Bloody hell, they're really that much?

They were £1 for ten, and a box of matches when I started. It was £12 for two ounce of rolling tobacco when I quit.

I quit perhaps even more radically than Mathijs - I underwent an age old pagan ritual which in modern, scientific terms would probably be called attempted suicide, that is, a hypothermia induced trance.

I don't know how it worked, and I don't know why I did it. It was incredibly stupid, and I'm lucky not to be dead. But it did work.

This shows the opposite thing you think it shows.

It highlights the homocentric world view, of an arrogant, self-interested, bloodthirsty species, which views itself over and above all else in the universe.

Man or other animals - what you mean is animals.

Quote:Your password has been changed.
Your new password is ira4evr

-- Received during a password reset procedure.

This made my day. Unfortunately, I had to change the password manually to something else, because this email was too good not to share.

Quote:In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.

-- Larry Wall

Quote:I recently created 1 single blogspot blog post 2 months ago & now it gets 50 visits per day from france .. this is only from one single post. So the volume does really help but not necessary.

50 hits a day is a good start...but I get more than that to my 404 pages (which delights me, because my 404 pages are goatse, but I digress).

Now, write 2,000 pages, and get 50 hits a day to each, and you've got a million hits ever ten days. Average CPM rates? $1.90 (according to Forrester). Average monthly wage in Morocco? $1,800 (according to salaryexplorer).

I think 2015 was pretty obviously the third year of Fimbulvetr, and there's only three more before we're in Ragnarok.

Quote:I wonder who uses IE

In Japan and Korea, oddly, it's still the number one browser,

China and Russia have a lot of IE users too.

Don't advertise your webpage, advertise yourself.

In communities where you are active, list your homepage on your profile. If people like (or hate) you, they will follow your links. It also gives you lots of links in, which will improve your search engine ranking (though if you're just advertising your pages, your search engine ranking will suck rocks whatever you do).

Theresa May is trying very hard to make my job illegal, so I'm in the process of changing industry right now, but previously, the overwhelming majority of my trade came via just being helpful in tech forums. Never mentioning my services, letting people find me themselves via links in my profiles.

After that, banners. Doesn't matter if you're using a TX, a banner exchange, a paid ad campaign, just throw banners at it. Banners are about as effective as traffic exchanges, but you get a hell of a lot more of them for your buck. That is, you'd do well from a million traffic exchange hits, but they'll cost you a lot more than a million banner impressions.

In the longer term, you eventually need to build a site with real content. It doesn't matter what it's about. Ignore anyone who tells you to go keyword chasing, that's stupid. You need a content rich site about something you're interested in. You have to be interested in it, otherwise you'll burn out in a few weeks. It has to be something you want to write about. Then, like every major website on the entire internet, you just stick some ads on it. People who try this say "Oooh, I've written a hundred articles, and I've got no traffic". This is because 100 articles is sod all. You've got more forum posts than that. A few thousand pages, and you'll start to do well. (Or you can cheat, with comic strips, or web applications that generate tonnes of page views per visitor).

Present for you: http://clanspum.net/~pi/ed4f54aea7f4bf0b4a65941ea86e16f0.swf

More seriously, Rhapsodiya V Byalo, and Lucia Y El Sexo.

Ah, the olden days. An 800x600 resolution, and four surfbars open, at 150px each, leaving you two hundred pixels to actually do anything, but you got four figure monthly cheques for your trouble - and free internet.

I don't know how anyone thought that could possibly last, but everyone did.

Spice World.

Quote:He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

-- Douglas Adams

It's always wise to check out early. There is a button to add to your existing request, right up until the point when they start processing your payout, so requesting early means you still get to earn as much as possible, and guarantee you don't miss the cut off.

I approve of this offer.

I did it some time ago, and have recommended it even to those who would not be paid to complete it.

Quote:Do you know any nice people? Y'know, normal everyday people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the universe?

-- Ace

I supported Arsenal for a while, because I used to work for Chelsea, and they only paid me £4 an hour, so they deserved stabbing in the back.

You know the easiest ways to learn a new language?

Fall in love with someone who speaks that language, or fall in love with music in that language.

Quote: what I find detestable about this is how it was mentioned as an actual boost to referral commissions

I'm not sure I agree you'd earn less this way - I would have earned more.

But i do completely agree that Clixsense has seriously screwed up it's PR recently. It's not the changes that are bad, they're just doing an awful job of presenting it.

I don't normally post these, but since recent events have been somewhat controversial...

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