.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :.

I've had an extremely long and rather colourful work history, starting a young age I had to learn to be self-sufficient. There was barely enough food to eat at home and definitely no money spare to buy anything considered remotely luxurious..

It all helped though and it helped me mature a lot, mainly in terms of finances it really taught me the value of money and that money isn't easy to come by so don't simple spend it frivolously. I won't list all the jobs as I had as some were temp and lasted a few days or in some cases a few hours...I'll mention those that I find interesting, or somehow relevant in my development.

I think it's something Asian kids generally lack, working, earning money and learning some respect for the value of money. Kids here don't have to contribute to their own studies or cars..they just get given money for free!

How many of you have had part time jobs? If you look at the catering industry here, or manual labour, security guards or factory workers and so on they are mostly foreign workers. All of these jobs are considered to 'low' for locals. You know what? In UK I've done ALL of those jobs.

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If you've noticed I've removed all the Adsense from this blog!

Say no to Adverts for personal blogs, yah!

I've also moved the referal stuff down to the bottom of the sidebar so it's no in your face anymore, I do support Firefox so I might move that one back up.

We'll see.

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Anyway...now it's gone I noticed the pages load much faster, and it looks neater of course.

I did it as an experiment anyway, it didn't make much money, I can show you exactly how much in fact.

Yeah this is over almost 2 years, kind of sad eh.

(No this is not against the Adsense TOS - As long as you don't show eCPM or CTR you are ok).

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So yeah you can say I've been there and done that.

I think personal blogs shouldn't be polluted with ads, that's why I never put anything else in here like Chitika or similar, I just have Text Link Ads which I'll keep as they are very unobtrusive.

If you want to make money from blogging, get a domain, and create a real blog on one subject with niche content and real quality articles.

If you blog about a variety of subjects and personal stuff, don't bother with ads as it's just annoying and slows your site down.

It doesn't really earn anything, this money I earned from this domain is barely enough to pay for the hosting.

Personal blogs are destined to make little or no money due to the way contextual advertising works. If your subjects are too scattered your ads won' be properly targeted so you'll get all the non-targeted adverts which have horribly low eCPM rates.

So do everyone a favour and take the 3 embedded adblocks out of your posts and get a real job, or make a real nice blog if you do want to make money from the intrawebnets.

Anyway don't be a sucker, remove your ads.

BTW do keep commenting please, it makes me so happy That means comments that are relevant to the topic, not just random shite

The earnings are shitty compared to Adsense, and well it costs almost as much to clear the cheque as the cheque is worth..

But what to do, I banked it anyway.

I took Adbrite off all my sites because it earnt virtually nothing.

Bring on more Adsense! (Adsense earnings are lower this month though, sien!)

Mahai...

This month been damn kau expensive ok.

First my Mom was here, so went on many trips, ate many nice foods, spent many monies. But that was ok.

Then got lawyer fees for something or other $2300..

Then a week ago...my car decided to fall apart.

The crankshaft pulley cover broke and the crankshaft pulley had a little spastic episode, during its temper tantrum it damaged my crank shaft beyond repair.

Plut it's time for my Timing Belt to change aswell..

Sigh, so off I took my baby to the workshop.

Man it was a long ass list of things that had to be changed along with the Timing Belt and also to replace the Crankshaft..

And the damage, wooh...SAKIT..

• 2 rims repaired
• Balanced and Aligned
• New Oil
• New Oil Filter
• New Alternator Belt
• New Air-cond Belt
• New Timing Belt
• New Crankshaft Pulley
• New (Secondhand) Crankshaft
• New Main Bearings
• New Con-Rod Bearings
• New Fly-wheel Oil Seal
• New Engine Mountings
• New Gear Box Mounting
• Gear Oil Change
• Overhauled Gasket

Ah well unavoidable I guess. When it rains it pours. Broke to the max now *sigh*