Blog Master G

The results are in, and the Google ad for my blog has proved a great failure. It’s been displayed 1,000 times with zero click-through. Woohoo! I logged into my account this morning to see the following message: Your last 1,000 ad impressions displayed on Google did not generate enough clicks to meet our minimum clickthrough […]

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Wow. This is very cool. The ad for my blog is now live. A Google search for blog now shows an ad for my blog as the second ad in the right-hand column. I’ve captured the page as it looks tonight for when it’s not around anymore (or I decide my little experiment is over). […]

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I’m in the middle of creating my Google AdWords ad for my blog (while watching the timeless Clueless with Jen and my Mom) and came across what seems to be the only other ad for a personal blog: a search for the word weblog results in a top-placed ad for Ming’s Metalogue. Apparently I’m not […]

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I have an idea. I’m doing a lot of research today on Google, everyone’s favorite search engine, and the company where I would like to work some day. I’ve been reading lately about the company’s AdWords service and I just had an idea while reading the Compare Programs page. The brilliance of the AdWords service […]

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Yesterday’s trip to up north to Santa Rosa’s Safari West was a great success. Everyone had a really good time walking around the grounds before and after dinner, and enjoyed the unique occasion that was Thanksgiving this year. After battling some traffic up 101, we eventually arrived in two carloads at the wild animal preserve. […]

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Lately I’ve been jumping around a handful of other blogs, including some of the most popular ones on the Web like InstaPundit and Dave Winer, who claims to have the oldest and longest-running blog on the Internet (since 1994). Today InstaPundit links to an article in the NY Times about what seems to be the […]

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Grand Theft Auto Vice City should not be legal. But I love it. Yesterday my brother Peter arrived in town — I spent most of the morning waiting for him at the airport — and shortly thereafter our friend Mark, whom we’ve known for 17 years (hard to believe) since our parents were divorced and […]

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Continuing in its tradition of sports domination, my high school alma mater football team won in overtime Saturday, pushing its record to 10-0 in round 1 of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs. Way to go, Marauders! Jesuit fans apparently demonstrated quite the sportsmanship, too, giving Grant a standing ovation after its loss. That’s quite […]

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I like most movies. Jen sometimes makes fun of me for liking bad movies. Classic examples include Clueless and the elusive Fuzz Bucket, a made-for-TV ’80s movie that most people know nothing about (it was not even listed in IMDB the last time Jen and I checked!). So whenever we see a movie that even […]

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The Bush administration is creating a scarier world than anyone realizes. As I described in last week’s post on Freemasonry, the government’s new Information Awareness Office wants to collect every little detail about every one of us. And it gets scarier. From John Poindexter, who was convicted on 5 counts of lying to Congress during […]

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