My new bike 1999 Kawasaki GPZ 500 S

Befeore 2-3 weeks I was for choosing to buy a new bike. I have been searching for a Kawaski ZZR 400 or 600, but I didn't find new and good zzr bike. At the end I saw a 1999 Kawasaki GPZ 500 S. It was like new, when I made a test ride, I realeased this is my new bike. I bought it, and I am very happy now, because riding a bike is one of the best things of this world :). It is sport-tourist bike, not clean super sport. I made about 600 km for two weekends. I still not riding it every day, becaue the bike is in Sandanski, and I am in Sofia. I just waiting to register it in the police, next week must to happen.

Some pictures of my beautiful bike :)

Sofia Enduro Contest 2007 Pictures

I was for first time on an enduro event. It was just awesome.
See the pictures in this post and more pics here.

Opera Speed Dial

I just update my gentoo, and I saw there is a new version of Opera (9.20).
The first new feature which I saw was the Speed Dial. I just click "New tab", but I didn't saw it, I click again, and again, and I saw the new tab is not blank, it was speed dial page.
It is like phone speed dial, but for browser. You can set your favorite sites there.
And with Ctrl+[1-9] to open any of them, or just to click on it. It is very nice feature. Opere again shown they invent everything new in the web browsers.
Only one thing I don't like in speed dial, what the fu*k yahoo search doing on the speed dial page, I wanna be a google search insted.

Speed dial

Make Money With Metacafe Producer Rewards

You can make money from your videos with Metacafe. Maybe you already uploading your videos on Youtube or other where, but nobody pay you about this.
My friend kochvideo told me about this before a couple of months.

Metacafe Producer Rewards program pays you $5 of every thousand of viewers of your movie. Payments starts when your video reaches 20,000 views ($100), and the rating is 3.0 or higher.

The video requirements are:
1. The video and the music must be owned by you.
2. Your video must be suitable for everyone, no porn and violence.
3. You need signed permissions from people in video, if any.

kochvideo has already earned $700.
Some of his videos which earned money
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/457866/street_defence_part_1/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/446758/turn_fart_into_energy/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/350943/very_cool_cool_dart/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/351122/amazing_inseparable_books/

The top earners are made about $20,000 - $25,000 from this program.
There are a single clips made about $2,000 - $3,000.
It's sounds very cool, isn't it?

How to prevent yourself from clicks on your own AdSense ads

Everybody which using AdSense should know that he can't click on his own ads because, it is against AdSense polices, and can be banned for own clicks.
But you can click accidentally sometime when you look at your own site.
To prevent myself from this I making the ads hidden for me.

I will describe some ways to do that. This are not all possible ways.

1. AdSense Preview Tool
this is a tool from Google to test what ads will appear on your new pages, or on your old. You can select ad formats, colors and geo-targeted location.
You can see how to install it here.
I never used it, because it is for Internet ExploDer, and I am using Gentoo, and there isn't IE for it (actualy there is some like IEs4LInux and other).

2. Disable Javascript
AdSense works with javascript, if you disable it for you sites, your AdSense will not shown. But if you have parts of your site which works with Javascript you will be unable to use it.
How to disable the Javascript on different browsers:
Opera - open your site, right click on the page, select "Edit site preferences...", select the tab "Scripting", uncheck "Enable javascript" and press "OK" button.

FireFox - you can install some extension like NoScript or AdBlock.

Interned ExploDer - I don't remember/care

3. hosts file
This is another way to disable AdSense, and this will disable not only your sites ads but, and every site ads in any browser.
All AdSense clicks get through the host pagead2.googlesyndication.com, if you set static IP address for it in your hosts file, yours(and others) AdSense will not appear any more in any browser. What you need to do? Just add the following line in your hosts file

127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Where is this hosts file?
On Linux/UNIX - /ets/hosts
On Windows -
Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista - %Systemroot%\System32\Drivers\Etc
Windows 9x - <drive>\<Windows folder>

4. Server side scripting (PHP/ASP/JSP/Whatever)
You can write a function which checks is the visitor IP match with some in list with your IPs, then if not you show the ads, else you don't.


What is your way?

Fix For Yakuake Location Bug On Fluxbox

I like yakuake, it is hidden when you don't need it, and it shows when you press F12. It is the best terminal. But I am using Fluxbox and found a bug which appear only with yakuake on fluxbox. It shows on different location every time when you set to visible. This is very annoying for me. The yakuake developers are not released any new version from long time and I decide to fix it myself.
And I successed (I am never programming in C++), the fix is only one line.
You can get pacth here.

That is why I like Open Source software.

Make money with Text Link Ads programs

I found some forum threads for making money with Text Link Ads and referrals.
They have a couple of ways to make money:
- Affiliate program
Text Link Ads pay out $25 for any referred visitor accepted into their program.
- Text Link Ads
You can sell links on your web site pages. Calculate how much you can earn with your site with the link calculator.
- RSS Ads
Adding ads into your rss feeds. This is good for bloggers.

Some threads from people already earning money from Text Link Ads
http://earnersforum.com/showthread.php?t=2063
http://www.earnersforum.com/archive/index.php/t-2022.html

Text Link Ads can be a good alternative for sites which not working well with AdSense.
Try it here.