Thursday, November 13th, 2008
If you dabble in Photoshop and you’re anything like me, then you’ll always be on the lookout for some cool Photoshop brushes and gradients. Being a bit of a tight ass, my favorite Photoshop brushes are the free ones. I’m sure I’m not the only one that likes free stuff so here are a few [...]
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
The Amazon affiliate program now lets you create your own ‘Deal of the Day’ widget, that’ll showcase one of their… take a guess… that’s right, deals of the day. It updates itself, so it’s one of those set and forget kind of things. Perfect for a lazy person. There are a few different options and [...]
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Do numbers turn you on? Well here are some interesting statistics for SwollenPickles.com for the month of October 2008. I thought I’d share, because you don’t always see people sharing information like this. In October, 698 pages were viewed a total of 34,919 times. Firefox surpassed IE as the browser of choice for readers of [...]
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
If you’re reading this, I’m sure you’ve probably stumbled across countless other blog posts by people complaining that Google has slapped their blog with a Page Rank penalty. I’m also sure you’ve read countless rants on the increasingly irrelevant position Page Rank occupies in the world wide web. I’m not really sure that is actually [...]
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I’m not sure that anyone out there actually cares, but a week ago I extended my ProjectWonderful experiment to try and figure out how to get the most out of my ad block and find the optimum pricing level. During the first week of the experiment I set the opening bid at $0.00 to see [...]
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Dear Google, I know that you are wise and all powerful. I know that I am wrong to even think of questioning your wisdom, however, sometimes your behavior confuses me. You used to show me love. Then seemingly overnight, things changed. The love disappeared. I woke up feeling dirty and ignored. If only I knew [...]
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
I’ve decided it’s time for another experiment. I’ve been using Project Wonderful for a while. If you’re not familiar with Project Wonderful, it is a program that is free, and lets you sell your own ad spots, kind of like PerformancingAds, however Project Wonderful uses an auction based model. Currently I have 4 125×125 ad [...]
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
This post is really nothing more than a miscellaneous collection of stuff, so prepare yourself… If you’re one of the people, like me, that found Alien vs. Predator 2 a joyful romp in the ongoing Alien/Predator love story, then this little clip will give you another opportunity to geek out like there’s no tomorrow. It’s [...]
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
I have now officially made over $1,000 USD with PayPerPost. It’s been quite a while since I took an opportunity on this site, largely in an effort to avoid the Google turkey slapping (which seems to have happened anyway), but I’ve been using it a little on a blog that I’ve basically just “whore’d” out [...]
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Since I installed the WP-Polls plugin I’ve run a grand total of eight polls on this site. Generally, they aren’t all that popular with visitors, with only 3 of 8 getting into double figures. My most popular poll so far has been on Battle of the Battlestar Galactica Cyclons Round Two with 53 voters so [...]
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
When I registered with Predictify a while back, I was a little sceptical, I mean to say, their tag line was “Make Money By Predicting Future Events”. Were they for real? Well, as it turns out, they are for real, and they continue to pay out. Don’t kid yourself, you’re not going to make a [...]
