The more observant of you might have noticed that I have added a blogroll on the left side of this blog. At the moment, there is only one entry there, but I will add more with time.

If you want to exchange links in any way, feel free to  leave me a comment.

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Kumiko’s Cash Quest is a recently started blog about a young Japanese woman’s quest to make money online (so, not that different from this blog, really).

The design of the blog is clean and simple, with very few ads to distract from the content. The articles on the blog are well written and entertaining. The most useful feature are her weekly summaries, where she mentions which programs she will keep and which ones she will drop,

I think that it is a blog worth subscribing to

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This is a post announcing my intent to join the $100 challenge, whereby I will try to make $100 by the end of the year from this site.

I actually plan to make far more, both from this site and from other projects (which I will announce as soon as I start them), I think that this is a good start to motivate me.

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I have just tried to sign on for an online advertising service, which shall remain nameless, but they only allow deposits into a PayPal account. This is not the first one I have come across.

What irritates me about this situation, is the fact that in South Africa, while I can have a PayPal account, I can use it to pay for things, but not to receive money, and I am sure that this is not the only country that has this or a similar problem.

Why do people find it so difficult to make another plan for things like this… They could either mail cheques, or simply allow a selection of virtual currency processors, such as e-gold or StormPay. Why make it so difficult for people to partner with them?

It would be simple enough to set up an international credit card, and have PayPal linked to that account, but I refuse to do it… Would I really want to work with a company that does not take my interests into account?

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Well, my host, Servage, came through for me very quickly, they got back to me about the problem within a couple of minutes, and fixed it soon after, so the RSS feeds work now, so please subscribe to them, or you might miss out on my words of wisdom!

Speaking of my host, if you need a hosting solution, I can highly recommend them, every time I have had any queries, they have got back to me within ten minutes, despite the fact that their trouble ticket area say that I can expect longer response times… I wonder what their response times are normally?

I have only been with them for six days now, so I cannot say anything about their reliability, but the hosting is very fast, and they are actually very reasonably priced. Thier servers are based in Germany, which means that they are not subject to changes in the American political climate, like so many othe hosts.

At the risk of sounding like an advert, if you need hosting, take a serious look at Servage.

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I found an article about how the mozilla foundation actually makes money from their software (including my favourite browser, FireFox) (from JohnChow Dot Com)

You see that little Google search box on the upper right? If you use that box to make a search and click on one of the Google ads from the results page, Firefox gets an estimated 80% of the money. In addition to the search box, Mozilla also makes money from searches made on the Firefox start page.

I have always wondered how the various open source projects support themselves, and now I know. Now, all I have to do is make something that will become as popular as FireFox

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