yahoo Messenger 8.1. Well, i tried. Now running the 8.1 messenger, i do see my contacts. But whenever i send an IM, it shows a blank window. No matter what you type, nothing goes past it. Tired of searching for all possible solutions, i just upgraded it back to Yahoo Messenger 9.0 BETA. Problem still remains. Solution still does not exists for me.
Anyone, anywhere, anytime…If you do have any solution for this, then please let me know. And i need Yahoo! messenger. Please do not suggest Trillian or MSN or such service!
Thanks!
Also if you’re facing similar problem, then join my Gang. which apparently does not exists!
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.
I believe that all Indian cities will face a power cutoff too. From 8 to 9 P.M. At least my city, Panchkula will. And i believe that it’s truly a necessity for every person in the whole wide world to participate in Earth Hour. Even if your local authorities do not cut the power by 8, then go for it, do it yourself. Support the most expected biggest event on Earth, called the Earth Hour. I strongly support Earth Hour and so should you!
Well i noticed even Google supports the Earth Hour in a brilliant unique way. It shows that on it’s homepage. Just go visit www.google.com.
If you missed the looks at Google on this Earth Hour, then here it is just for you:
My green hulk friend, Robert a.k.a Rob a.k.a an0n, and i were having a conversation and he told me about this great new search engine kinda thing called “SearchMe.com“. I initially thought that it must be some another directory or something similar. But he specifically asked me to watch the video. So i did! And it’s damn interesting thing. Now that i like it, i think you should too watch the video. So here it is….
This is what i call future of search engines. This is what they should look like. We see what we search for. The video must have explained it all to you but for those who didn’t had time for watching it, well, as and when you start typing in the search bar, the site shows you some relevant categories to your query. When you click on the specific category, instead of the normal web results with an anchor text and small description, you instead see the complete web pages as an images. And the results show up in form of images lined up after one another, just the way songs do in iPod or Apple iTunes. Anyways, you can click the image to go to the web page itself. Or you can move the cursor to the bottom of the image and it will show you the information regarding the concerned site. Pretty cool, isn’t it!!!
Anyways, SearchMe.com is in Beta right now. Just signup for the invitations. If you get your Beta invitation, then enjoy the new era of “Searching The Web”. Else youhave to be satisfied with the following image itself. Good luck and Good day!!!
It’s pretty unusual thing that has been going around in Google Mail since last three or four days. Everyday i delete some 15-20 spam mails, all selling some V pills or some Microsoft, Adobe’s software for 30-40 bucks, etc. I remember, Google Mail was pretty strict in letting the spam out. But i guess they are not keeping up to mark or up to date, so as to speak.
Of course i have been reporting the spams to Gmail via the feature “Report Spam”…. But i think the same mails again ends up in the inbox the following day. So certainly, at least on my end, Google Mail is not working perfectly as it usually, always did.
Finally, i have reached the last part of “Television Soaps Killing Me Slowly”
And i would like to end with my personal favorite of all the soaps i have been watching. It’s the “Coupling UK“. I have just watched one episode of Coupling US Series and i must admit that Susan is very beautiful indeed in the US series. Anyways, talking about Coupling UK Series, well, i have watched all the four seasons that i have. And i have watched all episodes twice. You really can’t get bored of it, Can you?
Coupling is a comedy series, kinda sex comedy actually. It’s one of the most hilarious soaps of all. There are six main characters. A new guy though was introduced in the fourth season. Let’s have a look at the characters before i say more on the series. Here are the characters:
Starting with ladies, let’s talk about the character Jane Christie. Her role is played by Gina Bellman. She is the girl in the extreme left in the above pic. Well Jane is a completely insane girlie. She is a traffic reporter by profession and is known for her desperation for men, flirty nature and sexually explicit reports. She is a self claimed bisexual however truly she never dated a single woman in the series. She has got an incredible sense of humor is much more known for her desperate attempts to get a man. Often being hilariously rude to others in that attempt, though.
Then there is Susan Walker. She is the girl sitting next to Jane in the pic above. Her role is played by Sarah Alexander. Normally she is very organized and sensible in the series. I just love the way she uses the word “Apparently”, which she often does when she is angry about something. It’s the arguments and difference of opinions between Susan and her boyfriend/fiancee which gave me good laughs. Well she is a successful woman in her career, speaks French (I am not sure how well) and she is really good at cooking. Well….Apparently
Sally Harper. She is the grl on the extreme right in the above picture. Her role is played by Kate Isitt. She is obsessed with her own appearance, all the time. She runs a beauty parlor and she is constantly worrying about the effects of aging and her looks. And i do mean, ALL the time. She is probably the most insecure and resentful out of the bunch.
Moving onto the men, well the guy right in the center in the above pic is Steve Taylor. Character played by Jack Davenport. He is ex of Jane and present boyfriend/fiance of Susan. As some one mentioned, “Steve is the perfect guy to say exact wrong thing at the wrong time”. Ha Ha… I love the pressure mounting situations in Coupling. Steve has never been able to handle any kind of pressure what so ever and this often lead to hilarious inappropriate and unexpected answers. Steve has more common sense compared to the other two lads in the show, but still he is never in full control of the situation. His expressions are excellent and he is pretty handsome too. Season 4 ends with Susan and Steve having a baby.
Then comes Patrick Maitland. He is the guy standing behind Stev, next to Sally in the image above. Character played by Ben Miles, whom i also saw in a recent movie named “V for Vendetta”. Anyways, in the series, Patrick is really good at getting women to bed. He has just one thing on his mind always: sex. Once Sally was trying to convince Patrick that she is only a friend to him and not a date. Patrick says he didn’t understood her. Sally asks as to what he called people whom he wasn’t looking to have sex with and Patrick replied “Men” So that’s Patrick in short. He is Susan’s ex and Sally’s boyfriend in fourth season. He was initially nicknamed by Sally as “Donkey” and “Tripod” because of his large size (you know what ) And Patrick also collects videos of nights spent with different girlfriends in his rather large “Cupboard of Love”. Great character again.
Lastly, the guy called Jeff Murdock. Character played Richard Coyle. He is the guy sitting on extreme right on the sofa in the above image. God! Where did they get this guy from? If you think that Coupling was hilarious. Think again. Jeff, actually puts life in the word “Comedy” Coupling is far more better because of Jeff Murdock. He is Steve’s best friend. He is constantly frustrated for sex. He has ridiculous stories and imaginations all the time. His fantasies for women and sex, well you can’t even imagine them. Jeff is terrible at talking to women. He stumbles a lot. He sweats badly. He makes lies over lies, all unintentionally and then end up saying something stupid like “I Like to have women’s ears in my bucket, full of ears”. A complete hilarious nonsense. All his saying always backfires on him. Anyways, despite thse, he is very fond of using the words like “breasts” “stockings”, etc and continues to utter them every now and then, even in conversations. Sometimes, the whole lot is having serious talks and Jeff will jump in with some nasty stories like Blob or “Oh Jeffrey” or Giggle Loop and various other theories. He is such a great character. Too bad he wasn’t there in season 4.
Moving on from the leading characters, well, Coupling UK features no recurring characters that last beyond a few episodes. In the series, “the women are mainly confident and sexually quite voracious, whilst the blokes are completely useless, riddled with self doubt and awkwardness. Coupling was written by Steven Moffat and was aired on BBC from 2000 to 2004.
The best part of Coupling is that you never get bored of it. I have already watched all four season twice and nothing will stop me from watching is more times. Besides, laughter never bores you, Does it? I would recommend everyone to get the DVD’s if you haven’t watched it yet. It would be a shame if you missed such a soap in this lifetime. Atleast watch some YouTube videos to get the excitement started…
And with this, i just completed the “Television Soaps Killing Me Slowly…” series. I watched all these four great serials in a span of two three months. I nearly became a TV freak. I just hope i do not start watching the next DVD’s of Prison Break too soon, for my own health
Ally Web Directory became an authority site/directory today. I know it’s not a very special thing but still it’s a lot “special”. At least now, people can differentiate better directories from rest of the lot. At least now people will not judge directories on PageRank alone. It’s a good feeling to own a quality directory which even Google ranks as an authority site.
If you don’t know about what usually webmaster refer to an authority site, then here is some brief description.
What actually most of webmaster call as authority sites are basically a feature of Google search engine called Sitelinks. They are the links shown below few sites in Google’s search engine results and are solely meant to help users navigate the site, much more easily. Accordingly to Google, they have a system (algorithm) which analyzes the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users to quickly find the information that they are looking for on your site.
Ally Web Directory is now an authority directory (so as to speak) with 7 sitelinks to the directory. It is a huge bonus. Specially when you know that page rank is not the thing that’s going to actually prove the worth of Ally Directory. The news kinda made my day. After probably whole year of Google’s miseries, this is the only good thing that happened in Google and mine relationship. Lol
Thanks to my close friend, Sumit Bahl for breaking this news to me.
Fox’s 24, is one of the most famous, probably the best action category soap being aired on television. It’s a story about a federal agency called CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) and obviously as you can make out from it’s name, CTU’s main motive was to stop any or all terrorist activities in or around U.S. Every season has 24 episodes and all 24 episodes are in real time. It means that every minute in 24 is kinda real time minute in actual day. One episode constitutes the story of one hour in a day and the second episode is the following hour of the same day. So basically you can finish the season in 24 hours of continuous watching. Actually you would nearly like to watch it all at once. You will be thrilled with suspense, story and action.
The story moves around a CTU agent named Jack Bauer, a character played by Kiefer Sutherland. Ohh, he is such a great character. You’re going to love this guy. He is kinda guy who says “Damn the consequences” or “What rules?” and yes he is still a federal agent. He has his own ways and techniques to handle every kind of situations. He is the guy in the above image of 24. He has a lovely daughter, named “Kim Bauer“, a character played by the now, very famous, “Elisha Cuthbert“. Elisha is such a sweetheart. She is so pretty. She was kinda perfect for this action soap. A perfect girl for the role of cute little kid trying to be strong, etc etc. I mean, even if she didn’t act award-winningly well, at least she looked amazing. Then there is another woman called Teri Bauer. Character played by Leslie Hope. She is the mother of Kim Bauer and obviously wife of Jack Bauer. No more in 24 though. That’s the whole Bauer family for you! (The girl on the right is Elisha, if you don’t know)
Anyways, moving on… Well, Jack Bauer had some close friends like:
1. Tony Almeida, another Counter Terrorist Unit. His role was played by Carlos Bernard. (View Image: Tony Almeida)
2. Michelle Dessler, a CTU agent and in one season, she was the director of CTU as well. Role played by a hottie Reiko Aylesworth. She is a very beautiful actress. But i hate the director of 24 for ending Tony’s and Michelle’s role in the way he did. Ahh… for those who don’t know, Michelle and Tony got married, eventually in some later season i guess. (View Image: Reiko Aylesworth).
3. Chloe O’Brian. Ahh, the computer geek with a personality disorder. Or something like that. Great character played by pretty famous Mary Lynn Rajskub. I love computer geeks anyways. And i did like her partners in the field at CTU whom i should mention about. Chloe’s ex-husband named Morris O’Brian, he is a good geek again. Then there was Edgar Stiles, another computer geek as well as a comic character. Lastly, a good character called Milo Pressman. A poor fellow who was killed unexpectedly for being so brave. He had the most amazing end in 24.
4. President David Palmer. Now, an assassinated president in 24. Role was played by Dennis Haysbert. And i don’t think there could have been any better person in the whole damn world, who could have performed the role of President Palmer in the way Dennis did. Probably the best character in Fox’s 24. Good work Dennis. His brother in 24, Wayne Palmer (DB Woodside) was a good character as well. Their sister, Sandra Palmer (Regina King), had a short and sweet role to play as well. But God save me that shrewd cruel ex wife of President Palmer. Sherry Palmer, role played by Penny Johnson. Excellent role. Penny brings so much life into character that you would personally like to kill this character as and when you meet her. I meant she was great but character was ugly. Whatever… (View Image: Dennis Haysbert).
5. There were some other great CTU agents who deserve a mention for their great roles. Starting with personal favorite, Bill Buchanan. Role played by James Morrison. For most of the later part of the 24, Bill is the head director of CTU. I loved this character. Audrey Raines, character played by Kim Raver. I’m sorry but i don’t like this character at all. But since she has a major role in 24, that too being the girlfriend of leading character Jack Bauer, i think i should mention her. Curtis Manning (Roger Cross) was a great character as well. He was a great CTU field agent. Unfortunately, had to be killed in one outburst of his on a terrorist. Good work though. George Mason, played by Xander Berkeley. Another good CTU director for the early seasons of 24. No more in CTU as he was dead saving the world. Chase Edmunds, played by James Badge Dale, was a good field ops, who eventually ended up marrying Elisha Cuthbert in 24. Lastly, but very importantly, the guy who held the CTU itself, Ryan Chappelle, character played by Paul Schulze.
6. Rest of the characters that i think did a good work whether small or big: Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower), Mike Novick (Jude Ciccolella), President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin), Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke), Lovely Karen Hayes (Jayne Atkinson), The brilliant NUMB3RS mathematician guy, Tom Lennox (Peter MacNicol) and lastly, the very beautiful, pretty eyed, Marilyn Bauer (Rena Sofer). There was only one bad guy who impressed me. Habib Marwan, character played by Arnold Vosloo. You guys do remember him. The evil guy in “The Mummy”, “The Mummy Returns”, “Blood Diamond” etc etc.
If you can believe me, i haven’t even named half of the total characters in 24. These are the ones who impressed me. I believe Fox’s 24 is one of the best soap i have watched in my life. And i do recommend you to get all the seasons and watch them holistic-ly. It’s that great. Only problem is that it is part of “Television soaps killing me slowly series”
I have never been much satisfied with Adsense for celebrity sites anyways. Since last 5-6 months Google Adsense has been paying a cent or two for every click i get on my celebrity sites network. Believe me, i have lot of traffic on those sites and i really do get lot of clicks there. An average 100 clicks give me $2.00 only. I mean, this really is insane. Isn’t it? Is that what the advertisers at adwords are really paying for celebrity sites? I feel totally looted here!
Not really. It’s even worse! Now an average 100 clicks give me $0.50 to $0.75. There you are Google Adsense. You really are brilliant with getting much more targeted ads.
I am not sure since how long i have been using Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 BETA. It’s been long now. But till today it was such a pleasant experience with this wonderful Yahoo messenger.
Else youhave to be satisfied with the following image itself. Good luck and Good day!!!
The story moves around a CTU agent named Jack Bauer, a character played by Kiefer Sutherland. Ohh, he is such a great character. You’re going to love this guy. He is kinda guy who says “Damn the consequences” or “What rules?” and yes he is still a federal agent. He has his own ways and techniques to handle every kind of situations. He is the guy in the above image of 24. He has a lovely daughter, named “Kim Bauer“, a character played by the now, very famous, “Elisha Cuthbert“. Elisha is such a sweetheart. She is so pretty. She was kinda perfect for this action soap. A perfect girl for the role of cute little kid trying to be strong, etc etc. I mean, even if she didn’t act award-winningly well, at least she looked amazing. 
