“Ads by Goooooogle”, and graphics in text-only AdSense

Google’s AdSense ads (which cover the hosting costs of this blog and forum) have always spotted an “Ads by Google” text link for identification purposes, and to send feedback. Though for about 2 months now (since December 2006), Google has been playing around with alternative marks. Problogger reports that the changes are just an ongoing [...]

Fantasy fun with regular expressions

Just for a bit of fun, here is a comic relief from xkcd – a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. I generally enjoy obscure Math and Programming jokes, so this one on regular expressions has earned a honest LOL.

Whenever I learn a new skill, I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me [...]

Technorati Noise

Technorati is a household item among blog publishers. Supposedly a “blog search engine”, it’s only practical applications are checking the number of blog originating backlinks, and estimating a blog’s earning potential for advertisment services such as Text Link Ads. So lately it began to receive a lot of negative attention.

Scrivs – “What does a couple [...]