My favourite cartoon strip. Thought I would reprint this one.
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My wife's cousing recently embarked on an around the world trip for almost a year. He purchased one of those "round the world" airline tickets and took off.
Anyhow, he is a professional photographer and quite a good writer I have found out. You should check out or subscribe to his blog, Openshaw360 if you like to follow some interesting travel commentary and see some great photos.
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My wife and I purchased a 2004 Mazda 3 around a month ago. I have to say we have been very pleasantly surprised. It runs quite smooth and gets very reasonable gas mileage. Here are the specs and my mileage results.
SpecificationsBased on that I took my highway mileage going both directions to a location and found that I hit 38 mpg (6.2 L/100km) and 41 mpg (5.74 L/100km) respectively. Our city driving so far has been around 35 mpg (6.7 L/100km).
I will be slapping winter tires on soon, so I will do a comparison then as well. I also want to drive a slower speed and do a comparison.
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Wow. My best month ever has just turned in.
October's numbers and September's numbers are in brackets.
Almost a new records in every metric and by quite a large margin. I think this goes to prove that it isn't how much new content is put up, but how much good content has already been put up. I did add some good articles last month though. Specifically my analysis on TD Rebate Rewards and TD Elite Gold Visa Cards as well as CIBC Aerogold and AeroClassic Visas.
October 2008 Traffic
Overall, my earnings for October 2008 were $309.87. That is my highest earnings ever and the first time I have cracked $300. Here is the breakdown with last month's numbers in brackets.
This is awesome, awesome results. The first time for racking $200 on Adsense as well. My Kontera has been slowly declining which is interesting. I have been tempted to pull it off and I wonder if it limits my Adsense earnings in reality. I will leave them for now though.
It has been an excellent month for traffic and revenue.
I still want to add Text Link Ads, but they keep saying my site does not receive enough traffic.
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There has been a lot of hype about Twitter and I decided to check it out for myself after a peer of mine joined. If you are into this sort of thing then feel free to check out my account or follow my Twitter updates. http://twitter.com/NeilGalloway
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I recently purchased a Mazda 3 for my wife. It was a good exercise in the process of buying a used car through a private sale. There a a number of issue to take care of and I developed my own little process. You can read about it in my article Negotiating a Private Sale on a Car.
This article provides an example of a Bill of Sale or what I call a Purchase Agreement. You should always, always, always have one of these. It defines the actual agreement that you have come to with the seller. You will need it to insure and register your vehicle.
Feel free to use this template. I am sick of not being able to find a decent one for free. I have underlined and italicized the sections you will want to fill in yourself. You can copy and paste it into a text editor or try downloading a template:
I would keep the overall sections there, but you can add criteria to each one as you see fit. There might be more or less conditions as well.
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT,
(hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement") is entered into by
and between PRINT SELLER NAME {hereinafter referred to as "Seller"} and PRINT BUYER NAME {hereinafter referred to as "Buyer"}.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Seller is the
owner of a INPUT YEAR AND MODEL, Vehicle Identification Number: INPUT VIN NUMBER
and a set of winter tires on rims {hereinafter known as the
"Vehicle"}.
WHEREAS, Buyer desires
to buy the Vehicle from Seller and Seller desires to sell the Vehicle
to Buyer
AGREEMENT
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration
of the mutual obligations contained herein. Buyer and Seller do
hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1: PURCHASE AND SALE OF INTERESTS
Buyer agrees to buy from Seller
and Seller agrees to sell to Buyer, Seller's right and title to the
Vehicle.
SECTION 2: PURCHASE PRICE
The total purchase price for
the Vehicle shall be INPUT PURCHASE PRICE HERE.
SECTION 3: DEPOSIT
The Seller has received a ENTER DEPOSIT AMOUNT deposit towards the Purchase Price of the Vehicle.
SECTION 4: PAYMENT AND DELIVERY
The Purchase Price shall be
paid by the Buyer to Seller at the Closing as defined in Section 5 of
this Agreement. The Purchase Price shall be paid in the form of
Certified Funds (Bank Draft or Money Order) or cash.
SECTION 5: CLOSING
SECTION 6: TITLE AND POSSESSION
Signed in LOCATION HERE on INPUT THE FULL DATE.
Seller:PRINT NAME SIGNATURE
Buyer:PRINT NAME SIGNATURE
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I attended the Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary last night. My first time to hear him speak. If you don't know anything about Henry Rollins, you can read up about him on the Henry Rollins Wikipedia page.
I don't really know him at all, but a friend recommended to go see him. He basically talks about a variety of things going on in the world, politics, places he has been, or experiences he has had. It is quite interesting and rather funny. More than a few rants and he talked for close to 3 hours without a single break. Not even a drink of water and I don't remember seeing him take the microphone away from his mouth.
I recommend checking him out. He'll make you laugh. Keep in mind that he is a little bit profane, so it isn't really an all ages crowd.
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The election is over and it is another minority government. I'm sure you all know the results already.
Anyhow, I was impressed with the map on CBC's website that shows the distribution. Click the map to go to their site and see all the detail.
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I don't know what is going on my. My RSS readers counter at on the right side of the page has dropped to 44 today. Feedburner occasionally fluctuates up and down, but this is a big jump.
They were recently acquired by Google and they have been changing a few things. Most importantly, they have added advertising to the RSS feeds if you want them to. I recently made this switch, so I am hoping this isn't the reason why.
The RSS feed still works for me in my reader, so everything should be okay.
I'll keep an eye out on how much revenue the RSS feed is actually generating as well.
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This post is late again and I totally missed September's results. I'm debating posting these now as I don't know how much value they are adding.
September's numbers and July's numbers are in brackets.
New records in every metric and by quite a large margin. I think this goes to prove that it isn't how much new content is put up, but how much good content has already been put up.
September 2008 Traffic
Overall, my earnings for September 2008 were $178.28. Here is the breakdown with last month's numbers in brackets.
Not a huge change, but it was alright. I have added advertising to my RSS feed, so it will be interesting to see how that performs as well.
It has been an excellent month for traffic.
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