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Browsing Posts published in October, 2006

MTS (Manitoba Telecom Services) is one of the largest providers of both high-speed and dial-up internet access in Manitoba. Unfortunately, if you use them, and try to send mail through a mail server other than their own, you might run into problems.

It’s a well known fact that LED’s require very little power to provide the light of a similar incandescent bulb. In automotive applications, there are situations where reducing the power draw is desired. Switching to LED’s can be helpful here.

Let’s get right down to the problem… You have 3 people who are on an island. We’ll call them Mark, Ryan, and Evan. Unfortunately, they have to leave. Maybe they’ve run out of food, maybe the island is burning down, or maybe they just need a change of scenery. We don’t know why, and it [...]

Well the results (short-term anyway) are in. From what I can tell, Bursts ads are performing similarly to the poorly-paying Adsense ads on the site listed in Part I and Part II. In fact, they’ve been exceeding the performance of the old Adsense ads by about 10-20%, although since it’s only been 6 days since [...]

If you haven’t read Part I, you might want to do so now and then head back here (it’s no fun jumping into the middle of a story). After just over a day with Burst, I’m starting to get a bit of an idea as to where things are going. I’ll bring you through things [...]

I run a site called Warcraft-Maps.com, which offers free map downloads, as well as a little description/review of each map. Since it’s inception, I’ve had Google Adsense ads running on it. Now, the site gets oodles of traffic. You would think that it would pay well, but it doesn’t. In fact, despite having more traffic [...]

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