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Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011

  I see that ShowMeBlog is now listed by the CBS DFW on their site.  They have a list of “Most Valuable Blogger” sites. ShowMeBlog is under “Local Affairs” and there are eight sites.  I guess the sites are all the “Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011.”   I won an award. I won an award! 

Google AdSense update

  Google AdSense did their update of accounts on the 7th of the month. 

  This last month I was having one hell of a month.  I was surprised and shocked.  I watched the earnings each day and for December I had estimated earnings of $157.57 for the month. With what was due for the past few months I was expecting to get about $240.00 this month.

  Then today when they updated my page I saw this message:

 

“A payment will not be issued this month. Your unpaid earnings prior to January 1, 2012 was calculated to be $96.27. Payments are issued within 30 days after the end of the month in which your unpaid earnings reach $100.00.”

 

  So I was thinking that they just failed to notice that $157.57 and that they would catch it at some point today and the earnings would correct.

  It did not happen.  So I went to their help files and did some digging and found the following:

“Estimated earnings, which are used in your reports, typically reflect close estimates of your recent account activity. These estimates are intended to give you a rough idea of your recent account activity as soon as possible, but do not necessarily reflect the amount you will be paid.

Finalized earnings, shown on your Payments pages, are accurate earnings amounts that include all revenue you will be paid for valid clicks. Once our records are processed and verified at the end of each month, finalized earnings are posted to your Payments page.

If you’re seeing a significant difference between your reporting estimates and your finalized earnings, it’s possible that your account has been receiving a high percentage of invalid clicks and/or impressions. If you believe this is the case, please visit our Help Center topic regarding invalid clicks for more information.”

 

So what they are saying is that the “estimated” amount of $157.57 was not correct due to invalid clicks and that the correct amount was $13.49 for the month.  That amount would be about what I have been getting for the last few months. 
So I suspect that there have been “invalid clicks.”
  I think I just did a blog post on ShowMeBlog or Howard’s Notebook about the people that were being kicked off of Google AdSense.  I seem to remember posting about it.  There are hundreds if not thousands of them.  Many of them post YouTube videos about it.
  So if I am getting invalid clicks I am surprised the I have not received a warning or that I have not been kicked out of the Google AdSense program.  Maybe I can expect an email one of these days.

  So Google AdSense is not working for me.  I was thinking that at last it was working for me.  I got about six blogs and I put advs on them and I did stuff like putting a big banner across the top and a small one at the very top right column.  I attempted to find tune everything and I was thinking at last I have found the correct way to make a few dollars but I was wrong.  All the work I did and I made zero improvement.

Penis sizes worldwide: there’s a map for it!

  God, I love the Internet.  A reader sent me a link to Globalpost.  It has an article “Penis sizes worldwide: Yeah, there’s a map for that.” 

  The following from Globalpost:

“Well, finally. Thank you targetmap.com, a website with customized data maps, for a long overdue look at penis sizes around the world.

(Hat tip to the Shanghaiist blog for first pointing it out to us).

But before you get all excited, let me just tell you that Asia does not fare exceedingly well.

According to this interactive map, all of the world's least well-endowed countries are located there, with South Korea bringing up the rear at 3.8 inches.

India and Thailand and Cambodia go head to head (to head), each coming in at a solid 4 inches.

China's little soldiers, ranking 4.3 inches on average, are a good match for the average Japanese Capt. Winkie (also 4.3).

But the real weenies seem to be in the Congo (7.1 inches), with Ecuador not far behind (6.9 inches).

And in case you're still unsure of which country you'd like to visit next, get a load of this:

Another map that attempts to correlate penis size with IQ — two things that, in the case of China and Africa, appear to be inversely correlated. Titillating…”

 

  Here is the link to The Penis Size Worldwide Map

  Here is the link to National IQ Scores vs Average Penis Size

 

  I have not had time to even look at the maps yet but I think it is going to be interesting.  What do you think?

New YouTube Homepage

  I like the new YouTube.  You will notice a change to my channel.  You can also have your own home page if you sign into YouTube.
  I like the new look.  I see comments from a LOT of people that they do not like the change.

 

 

 

  What do you think?  Do you like the new YouTube design?

Howard’s Notebook

  Most of you just follow ShowMeBlog and do not also read Howard’s Notebook.  But just in case some of you do follow HNB let me tell you that I am making more changes to it.  I screw with it all the time.  One reason many of you do not read it.

  I loved playing with Joomla for years.  I used it for Howard’s Notebook.  It was a lot of work and a bit over my head.  I am not smart enough to use Joomla. 
  Then I went to hosting my own WordPress site.  I been doing that for years.  I love WordPress.  It is a lot of fun. 
  But after years and years of using it and after spending God only knows how much on themes over the years I have decided to give up on WordPress.

  There are a number of reasons but the main two reasons are indexing and Google AdSense. 
  I blogged on ShowMeBlog about the nude female Egyptian blogger and I got for a few days over 1000 extra eyes on ShowMeBlog.
  I posted the very same blog entry and the very same time on Howard’s Notebook and got very few visitors to the blog from the post.
 
  So I am making a change for Howard’s Notebook and I am going to use Blogger for HNB and see how that works out. 

  I am starting out with new content for HNB and I hope that Google AdSense will allow me to run their advs on HNB. I have made $9.79 from Google this month and this is the 27th!  So I would like to increase the amount I get from Google AdSense advs on HNB.  

Shockwave Flash Crashes in Google Chrome

  I have been a fan of Google Chrome for a long time.  I blogged here in ShowMeBlog about having to give up on Chrome and use Firefox.
  Google Chrome was crashing ALL THE TIME.  I would get the message “The following plugin has crashed:  Shockwave Flash.”
  I did a search and I found that tons of Chrome users were having the same problem and that it had been happening to many for years. 
  You would think the Chrome people would go on 24 hour emergency fix this problem right now mode.  But nothing was fixed.

  I gave up on Chrome.  I went back to Foxfire and used IE but I just did not like any of them.  I wanted a working version of Chrome.

  I think I found a site that has a fix for Chrome crashes.

  The site is:  TechLogon.Com 

“…However, if Firefox or a similar web browser is (or has ever been) installed on your computer, then you have likely also installed the standalone version of Flash for Firefox and other web browsers – and this would include Chrome!

Therefore Chrome tries to use two versions of Flash Player – its own version built into Chrome and the standalone Adobe version you installed for Firefox/others. Having both versions active often causes ‘the following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash’ error message because they may conflict with each other…”

  They go on and tell how to fix the problem.  I did the fix and it appears to be working right now.
  So I am back, right now using Chrome, and I got my fingers crossed.
  I got a feeling however that I am going to do something with Firefox or IE and get the problem back.
  I love Chrome so much that I might be willing to remove Firefox and IE from my computer to make sure I keep the fix.

  I also found a great looking site FileHippo.Com 

  I should stay away from the site however because they list the latest versions of software.  I am stupid and always download the newest software versions and I install beta versions.  That is not a good idea but I can not stop myself. 
  I see there is a Thunderbird 9.0 Beta 2 version.  I see there is a Google Chrome 17.0.938.0 Beta.  Why or why did I find this site? 

#OccukplyWallStreet

  How many bankers were arrested for crashing our economy?  The answer is zero.
How many people have been arrested in New York city speaking up and protesting about what the bankers have done?  The answer is almost 1000 people so far.

  If you want to follow the action on Twitter try the flashtag of:  #OccupyWallStreet

  The Guardian has live coverage of Occupy Wall Street protests – live coverage.

 

Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

‘First Website’ Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

  Yes I am going to rant again.. rant warning on…
No I am not going to say that I invented the Internet, the world wide web or even the blog.  But the stories like “Not So High-Tech Anymore: The First Website Ever Celebrates Its 20th Birthday” piss me off.

  

 

“On August 6, 1991, the first website was launched on the Internet, forever changing the way we browse. (And thankfully, web design has improved just a bit in the past two decades.)…”

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/06/the-first-website-ever-celebrates-its-20th-birthday/#ixzz1UJft1kV6

 

  So in 1991 you could type in a url and go to a site.  Well Howard’s Notebook began in 1982.  It was written up in a national magazine (“Link-Up”), in 1984,  and I am not sure of the date but about 1984 you could click on a link at Howard’s Notebook and HNB would dial out on my second phone line and connect you with another bulletin board system.  If I remember correct you could not type in the link you had to hit the link that I had in the text.  Now for sending an Internet email you could on my system type in the email address but I had a number of email addressed written out that you could just click on because people did not know how to write email addresses at that time.  I had to explain to people how to address an Internet email.

  So I am not knocking Tim Berners-Lee or whatever site he had or whatever in the hell he was doing but there were a lot of people doing a lot of things back in the old days.
  So he did something online in 1991 and good for him.  Many of us were doing things back in the early 1980s.

Most Valuable Dallas/Fort Worth Blog

DFW’s
Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011

Help Us Find DFW’s MVBs.

Calling all foodie, sport and mommy blogs! CBS is looking for the best and brightest bloggers in DFW to compete for the title of Most Valuable Blogger in each of six
different categories:

• Dining/Entertainment
• Sports
• Lifestyle/Family

• Local Affairs
• Health/Fitness/Medical
• Everything Else

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Nominate the best bloggers in your community, as many blogs as you’d like. They can be your own, a friend’s, or just one you think deserves the title of DFW’s Most Valuable Blogger.
2. Vote for MVBs in each category from August 16 – September 9. You can vote once in each category per day.
3. Come back and see who won. We’ll tally the votes and award a $50 Amazon Gift Card to each category’s winner. In addition, we’ll choose one editor’s choice winner per category for another Amazon Gift Card. Feel free to check out the rules for details.

Nominate A Blog

Sunday May 15, 2011

  We made it half way through May of 2011.  It still feels like a lot of bad things are happening to people around the world.  I guess it is  because we get all the news. 
  We got flooding in the United States.  How sad that an area is protected by flood walls and dams but they have to be opened up and a big area flooded to keep big cities from being flooded.  I can understand the decision but that would be a heart breaker for the people that were protected but end up getting flooded.

  Huckabee is not going to run.  He broke the news last night on his Fox “news” TV show.

  It looks like the shuttle Endeavour to going to fly tomorrow early.  I got a family member down there that is going to watch. 

  I been feeling a little better the past few days except that my arthritis is hurting more and the pain is getting worst.  My doctor said to take Aleve but I try and not take anything.  I guess I should just take it everyday.  But I had taking medications.
  I have had a dull pain the last week or so that I think is from my gallstones.  I have gallstones but they have not been a problem.  I think they are starting to be a problem.  I can live with that dull pain feeling I just hope it does not get worst. 
  It is no fun being old.  (I am 70 years of age.)  The “baby boomers” are turning 65 so they are a few years behind me.  But soon there are going to be a lot more old folks around.  It is sort of odd that just when there are more of us is when the Republicans are almost in position to do away with Medicare and Social Security.  Well it is not funny but you know what I mean right?

  I see from  the CNN web site that there was violence in Cairo and that Coptics were attacked.  We are so lucky to live in the United States and have the ability to worship and go to different churches. 
  Think how hard it must be to head out to go to your place of worship and worry if your neighbors are going to attack you. 
  For the most part our freedom of worship has worked well.  Yes, I am aware of some of the problems in the pasts.  We do have freedom of religion here.   The Republicans are getting nearer and nearer to being like the Taliban in the United States but it is just a small number of them and I think even leadership will not let them go to far in that direction. 
  I think that the fundamentalist Christians here know how much danger there is in not allowing freedom of religion for all.  If the Baptist let freedom of religion bbe taken away from some other religions they know that it is only a matter of time until they lose their freedom of religion.