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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Yahoo publish network terminate account with no reason

A email I just received from YPN

Hello xxxxxx,Thank you for your participation in the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program. Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that we have identified that one or more of your sites has sent traffic from users outside of the United States to our advertisers. This constitutes a breach of Section 11(l) of the program Terms and Conditions.As a result, we have terminated your Yahoo! Publisher Network beta account 1285125611. Additionally, in accordance with Section 6(a) of the Terms and Conditions, we will deduct revenue resulting from this traffic from your payment. We will pay any remaining amount owed to you in accordance with the Terms and Conditions.Please note that it is possible that we may welcome you back to the program after the beta period, provided that you take steps to eliminate non-U.S. traffic from clicking on your Yahoo! contextual ads. We enforce this policy to protect our advertisers? interests, and to reduce the amount of non-converting traffic that they receive.A final payment will be issued to you within 90 days via the payment method you selected. This payment will be adjusted to exclude any amounts generated in violation of the Yahoo! Publisher Network Terms and Conditions and Program Policies. For example, if we determine that all traffic is non-compliant, you will not receive a payment.Thank you for contributing to our beta program, and we hope to reinstate you in the future. Funny thing is, I've had the account for over a year and never setup the ad code on any of my sites. Nope, not a single instance of a Yahoo ad running on my network, but they have found a reason to close the account regardless.I haven't looged into the account in over 6 months, I forgot I had one.

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

I was almost finished working

when the one of the security guards (who is quite ancient) phoned my extension to tell me that I had a flat tire. Then before I could respond, he said “I don’t know how to change a flat.” So in other words, don’t ask him for help. I said GREAT THANKS (mumbled for nothing) and hung up the phone. I do know how to change a flat, but would rather not, it takes me forever. SO I called my husband, it was about 4 am. Told him I had a flat, and would he be kind enough to come and change it, that I would be finished working in about half an hour.
On my way out, I passed the OTHER ancient security guard, and before I could say anything he said “Bummer” but continued to sit there on his fat tired ass. No help there either. So I went outside, where I found the first ancient security guard watching my husband change my tire. And do you believe this? He had the nerve to say to my husband “We would have helped her change it if she needed it.” I flat out said, “Don’t lie like that Bobby, you just told me that you didn’t even know how, before I could even ask. In fact, so that I wouldn’t ask.” OF course he tried to say I misunderstood him. I don’t see how many ways you can misunderstand “I don’t know how to change a tire.” Ok then, I asked him, “Then what did you say and/or mean.” He just stuttered for a minute and pretended to be offended and went back inside.
Asshole.
This guy has no business being a security guard anyway. Especially in the middle of the night in dangerous downtown, where he is SUPPOSED to automatically walk every lady to her car but never does unless she asks him to. He’s over 65, he’s had a hip replacement and limps, he has emphysema, and everytime he has “inside duty” (they’re supposed to switch every hour) I’ve seen him asleep behind the front desk with his feet up, where he is SUPPOSED to be watching the monitor. I know about his health problems because he is sure to tell everyone who will listen to him for more than a minute.
I used to think, poor guy, it’s probably the only job he can get at his age, and he probably has no other income. But one night we got on the topic of incomes as I was leaving and he stopped me to run his mouth, and he told me that he makes 3000 a month from retirement funds and social security. Well, I’ll be damned. I don’t feel sorry for him anymore. In fact, I rather despise him these days.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Use Google to ID a site owner

Google Tutor, a blog full of Googley-goodness, has come up with a quick way to identify a site's owner - just snoop on their Adsense ID.
It's pretty easy. All you do is a quick view-source and look for the keyword "client". Sometimes you'll be able to ID the owner by the text attached to this word; if not, you can CTRL-C the numeric code and Google it to see what other sites that particular code belongs to. Of course, this will only work on sites that are using Adsense on their pages, but it's still a pretty useful little hack.

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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Google Talk open to all

Google just announced that their chat application, Google Talk, is now open for public consumption, having previously been limited to Gmail users.

The new, open Google Talk comes with the same bundle of new features announced on Google Talk's first birthday, like voicemail (see screenshot - delivered via email), file transfer, and music status/trends. I know that the world over loves Google for their search, but I feel like most people are pretty dedicated to their favorite IM app, and if they don't have loyalties, they're already using Adium or Trillian. With that in mind, I'm interested to see what an open Google Talk can do. Your thoughts in the comments.

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