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Archive for June, 2006

Clip of the Week

This week has been a pretty bad one and I have therefore decided to temporarily suspend the "Clash Clip of the Week" series, I initiated last week.

Right now, I think some light amusement is called for: The Fast Show.

[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/-WNxrZRhdPE"][/gv]

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AdSense - The Gloves Are Off

Up until now, I have been pursuing a *discrete* AdSense strategy in the sense that visitors would be served up ads only if they arrived at my site on a link from somewhere else (e.g. from searching Google). I personally find ads ugly and a nuisance to any page design or layout.

The following code is currently used to serve up ads (code lifted off of Russell Beattie's Notebook).

<?php $referrer = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
    $pos = strpos($referrer, "gersbo.dk");
    if($pos != true && $referrer !=" ) {
?>
        // Code for Google AdSense script goes here
        // …
<?php } ?>

Idealism comes with a price tag and because of my puritan ad serving scheme, basically no one sees - subsequently clicks - ads on my site. Between AdSense activation on January 6. and until today, AdSense has made me a grand total of $3.07.

Clearly, this is not viable way to proceed, so instead of a) posting more frequently or b) posting about interesting subjects in an eloquent style of writing, I have decided to c) crank up ad exposure. I will now serve up ads to both of the two visitors, I have a day on average. Yes, that means you too, mom. This will hopefull make one of them click some ads.

In a less money lusting tone of voice, I may note that since signing up for AdSense, my browsing behavior has changed - specifically my add clicking behavior. I used to pretty much ignore page ads (as I am sure many people do), but have begun to make a concious effort to click some ads, if I come across something entertaining, interesting or useful.

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Clash Clip of the Week

Posting video is great fun and YouTube is a treasure chest of sound and video bites!

The Clash circa '77 or '78, anyone?

[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/DvpQLm30YaE"][/gv]

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More Video of Anna

Discovering this nifty "Extreme Video Plugin" for Wordpress has made it so much easier to post videos.

Without further ado, I therefore present a fresh batch of videos featuring my super-daughter, Anna:

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Free remote unlock

Trycktill.com is a great site for unlocking SIM locked mobile phones.

The service is free - you just select your phone make and model (Nokia, LG, Siemens and others); select your country (most west european countries + Australia are covered) and finally choose your operator. That is it, the website then generates the necessary unlock codes, which you punch into your phone.

It is even possible to use this service if your operator is not listed. Provided you have the appropriate information at hand (network number etc.), you can submit it to the site and generate the codes.

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Traffic

From the statistics collected at StatCounter (it's free…) about the traffic on this blog, I can see that over the past couple of weeks, quite a few people have found their way to the Linksys WRT54G wireless bridge posts (see the original post and the update). These visitors primarily come from the US and arrive here from search engines.

In terms of the usual traffic on this site, "quite a few" translates into "more than a handful" in absolute terms.

Feedback on these posts is warmly welcomed so if you have hit this blog looking for information on how to setup the Linksys WRT54G router, DD-WRT WRT54G firmware and/or wireless bridges, please feel free to let me know if you found the posts useful or not.

The preferred way of doing so is by commenting the posts, but email is ok too.

Thanks in advance

/christopher

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Videos of Anna

Now that I got the SUPER video conversion tool up and running (kudos to Kurts weblog at Ingeniøren for blogging about of this tool), I decided to convert some videos I have taken of Anna using my phone.

The following two videos were taken on the day Anna was born (March 28.) at the maternity ward - "Vuggen" - at Odense University Hospital. In the videos, Anna is between five and six hours old.

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