I've mentioned my obsession with DVDs in the past. It's one of those things I have to live with :) Today I popped over to Amazon.fr to pick up a DVD by related to one of my favourite directors, Luc Besson. Besson's cinema is fantastic in my opinion, but I am aware that purists consider it to be overly commercial. I don't care. In either case I was amazed at how cheap The … [Read more...] about Feeding My Obsession
Adsense on Fora – Maximising revenue
I'm not convinced that ads on forums work. If you are a regular user of a bulletin board or forum you tend to focus on the content and not the adverts. However if the ads are truly eyecatching then you maybe attracted to them. Forums by their nature produce thousands if not millions of pages with plenty of text to provide context. If you can get relevant ads displaying on the … [Read more...] about Adsense on Fora – Maximising revenue
What’s the story with AJAX?
I first browsed the web in '94 Back then browsers were very different. The web was a much smaller place. Google didn't exist. Eleven years later the web is an important part of people's lives. You bank online, buy your books online, read the news online and maybe even find love online. The technologies behind it all have moved on. Content has become more complex and our … [Read more...] about What’s the story with AJAX?
Postgrey – Greylisting In Postfix on Ubuntu (Debian)
A lot of mail server admins have been forced to implement some form of spam checks at the SMTP level. Some of the implementations are quite demented and probably do more harm than good, whereas others are extremely sane. … [Read more...] about Postgrey – Greylisting In Postfix on Ubuntu (Debian)
Adsense in RSS feeds
Alan was wondering about adsense in RSS feeds. I knew it was possible as I had looked into it previously, but I wanted to refresh my memory. The official Google line at the moment is: We're currently beta testing AdSense for feeds, a program that allows you to monetize your feeds through contextually targeted advertising. There isn't much information on their site, but the … [Read more...] about Adsense in RSS feeds