Ads are back. This can only mean a good thing, because that means I’m making a conscientious effort to actually write something that’s of value.

I’m currently messing with three different sources for making a bit of money on the side with the blog:

• Google Adsense: One ad per single.php, for more focused targetting
• Amazon Affiliates: Omakase, for now. I may want to make the JKStore a big more accessible soon.
• Text-Link-Ads: Not sure how this works just yet.

Online Identity

Finally added more interaction with Twitter. Not sure if people were really wanting it, but I kinda wanted to do this for a long while.

I ended up just putting up links to Flickr and Twitter under /etc/ for now. I would like to lifestream like I did before, but I don’t know if that’ll actually be useful… or maybe a project I’m working on will obviate that anyway. And plus, I suck at this server admin stuff: I tried for a few minutes the lifestream wordpress plugin (which seems amazing), and I almost had a heart attack that the server was going to go down again.

Posting Schedule

I have this general feeling that I’m going to do more personal posts during the weekends, and more interesting and relevant posts during the weekday. I kinda want to make sure that I post something really beefy on Sunday night, kind of as a weekly deadline for something in-depth.

Don’t hold me to any of this. This is just me thinking out loud like I normally do. (And, as some will notice, I won’t be linking this on a tweet.)

Look/Feel

Back to the redness. Oh, how I’ve missed you.

Started adding new tabs to the navigation. Not sure exactly what’ll end up here.

Blah blah blah

I’m hungry. Working on the blog for 4 hours straight is pretty fun, but very draining.

YouTube – DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson

Testing Quickpost with this awesome video.

As I was in the shower, I realized how meta all of this became again. I blogged on how I updated WordPress, my blogging software of choice. I am now blogging on the current status of how I’m blogging. I will be blogging on blogging applications for the mac.

I took a screen shot and annotated it to show you how crazy it’s becoming. You see how the coding is off to the side, while the blogging insanity continues into the wee hours of the next morning?

This is halfway a test of MarsEdit and halfway an actual post.

Sidenote: After opening this post (which was written in MarsEdit) in Ecto, Ecto has informed me of the dirty HTML MarsEdit was outputting. What is the deal with that?

I haven’t really thought about Yahoo as much as I’ve had in the past couple of days.

Google and Yahoo… to normal people, they might just seem like #1 and #2 in the world of online search (there’s a #3? who’s that? ahem). But really, I see that comparing the two companies as a whole is almost like comparing apples to oranges. The commonality that people misunderstand is “search”. But man, there’s so much more!

Both companies are trying to grow. Aggressively. Mind you, Google will be going after Microsoft Office’s market (PowerPoint, anyone?), no matter what Mr. Schmidt is saying at the Web 2.0 Expo (seriously, I only typed “2.0″ cuz it’s name of the conference).

“I don’t think we compete with them. We’re not as fully functional as MS Office — we’re more in line with how people use the web than how they use the desktop.”

I’m not sure how I’ll be using this presentation feature, seeing how I don’t normally create PowerPoints on a day to day basis… but I use Google all the time. The default search engine I use in Firefox is still Google (see how I didn’t say “I google all the time”? Dodged a bullet on that one). I use Gmail for all my email needs. I use Google Reader for my feeds. I also use Google docs, for budgeting and reporting hours for work. I even use Google chat from time to time.

But really, this is only because I haven’t had a reason to try something new. The funny thing is… Yahoo has already been a part of my world… for quite a while, now. While I haven’t really ever used Yahoo search (except to settle a little spat between two friends, Alex and Raj… pertaining to who is really “L Dopa Da Dopsta”..), Yahoo has Del.icio.us and Flickr… two companies very dear to my entrepreneurial heart.

Sadly… Yahoo took a beating on the markets today. Thank goodness I haven’t bought any of their stock. Yet…

What was the point of that? I don’t know. I just needed to relieve some Google/Yahoo steam.

I think this post borders on brain dump… Meh.