Stumped by Jumping BlogAds Mystery

November 17th, 2006 I have two expired blogads ads still displaying on my site. They have expired quite sometime back.

March 10th, 2006 I was browsing through Blogads order page (search "Simple Thoughts" to find ours) and was surprised to find the top blogs in terms of page views in BlogAds. Now BlogAds is an independent entity and it is likely that the pageviews they are reporting is pretty accurate and real users (or at least bots who also fetches associated javascripts).

January 25th, 2006 I have tried both BriteAds as well as BlogAds. Both allow advertisers to purchase ad space on your site for fixed duration.

December 12th, 2005 I was surprised (not in a pleasant way) to find MSNBC, which has rented space on my blog through BlogAds is apparently peddling porn on that space. Their ad reads "Welcome to Porn Valley" followed by "MSNBC 12.14.2005" (look on your right).

September 23rd, 2008 This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog.

April 11th, 2006 I was surprised to see Joel Spolsky's mugshot on my blog. And then I realized...

October 7th, 2005 Now everyone and their Mother-in-law is jumping in the Annotation bandwagon. I believe Cedric was the first developer to come up with an annotation based framework - TestNG.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

November 18th, 2005 Google is launching a new feature Friday that lets publishers of AdSense partner Web sites sign up advertisers on their own. Under the new Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, marketers can create site-targeted ads and submit cost-per-impression bids on the targeted site.

November 22nd, 2005 I reported previously that Google is about to unveil a new program that lets publishers of AdSense partner Web sites sign up advertisers on their own. It is already operational and it has opted you in (if you are AdSense publisher) by default.

June 2nd, 2006 As I mentioned previously my Apache server was inexplicably hanging every morning (PST). And in panic I had to restart my VPS, whenever I could find it.

November 14th, 2008 Digg was down. And that is about it.

July 26th, 2006 Cult of the dead cow, creators of infamous BackOrifice software, released a secure, user-friendly, free, open source instant messaging software to facilitate anonymous communication and secure file transfers. ScatterChat is designed to facilitate secure and private real-time communication over the Internet.

April 23rd, 2009 Strong report from Apple boosts stock futuresNEW YORK — Apple Inc.'s stronger-than-expected profit report lifted stock market futures Thursday as investors grew optimistic that technology companies could be enduring the recession better than some had expected. Another batch of earnings announcements and reports on unemployment claims and sales of existing homes are also due.

October 30th, 2008 Simple Thoughts has 2,460 posts and 10,012 comments as of writing this post, an average of over 4 comments per post. Simple Thoughts was never intended to be a commercial venture like TechCrunch or Mashable, for instance.