Ramblings

It’s Going To Be A Long Rush Hour

We just got back from lunch and judging by the traffic I can tell it’s going to be a long rush hour when people get off work. We got more snow this morning and it’s till coming down. The main roads in Richmond are like a skating rink. Richmond doesn’t salt their roads as well as Vancouver does. I guess […]

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Business The Net

It’s An Advertising Bonanza!

This morning I got an email from Text-Links-Ads saying they sold a link on my blog. I signed up for Text-Link-Ads a while ago but have completely forgotten about them. I tried selling my own advertising on this blog but wasn’t very successful at it. The three links under “Sponsored Link” were really freebies. I was hoping to land a […]

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The Net

Google’s Top Secret Advertising Network

Almost everyone knows Google owns the AdSense network. Google AdSense has been credited with bringing the Internet back to life after the dot com burst of 2001. Some people may even know about AdSense for domain. This is Google’s network for handling advertising for large domain name holders. Recently, Google started a new ad network but is not telling anyone […]

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The Net

Second Life’s First Virtual Millionaire

I came across this article on Business Week about Anshe Chung. She’s is the world’s first virtual millionaire. You see, Anshe isn’t real. She’s a made up person in the game Second Life. Anshe Chung is the Second Life account of Ailin Graef. She issued the following press release after Miss Chung achieved her millionaire status. Anshe Chung has become […]

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Lunch With Ed Lau

Ed Lau over at the.[ED]ition has posted the interview he did with me over lunch at a local Richmond eatery. I had a seafood noodle with ice milk tea while Ed had some fried noodle with ice lemon tea. Ed started his blog on November 6 and has already knocked down 37 blog posts and nearly 20,000 page views. Ed’s […]

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The Net

AGLOCO Growing Pains

Every new startup has growing pains and AGLOCO is no different. It seems they under estimated the number of sign-ups they would get over the thanksgiving long weekend and that created a major traffic jam. Members were getting error messages when trying to log into their control panel and new sign-ups were not getting their confirmation emails. It was quite […]

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Ramblings

A White Weekend

Man, we got a lot of snow this weekend! It started on Saturday and went right on till Sunday. Sarah’s parent really enjoy it because they haven’t seen snow in years. They did what everyone who hasn’t snow would do – they went outside and played in it. Here are some pictures.

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