Archive for: February 2005

New themes on all 3 blogs now, and I’ve even got adsense running on all 3 as well. Each theme behaves differently it seems, when it comes to putting adsense in them. It’s taken me about 4 hours of editing and I’m still not happy with them.

I’ve used John Kings Flex module on this blog, and Phil Hord’s Adsense Inline code on the other two. I may end up putting Flex modules on all three, for the homepage, and Phil’s inline code on the internal, or archived pages.

The main problem is that I don’t read php code, and just adding stuff ad hoc I could end up stuffing a page up.

I don’t know if this is a bug in WP 1.5 or just a mistake on my part, but it was pointed out to me today by Ryan Sheehy who visited and found the ‘articles’ link in my sidebar was dead.

It worked fine in WP 1.2, but after upgrading it was a dead link, and I had to re-enter the URI in ‘Links’

I’m not sure what they have done in WordPress 1.5 to ease the problem of comment spam, but it’s certainly working.

I got 2 phentermine spam comments today, the 1st in a week. Really better than previous to updating from 1.2

Google has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons with it’s new smart toolbar, which takes web surfers to similar websites to those they are looking for… for instance this is from the Webproworld forum…

I tested the new Google toolbar on Barnes and Noble’s website (they sell books) I select a book and then selecting auto link on the toolbar, takes me directly to the same book on Barnes and Nobles’ competitor, Amazon.com. This has serious implications for anybody selling books, either directly or as an affiliate (including other Amazon affiliates).

This is similar to what Microsoft tried 4 years ago with their smart tags, which backfired on the bigtime.

Here’s another view on the topic from Steffanie Olsen at CNET news.com