Monthly Archive for June, 2008

MommySpark

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Gunnar
on June 30, 2008
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As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’m a member of SocialSpark, it’s a great way to earn an extra buck - without loosing your good graces with Google

All your opportunities comes with a nofollow tag in the link required, thus Google won’t eat you for selling links.

Then it’s up to your own ethics if you want to sell your words. I personally don’t mind as long as they don’t require a certain tone to the entry, I will never recommend something that I haven’t even tried - paid or not paid.

For me SocialSpark is “just” another way to earn some spending money. The money I raise from my online ventures I buy gadgets and gizmos that doesn’t fit in to the petty cash.

But I can imagine that this would be a great thing for single or stay-at-home moms, even though you’re wiped out after a full day with your kid(s), I find it relaxing to sit a while in front of the computer - and blogging for SocialSpark is a great way for me to relax.

It works like this, you have a “market place” where you can scout for opportunities that fit your mood and blog niche (if you have one), attached to that is a minumum word requirement and a sum that you will get paid one month after the entry is approved.

Why a month? It’s a part of the deal, since they’re out after spreading buzz, they want the post to stay online for atleast one month, and I personally find it to be really bad manners to delete blog entries, paid or unpaid.

But now in this equal society of ours, all you stay-at-home mom and dads, head on over to SocialSpark and make a buck or two…

Sponsored by SocialSpark

Moving Habari

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Gunnar
on June 25, 2008
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I’ve just moved my Habari powered blog away from NearlyFreeSpeech.net to SliceHost, if everything works as planned you shouldn’t have noticed anything at all.

The reasons for my move

  • One login to rule them all, NFS lets you host as many domains as you want - but you get a separate user for each and every one of them
  • Be my own dictator, SH is a VPS host - ie. they let you build your own server from scratch. Demands more of you, but gives unlimited (depending on resource usage that is) freedom in return.
  • Reverse Squid proxy, Squid is a cache demon to lower the load of the servers and to serve pages faster. But with rapid updates/editing it didn’t server the latest revision of the page.

Why I didn’t move

  • NFS is as cheap as it gets, you literary pay pocket lint to host with them - pay for what you use.
  • World class support and responsiveness - if you want some obscure Perl module installed, all you have to ask and you’ll receive (unless it breaks the system).

Voi voi

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Gunnar
on June 24, 2008
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It’s really Finnish, and nonsense (it translates to “butter butter”), usually used when aggravated. It’s so much going on now, my son doesn’t want to get to sleep, I need to finish the bath room in the basement - and that’s a lot, from putting in a floor and doing the walls to the plumbing - after that I have to change my car insurance, we get it cheaper if we have both cars at the same place as we insure our house. On top of that is the training of the dogs… how on the world am I going to get the time over to train them.