Miscellaneous Ramblings – 8/31/2007

"Get the 30″ then add a second when you get a bigger desk"
"Or just add a bigger desk when you get a bigger house!"

I like where this is going...

"I need two big monitors, but I can't fit them on my desk"
"Get a bigger desk"
"There's no room in the room"
"Get a bigger house"

It makes your new monitors *slightly* more expensive, but it's a great end result :)

Get the 30" then add a second when you get a bigger desk.

One LCD should be better... it is more enviroment friendly I would say...

It's a cool video - nicely put together and I like the ending. Clearly a lot of work goes into his posts.

Site is definitely running quicker but I'm still getting the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the page.

Yea your site feels lighter already

I highly recommend you opting for two 24in monitors as opposed to just one 30in monitor. IMO, you can get more done with two big ones over one bigger one.

Also, I think you were in the 12k range again this month as your new blog design hasn't been in affect for long enough to see any results.

If you used PNG's instead of JPEG's, you'd be able to compress/optimize the images with little or no quality decrease.

Good to know that the designer has worked on using as minimal images as possible and the cutting down the displayed posts number in the homepage is a sleak move, indeed the smaller the size of the site is the better and faster the spybots can crawl the site.

Hope that I did gave you the hint of the image size (and if thats the case, i hope Nathan doesn't hate me for that :P)

Heheh it just hit Netscape page1 at the URL I entered :grin: Not bad for just recording what I normally do anyway :twisted:

When it comes to monitors think big, like Al Gore and his 3 x 30" monitors: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/22/al-gore-ex-vp-e...

$14,100 is my guess.
And definitely 2 x 24" panels.

-bill / bweaver.net

Wow, this guy is wired! Nice job with the video. I like the part where he was checking Awstats on his web server to check his visitors. That is one thing we the bloggers do right? Always interested in who came by.... :evil: :evil: :evil:

I hope I can reach half of what you are earning now, John. :mrgreen:

You made in the neighborhood of 9,500.00 is my guess. You'll make more next month. What impact will the google ban have on the site after the next pagerank update though? In other words how much, if any, of your traffic is coming from Google?

136 errors, down from 160 last week, is a good sign. Your tech guy is headed in the right direction. There is apparently a hidden area underneath the bottom of the "popular articles" section, it looks like everything below that is pushed up underneath about 30 pixels due to .css positioning. Although it all lines up on the right visually the code indicates that everything below that point is still wider too. (actually it shows up as wider if you highlight the entire page)

Gotta love code fixing though :)

Unsolicited advice of the day : run a network wide adbrite cpc campaing. Set your price at 0.05 per click, daily budget at 50.00 and enjoy 1000 visitors per day of highly untargeted visitors who won't click on your ads. It beats paying 0.50 per click for only 100 visitors who won't click through with adwords!

A new record, maybe around $15k.

I've just bought a 37" lcd to as my home monitor. Wireless keyboard + mouse whilst reclined on the sofa is the only way to work!

My guess $12,666 . Since john got evil theme this month :twisted: , It should contain evil "666" also :mrgreen:

Congrats John for the month of August. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

I checkout price grabber an found out this
Acer AL2416WBSD 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - 5ms, 1000:1, WUXGA 1920x1200, DVI, VGA, Silver, 400 cd/m²
Looks cool and its the cheapest (normally qouted price of around $450 to $500) but at Tigerdirect you are getting this for $399.99. :shock: :shock: Check out the link. the first link is the USA tigerdirect.com next link is the canadian, i didint found out the 24" LCD in the canadian version just the 22" same features just the size small
Regards
Pranjal

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool...'
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools...

2x24. If you go for this, definitely get the Dell 2407's, they're amazing.

Buy a new table that's big enough to fit 2 30" LCD monitors, then get those LCD monitors.

Voila!

No wonder John's going into overdrive on ads this month... he's needing to feed his desire for ever larger and larger monitors...

Why stop at 30"? Just go the full hog... a 60" LCD monitor... they must be available... That way he can watch a movie and blog at the same time...

Oh yeah john I think one big monitor is better then two, that way you can do 4 reviews all at the same time. Put one review in each corner:)

John Im guesing $20,000 or better. Your just that good.

Easily more than $15,000!

2 monitors are always better than 1. :grin:

If you're graphics card can handle it I would recommend 2x 24 inch ones

Going for 2 monitors is always better than one in my opinion. I used to have two monitors, but one was a CRT, hurt my eyes, so now I am back to one...

Two monitors did provide a productivity boost, while I was using them.

$15,673

10,324$

Now is that CND or USA we supposed to be guessing in now John?

I'd definitely recommend two monitors over one. The productivity boost of two monitors is enormous. I've always found that too high of a resolution (using one display) makes me spend too much time dragging windows around. A slighter small resolution doubled on two monitors gives you the ability to maximize windows to each monitor.

If you decide on two monitors, Ultramon (http://www.ultramon.com) is a must have!

OK its September now, so what ya earn mate :P

Hmm...I'm guessing $15,333...seems like you had a good August! :razz:

Exactly $14,590.27

Totally go with a dual monitor setup. I run two 22" widescreens now and absolutely love it. A 30" would be nice but the flexibility and increased resolution of two 24's would easily win over IMO.

I wish I had went with 24's instead of the 22's :(

Pretty cool website! :evil:

I would get two. Two are better then one!.

I think $16,432.

He could cut down on all the comments posted.

Two monitors increases productivity by 30%. All companies should make their employees work with double monitors.

Oh, also, it's not really the home page that has been taking so stinking long to load, it's the post pages. Any way you could cut that in half?

John you should turn this into a contest, next month.

I'd guess $14,480. No idea why but hey, why not?

30" gives you the room to do multiple inputs (two machines), High Def Ditigal OTA PIP signal (watch tv while working), input from security cam or otherwise, and you never have to remember where you left your mouse pointer on the screens. Check out them image of MY SCREEN

Vizio Baby, Vizio. Get a Vizio 30" for the income from one of your 125x125 monthly ads!

You're my hero. Using your techniques, I cranked up the traffic and revenue on my Trike Flying Video website tenfold in just one month! Unreal...
Keep up the great Karma.
spence

$$$17,777

John, you're a money machine! Love your site. Go with the 30".. it will change your life! Have been using a Sceptre 30" from Costco for about two years now and pump two macs and a pc through the multiple inputs. Watch High Def in the PIP at the same time, split screen, crank up the monitoring camera in the hallway outside my office, etc. Just can't pull that off easily when you're trying to figure out which screen you left your mouse pointer upon.

Have been working your tips on our new social network at Trikepilot Social - Wild Flying Videos and have seen a ten-fold increase in traffic and revenue. You're my hero!

Check an image of your page on my screen (tons of room!):
Uploaded with Skitch!

16,350

I would like to change my guess to ahem.....1 miiiiiilllion dollars! :)
-Raymond (MONEY BLUE BOOK)