The Net

Tweaking The Revenue Mix

We all like to think that our sites are running at their full potentials, but the truth is, there is always room for improvement. And it’s amazing what a little tweak here and little tweak there can have on overall income. One of the most important questions you need to answer about your site is your revenue mix. For many […]

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Ramblings

Sold For List

This is an update to my post entitle “Crazy Housing Prices.” I found out the house got sold. It was listed by Macdonald Realty with an asking price of $528,000. During dim sum today I found out it got sold at the full asking price. Considering that the owner paid $448,000 for the unit just one year ago, I say […]

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Ramblings

Slow Sunday

Got this morning, saw the sun out, went for nice long bike ride. After the ride, I was planning on getting some Vietnamese subs for lunch but when I got there, I found out they don’t open on Sunday. Ended up walking 3 doors down to Bob’s Sub and ordering one of their heart attack inducing all meat foot long. […]

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The Net

Google Messes Up March EFT Payment

I knew that Google has wired me my March AdSense payment a few days ago but I didn’t check to make sure it was correct because I assumed Google doesn’t make mistakes. That was until Carl Nelson paged me and told me Google messed up his electronics funds transfer. So I logged into my bank account and sure enough, Google […]

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Ramblings

Putting The Super Blender To Work

Last year at the PNE I made an impulse purchase on a Vita-Mix Super 5000 blender. This is like the mother of all blenders, and it has a price tag to match. The Vita-Mix is the same blender used by Starbucks and Orange Julius. It’s really overkill for home use – the unit is designed for commercial environments, where it’s […]

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Ramblings

Going On An Odyssey

Today we went to test drive cars. Well, minivans to be precise. Why am I looking for a minivan? Let’s just say my family is about to get a little bigger. This in no way means I will be giving up my sport car! I plan to keep that because, well, there’s too much stuff done to it (1500 watt […]

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Ramblings

What Kinda Of Dumb Ass Name Is Wii?

Nintendo accounced the official name for their next generation game console, which went by the code name “Revolution.” Well the official name is going to be Wii. As in “We.” From Nintendo’s press release. While the code-name “revolution” expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. My question; the answer to what? Of all the names Nintendo could have chose for […]

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