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Off topic ads?

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I have the strangest thing happening on one of my blogs lately. One of the advertising companies I use to supply ads has been showing some totally irrelevant ads – at least on my end.

It’s on my gardening blog. I’m seeing ads for weight loss supplements and oddly enough one that says moving companies Los Angeles. Odd.

It’s especially odd when you consider that I talk about my garden, give gardening tips and discuss specific plants on that blog. Nothing close to the ad topics that have been showing up!

Do you use advertising on your site? If you do, have you noticed that occasionally your ads just don’t fit with your sites main topics?





Why can’t people just get along?

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There are days that I just hate the internet!

Seriously! As some of you know I have several websites and blogs that I try to maintain on a daily or at least weekly basis. On top of that there’s all the social sites that one needs to be a member of in order to list and promote your sites and make connections with other bloggers and webmasters.

Not to mention forums and maybe even discussion or mailing lists!

It’s the mailing lists that have me frustrated today. A long long time ago (1995 or so) I was really into reptiles … lizards to be perfectly honest. You see I’m allergic to cats, dogs and birds (yes I do have a dog now but I live on allergy meds!) so reptiles were the perfect and in fact pretty much only pet I could have.

To make a long story short – I fell in love with Chinese water dragons and Iguanas. Most people buying reptile pets don’t have a lot of knowledge about their care and it’s still hard to find good information on the net, in a pet store or even from a Veterinarian about their care …. so I learned as much as I could about Chinese Water Dragons and started my Huge website in 1995. As my knowledge grew so did my site.

Along the way I started a mailing list for Water dragon keepers. I also took over a failing Turtle list and an Uromastyx lizard list. The turtle list imploded a few years ago when people couldn’t get along and now I think the same things going to happen with the uromastyx list.

Have you ever been in a forum or on a discussion list where the posts got heated and people started picking on one another … well that’s what’s happening on my Uro list.

I only have a few rules – stay on topic, no off topic posts, be polite and take heated discussions off the list. I don’t think that’s too hard to follow – right?

Well I just gave the list a big colon cleanse with a terse ADMIN post telling them to behave or else I’d shut down the list. It’s their choice!

Do any of you run forums or online discussion lists or mailing lists. Aren’t they hard to manage when people start OT discussions or arguing? Geesh!

Comment spammer hitting my blogs heavily today!

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Wow, my blogs are being hit heavily by one comment spammer today! This guy has hit two of my blogs leaving 35 or so comments on each of them!

It’s not like there good comments either … he’s copying the comments of others or a line or two of my posts and creating his comments that way. Hitting one post after another as he goes!

I’ve marked his comments as spam, but he got smart and changed his email so I got flooded with comment moderation requests on his second go round! If I’m lucky he’ll stop hitting on my blogs this evening or won’t think to try another email address. LOL

Well I guess I’m glad that he’s not leaving links to vulgar sites, links for products or malignant Mesothelioma or make money info. It could be worse, he’s just copying other peoples comments. I’m glad I have a good memory and I can pick out familiar comments that I’ve read before on my own sites.

Does your blog ever get hit by serial comment spammers?

Lots of new Twitter followers today

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I can’t believe how many new Twitter followers I got today. I normally get about 10 to 15 new followers a day, but I think I’m up to about 40 or so today! Strange … I have no idea why I picked up so many new followers today.

Do you use Twitter? If you do and you want to follow me just click on the link in the sidebar or look up dragonden (my Twitter username). I usually follow fellow bloggers back and or people that are interested in some of the same topics that I am such as gardening, photography, blogging, dogs, humor and so on.

I don’t tend to follow people back who have zero updates in their Twitter profile or those who are trying to sell anything from web hosting to tv stands. I’m interested in real people. I’ll bet that you are too.

I think my laptop needs more memory

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Every Friday evening my Laptop slows to a crawl. Why? Well, that’s when my Norton Anti-virus runs it’s weekly system scan. I usually only have my Firefox browser and email program open while the virus scan is running but it’s still slow as molasses.

I think that I seriously have to look into getting more notebook memory, maybe that will help. The computer has 1 gig of memory, so maybe another gig would help? I’m also sure that if I didn’t have a nearly full hard-drive that would help make the scans faster and keep my computer running at a decent speed too.

Maybe I’ll spend some time this weekend deleting programs that I’m not using and getting rid of old files. I have a lot of zipped documents that I could probably dump.

Hmmm I wonder how you add more memory to a notebook? We used to upgrade our desktop computer- practically making new ones with new motherboards etc … but I’ve never tried upgrading a laptop before. Any tips?

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