So far in 7 days I have made $20.32 via the Google Adsense program. It doesn’t sound much but at this rate I should be able to make over $1000 a year if my websites don’t get more popular. I have placed the google ads on 248AM.com and Miskan.com but I receive the bulk of visitors on my other older sites. I am thinking of expanding even and placing ads on more of my sites. So far I am impressed with Adsense. [Link]
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Al Qaeda Training Manual
The attached manual was located in Manchester (England) by Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaeda member’s home. The manual was found in a computer file described as “the military series” related to the “Declaration of Jihad.” The manual was translated into English and was introduced earlier this year at the embassy bombing trial in New York. The Department is only providing the following selected text from the manual because it does not want to aid in educating terrorists or encourage further acts of terrorism.
Al Qaeda Training Manual
Cover – Lesson 4
Lesson 5 – Lesson 8
Lesson 9 – Lesson 11
Lesson 12 – End
Remember when I said Doom was Doomed? Well I guess I was right. I just watched the trailer and I have to say I would rather watch my brother play Doom 3 on the Xbox. [Link]
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New iBooks and Mac mini’s
New iBooks
– New trackpad lets you scroll horizontally, vertically or pan around the screen
– Sudden Motion sensor protects the hard drive in free-fall
– Built in Bluetooth 2.0 and Airport Extreme
– iLife ’05
12″ 1.33GHz G4, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, Combo Drive – $999
14″ 1.42GHz G4, 512MB RAM, 60GB HD, Super Drive – $1299
New Mac mini
The updated Mac mini comes with 512MB of RAM and built in wireless options:
1.25GHz G4, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, Combo Drive, $499
1.42GHz G4, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo Drive, Airport Extreme and Bluetooth, $599
1.42GHz G4, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, Super Drive, Airport Extreme and Bluetooth, $699
More info on Apple.com
What does Vista stand for? The answer:
Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans and Adware.
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B-Side 254 25/7/05
This is todays B-Side from the airport. Photographers and reporters were swarming around this chick in a cap who seemed to be someone famous. Click here to view the orignal post on Miskan.
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Worlds Ugliest Dog
Oh my god this dog is sooo fucking gross! He looks like something out of the Resident Evil movie, fucking UGLY! [Link]
Wow, this was unexpected. Konfabulator is a company that created widgets for Mac OS X. When apple released Tiger with its own software called dashboard which used their own set of widgets (Apple basically stole the idea from Konfabulator) it hurt Konfabulators business. They vowed to seek revenge by creating widgets for the Windows operating system. Now it seems Yahoo purchased them… good for them. [Link]
Just watched the trailer for the movie “The 40 Year Old Virgin”. Looks like a really fucking funny movie. Can’t wait till it comes out. [Link]
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Salhiya and JW Marriott Evacuated
After lunch when I came back to the office I saw a police car blocking the road to JW Marriott Hotel. Fadibou just told me its because there was a bomb threat, and they evacuated the building. Employees were also advised not to go back to work tomorrow.
The front looks kind of crap, but the rear makes up for it. [Link]
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CSI New York on Showtime
CSI New York will start playing on Showtime starting next month. This means we will now have all three CSI’s on Showtime which combined with the show 24 makes TV Land one of the coolest channels available.
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Controlling the Weather
I was talking about how crappy humid weather is and how we are lucky we don’t live in Dubai when a friend mentioned that Dubai actually asked NASA to study the possibility of controlling the weather in Dubai. Anyone know anything about this? Google revealed nothing.
Finally the NHL lockout has ended. After having the whole NHL season canceled, things are back on track. The biggest surprise to me were some of the new rule changes. Firstly no game will end in a draw now, if there is a draw the teams will go into a shootout until one team comes out the victor. Other changes include the goalkeepers gloves and pads which will shrink in size to make it harder for them to protect the net. For more details on the new rules and salary caps, hit the link. [Link]
Since I installed the Xbox Media Center I started downloading movies from the web again. I stopped downloading movies along time ago because it was a pain watching them on my computer. Now with the Xbox Media Center I stream all the movies onto my TV in the living room. I downloaded 7 movies this weekend, Sin City, The Jacket, Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, The Ring Two, Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman. I only managed to watch 3 movies though.
Sin City turned out to be great. I had totally forgotten how the actual comics were made up of short stories so I was glad to see this got transferred into the movies. Mickey Rourke was the best thing about the movie, I am glad his career is back on track now.
The Jacket was so so. My brother thought it was an amazing movie so I was expecting it to be so, but I found it un-eventual and slow. They could have done so much more with this movie. Adrien Brody is a good actor though, I like him.
Napoleon Dynamite was hilarious. I have never seen such sad looking characters in my whole life, they are the most incredibly dorky and geeky people you could ever meet, and they fucking kicked ass. Pedro is like the man!
Tonight I am probably going to watch Anchorman. I am also downloading the A-Team season 1, hopefully that will turn out to be as good as I remember it.
Overall the quality of the movies were really good, like DVD quality and all were actually DVD rips not in movie recordings. The only downside is that from all the movies I downloaded non of them have Dolby Digital so I am stuck watching all the movies in Stereo mode only.