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Apparently the WordPress.org guys have been scaming google‘s AdSense program by optimizing their site to pick up only high paying ads about cancer and mesothelioma. Apparently lawyers are paying as high as $40 per click for those keywords. I can’t help but think they would have been better off just called up Google’s marketing department and asking for help to support their hosting costs or maybe moving their site to SourceForge. I’d be suprised if they had a hard time getting some financial support from companys out there.

I wonder if theres a site that keeps track of the top 50 most expensive keywords on Oveture and Google AdSense. Maybe I should figure it out and start blogging about mesothelioma or some other high paying keywords. Heck at $40 a click I could make some real cash on those adwords you see above 🙂

For the last week or so our net access here has been quite flakey. Since I’m always using either our broadvoice or Vonage VoIP lines it has been a bit of a problem. Finally today I got ticked off and picked up the POTS line to call my ISP Linkline (they sponsored SCALE too!) and could barely hear the dial tone due to static. When I finally was able to dial through to them I was able to hear my neighbor Cliff on the line giving someone their password! Anyways, long story short I opened a ticket with both Linkline and SBC. SBC says they’ll be out Tuesday. Originally they said Friday, but I keep calling everytime the net goes down to ask if they can move it up 🙂 Never underestimate the power of persistance.

By the way as long as I’m discussing net access, Linkline has been my ISP for 4 years now. Their service has always been great and they’ve recently started selling Linux based servers. The best part is the support the OSS community by sponsoring events like the Southern California Linux Expo. So if you are looking for an ISP or some new servers drop them a line and tell them you heard about them through SCALE.