Tag Archive: internet

First Google AdSense check

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-29T20:25:49Z in Personal Development, with these tags: careers, goals, internet, jobs, life, money, purpose, value, work, 2 Comments. 519 words.

$112.23 Google AdSense check

Just got this check from Google for $112.23. I wasn’t sure if this Google ad program was real till now; perhaps they’d just take my money and ban me when I reached the $100 threshold? :xx:

I started this blog way back at the end of last year, just for my photography. I didn’t do much for a long time, often just spending lots of time fiddling with the layout and code, but in the past two months I’ve made lots of progress. I feel I can do a lot of good here, …

Digital Sharecropping

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-28T16:57:10Z in Personal Development, Technology, with these tags: courage, fear, internet, life, money, power, risk, sharecropping, 2 Comments. 1,390 words.

Before 1994, the Internet was basically unknown. It was just a tool for professors and researchers to connect with their peers. All websites had to be non-profit.

In 1994, the National Science Foundation took away these restrictions. Anyone could register a domain name and start a website, even to sell stuff. Pepsi.com was one of the first, but at the time it seemed a pointless gimmick.

Flash forward to 2008. In the past five years, power has become consolidated between a few major websites, despite the flat nature of the Internet. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, and eBay are the major players. These …

Your Blog is a Marching Wiki

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-04T20:16:06Z in Personal Development, with these tags: blogging, congruity, goals, growth, internet, life, links, wikis, writing, 0 Comments. 1,163 words.

When I think of a wiki, I think of a collection of articles that can be edited by anyone. But wikis have another core trait. If you’ve ever looked up an article on Wikipedia, you’ve noticed that practically every other word is a link to related articles in the wiki.

There are no direct links to external sites. All those are footnotes or references, appearing at the bottom of the page. But within the text, there are internal links all over the place. It’s a self-contained Internet.

I think your blog should be the same way. This isn’t reasonable …

Money and Love

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-02T22:16:20Z in Personal Development, Technology, with these tags: careers, goals, internet, life, love, money, purpose, thripp.com, work, 2 Comments. 417 words.

What I made online, 2008-08

Just wanted to give you a little hint for how my websites did last month. My goal is $1 per day, and while I didn’t hit that every day last month, the overall total was $56.41, or $1.80 per day.

I can see I’m making a bigger impact on the world. In July, I made $20, so my income basically tripled last month. You can’t get that kind of raise with a regular job.

$53.73 was from Google AdSense; $2.68 was from this blog’s Amazon Associates commissions.

Of the $53.73, $1.54 came from Brilliant Photography and …

Tweet This, a WordPress Plugin for Twitter

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-02T00:20:09Z in Technology, with these tags: internet, networking, php, plugins, tweet this, twitter, wordpress, 19 Comments. 465 words.

Click here to download Tweet This v1.1.1

A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease. Shortens URLs in advance. Tested in WordPress 2.6.2, 2.0.11, and 1.5.

The Long Description

Adds a Post to Twitter bird icon to the top-right of every post and page, with a nice rollover effect. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us, eating up only 16 of 140 characters. Includes the post’s title after the link (can be turned off). If your titles are really long, they get cut off …

How to Create a Public Library

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-26T03:33:47Z in Library Science, with these tags: barcoding, computer science, computers, creativity, internet, librarianship, new, openbiblio, php, programming, 1 Comment. 5,613 words.

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I’ve disappeared for the last few days because I’ve been working on The Thripp Public Library. While I can’t open it to the public yet (Dad won’t open our house to the world), I’m working on it now because I have time off and Dad’s generously donated lots of his books. Though I wanted to use Evergreen or Koha, I picked the simple and obscure OpenBiblio as my library system, because it’s the only thing I could find that would run on shared hosting. I was disappointed by the lack of features to start, but I’m starting …

The Perils of Redundant Linking

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-19T03:26:57Z in Personal Development, with these tags: computers, internet, links, 0 Comments. 588 words.

Sometimes I’ll write a post, and I’ll mention something twice. Often it’s my wonderful camera, a Canon Rebel XTi. And then I wonder: should I make the text a link twice? In the Rebel XTi case, it’s a link to Amazon.com (an evil affiliate link). Sometimes, the link will be with different text, or in an entirely different context than the first, though it goes to the same page. That could be linking to Glass Drops once while talking about night photography, and then again when discussing raindrops, in the same article.

I’ve noticed other people doing this, and …

th8.us: URL trimming service

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-09T14:18:17Z in Technology, with these tags: computers, internet, th8.us, 0 Comments. 216 words.

I created a URL trimming service at th8.us. The URLs are the same length as Tinyurl: 25 characters, in the format http://xxxxx.th8.us. I put it together using Hidayet Dogan’s Phurl for my Twitter account, but then thought it should be released to the world. I made modifications to the code so the random part is a virtual subdomain, is five characters instead of six (it’ll be a while before the 24 million combinations are used up), it respects trailing slashes, it links to the new address instead of just showing it in plain text, and it …

My photos on the HTTP 500 Internal Server error page

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-03T06:11:48Z in Photography Ramblings, with these tags: internet, portfolio, richard x. thripp, thripp.com, wordpress, 0 Comments. 121 words.

I made a custom Internal Server Error page for the Thripp.com network, with all the photos from my portfolio. Error pages are fun again. :smile:

I put a lot of ads there too, so I can monetize the outages. Plus, the links are to the photos on my jpgmag.com gallery, and all the thumbnails are on Photobucket, so the page is light-weight, won’t chew up bandwidth, and makes my photos accessible when the database is down. It’s only 10KB!

I posted this to digg too:

Check out this HTTP 500 page; instead of being rudely interrupted with a

Switched to SYN Hosting, Outage is Over

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-19T07:56:15Z in Technology, with these tags: internet, netfirms, richard x. thripp, syn hosting, thripp.com, wordpress, 1 Comment. 728 words.

Hi everyone. The website’s been down for the last 18 hours, since 7:30 A.M. (EDT) this morning, but I’m back now. I discovered it when I awoke at 2 P.M. (I’m happily unemployed), and immediately began trouble-shooting. It wasn’t on my end at all; it had to be Netfirms’ fault (they’ve given me trouble before). Netfirms wasn’t serving up anything from the MySQL database, which cripples me, because this blog is all dynamic.

Netfirms has been growing progressively worse in the past two weeks… FTP has been terribly slow, the website is slow, it’s gone down a couple of …


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